Let me tell you something — God is calling His Church back. Not back to programs. Not back to performance. He’s calling us back to the altar. Back to the fire. Back to being a house of prayer.
This isn’t just a cute phrase. It’s Jesus’ own words: “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.” (Mark 11:17)
That wasn’t a suggestion — it was a mandate. A call to return. A call to burn.
Reviving Our Purpose: Returning to the Altar
Somewhere along the way, we lost sight. We got busy doing things for God instead of sitting with God. But He’s jealous for communion with us. He wants a people who don’t just know about Him, but who carry His heart in prayer — who are gripped by His Spirit and move in step with heaven.
We can’t afford to just do church. He’s calling us to be the Church.
And that starts at the altar. In the secret place. In the place of tears and travail and encounter.
From Prayer to Action: It’s Time to Build
Just like Nehemiah heard the ruins of Jerusalem and wept — but then he moved — the Lord is calling us not just to weep, but to build.
You can’t rebuild broken cities until you’ve wept over them in prayer. And you can’t weep over them until you’ve felt what God feels.
This is where real intercession is birthed. Not from obligation, but from encounter. From being so filled with the Spirit that your heart breaks for what breaks His. That’s when action flows. That’s when strategies from heaven are released.
Reviving Our Worship: Purity, Power, and the Groan
Worship is more than a song. It’s a lifestyle. It’s surrender. It’s holy. And when you’ve really encountered the glory, you can’t fake it anymore.
We need purity in our worship again. We need holy fire. We need the groan.
Romans 8 says that creation is groaning — and we are too — for the revealing of the sons and daughters of God. That groan? It’s intercession. It’s the Holy Spirit praying through us with groanings too deep for words.
There’s a revival coming, but it won’t come through noise. It’ll come through groaning. Through prayer. Through purity. Through fire.
It’s time to return. To the altar. To the groan. To the glory.
Let Him grip you again. Let Him burn away the fluff. Because the Church that prays is the Church that carries power. And a people who know how to cry out are a people who know how to rebuild cities.
The Spirit is saying: Come up here.
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About the author: Tammie Southerland is the founder and leader of Frontline Ministries International, a mobile prayer and equipping ministry dedicated to igniting passion for Jesus and equipping believers to fulfill their God-given destinies. As the apostolic leader of The Firehouse Prayer Furnaces and host of the Burning Messengers podcast, Tammie inspires a generation to burn with zeal for Christ. She is the author of Wordless Prayer and Permission to Burn and has been featured on programs like Sid Roth's It's Supernatural and CTN's Come Home with Jen Mallan. Based in Atlanta, GA, Tammie, her husband, Daymon, and their three daughters travel the globe, leading revival movements and calling people to live boldly for God. Visit her at burningmessengers.com
