Habakkuk 3: Do It Again, Lord

18th Week After Pentecost

Scripture

Habakkuk 3:2 (NIV)

“Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy.”

Scripture Reflection

Habakkuk models a prayer rooted in memory and longing. He remembers the mighty works of God in history, stands in awe, and then boldly pleads: Do it again. This is the prayer of a revivalist heart — one that refuses to be content with a distant memory, but yearns to see the mighty acts of God repeated in its own generation.

New England has a deep spiritual history. There are wells of revival here — Jonathan Edwards, the Second Great Awakening, the Prayer Revivals of the 1850s, the Jesus Movement of the 1970s — these wells still exist, though many have been clogged by the rubbish of apathy, sin, and forgetfulness, like Isaac’s wells that the Philistines filled in. We must reclaim them.

As Martyn Lloyd-Jones once observed, many believers fail to grasp what is truly possible in the Christian life — and in the life of the Church — when God moves in power. We have grown accustomed to spiritual dryness, but God is still able to open the floodgates. What is needed is a restored collective memory — a vision of the possibilities of the Kingdom, a memory of what God has done, igniting fresh faith that He can do it again.

May Habakkuk’s prayer become our prayer: Lord, repeat Your deeds in our day. Break through again, awaken again, revive again. We have heard of Your fame — now let us see it with our own eyes.

Praying it UP / IN / OUT
UP: Worship God for His mighty deeds throughout history — for His fame, His power, and His glory revealed in past revivals.

IN: Ask God to restore your own vision and expectancy. Pray for faith to believe that He can move in even greater ways today.

OUT: Intercede for the Church in New England, that the wells of revival would be unclogged, that the stories of God’s past work would fuel a new outpouring, and that faith would rise across the region to cry out, Do it again, Lord.

Closing Prayer

Lord of revival,

We have heard of Your fame. We stand in awe of Your mighty deeds. You have done wonders in this land before — we believe You can do them again.

Forgive us for forgetting, for letting the wells be clogged, for settling for spiritual drought.

Restore our memory, renew our hope, and awaken our hearts to dream of more.

Stir the Church with holy expectancy. Unstop the wells of past revivals, and let living water flow again across our towns, our campuses, our cities.

In wrath remember mercy.

In our weakness display Your power.

Repeat Your deeds in our day, Lord — for Your glory, and for the sake of the next generation.

Amen.