Day 21

 

 

The Wisdom of Intercession

What is the difference between prayer and intercession?  Prayer is a solemn request for help or expression of  thanks addressed to God. Intercession is praying on behalf of another person, group of people or nation. We were made to intercede on the behalf of others. When we do it gets our eyes off of ourselves and helps us look to the needs of others and in this God fulfills our needs as well as the needs of others. We interceded on behalf  those who can't pray for themselves because they don't see the need or are in the middle of a very stressful situation and need to be lifted up. We all need help now and again and become weary in the middle of a battle and when someone else steps in on our behalf, that, a lot of times is the key to breakthrough needed.

 

As we press in, on behalf of another we move out of our flesh way of intercession, into the Spirit and He helps us pray as we should. He gives us spiritual wisdom and spiritual thoughts. This takes us deeper, into the realm of the Spirit and we can see what Gods heart is for the situation and pray accordingly.  We then become stewards of the mysteries of God. With these mysteries we can then declare them into the heavens and cause heavens to open and breakthrough to come. We do not engage in physical battles but spiritual ones. These are won by prayers, declarations and intercessions. Ephesians 6:18,19....with all prayer and petition pray at all in the Spirit, and with this in view, be on the alert with all perseverance and petition for all the saints (intercession), and pray on my behalf that utterance may be given me in the opening of  mouth, to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.... What this is teaching us is that we are to pray on behalf of others so that God will intervene and give them wisdom to overcome the evil one, giving them strength to go forward with boldness preaching and declaring Gods word.

 

Prayer for today:

Lord Jesus, give me a Spirit of wisdom, revelation and understanding when it comes to intercession and prayer. Bring to my mind those who I need to be interceding for and give us all boldness to proclaim your word to those who need to hear from You. I ask for understanding on behalf of others who need You, so that I will pray as I ought to. amen. 

Day  22

 

 

 

The Wisdom of Trusting in God

 

There are different opinions on how success is measured. Mans ideas of what success is and how to reach it, and then there is Gods, Kingdom  keys to success and how that looks from Heavens perspective.

Mans is based on how you look to world. What you do, act and how much you accomplish.

The worlds is based on performance, not so much on how you reach the top, so long as you do.

Gods way is contrary to this way of thinking. His is based on how much of yourself you give to Him and allow Him to mold and make you. This is hard for a lot of us to do. Yield totally to Him, breaking off strongholds that in most circles would be deemed acceptable. The lives of Saul and David is a great example of this. Saul was chosen  by God, but He was not put through the one key to his success: Gods boot camp. He was picked out because of his looks, charisma and family line. He didn't last long, before he went against Gods commands. Gods spirit wasn't on him, and an evil spirit sent from the Lord, was with him day and night.

David on the other hand went through 30 plus years of being in the desert, being molded by God to reign as His chosen king, When we allow God to take us through the desert and mold us, we can withstand the enemies attacks and bring Gods glory to this earth. Why? The key to David's success was giving his life to God and trusting Him.

I feel  the first key to success is trusting God. It is hard to put oneself totally in Gods hand and trust Him to mold and make you and release you into your position when He says you are ready.

I Peter 5:10 states and after you  have suffered for a little while (this depends on how much of your old nature you allow God to remove and how long it takes), the God of all grace who called you  to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

This is the first key to success. Allowing God total access to your life. Then when the process is over you will be able to withstand the pressures and carry His glory to the fullest.





 

Day 23

 

 

 

 

Our Lens.

We move live and make decisions based upon sight. We live in a world with beautiful things to look at and it can have effect on what we do, based on what we see with our natural eyes. Through the course of life we have good and bad things happen. As we move through hurts of divorce, bad decisions, wrong friends, illness and pain, anger and upsets, deceit and guile through those who you thought were friends and the list goes on. I am sure you can add you life issues to this list. This lens we look through becomes cracked with each incident and we become hardened to life to any kind of healing or truth because we have not been healed and the pain of each issue sets an imprint with in our souls.. These issues build up within us, building a wall that is ready to crumble at any moment. This causes us to be fragile. It causes us to be broken within our souls and the pressure mounts with each trial from each day. Whether it is not being able to pay the bills, or bumping into someone at the market, spilling a drink to not getting your way in a conversation.  It is vital to the health of our lives to have our souls healed renewed and set free from any past mistakes, hurts, pains or trials. Allowing God to move in us. He not only moves in our spirits He moves within our very being, which is our souls. Each of  us needs inner healing. By this inner healing we become whole ,happy and filled with a newness of life. Allowing Him to fix the "cracks" within our being.
The world says we have to live life with the residue of these hurts, trials, pain and suffering, but Gods word says other wise. So we each have a choice. Trust God, press into Him and ask Him to fix your brokenness  and pain or as the world says...live with it...The choice is yours.
 

Day 24

The wisdom in worship>
I have realized several times over the past 15 years, since God and I started walking together, that worship is just as much for God as for me. Worship helps me: heal> grow> keeps my vision clear>honors God by exulting Him>I can and do experience visions when pressing into His Presence and last but not least, the reason why I feel worship is wisdom, when I don't worship I loose the reality of Heaven and His Presence in my everyday life.> I believe the act of worship keeps the heavens open before me.>
I believe that when we listen to secular music it is a fleshly way or a worlds replacement for worship.>Listening to this style of music still leaves us empty and unloved at the end.> It does not satisfy the craving deep within our souls, we need so much to be filled. Sure, for a short while it takes our mind off of our cares and concerns, but if we are honest with our selves it does not give us what we need>
Worship also fills a void in our souls and spirits.> God placed this within our DNA when He created man and women>  We were created to walk with Him> To have Him be apart of  our life>
You are complete when you worship. I know if I miss a few days of spending time in worship, I start to loose my connection with Him. If I am in a season of trials I will start to loose my focus and sometimes depression comes upon me. Music, when played with right intentions will heal, bring joy, peace, focus and vision.> There have been a lot of experiments made with music, with no words, what it does to our bodies.  Healing Frequencies Music link, I have posted above, has results from such test taken. When you can click on the link and learn about your body, soul and spirit and its link to music>
If you truly want to have fruit that lasts, benefit man kind, and benefit yourself. Worship> If you want to honor God and have a deeper relationship with Him.> Worship everyday>