Turn Away----Turn Toward

I want to share with you today a couple of very powerful experiences I have had recently in prayer. Mainly The Ministry of Prayer. If you scroll down after reading this you will see that many of my recent, and not so recent post, are about Spirit Led Prayer to and for The Body of Christ and YOUR local church.

First let me preface this by saying that I walk a walk that I know that others are walking and have walked. You know if you have been placed by  God in a Prophetic Ministry and/or life. If you don't know, you may strongly feel that there is just something different about your life, something that makes your life not yours to guide or dictate.

 Having said, that this post, and principles in it, will apply to every Christian in every land,from every nation tongue and tribe. Much like how there are gifts that every Christian has and the higher level of those gifts given as Ministry Gifts.

We all have times in life when it seems our prayers are not producing any fruit. Times when we see others receiving the end of their faith, yet the things that are important to us, are just not coming to pass. It can be easy to get discouraged, easy to become hurt. 

Hurt isn't a word normally used in connection with prayer to God. However if we are honest with ourselves there are times that we wonder why God is allowing us to suffer, allowing us to go without those things we hold so dear to our heart. Those thoughts and pressures of the enemy can make us feel hurt, like God has chosen to not give us those things He has promised.


I have been there several times, and it seems it is a continual temptation to take my eyes off The Lord. That brings me to the point of my post.


I have had one those times recently. During several times of inner groaning to The Lord and opening my heart about the things that were coming against me, I felt The Holy Spirit come upon me. It was like He gently grabbed my face, meaning my thoughts, emotions and focus, and turned my heart toward what He wanted me to pray about. 


There have been times that I have sensed His leading to change focus, sometimes I have yielded, sometimes I have chosen to not yield. These time were different. My entire focus was turned away from my issues and troubles toward a few specific needs in The Body of Christ and The Local church here.


Here is the great blessing. I have never entered the spirit quicker and deeper than I did on these occasions. As soon as I yielded, really I cant take credit for it, I felt the anointing rise up within me and descend upon me. I prayed in the spirit on a couple occasions, very specific, anointed and laser like prayers for a specific Missions Leader and his team. Another time, I prayed the same type of specific, laser like, anointed prayer, for the leaders of our church here. There has even been a couple times that I began to sing in the spirit, and was instantly singing an anointed song directed toward The Body of Christ.


I want to encourage you today to trust The Holy Spirit to be your Helper. He is in you and with you for the Purpose to Help and Comfort you. To empower you and anoint you for service to The Body and to be a witness for Christ in the world.

No matter how long you have been praying, or how many powerful experiences you have had in prayer, The Holy Spirit wants to take you deeper and make you a more powerful weapon in His hand!


We have all heard  that when we sow into others we will receive. I have been exhorted that God will lead me to pray for others and then others will pray for my needs. That is not what I am talking about here. This goes deeper, this speaks to being empowered for Service, even during times of trouble and unpleasantness. The type of anointing that Paul had. The kind of ministry that he walked in. He relied fully on The Holy Spirit. If he would have looked toward the environment around him or his circumstances, he would have never finished his race, or won the good fight of Faith.

Paul hints toward this kind of walk that some ministers are called to walk. He speaks about how there are those in the church that were talking about him,his team and his troubles. He says how they are poured out daily as an offering for them. Yet among all the trouble Paul had to endure,all the beatings,imprisonments, deaths and tribulations, he endured. More than endured! He was used more mightily and powerfully than any other Apostle. 


Let me encourage you to allow The Holy Spirit to speak to you today about what He wants you to take way from this post. I am confident that no matter who you are, no matter what country you are reading this in, He will speak to you personally and powerfully!

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Let the Beauty and Delightfulness and Favor of the Lord our God be Upon Us

Sometimes scripture says it ALL!! Pray and Declare these over your Family and Church.


Psalm 90:14-17
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 O satisfy us with Your mercy and loving-kindness in the morning [now, before we are older], that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.



 Make us glad in proportion to the days in which You have afflicted us and to the years in which we have suffered evil.


 Let Your work [the signs of Your power] be revealed to Your servants, and Your [glorious] majesty to their children.



 And let the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands—yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it.


And let the beauty and delightfulness and favor of the Lord our God be upon us; confirm and establish the work of our hands—yes, the work of our hands, confirm and establish it.

Psalm Poems

Psalm 61:2

From the end of the earth I will cry to You,
When my heart is overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.



Lead Me To The Rock!



Lead me to The ROCK, that is higher than I
So I may see what you see, with your eyes!


Lead me to The Rock that is higher than I
So I can love the unlovable, and not despise!


Lead me to The Rock that is higher than I
So I will know your with me, in the midst of the fire!


Lead me to The Rock that is higher than I
So I will stand in faith, and march through the mire!

Lead me to The Rock that is higher than I
So I will be your witness, and a carrier of Your Light!

Lead me to The Rock that is higher than I
So I can see Your Land and take it for CHRIST!!!!





Psalm 63:1-2

O God, You are my God;
Early will I seek You;


My soul thirsts for You;
My flesh longs for You
In a dry and thirsty land
Where there is no water.


So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.





Your Sanctuary


My enemy has surrounded me
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

Trouble has encompassed me
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

The wicked have plotted against me
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.


False brethren, deceived sheep, have lied about me
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

You are Worthy of Praise
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

You are the ONE TRUE GOD!!
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

You are The Alpha and Omega
The Beginning and The End
The Everlasting Father!!
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

Your Will Shall be Done on Earth
As it is in Heaven
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

I long for your soon Return!!
For The Completion of Your Redemption
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.

Psalm 122 Prayer

This is from Psalm 122. My spirit man was drawn to these verses. Alow The Holy Spirit to lead you today in prayer for Isreal and The Body Of Christ!



Pray for the peace of Jerusalem:
“May they prosper who love you.
Peace be within your walls,
Prosperity within your palaces.”



For the sake of my brethren and companions,
I will now say, “Peace be within you.”
Because of the house of the Lord our God
I will seek your good.
 
 
 
 
DESTINY!



There are some voices that are about to go out!
That will raise in The Body a Victory Shout!

 The forces of darkness are shaking in fear!
They know that The Final Harvest is here!


Jesus Our LORD, has risen The Banner of His Word
The Power of His Spirit is about shake the nations of this world…


Jehovah is preparing, by calling His elect into The Light
So they can join His Army, and Engage in The Fight


From the North and the South:The East and The West
The called out ones are coming into their rest!


The voice of The Shepard, The Message of His Blood and The Truth of His Cross
Gleaning the Kings Garden, separating the Silver from The Dross


His name being Exalted, above all that would offend
As The Almighty, All Powerful God…His children He will DEFEND!


This is a battle of His Making and Choice
A separated time for The Triumphant Church to Overcome and Rejoice!


GLORY..GLORY..GLORY….
TO THE LORD, GOD ALMIGHTY!

The Ministry of Prayer

Lets start with our essential scripture verses for The Ministry of Prayer to, and for ,The Body of Christ Locally and Globally!!


Romans 8:26-28

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So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.


And He Who searches the hearts of men knows what is in the mind of the [Holy] Spirit [what His intent is], because the Spirit intercedes and pleads [before God] in behalf of the saints according to and in harmony with God's will.

We are assured and know that {God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose.


 I feel led by The Holy Spirit to re-emphasize these verses and plead with, whoever He may lead to read this, to take up this Ministry to your Local Church and The Body of Christ Globally.

My heart is assured that we have past a road marker of sorts, in The Spirit. More than any other time in the history of The Church, I believe the Ministry of Prayer as explained and revealed in the verse above is needed, is mandatory and is the call of every mature spirit filled Christian.

Our brothers and sisters in Christ need us. Our leaders need us. We are a family. We are an army and we are connected in a very real way both naturally and spiritually.

There are things that the enemy has sent his servants on assignment to accomplish, in order to disrupt Gods plan for His Children and The Church. There are Angels sent from heaven on assignment for God to bring His Plans and Purposes to pass.

In the middle of this battle is us, The Church! The enemy already has mankind in his grip. His focus is to keep them blinded and buffet the Church so we will lose real Faith in The Lord Jesus and His Word!

The outcome of The war is and has been already determined. However the outcome of the battles we are in now, and will be in soon, depends on The Ministry of Prayer! I will state that again.


The outcome of The war is, and has been, already determined. However the outcome of the battles we are in now, and will be in soon, depends on The Ministry of Prayer.



In closing I will say what I said in an earlier post. There is ALWAYS a part we play in receiving Gods promises. The above promise is no different!


"We are assured and know that [[a]God being a partner in their labor] all things work together and are [fitting into a plan] for good to and for those who love God and are called according to [His] design and purpose."


We must purposefully take up The Ministry of Prayer for The Local Church and The Body of Christ in The World.

We Must Stand for The WORD!!!! We Must Pray

We are at a cross roads in this nation. Not as a nation, but as The Church in this nation. This nation has chosen her path. Many churches have chosen to side with the enemy and the secular society that  we have become.

Many are asking, what the church can do. Many are still looking toward government and politicians to change things. What an error. How sad it is, that much of the church has become so political,so secular, so out of touch with The Spirit of God, that they are blinded to the most simple spiritual truths.

As I read several different post on a couple social media outlets, I was both troubled and encouraged. I was troubled that there are so many in the church, that claim to be spirit filled Christians, that have embraced the moral compass of a secular and sinful society. There seems to be a growing number of Christians that feel they can pick and choose what to believe in The WORD. Just as troubling, there are even more that feel that a politician or party will be this nations saving grace.

Here is a warning:We must know who we are. We must know The  Word. We must not mistake grace and love for lasciviousness and paganism. It is frightening how many Christians who claim to be spirit  filled, bible believing Christians have more of a pagan view point on sin and salvation.

We must pray. We must clearly define ourselves. We must clearly define what The Word says on the issues that are trying to taint The Church.

We must be on guard! We must not allow a pagan, secular spirit to poison The Church! We must pray and believe that The Spirit of God will heal OUR LAND..The CHURCH.

As a Watchman on The Wall, The Lord has revealed to me today the snare, and the enemy at the gates. But He has also revealed The Answer.

2 Chronicles 7:14

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¹⁴ If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

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 Prayer,Hope

No ocean can hold it back.
No river can overtake it.
No whirlwind can go faster.
No army can defeat it.
No law can stop it.
No distance can slow it.
No disease can cripple it.
No force on earth is more powerful or effective
... than the power of prayer.
May your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in you. Psalm 33:22

May we heed the warning and seek His Face. May we not allow what the mixture of Paganism and Filth did to the early church, do the same to the Church today. The enemy doesn't much mind religious organizations, he poisoned them long ago. He fears the Spirit Filled Church and wants to pervert it like he did once before. He fears a Church that knows the Word and is free from sin.

Be sober! Be on guard! Be vigilant!

Blind Faith, Untested Faith, Fare Weather Faith will not stand when you come to the place where it seems He will not come through, there will be no miracles, there will be no breakthrough. Some people say Raw Faith is needed, got to be a faith man!!! Sometimes I wonder if these people have ever been really tested.


The faith that is needed at this point is simple faith, when year after year has turned, season after season has changed, prayer after prayer seems to have fallen to the ground for yourself, yet have produced a harvest for others.


You have tried everything to change things. You have done all you know to do. You have gone over in your mind a million times what you could have done differently, what you did right,what you did wrong. Did you make God mad about something..did you miss it.


The only conclusion your natural mind can come up with is that He doesn't care. That those things that are precious to your heart,good things, deep things about family and life, that you have sown for and stood for, are not coming. So many can't come, the time has past, and nothing can bring that season back. So why bother???????


Why bother praying any longer for The Body? Why bother going to church? Why bother caring and praying for people that already walk in those things that are seemingly being with held from you.

There are many text book answers to these questions. Many will answer these questions with an answer that you have heard over and over. Some will say it is self focus, just look outside yourself, love others. All would be true, but none fill the void of those things that your heart longs for, that your soul needs.

So it comes down to just simple faith and three questions.


Is He Good?
Is He faithful?
Is His WORD True?


Yes. So we stand.


We may stand with many tears, but we stand.
We may stand and be angry, but we stand.
We may stand and be hurt, but we stand.
We may stand and feel rejected, but we stand!



He will come through! He does care! He is Faithful! He has a plan! He is full of Grace! He will bring it to pass!!!!
 
So.....Be sober! Be on guard! Be vigilant!
 
Your enemy will use apathy and disappointment to lead you to a state of backsliding and destruction.


Take heart you are in good company!!!!


2 Corinthians 4:8-10

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 We are hedged in (pressed) on every side [troubled and oppressed in every way], but not cramped or crushed; we suffer embarrassments and are perplexed and unable to find a way out, but not driven to despair;


 We are pursued (persecuted and hard driven), but not deserted [to stand alone]; we are struck down to the ground, but never struck out and destroyed;


 Always carrying about in the body the liability and exposure to the same putting to death that the Lord Jesus suffered, so that the [resurrection] life of Jesus also may be shown forth by and in our bodies.









 
 

Guard The Vision

An organization will take on the characteristics of its leader. It will draw people with like hearts and vision. This is also true for departments within an organization.


This is why it is so important for a leader to delegate leadership only to those with the same heart and vision. If not, as the organization grows, and more leaders are needed, the farther it will stray from the vision and heart that was given to its founder.


We see our landscape littered with denominations and institutions that, little by little, allowed the founders heart, and the vision God gave to them, to get swallowed up by other agendas and other visions.


Popularity won out over Gods vision. Financial numbers and goals won out over advancing into deeper things and more powerful experiences. Natural thinking won out over spiritual. Self protection, over advancement into uncharted territory.


It is of utmost importance that the founder and leaders of an organization guard and protect the vision and heart of that organization.

The path down a road that leads to it being lost is a gradual one and almost unnoticeable to those within it.

Declare--Repost!!!

When you feel like the children of Israel
Pressed against The Red Sea!

This is what the declaration
Of your mouth needs to be!


That Jesus Christ Is Lord, over all The Earth
And by His mighty hand, your deliverance will be birthed

He is your saviour, your God, your Lord
He is your Father, who is watching diligently over His WORD!

He loves you more, than your human heart can understand
He has paid the price, with His Blood, so you could inherit HIS Land!

He has given you all things freely
That pertain to this life

He has given you Faith and Joy
To replace Fear and Strife

There is only one thing that
You must be diligent to do

That is to open your mouth BOLDLY
And DECLARE HIS WORD TO BE TRUE!

Look at bondage
And declare I am free

Look at blindness
And declare I can see!

Look at fear
And declare I am full of Faith!

Look at depression
And declare strength for the race

Then look away from the problem
And to His Glorious Throne

For in Truth and in Spirit
That is your true Home

And say
I am not weak

But strengthened with ALL MIGHT
According To His POWER

I AM WAGING AND WINNING THE GOOD FIGHT!
I AM NOT SICK


BUT THE HEALED OF THE LORD
THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL


I HAVE FULL FAITH IN HIS WORD!
I AM NOT FULL OF SIN


BUT WASHED CLEAN BY THE BLOOD
THE HOLY SPIRIT IS MY HELPER


EVEN AS THE ENEMY IS COMING LIKE A FLOOD




So say with me, with a shout from your heart
Say it boldly, say it loud, tear the enemy's lies apart!

I am a child of Light
A new creature in Christ!

I am Born Again, Blood Bought
And full of Power and Might!

I am the head and not the tail
Above only and not beneath

I have on His Mighty Armour
His all powerful SWORD in my sheath

In Him, I stand strong
In Him, I stand Tall

For He who keeps me
IS LORD OF ALL

I AM FREE

I AM FREE

I AM FREE

AND IN HIM WILL FOREVER BE