All over the world, people are being awakened to an expression of prayer that flows from deep within the soul and yearns to see God move. This type of desperate prayer is marked by a deep passion…

James Aladiran, Prayer Storm, says, “How can you expect God to be moved by your prayers if you are not moved by them?”

There’s a rich history of this passionate prayer in the Church often, called travailing prayer. Travail means work: especially painful work, and it’s used to refer to the process of labour in childbirth too.

Travailing prayer, then, is from deep longing within the soul and can often be a painful, birth-like experience. It’s a true expression of allowing God to break our hearts for what breaks His.

This is prayer that doesn’t expect to move God if it doesn’t first move the human heart.

These moments are produced by honesty and repentance before God. When we come to terms with our own issues and the problems in our societies we start to develop intercessory burdens as God gives us His heart. These burdens produce a desperate longing in prayer that drives us to our knees, compels us to cry out, and urges us to knock until the door is opened.

We must allow God to hear the depths of our hearts, the yearnings of our soul, the brokenness of our spirit. Revival doesn’t happen by accident, it comes through “the ploughed-up hearts of men and women willing to receive the gift of travail,” (David Thomas, Asbury Awakening 2023).

Are we available for God to transform us in prayer, breaking us for the breakthrough to come, purifying us so He can flow through us, reviving the church to rewire the culture through night and day, unrelenting, desperate prayer.

Are we willing to be interrupted by God to bend our knees in prayer? The future of the church and the spiritual state of the next generation is depending on it.