FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS

 

HEAR US O GOD

God's word says "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." Jeremiah 1:5

We often use that scripture as part of our pro life stand and rightly so. Now that word sanctified means to set apart, in other words God set Jeremiah apart from before his birth to be a called Prophet to the nations.

Many God has set apart for His ministry and many have rejected that calling on their lives. Though not everyone is called to be a prophet, a teacher, an apostle, an evangelist, a pastor in the Ministry. We have all been called to be His ambassadors, His soldiers, we are all to plant seed, to water the seed someone else has sown (as mentors), to be intercessors, prayer warriors and to live our lives in such a way that the light of Christ in us will draw others to Him.

A few months back, as I was praying and refecting, I remembered the reoccurring dream I had from the time I was 9 until I was saved at 27. A dream that had events unfolding that no unchurched 9 year old would have any knowledge of. I  have written of this dream often, so I will not go into details, merely to say; it was the events that reflected Judgment Day was coming and even at 9 years old I knew I could not run from or hide from that day. Then the summer of 1973 God used my unsaved husband to tell me to go read the bible, and where did I begin? Of course Revelation from beginning to end though my natural man could not understand, I knew this "Something bad was coming and God wins"! That coupled with my continual dream, on February 22, 1974 I surrendered my life to Christ. Through years of up's and downs, by the time I am in my fifties, I began to pray "Father, make me a prayer warrior". Had I understood it's meaning perhaps I would not have prayed. I was 64 years old before I began to see the fruit of that prayer. As I had been praying and reflecting I heard God speak in my spirit "I have planted in you the events of the latter days, so you will know how to pray"! 

I have felt this burden for our nation and for His church for years. I write about, I pray about it and inwardly I weep and ache about it. I never expected this post to take this direction, I had other plans, but God changed that direction.

I will hopefully give some scripture references at the end. But know your calling! God before you were born set His calling for you down in you. Oh He gave me talents at my birth, and at my salvation He gave me spiritual gifts both of these we are to use within the local church and within the community around us to fulfill His purpose. We are all called to pray, to be warriors, to be intercessors, but then there are those who were specifically called for such a time as this. To see the deception both in and outside the church, to view events taking place within our nation and by the power of the Holy Spirit within us, we pray some days quietly, and other days we battle fiercely, we take on our adversary with violence and with great force. But each time we pray it is by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

I encourage you know what your calling is at this time and fulfill your purpose in Christ. For as His word says "He is coming again"!

Matthew 11:12, Joshua 5:13-15, 

2 Timothy 2:3-4, Esther 4:11-16

Father, hear my prayer for Your bride. We need You, You are the breath in our lungs, You are our King, our Lord, our all sufficient God. Awaken us to You, we have allowed life and the world to take us from Your house of worship. We have begun to look like the world; seeking self pleasures, looking to our possessions, being filled with self-righteousness. Oh God where are we? Where am I? Evil is all around us, Christians are falling into deception. The spirit of depression is shrouding the minds of Your people. Help us Lord as we call out to You, from a place filled with much darkness, You are the Light, You are our beacon we must follow. Fill Your church houses today, fill them with people seeking You, crying out to You, hungry for worship, hungry for healing, hungry for hope, thirsty for Your living water. Pour out Your rain of revival let it move within every body of believers gathered for worship. Let the music stop, and let worship flow into Your throne room and onto Your feet. Let us pray for one another, for You have called us Your House of Prayer. Father let Your anionting flow throughout the room, let Your Holy Spirit minister to each person in the room, let the atmosphere radiate with You, loosen the tongues from our mouths that we might give You praise, give us a greater revelation of who You are. Let us lay on the altar and cry out to You consume what is not of You and purify all that is of You, let Your fire fall. Let us listen for Your voice, let every distraction the enemy will send to keep us from hearing Your voice be silent. We need an upper room encounter in these days we are living in. An encounter that will send Your church out  to the highways and byways and be witnesses for Your goodness, let the fire, the burning passion, the anionting flow through Your people that  we will be strong and courageous. Bind the spirit of discord and loosen from heaven unity of the brethren. Father let not wickedness prevail in America, bind on earth as it is in heaven the spirit of the antichrist who desires to trap through deception through lies to lead the people into the pit of Hell, he hates You, Your people and he hates America because You have blessed and You founded America in Your name, loosen from heaven to earth Your light, Your truth, Your mercy on our nation In Jesus name and by the power of His blood Amen