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Saturday, 13 April 2013
unbreakable covenant prayers
The almighty God has entered into a unbreakable covenant with us. The one and true living God.
He has promise us.
I will not break my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. Psalms 89:34
Through the blood of Jesus we can enter the holy of holies and receive answer to our prayers. By his blood we have entered a covenant that can never be broken it is forever settled. He has given us a fully made covenant by through christ and has made provision available that is why we must pray for our needs in time of troubles and deliverance.
Psalm 91:15 (AMP)
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
We serve a God who hears and answers the prayers of his people!
But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must necessarily believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him out.
Hebrews 11:6 (AMP)
If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God Who gives to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, (and it will be given him.) Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything he asks for from the Lord,
James 1:5-7 (AMP)
We serve a God who hears and answers by fire.
1 Kings 18:24 (AMP)
Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord; and the One Who answers by fire, let Him be God. And all the people answered, It is well spoken.
1 Kings 18:26 (AMP)
So they took the bull given them, dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, saying, O Baal, hear and answer us! But there was no voice; no one answered. And they leaped upon or limped about the altar they had made.!
1 Kings 18:29 (AMP)
And as midday passed, they raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice. No one answered; no one paid attention.
And at the time of the offering of the oblation, Elijah the prophet came near and said, "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things at your word.
1 Kings 18:36-37
1 Kings 18:38 (AMP)
Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust, and also licked up the water that was in the trench.
1 Kings 18:39 (AMP)
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and they said, The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!
We serve a the almighty God who hears and answers prayers !
Call to Me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things, fenced in and hidden, which you do not know (do not distinguish and recognize, have knowledge of and understand).
Jeremiah 33:3 (AMP)
God has promised ...
Jeremiah 29:11-13 (AMP)
For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome. [12] Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you. [13] Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me as a vital necessity and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear. Isaiah 65:24
Matthew 6:7-8 (AMP)
And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking. [I Kings 18:25-29] Do not be like them, (for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.)
We can have whatever we want in Jesus name!
Matthew 7:7-8 (AMP)
Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking reverently and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, the door will be opened.
The principle of the kingdom of God is everyone who ask receives !
Matthew 18:19 (AMP)
Again I tell you, if two of you on earth agree (harmonize together, make a symphony together) about whatever anything and everything they may ask, it will come to pass and be done for them by My Father in heaven.
Matthew 21:22 (AMP)
And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and really believing, you will receive.
John 14:13-14 (AMP)
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
John 11:39 (AMP)
Lord, by this time he is decaying and throws off an offensive odor, for he has been dead four days!
John 11:40 (AMP)
Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you and promise you that if you would believe and rely on Me, you would see the glory of God?
John 11:41-42 (AMP
So they took away the stone. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. [42] Yes, I know You always hear and listen to Me, but I have said this on account of and for the benefit of the people standing around, so that they may believe that You did send Me that You have made Me Your Messenger.
I thank You that You always hearing Me.
When Jesus received the message, He said, This sickness is not to end in death; but on the contrary it is to honor God and to promote His glory, that the Son of God may be glorified through (by) it.
John 11:4 (AMP)
1 unbelief
2 lack of persistence like Elijah did for rain
3 wrong motive and desires
4 neglect
5 disobedience
6 unforgiveness
When we ask in Jesus' name we invoke his power and authority To manifest whatever we need
And when that time comes, you will ask nothing of Me you will need to ask Me no questions. I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that My Father will grant you whatever you ask in My Name as presenting all that I AM. Up to this time you have not asked a single thing in My Name as presenting all that I AM; but now ask and keep on asking and you will receive, so that your joy (gladness, delight) may be full and complete.
John 16:23-24 (AMP)
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father.
Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.
John 14:13-14 (AMP)
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 15:16
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.
John 16:23-24
Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking reverently and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who keeps on asking receives; and he who keeps on seeking finds; and to him who keeps on knocking, the door will be opened. Or what man is there of you, if his son asks him for a loaf of bread, will hand him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will hand him a serpent? If you then, evil as you are, know how to give good and advantageous gifts to your children, how much more will your Father Who is in heaven perfect as He is give good and advantageous things to those who keep on asking Him!
Matthew 7:7-11 (AMP)
Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask Him.
Matthew 6:8 (AMP)
Matthew 6:9 (AMP)
Pray, therefore, like this: Our Father Who is in heaven.
Nothing is Impossible to us!
I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. Psalms 89:34
When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. Psalm 90:15.
"Confess to The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]." James 5:16
And when they approached the multitude, a man came up to Him, kneeling before Him and saying, Lord, do pity and have mercy on my son, for he has epilepsy (is moonstruck) and he suffers terribly; for frequently he falls into the fire and many times into the water.
Matthew 17:14-21 (AMP)
And I brought him to Your disciples, and they were not able to cure him.
And Jesus answered, O you unbelieving (warped, wayward, rebellious) and thoroughly perverse generation! How long am I to remain with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to Me. And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was cured instantly.
Then the disciples came to Jesus and asked privately, Why could we not drive it out?
He said to them, Because of the littleness of your faith that is, your lack of firmly relying trust. For truly I say to you, if you have faith that is living like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you. !
(( [21] But this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. ))
"Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. John 14:12-14
What ever we ask in his name he will give us
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you. John 15:16
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. 1 John 5:14-15
Power Covenant Prayer Key #1
Ask in faith believing
Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Mark 11:24
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:6
But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.
James 1:6-7
(And the prayer of faith) that saves the sick!
James 5:15
Power Covenant Prayer Key #2
Persitant Prayers!
So I say to you, Ask and keep on asking and it shall be given you; seek and keep on seeking and you shall find; knock and keep on knocking and the door shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened.
Luke 11:9-10 (AMP)
He said, "In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, 'Give me justice against my adversary.' For a while he refused, but afterward he said to himself, 'Though I neither fear God nor respect man, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will give her justice, so that she will not beat me down by her continual coming.'" And the Lord said, "Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will give justice to them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?"
Luke 18:2-8
And he said to them, "Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, 'Friend, lend me three loaves, for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him'; and he will answer from within, 'Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything'? I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will instead of a fish give him a serpent; or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"
John 11:5-13
James 5:17-18 (AMP)
Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we have with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months. I Kings 17:1. [18] And then he prayed again and the heavens supplied rain and the land produced its crops as usual. I Kings 18:42-45
Power Covenant Prayer Key #3
Remain in close, unbroken fellowship with christ
This is the MASTER KEY!
If you live in Me abide vitally united to Me and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. John 15:7 (AMP)
Power Covenant Prayer Key #4
Obey and do his will!
If I had cherished iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.
Psalms 66:18
I will not violate my covenant or alter the word that went forth from my lips. Psalms 89:34
Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. (Isaiah 59:1-2)
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite. (Isaiah 57:15)
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)
Power Covenant Prayer Key #5
Ask according to his will!
And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
1 John 5:14-15
If you live in Me abide vitally united to Me and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. John 15:7 (AMP)
You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. James (4:2-3)
And he said, "Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will."
Mark 14:36
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Romans 8:26-27
For one who speaks in an unknown tongue speaks not to men but to God, for no one understands or catches his meaning, because in the Holy Spirit he utters secret truths and hidden things not obvious to the understanding. 1 Corinthians 14:2 (AMP)
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit by the Holy Spirit within me prays, but my mind is unproductive it bears no fruit and helps nobody. 1 Corinthians 14:14 (AMP)
And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him. (1 John 5:15)
Power Covenant Prayer Key #6
Walk in Forgiveness
And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark 11:25-26.
Pray then like this: "Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 6:9-12
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, (Matthew 5:11)
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. (Colossians 3:12-13)
Sunday, 10 March 2013
DELIVERANCE FROM WITCHRAFT COVEN ABLAZE
Note: 15days prayer point, from 12am to 2:30am.
Confession: Psalm 91
*Praise and Worship*
At the mention of that name,
Every knee must bow,
At the mention of that name,
Every tongs confess..
You are King, You are King of kings,
You are Lord, You are Lord of lords,
At the mention of that name…..
Prayer Point!
1. Hear my voice, O God, preserve me from the fear of the enemy in the name of Jesus.
2. Every habitation of witchcraft, be scattered unto desolation, in the name of Jesus.
3. Hide me, O God, from the secret counsel of the wicked, in the name of Jesus.
4. Every throne of witchcraft, be dismantled by fire, in the name of Jesus.
5. O God, shoot at my enemies with an arrow, suddenly they shall be wounded, in the name of Jesus.
6. Every stronghold of witcheraft in my life, reccive divine acid, in the name of Jesus.
7. The tongue of my adversaries shall fall upon them and all that see them shall flee away, in the name of Jesus.
8. Let the refuge of witchcraft be dismantled, in the name of Jesus.
9. Let God arise and let all His enemies be scattered, let them that hate Him flee before Him, in the name of Jesus.
10. Let the witchcraft network be shattered to pieces, in the name of Jesus.
11. As smoke is driven away, so drive away the hand of the oppresso, in the name of Jesus.
12. Let every power, rebelling against my breakthroughs be made to dwell in a dry land, in the name of Jesus.
13. Every stubborn and unrepentant witchcraft, be exposed and disgrace, in the name of Jesus.
14. O Lord, rebuke the company of darkness and scatter them, in the name of Jesus.
15. Let the habitation of the witches in my family be dissolved by fire, in the name of Jesus.
16. Let the table of my enemies become a snare before them and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap, in the name of Jesus.
17. Let the transportation system of witchcraft be scattered to pieces, in the name of Jesus.
18. O Lord, pour out thine indignation upon the enemies of my soul, in the name of Jesus.
19. I withdraw my blessings from every witchcraft storehouse and strongman, in the name of Jesus.
20. Let those that seek my soul be turned back and be put to confusion, in the name of Jesus.
21. Let every witchcraft curse go back to the sender seven folds, in the name of Jesus.
22. Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries of my soul, in the name of Jesus.
23. Every covenant of witchcraft, be melted by the blood of Jesus.
24. All my enemies shall lick the dust, in the name of Jesus.
25. Every weapon of witchcraft, turn against your users, in the name of Jesus.
26. O God, break the head of the dragons in the water, in the name of Jesus.
27. I reverse every witchcraft burial fashioned against me, in the name of Jesus.
28. All the horns of the wicked shall be cut off, in the name of Jesus.
29. O God, break the head of the leviathan to pieces, in the name of Jesus.
Friday, 1 March 2013
Our God is…
Our God is…
Love I Jn.4: 16 Spirit
Jn.4: 24 The Holy One Ps.16:10, The I Am Jn :8:58, Ex.6:3 The Alpha & Omega, The Beginning & End Rv.1:8 God Almighty Ex.6:3 A
Miracle Working God Gal.3:5 The Creator of The World Jn.1:3,
Jn.l:3 Infinite 1Kng.8:27 All Powerful Jer.32: 17, 27 All Knowing 1Jn3: 20 Ever Present Ps.139:1-13 Unchangeable Nu.23:19 JEHOVAH Ps.83:18 A Covenanted Making God Heb.10: 16 The Everlasting FATHER Isa.9:6 A Father Of Lights, Ja.1:17 A
Father Of Mercies & God Of All Comfort 2Cor.1:3 The Author Of Salvation He.2:10
Full Of Power Ro.13:1 A God Who Raises The Dead 2Cor.1.9 A Quickening Spirit 1Cor.15:45 Mighty To Save Isa.63:1 Our Maker Isa.54:5 Our Heavenly Father Mt. 6 The
Justifier Of The One Who Has Faith In Jesus Rom. 3:26 Meeting Our Needs Through Jesus Ph.4:19 Giving Us The Peace That Surpasses Understanding Ph.4: 7 Jesus Of Nazareth Jn 19:19 The Door Of The Sheep Jn.10 The Way, Truth & Life Jn.14:6 The Prince Of Peace Isa.9:6 The
King Of Kings & Lord of Lords Rv.17:14
The Lamb Of God Rv.5:6 The Bread Of Life Jn.6 48-58 The Bright & Morning Star Rv.22:16 The
Light Of the Word Jn.8:12 Immanuel Isa.
7:14 Wonderful Counselor Isa.9:6 That Great Shepherd Of The Sheep He.13:20 The Head Of The Church Eph.1:22 JESUS Mt.1:21 The Same Yesterday, Today & Forever Faithful & True He.13:8
A Sure Foundation Isa 28:16 upholding All Things By The Word Of His
Power He.1:3 Watching Over His Word
To Perform It Jer. 1:12 A Rewarder
Of Those Diligently Seek Him Heb:16
No Respecter Of Persons Acts 10:34 The
True Light John 1.9 The Author &
The Finisher Of Our Faith He.12:2 Mediator Of The New Covenant Of The New
Covenant He. 9:15 The Truth Jn.14:6
Working In Us He.13:21 Greater In Us Than He That Is The World Jn
4.4 Unto Us Wisdom, Sanctification &
Redemption 1Cor.1:30 For Us Ro.
8:31 Never Leaving Us Or Forsaking Us He.13:5
Always Leading Us In Triumph In Christ 2Cor.2:1
Faithful Over His House He.3:1-6 Ruler Of The Kings Of The Earth Rv.1:5 Our Lord & Our God Jn.20:28 Our Life Jn
11:25-26 Our Savior Lk.2:11 Our Redeemer Isa-48:17 Our Teacher Mt.28:18 Our Healer Isa.53.5 Our
Deliverer Ro. 11:20 Our Resurrection
Jn 11:25 Our Justification Rom. 3.26
Our Strength Ph.4:13 Our Righteousness 1Cor.1:30 Our Peace Eph. 2.14 Our Advocate 1Jn.2:1 Our Faithful High Priest he.9:11 10:21 Our Bridegroom Mt.9:15 Our Hope Of Glory Col.1:27 Pleased To Give Us The Kingdom Lk.12:32
Equipping Us Eph.4:11-16 Giving Us Revelation Knowledge 1Cor.2:10-13
Giving Us The Keys To The Kingdom Mt.16:19
Giving Us His Name Mk.16:17-18 Giving Us The HOLY SPIRIT Lk.l1:13
& Ac.2:38-39 Anointing Us For
Service 1Jn.2:20 Filling Us With
Wisdom & Spiritual Understanding
Eph.1:17 Giving Us His Armour Eph.6:10-18
Providing Us Angels He.1:14 Faithful To Complete The Work He Began In
Us Ph. 1:6 Rich In Mercy Ps.136 Teaching Us How To Profit, Leading Us In
The Way We Should Go Isa 48:17 Giving
Us All Things To Enjoy 1Ti.6:17 Saying
We1l Done My Good & Faithful
Servants Mt.25:21 Receiving All The
Glory 1Cor. 10:31 Worthy of all
Praise Ps. 18.3 Saying To Everyone,
“Surely I am Coming Quickly.” Amen
Friday, 22 February 2013
THREE MAJOR PHASES OF INTERCESSION
As we look at Christ’s role as our Great Intercessor, there are three
important phases in intercession:
1.
Identification
2.
Self-sacrifice
3. Power
and authority
All three of these are vital in your role as a member of the Global
Prayer Strike Force.
An INTERCESSOR is “one who stands in the gap; who prays, petitions, or
pleads on behalf of others, as well as entire nations.”
PHASE ONE: IDENTIFICATION
True intercession, first of all, involves identification. As our High
Priest-Intercessor, Christ identified with us by taking upon Himself the form
of flesh and blood. He left the glories of Heaven and His glory with the Father
and became one of us so that He would be a faithful and merciful High Priest Who
feels our infirmities and would be qualified to intercede on our behalf.
In our intercession, we must also first be willing to IDENTIFY with
those for whom we are interceding...at the point of their need. We must so
identify with them that we take their burdens upon ourselves...feel their pain
and sorrow...and present their needs before the Father as if they were our own.
It is not enough to simply pray, “Lord, save the lost.” As intercessors,
we must be willing first of all to identify with the people who are lost in our
communities and cities.
There is no way we can possibly pray effectively for the lost and
intercede upon their behalf if we are so far removed from them we cannot
identify with them at the point of their need.
What has happened within the Church today is that we have separated and
isolated ourselves from the lost. We are far removed from their needs and their
suffering. For the most part, we stay within the four walls of our comfortable
churches. Our hearts have become hardened to the desperate needs of the lost in
our cities.
We must be willing to identify with the homeless, the destitute, those
bound by drugs or alcohol, the prostitutes and gang members, to the point we
feel their infirmities, we feel their pain and sorrow, and our hearts are moved
with compassion upon them. Only then will we be able to stand in the gap before
God and effectively intercede upon their behalf and move the hand of God
This type of identification was manifested in Christ’s life. As our High
Priest-Intercessor, interceding for a lost world, He sat where we sit. He took
our nature upon Himself. He learned obedience through the things which He
suffered. He was tempted in all points as we are. And, He who knew no sin
became sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21). Through His intercession for us, He
gained his position of supreme power and authority over all things!
An intercessor is able to plead effectively because he gives his life
for others. He has laid aside His own self interests and, as much as possible,
has taken their place. Intercession is not substitution for sin. There has only
been one substitute for a world of sinners...Jesus Christ.
True intercession so identifies the intercessor with the one for whom he
is praying, that it brings him into a prevailing place with God.
PHASE TWO: SELF-SACRIFICE
Christ, the Great-Intercessor, made the ultimate sacrifice by laying
down His life for us. Jesus said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a
man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
In our intercession, we must come to the place where we are willing to
lay down our own lives sacrificially on behalf of those for whom we are
praying. Self must be crucified! We must be willing to lay aside our own
desires and give ourselves sacrificially through prayer and fasting on behalf
of the needs of others.
Jesus said, “Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit” (John 12:24). Only
as we begin to die to our own selfish desires and give ourselves sacrificially
through fasting and prayer on behalf of others, will the Holy Spirit be
released to flow through us to fulfill His work of intercession.
One of the major ministries of the Holy Spirit upon the earth today is
intercession. It is the Holy Spirit who lays a burden upon our hearts for
others and calls us to intercede. Only as we are dead to self can He flow
freely...to intercede through us.
There are many Christians today who mistakenly think they are not
qualified, or do not know how to intercede. The truth is, we become
intercessors by reason of the Intercessor who lives within us! The more we die
to self and yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, the more He is able to
intercede through us.
When we come to the place where we have fully surrendered our
lives...our wills...our desires...our plans, and allow the Holy Spirit free
reign in our lives, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO LIMIT to the depths of intercession
and what we can get accomplished on earth through us! “...the Spirit also
helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be
uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the
Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of
God (Romans 8:26-27).
During intercession, as we fully yield ourselves to the Holy Spirit, He
will pray through us. As we begin to pray in the Spirit, in unknown tongues,
the Spirit begins to travail and make intercession “with groanings which cannot
be uttered.”
When we pray in the Spirit...in tongues...we are also building up
ourselves and our faith (Jude 20). The Holy Spirit is released within us to
strengthen us in our time of need.
When we face circumstances which seem overwhelming...impossible in the
natural realm, as we begin to pray in the Holy Spirit...in tongues...the Holy
Spirit intercedes for us. He comes to our aid and releases His power within us
to overcome every obstacle and trial we face.
PHASE THREE: POWER AND AUTHORITY
Through Christ’s intercession...His identification...His obedience and
full surrender to God’s will...His willingness to lay down His life as a
sacrifice...His death upon the cross...He obtained His position of supreme
power and authority over all things.
As self begins to die and we allow the Holy Spirit to have full control
to pray through us through groanings and gushings of the Spirit, we then enter
into that realm of power and authority that is ours in Jesus’ Name. We have
gained a powerful spiritual position through intercession where we are able to
speak the word of deliverance. We are “clothed” with authority by the Holy
Spirit; and it is from this position of strength the “greater works” Jesus
spoke of are done in His Name! This is true intercession. This is what is meant
by going into the spiritual arena of intercession to win the battle first in
prayer.
There have been many times on the frontlines of battle, in the nations
of the world, when I have prayed in the Spirit, wrestled and travailed on
behalf of the needs of that nation for hours and hours and days at a time,
until we experienced a full release of the power and anointing of God. The
battle was first won through this intercession before we saw the great victory
of multiplied thousands accept Christ and a release of His miracle-healing
power.
This place of power and authority is not something we can obtain in our
own strength. It is a place of intercession that the Holy Spirit will bring us
into as we yield ourselves to Him. The Intercessor, Who lives within us, will
fulfill His work of intercession upon the earth today through us as we present
our bodies a living sacrifice.
This new dimension of power and authority through intercession, is where
we are able to come before God on behalf of our needs; on behalf of our
families and unsaved loved ones: on behalf of the lost and desperate needs in
our cities and BOLDLY take hold of ALL God has provided through His covenant
with us.
YOU HAVE A SACRED, HOLY CALLING!
The role of Intercessor is a high and holy calling. Just as Jesus made
intercession for the world through His life and death and has reconciled us to
God, His Church...you and I...have been called to intercede and reconcile men
to God.
By His Spirit, you have been made a priest...a royal priesthood.
The Apostle Paul said: “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the
praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1
Peter 2:9).
In your role as a member of the Global Prayer Strike Force, God has
called you to come BOLDLY before Him and present the needs of the people around
you, BELIEVING Him to intervene...to save...heal...deliver and break every yoke
of bondage off their lives.
God wants you to become an intercessor...not only through intercessory
prayer, but also through your life...through your actions, as well as your
words.
As you intercede, remember these three vital phases of intercession:
IDENTIFICATION
SELF-SACRIFICE
POWER
AND AUTHORITY.
The type of intercession God is calling us to involves getting on our
faces before Him in prayer; mourning, weeping, and travailing in the spirit. It
involves consecrating and setting ourselves apart for fasting and
prayer...waiting before Him and not letting go until the work has been done. It
requires us to be willing to stand in the gap on behalf of others, as well as entire
nations.
God wants to use you in this end time hour to fulfill His will.
As we join together in this new, powerful dimension of prayer, we will
see greater answers to prayer than we have ever seen! Our intercessory prayers
will impact entire nations!
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