Today is day one of 2009, and last night just after midnight I found myself in bed surprised by the presence of God.  A sudden Holy Spirit driven urgency landed in my inner man, and I prayed.  With fire.I’m 39 years old, and I don’t have much time left.  I remember being 30 years old as I was planting Revolution Church- and nearly a decade has disappeared since then.  I’m running out of time- and so are you.There is a world to change, revivals to launch and a church to reform, and I possibly may have less than a few more decades to do my part.  The foundational work necessary to see this extreme degree of revolution come to pass can take that long in itself.  We cannot allow ourselves to jockey for position as we climb our own ladders of success as the months and years vaporize.  We must pray, burn and proclaim the message of revival and reformation in the church, and we must do it now.ADDICTION TO PETITIONHere’s an audio podcast on this topic:Download audio file (201016.mp3) I was talking with Miles, the Director of Revolution House of Prayer, a moment ago about petitioning prayer.My least effective prayer is that of petition.  Do I petition?  Yes. But, it’s usually at the early stages of the intercession process.  It’s the adjustment of my sails as I respond to the wind of the Holy Spirit.  It’s the barometer that measure’s God’s desire.  As I petition, my questions get answered or they change in accordance with the revelation of God’s heart.  I then move from simple petition to the real work of intercession- authoritative declaration.If we are going to see a burning revival, we must understand the great limitations that petition alone will create.  Generally speaking, we aren’t to ask God for something when we already know God’s heart on the matter.  For example, you won’t find anywhere in the New Testament an apostle asking God to heal somebody.  Rather, they declared healing and did it themse...