Praying…
Holy, beautiful, precious is the name that is above every other name – Jesus
Such power is in Your name
Because of Your name we will not stay the same
Finances are over and above in Your name
Glorifying and lifting Your name today
We need You Lord all the time – Thank You, Jesus
The following excerpt was taken from The Master’s Calling from by Lynne Hammond:
Over and over in the pages of scripture we hear Him say, ”Ask! Ask of Me!” Behind those fervent admonitions is the loving heart of a Father who longs to pour out blessings upon the earth. Yet He restrains Himself. He has given the earth to mankind and He will not usurp our authority. He waits to be invited.
Throughout the Old Testament He always found a remnant who would do so; God-loving people who yielded themselves as servants and, under the power of the Holy Spirit, prayed God’s will into the earth. But now He has something much greater. He has millions of born-again men and women who are not just servants but sons with His own nature and His own Spirit living in their hearts.
Not Just Spectators–Participators!
My, how we have underestimated the call God has given us! The apostle Paul gives us a glimpse of it in 1
Corinthians 1:9 when he says, “God is faithful (reliable, trustworthy, and therefore ever true to His promise, and He can be depended on); by Him you were called into companionship and participation with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
We are not called to be forever spiritual infants constantly crying for our Father to do this and that for us. We are called to grow up and become participators and companions with Him, helping Him fulfill His purposes and intents for all eternity. That is what prayer is truly all about.
“Well, I can easily see how I need God but I just don’t see how God-could need mel”
Can’t you? Think about it for a moment. The Bible says the Holy Spirit is an intercessor. But how does He get that work of intercession done? Romans 8:26 tells us. He “goes to meet our supplication!” He cannot pray unless we pray. He is dependent on us just as we are dependent on Him. And even as we have things in our lives we want to pray about, He has things He wants to pray about–whole realms of them!
The realms of the Holy Spirit are incredibly vast. They include not only this physical universe and all that is in it from the leaders of nations to the baby bird in its nest; they also include dimensions of the Spirit no man has ever seen. They extend beyond the here and now, backward through the ages of time, and forward through the eons of eternity.
Although it’s difficult to imagine what the Holy Spirit does with all those realms, the first chapter of Genesis gives us some insight. It says that in the beginning when the earth was without form and darkness was on the face of the deep, “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” (verse 2 KJV). The word moved actually means to hover like a mother hen hovers over her eggs.
The Holy Spirit’s desire as He hovered over this earth was to release His power and bring forth life according to the will of God. But He did not do so until God spoke. He did not split the darkness until He heard the Words, “Let there be light” (verse 3).
Today the Holy Spirit is still hovering over the realms of God. And today, just as in the beginning, He is waiting for someone to speak God’s words and will over those realms. He is waiting for us to ask in the name of Jesus. He is waiting for us to yield ourselves to Him in prayer and say, “Let there be light in the life of that lost soul! Let there be life for the dying one! Let God’s will be done on earth as it is in heaven!” But, for the most part, we have not done it. It’s not necessarily because we’ve been unwilling, it’s because we haven’t known about those realms-much less expected the Holy Spirit to reveal them to us. We’ve puttered around praying from our limited earthly perspective, totally unaware that if we would but release our faith, the Spirit of grace and supplication within us would open to us the eternal universe of God Himself.
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Continued praying…
Pastor Ray shared…
There was something different yesterday during prayer in our tongues. It was bigger, just a notch different. There was an anointing in a different way to speak in tongues and know that it was by the Spirit and that He will have His way and these things will be done on the face of the earth; where we remove limitations and a lot of those are in our thoughts.
I thought of that in the reading where Ms. Lynne said a lot us know we need Him but does He really need us? Yes, He does. So we just declare over us, over the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, every single soul, every single man, woman, and child that they are necessary for the purpose and the plan that God has on the face of the earth. There is a gift and gifts that were placed within and God by the power of His Holy Spirit is continually calling unto us to come on up and take our seat in heavenly places and pray from that position of power and grace and the anointing and speak over one another’s race and see these things fulfilled that have already been preplanned for in Jesus’ name.
Annie shared…
Along the same line I recall a scripture in Hebrews that Billye Brim brought up recently “A body thou hast prepared for Me… Behold I have come… to do your will, O God..” She was expressing the way that He needs our bodies. He’s prepared our bodies to be voices. We yield; we come to do thy will O God. You’ve prepared us as vessels to speak Your words as Jesus did. John 14:10 states “The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works.”
Continued praying…
Fill us with the fullness of Your power
We give You full reign over our today Lord
Thank You, Father, for words that go all over the face of the earth – transforming lives
For moving us out to where we have never been
Stirring and changing and opening new doors
Reaching forth and calling those things that be not as though they absolutely were!
Breakthroughs for the church!
We give you all the honor, praise, and glory and thank You for it today
