Revival Cry Podcast

We’ve talked about women with all kinds of negative requests—selfish, emotional, manipulative, and destructive. But by the grace of God, we are concluding this subject with something higher: the kind of request your husband can trust and that heaven cannot ignore.

There are two powerful kinds of requests that stand out in scripture:

We saw it in the Shunammite woman. She didn’t ask Elisha for anything...

The wife of Zebedee came to the Lord Jesus with her two sons. She came with a very serious desire, but she coded it inside a powerful worship moment. She bowed, yes. She worshipped, yes. But behind the worship was ambition. And when the worship was over, she opened her mouth and revealed what was really in her heart. She said, “Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left, in thy kingdom.” (Matthew 20:21, KJV).

She didn’t ask for impartation. She didn’t ask for transfor...

“So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme God and the king. And then carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.” — 1 Kings 21:8–10

What would be your first reaction if you heard that the wife of th...

Yesterday, we looked at two types of negative requests in our series on Helping Your Husband to Trust Your Request. The first was the self-centered request of Rachel who said, “Give me children, or I die” — a desperate, emotionally-driven cry rooted in envy and personal comparison. The second was the vengeful request of Herodias, who insisted on having the head of John the Baptist — not for righteousness, not for justice, but out of deep bitterness and hatred.

Today, let us balance these with two holy and godly examples of women whose requests were pure, weighty, and full of coven...

Dear Sister, help your husband trust your request. Be the kind of woman whose words are not scattered, but carry weight. When you ask, let your request be rare, reasonable, and rooted in wisdom. Let him say, “My wife hardly asks for anything, so when she does, I know it matters.” But when your requests are constant, impulsive, and filled with pressure, peace begins to disappear.

Some women don’t stop asking. From Shein to Temu, Sephora to Zalando, it’s wigs today, shoes tomorrow, lashes next week. Some have over 100 shoes an...

Complaining means expressing dissatisfaction, discomfort, or annoyance about something. At its core, it simply means you’re not happy about a situation. So, in itself, complaining is not a bad thing. It’s important to express discomfort or displeasure when necessary.

But some women complain so much, so endlessly, that their husbands have become completely used to it. He has built a thick emotional firewall, numbed to her words, because her constant barrage of complaints has made him feel like he can never do anything right. All he hears is what’s not enough, what’s not working...

I’ve seen far too many men struggle with the voices, plans, opinions, and judgments of their wives. Why? Because the women have not helped their husbands to trust their voices, planning, their opinions, or their sense of judgment. Many of such men have suffered terrible losses in business, family, investments, and ministry because of the unwise suggestions, impulsive plans, and self-motivated judgments of their wives. When a wife does not operate with sound wisdom, she becomes a stumbling block rather than a helpmeet.

Dreams have died. Families have broken. Ministries have been destroyed, not because th...

Dear precious and virtuous woman, may I remind you that everything physical about you, no matter how fine or flawless, will fade with time. Beauty may open the door, but it is your spirit that will keep the house standing. That which is spiritual will not only remain, it will grow, it will mature, and it will echo into eternity.

It was said of the virtuous woman that the heart of her husband safely trusts her. My first challenge to you, dear sister and helper, is this: can your husband trust your spiritual life? Not your cooking...

Let us speak the truth clearly. Many men did not fall because they lacked calling. They did not fail because they lacked anointing or fire. They fell because they were joined to women who could not be trusted. A man can carry the presence of God, walk in divine purpose, and be helped by angels, but if he is connected to a woman whose heart is divided or rebellious, his life and assignment can be ruined. His journey can be shortened, and his voice silenced forever.

Have you ever wondered why a man discipled by our very...

I have seen many women claim to be the Proverbs 31 woman because of her wisdom, her strength, her capacity, her business acumen, her ability to wake up in the morning and do some terrific things. Such a powerful portrait of the godly woman.  In fact, by reason of her life, this woman brought so much honor and respect to her husband that he was honored at the gate. Several women conferences have been organised around the Proverbs 31 woman. She is the ideal portrait of what every strong Christian woman wants to be.  However, we often miss the fact that th...

Luke 11:21-23 -  “When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But when one stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils.”

The ability to protect your goods, your family, your body, your marriage, your business, and your spiritual life is not guaranteed by your manhood. It is not your masculinity that keeps your house in peace. What guarantees that safety is your strength. Jesus did not say, when a man guards his own house...

1 Corinthians 9:27: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

When a man—a father—cannot keep his body under subjection, he introduces instability, strife, contention, anger, pain, shame, and death into his own family. Regardless of your status in society, position in ministry, title, or calling, failure to keep your body under is an automatic open door to the spirit of destruction in the family.

When Abram heeded the voice of Sarai to go into Haga...

Genesis 2:15: “Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to tend and keep it.”

From the very beginning, God's assignment to man was simple: tend it and keep it. The word keep in Hebrew is shamar — to guard, to watch over, to preserve. This was never about gardening or crop management. It was about spiritual responsibility. Adam was not just a farmer. He was the priest of that garden. He was placed there as a watchman. His job was to protect what God handed to him.

God never design...

When Jesus taught us to pray, He began by saying, “Our Father who art in Heaven...” (Matthew 6:9). Do you realize that we have prayed this prayer for over 2000 years and yet the location of our Father has never changed? His presence is not a mystery. He is near, He is constant, and He is available and dependable. Over 2000 years have passed since Jesus prayed that prayer, yet we still say with full confidence, “Our Father who art in Heaven.” We’ve never had to change it to say, “Our Father who is in the galaxy or in the unive...

“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man,.” — Ephesians 3:14-15

If we are ever going to see lasting change in our churches, in our nations, and in generations, we must go back to the very beginning. Before there was a tabernacle, before there were kings, before there was even a priesthood, there was a family. God’s...

Nehemiah 2:5-6 – And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it. And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

Have you ever considered the depth of concern the king had for Nehemiah? His absence was not some...

By the Spirit of God, we’ve established that one of the most powerful effects of the anointing on a person’s life is that it makes them a repairer, a rebuilder, and a restorer of desolate places. If the Spirit of God truly rests upon you, then why is it that even in your family WhatsApp group, your messages creates tension,  sowing strife, confusion, and division? You go to church the most, you pray the most, you are are quick to quote the scriptures and yet the most problematic. 

As if that is not ev...

After receiving a word from the Lord and gathering the people, the next thing Elijah did was repair the broken altar. One of the key changes that happens in a person’s life when they receive the anointing is that they become a repairer.

Isaiah 61:4 – "And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations."

You cannot carry the anointing and be a source of destruction. The anointing of Isaiah 61 raises up repairers, those who rebuild waste cities and rest...

The life of Elijah is such a blessing to me. We have explored the life of that great man of God. But to go beyond the realm of knowledge, we must pray the things we have learned of him into our lives. The things we learned are simply possibilities of what God can do with us. For the things which were written aforetime were written for our learning so that we may have hope of these possibilities in our days.

All that Elijah did on Mount Carmel started with a WORD from the Lord...