To Sweeten Our life and that of Others

Was hearing a teaching about a week ago. The teacher was speaking on Polycarp.

It was the city of Smyrna that contained a temple of the Olympian Zeus, with whose cult that of the Roman emperors was associated. Olympian games were celebrated here, and excited great interest in people who came from great distances.

The extreme interest excited by the games at Smyrna may perhaps account for the remarkable ferocity exhibited by the population against the aged bishop Polycarp. It was exactly on such occasions that what the pagans regarded as the unpatriotic and anti-social spirit of the early Christians became most apparent; and it was to the violent demands of the people assembled in the stadium that the Roman proconsul yielded up the martyr. They had to have something to culminate their hatred!

The letter of the Smyrnaeans, in which the account of his martyrdom is contained, represents the Jews as taking part with the Gentiles in accusing him (Polycarp) as an enemy to the state religion-conduct which would be inconceivable in a sincere Jew, but which was quite natural in those which the sacred writer characterizes as "a synagogue of Satan" (Rev 2:9).

Polycarp was executed before the mass of people with a great sword: a blade if you will.  In his dying, a great wonderful scent filled the area and out to the city which was the scent of the fragrance of the Lord. The Lord’s scent filled the atmosphere! And what would they speak? What captured them that day when Polycarp died?

2 Corinthians 2:12-17  12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened to me by the Lord, 13 I had no rest in my spirit, because I did not find Titus my brother; but taking my leave of them, I departed for Macedonia. 14 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. 15 For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are the aroma of death leading to death, and to the other the aroma of life leading to life. And who is sufficient for these things? 17 For we are not, as so many, peddling the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ.  NKJV

Hosea 14:4-7    4 "I will heal their backsliding,  I will love them freely,

For My anger has turned away from him. 5 I will be like the dew to Israel;  He shall grow like the lily,  And lengthen his roots like Lebanon. 6 His branches shall spread;  His beauty shall be like an olive tree,  And his fragrance like Lebanon. 7 Those who dwell under his shadow shall return;  They shall be revived like grain,  And grow like a vine. Their scent shall be like the wine of Lebanon.   NKJV

Song 4:9-12   9 You have ravished my heart,  My sister, my spouse;  You have ravished my heart  With one look of your eyes,  With one link of your necklace.

10 How fair is your love,  My sister, my spouse!  How much better than wine is your love,  And the scent of your perfumes Than all spices! 11 Your lips, O my spouse,  Drip as the honeycomb;  Honey and milk are under your tongue;  And the fragrance of your garments  Is like the fragrance of Lebanon.  NKJV

Psalm 45:8-9   8 All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia, Out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad. 9 Kings' daughters are among Your honorable women;  At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.  NKJV

 

Our garments, the robes of righteousness, scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia. We are robed in righteousness. We take on His scents while spending much time with Him.  Displayed in Jesus ,we experience the beauty that He always gives. He is the self-less giver. We must abandon this world to know real love and real beauty!

That one purpose is to let God be Himself through us engulfed in the flames of holiness and released from all other afflictions. In the covenant keeping God, we are to come to His grace, consecrate ourselves not by taking it lightly, but a command of God for every believer……that our relationship is with Jesus, Our Husband!  ……..AS the body of believer’s it is a relationship and separated unto Him, we should know no other! God has spoken the language of love through His Son. And His Royal Son is coming for His Bride.

We give thanks, for it is Your presence that prevents deception or falsehood from taking hold:  Building our faith against all falsehood ….Psalm 101:7 He who works deceit shall not dwell within my house; He who tells lies shall not continue in my presence.

By building our faith in these words of God, those who work deceit shall not dwell within our house. They will not continue in our presence. Another we speak is that We are NOT canceled but we do cancel threats of harm or property damage that belongs to God’s sons and daughters: Luke 4:28-30 NKJV So all those in the synagogue , when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, 29 and rose up and thrust Him out of the city; and they led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city was built, that they might throw Him down over the cliff. 30 Then passing through the midst of them, He went His way.  WE also speak that those who would cancel us, that they would have an encounter with Almighty God: their hearts would be drawn to the truth of His Word, to the love that covers Him…leading to life to bring change to their hearts!                                                                                 

Acts 14:21-28 NKJV And they had preached the gospel to that city & made many disciples, they returned to Lystra, Iconium, & Antioch, 22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, & saying, “we must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.” 23 So when they had appointed elders in every church, & prayed with fasting they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed! From Acts 14: 21-22 Tribulations: Paul taught the kingdom of God. He also taught that ‘kingdom” people will suffer trials and tribulations. “ ……….we must through many tribulations enter the kingdom of God.”

Victory is available but not instant:2 Thessalonians 1:5 which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; 6 since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble, you, 7 & to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels.  God did not promise life without struggle; Dominion is being recovered by the presence of the King within us, ministered by the Holy Spirit’s power.

 

1 John 5:4 For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world----our faith.  We confess :Romans 8:31-32  What then shall we say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?   We confess: Proverbs 21:31  The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance is of the LORD.    We confess: 1 Corinthians 15:55-58 NKJV  O Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Faith in God carried Polycarp through the valley of death. It brought him face to face with God. He held honor to God. His garments and body would have been strewn with dirt, blood and ruin, but while he was dying his scented life was a tribute unto God and no one can take that from him or you ever.

What will our last days be on earth? Will we see the Lord coming in His glory or will we face the valley of death….that place of sorrows? Should it come, it is not over and we are not done, we have the scent of the Lord as we continue in His presence to His place and to His glory forever. Amen and Amen.

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Words Choose the Atmosphere

 

Within the vein of the last teaching on Voice of Prayer, we saw the use of straw in making bricks. According to Pharaoh, he did not mind stopping all work and life for his plan of worshiping his idols in regard to the specific time of year. But when Moses and Aaron came to speak of the whole Hebrew nation go out to the desert to worship God, Pharaoh threw a hissy fit. The uproar was about Pharaoh's plan and not to their (Hebrews) asking for their desire to meet God. ( the first encounter was Exodus 5)

Of course, in the atmosphere of those words spoken, straw was removed from them and they had to find other means of brick making! Those words choose the atmosphere. They can be words to delight, to bring questions, to see something never seen before, and they can be words to destruct and bring harm! ( Exodus 5-6) And remember the plagues began to fall on Pharaoh and all that lived in that region when he refused God. He would not allow them to go meet God in the wilderness and to worship Him there. Even here we note when straw is removed as in : officers de-funded and less officers on the job more violence occurs, nurses removed who will not vaccinate to be replaced with those not qualified to be a registered nurse, schools where substitute teaches no longer need a degree to teach your children (Oregon) just as long as you graduated High School you can apply to teach! Truckers removed from delivering goods to grocery markets and stores. (seen in the teaching: No Negative Thoughts or Feelings)

And ultimately, Pharaoh continued to speak in words of hate and violence, so much so that he followed the Hebrews with his best chariots and men. ( Exodus 12:31-51) He was determined to bring them back. But the sacrifice of praise to God in the wilderness led the Hebrews to the safe area to cross the Red Sea, to cross over for God's glory and to His praise. And they went through but the Egyptians died in their pursuit to attack the Hebrews to bring them back and to make them pay for their attitude! (Exodus 14:1-31)

Here we speak God! Here we lay down our morning, noon and night! Here we speak:

"LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, & Israel, let it be known this day that You are God in Israel and I am Your servant, and that I have done all these things at Your word. 37 Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that You are the LORD God, and that You have turned their hearts back to You again." ( and we know God hears His born again believers)

Today, we speak these names of Jehovah God, over the people of  these United States. ( You can speak over your nation here)  You are God Alone. You have prepared us for the day of Battle. And we speak as YOU have spoken….  Elohim, the Creator of the heaven and earth, Who was in the Beginning…….You are in the Beginning of their new life and of this new day! May the men and women of this country meet and know.............

Adonai, our Lord and our Master---the Completely Self-existing One, always present, revealed in Jesus Who is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Jehovah Jireh, the One Who sees our needs and provides for them……….May they know….

Jehovah-Rapha,  Our  HEALER  and the One Who makes bitter experiences sweet. YOU  sent YOUR word and healed us .  YOU  forgave all our iniquities and YOU healed all my diseases

Jehovah-Nissi ….Our Victory, our Banner and our STANDARD. …and it is Your  BANNER over us that …… is LOVE. When the enemy comes in like a flood….Jehovah-Nissi lifts up a STANDARD against him.

Jehovah-Shalom, WE bless Your Name. YOU are the PEACE….THE PEACE which transcends all understanding, which garrisons and mounts guard over every man, woman and child in the communities and the nation(s) we have asked for.  May their atmosphere be changed here and now in an instant….

Jehovah-Tsidkenu, Our Righteousness.YOU became sin FOR US THAT WE would become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. AND in that….we have

Jehovah-Rohi, Our SHEPHERD….We shall not be in want for any good or beneficial thing. We give thanks for …..

Jehovah Shammah, Who will never leave us nor forsake us… “The Lord is my HELPER, WE will not be seized with alarm-----WE will not fear or dread or be terrified. What can man do to me (us)?

 

God our Father: It is Your NAME that is to be exalted. It is YOU Who has given us all we need.  It is the sacrifice of Jesus  lifted up and it is our voices that must be resounding all to YOU for You are our Father Who has given all good things through YOUR Son Jesus. The sound of justice is present in You. The rain falls on the just and unjust just as the sun shines on the just and the unjust!

Today, we call the OPEN Door from John 10:9-10  NKJV…9 I (Jesus) am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I (Jesus)  have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.  We have spirit and truth in the Lord. We have His light and we have no more condemnation in the truth of God’s word.

 It is so sad that many people today delight in removing God so they can do more sinning, do more in man’s ideas of which he views as right in his own eyes. ( Judges 21:25, Proverbs 12:15, Proverbs 21:2) But destruction is not far behind that thinking and doing. We must call God Who He is in our lives and what we expect. Like in the reading of Elijah and the false prophets of Jezebel found in 1 Kings 18, they expected nothing. They had seen nothing except by their own hands. But here Elijah called down fire to a corrupt group of nonbelievers. Elijah had a belief in God that He could do what was asked of Him!

We are to expect when we speak with the voice of right words that fills the atmosphere for God’s good in our lives. We fill the atmosphere with good:

Philippians 4:6-9 NKJV  6  Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.   8  Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. 9  The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

 

We need to pay careful attention to this sequence of instructions because it contains much that can help us attain both good spiritual and physical health.

It has been in the last 60 years, men have come to understand how deteriorating and destructive stress is to life. Paul's counsel, written nearly two thousand years ago, tells us not to be driven by anxiety or fearfulness about life.   In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus admonishes us to "take no anxious thought." The stress of anxiety is wearying, setting us up for multiple afflictions. If we really "see" God, we should know that He is with us. 

Even then Jesus gave us this assurance to take no anxious thought, should we not feel great assurance in His promise that never allows us to be tempted above what we can bear? Faith is a prime solution for anxiety. So is Faith operating in us?

 

Paul continues, urging us to let God know our needs in every matter of life. God likes to converse with us. He sent His Holy Spirit to be in the daily walk with us here and now. As Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount, He already knows our needs, but He wants us to recognize, evaluate, and communicate them to Him, accompanied by thoughtful expressions of thanksgiving for what He has already given, as well as His promises of blessings in the future. Do we see what this process achieves? It disciplines us to think within certain well-defined parameters that have Him and His way at the center of our life.

A benefit of this is tranquility Paul reveals is that of the mind, respite from the restlessness so common to the carnal mind, which is constantly searching for new stimulation to satisfy its insatiable longings that this peace of God will stand guard over our minds like a sentinel, allowing us to meet and cope with the problems of life.

And "finally" from verse 8 Paul closes the thought. In that relation to anxiety, the peace of God and coping with problems, our minds are to stay focused and thoughtful on or occupied with  things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtuous, and praiseworthy. Through this discipline, we program our minds with the right things; what goes into the mind determines what comes out in words, actions, and attitudes.

So if one puts in his day by way of his mouth garbage. then it will be garbage in and garbage out, but wholesome in and wholesome out is what Jesus expanded on in Matthew 12:34.

"For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks". We could take this further and say that out of the abundance of the heart the mind thinks and feels, and the body acts upon that which is the spoken!

What words will you choose today? What will you speak over yourself, your family, your son or daughter, over your community and nation? We speak words that will fill the atmosphere with good! Will your words invite death or bring life? In the garden of Eden, Eve listened to a voice not with life giving advice. She adhered to that voice and she acted on it. She invites her husband Adam to participate with her in this action. He knowing, she is now in the spiral downward death scenario, experiencing spiritual death and he hating to lose her altogether, he joins her in that atmosphere of death. He leaves God to adhere to death and its death throws. 

We have a "woke" society doing that very thing today! They choose to leave the right way, the things of God and join the world in their doing. There are people who choose to keep their friends, a boyfriend, or a neighbor but their way is changed from the godly to the worldly way. They have taken vaccines and died. They did not want to make waves and they changed in their thinking. They took on the fearful heart and choose to live at peace with the enemy as peacekeepers, but God has called us to be peacemakers. We have seen it in family members who live miles away from us. You cannot join the world and expect to live in Christ!

Oh choose your words wisely this day, your day counts on where you will be and what you will experience: life or death!

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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 7^th 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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Beyond the City Walls

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Stalking the Darkness

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