Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Are We Tuned into ABUNDANCE?

 

1 Kings 18:41-46  NKJV……41 Then Elijah said to Ahab, "Go up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain." 42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; then he bowed down on the ground, and put his face between his knees, 43 and said to his servant, "Go up now, look toward the sea." So he went up and looked, and said, "There is nothing." And seven times he said, "Go again." 44 Then it came to pass the seventh time, that he said, "There is a cloud, as small as a man's hand, rising out of the sea!" So he said, "Go up, say to Ahab, 'Prepare your chariot, and go down before the rain stops you.' " 45 Now it happened in the meantime that the sky became black with clouds and wind, and there was a heavy rain. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel. 46 Then the hand of the LORD came upon Elijah; and he girded up his loins and ran ahead of Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel. 



Are we tuned into Abundance? God is the God of Abundance! Elijah spoke: I hear the sound of the abundance of rain: So our ears are to hear God's heart.....GOD’S SPIRIT TO MY SPIRIT MAN.……Sound = vibrations……. my SPIRITUAL ear has picked up the vibration of something that is coming. The "something" from God is on its way to me! I can't see it, I can't touch it, I CANNOT feel it…….. but IT IS on the way!


Sound always indicates something: it can be good or it can be bad, but something of sound is occurring! When 120 men and women had gathered in the upper room waiting for the promised power, the Bible says: Suddenly there came a sound from heaven like a mighty rushing wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

There was a sound: The sound was an indication (Something is coming).
Suddenly cloven tongues as fire appeared on each of them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

These men and women came together in prayer. They came with one thought to receive the Promise!

I hear the sound of an abundance of rain: Elijah spoke in a place and a time where there had not been rain for sometime because famine had been present in the land for some 31/2 years.

What did that mean ? (Rain) as being the river of God meant for Israel: new life, restoration, the rivers will run again, fish will be caught again, the crops will grow again, there will be gladness and joy that will have  replaced sorrow, there will be laughter where there has been weeping. 

Psalm 65:9-13……..9 You visit the earth and water it,

You greatly enrich it; The river of God is full of water;

You provide their grain, For so You have prepared it.

10 You water its ridges abundantly, You settle its furrows;

You make it soft with showers, You bless its growth.

 

11 You crown the year with Your goodness, And Your paths drip with abundance.

12 They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, And the little hills rejoice on every side.

13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered with grain;

They shout for joy, they also sing. NKJV

 

 Prayer is communication where God is present in His word and as we communicate with Him. And it is God WHO desires us to prophesy and say to the dry bones, get ready, Rain is on the Way!  RAIN IS ON ITS WAY…….. God’s answer is on the WAY!

We STAND! We look and are expectant. It is not giving up, but it is praying in giving thanks for the answer is coming. The fire burns brightly, giving away to a new strength to continue in the Lord! 

The more You and I spend with God, the more we will hear Him speak. Even in the midst of chaos, in the time of a bad report, the Lord still speaks. There are days I can walk outside and I sense change. It is there in the atmosphere! I cannot see it, I cannot hear it, but there is a sound of change in the atmosphere.

So God tells Elijah in a sound, abundance of rain. IT IS A DOWNPOUR………….. GOD IS PROCLAIMING IT IN THE SPIRIT REALM…………IT IS ONLY PICKED UP IN THE SPIRIT REALM………in 1 John 5:3-4…..we are told this: 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world--our faith. NKJV

Our faith, our trust in the Lord, and hearing HIM declare that there will be rivers in the wilderness……..….. Isaiah 43:19-21…19 Behold, I will do a new thing, Now it shall spring forth; Shall you not know it? I will even make a road in the wilderness And rivers in the desert.  20 The beast of the field will honor Me, The jackals and the ostriches, Because I give waters in the wilderness And rivers in the desert, To give drink to My people, My chosen. 21 This people I have formed for Myself; They shall declare My praise. (NKJV)

 

When we trust the Lord and are expectant, we can know in our spirit man that we have changed, we have grown, and not trusting in the flesh creature anymore. Our spirit man is in the ascendancy to receive what the Lord speaks and to declare to our body, the five senses, get ready for abundance is on its way.

When we really start to hear Him, we move from Hindered Street to Power Boulevard and the atmosphere is changing.I declare His Word of abundance over me and my family and move to more than enough Avenue! 

 Like Elijah, we can see the result of answered prayer.

We can see God turn things around for our good!

The rain was on the way but there was work to be done: Ahab went to play and Elijah went to pray.

E.M. Bounds, one of the greatest men of prayer that ever lived said: “God does nothing except in answer to prayer.”
So if things seem to be stagnating around us and nothing appears to be moving then we should be looking at our Prayer life. When we have no prayer, we have no life! If you have no prayer life then you have no power in your life!

 

John Wesley was quoted as saying, “Prayer is where the action is."

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties." Oswald Chambers

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet."  E. M. Bounds

 

Before interceding in prayer, we must find the quiet place to worship God. We are to have the thankful heart.  Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. If we truly are the Redeemed, then we must let God know how thankful we are to be HIS REDEEMED! Psalm 107:1-3 NKJV…….Oh, give thanks to the LORD, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. 2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy, 3 And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.

 

 As Elijah, when God gives us the sound of something coming………whether it is change either spiritually, physically or financially, we keep our eyes on Jesus. Thanking the Lord for you heard the sound and you begin to prophesy to the walls.

We cannot look at the circumstances surrounding us. The servant returned with an answer……….. I’m looking but I don’t see any evidence of an answer to your prayer.
But Elijah just keeps on praying, he sends his servant back to the sea and while the servant is running Elijah is praying.

There are times that we must continue to pray. In prayer, we continue to look at the Word and not the circumstance……EVEN …..when a word from God in our spirit has come, we keep on praying. We hold in our heart: the sound of abundance of rain. 

We should never stop if the answer does not come right away! We are to continue our worship to God, and keep expecting. For every moment we move aside to the secret place and pray, we put pressure in the spirit man to hear God completely, with no noise, only the sound of His voice speaking.


What am I expecting? What are you expecting? What do you require? God gave me a sound…………..I heard it……….I keep praying, keep seeking, I keep knocking and believing I will see what I heard in the spirit. I give thanks for a "hearing ear" to hear Him speak to me!

It is on the 7th return to Elijah that the servant speaks……..”  Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea.”  He heard the sound in the spirit and then a Rhema word came………
A Rhema word: A specific word, for a specific purpose, for a specific time.
There’s something about faith that lets you see the greatness in little things:

Faith can see:  mass destruction in the jawbone of an ass ( Judges 15:16-17), a small child’s lunch feed 5000 men ( Mark 6: 30-44), or a king in small ruddy-faced young boy who shepherds sheep ( David: 1 Samuel 16: 1-13).


Elijah prayed and the servant saw……..he saw the cloud the size of a man’s hand………….but Elijah remembered the sound……….it was a gully washer coming, it was going to be the rainstorm of rainstorms to end drought and to fill rivers to overflowing capacity.

I don’t care how big the problem may seem to you, or how long it has existed: The promises of God come in concentrated form and one little word from God will set you free, and will "destroy" that thing forever.
Jesus said: All it takes is faith like the size of a mustard seed and you can command mountains to jump into the sea and they will have to go.

Jesus told us in Luke 17 of faith……….. Luke 17:6………….6 So the Lord said, "If you have faith as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be pulled up by the roots and be planted in the sea,' and it would obey you. NKJV


Elijah got off his knees and told Ahab: It’s here, The rain is here, If you don’t get that chariot rolling you aren’t getting off this mountain.

And while Elijah was prophesying, the wind blew, and the clouds turned black and the rain came. It was Elijah who heard it with his spirit man, prophesied it with his mouth and saw it with his eyes.
 And then Elijah out ran a king in a chariot and horse to get to the city where the queen was waiting. 

How did Elijah do that? How could he outrun a chariot drawn by a fast horse in the mud? Prayer helped him! That which he prayed for the nation would also come to him. Seeds sown for the good of another came to Elijah. Elijah had a relationship with God. And it was God who broaden the path under Elijah.

Behaving under pressure is revealed by how we behave in everyday life when a "suddenly" appears. Because a "suddenly" can bring extra pressure to you, your well-being and your check book or savings account!

Prayer picks fights! Prayer seeks God and His presence. Prayer seeks that which belongs to God. Prayer helps us to guard truth! It is carrying the right name of Jesus as our treasure which is above silver and gold! Prayer in us and through us will set up the word which has free course to be free running through our lives that is of His justice, His peace, His strength, His power and His love.

Prayer is submitting to God and resisting the devil: James 4:7-8 NKJV Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinner; and purify your hearts you double-minded. Choosing prayer in the time of prayer for Elijah was choosing to draw near to God to hear Him and to receive rain! Faith is not accidental. Faith is a like a bull dog holding onto the edge of someone's coat with teeth showing and with no outward appearance of letting go of that coat edge. It is being determined to hear God, being determined to embrace God's life and renounce the enemies lies.

Prayer is knowing God and being known by Him! And the opposite will appear, that those who pray will be known they just came from God and He God knows them well because they speak with a bold response of a believer by faith in Him.

Today, you and I have the Holy Spirit. May He the Holy Spirit magnify the ability in prayer through us. May we forget the past and regard today that is alive unto God where His counsel to us is wisdom and revelation through Christ Jesus. May our eyes be opened and our ears to hear what the Lord will speak. For by the Spirit of Grace, we are directed into a spiritual life where abundance is seen and received in the physical. It is that place where we give thanks as we walk into that abundance place that it our inheritance. 

Are you ready to pick a fight? Are you ready to see abundance come? Make sure you are kneeling for the "right thing" for it is found only in God and in Him alone. Amen!


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