"I was asleep but my heart was awake, A voice! My beloved was knocking" - Song of Solomon 5:2
THE KEY COMPONENTS OF CREATIVE PRAYER ARE:
Passion – Immersion – Revelation – Creativity
The best way to prepare for His revelation is to: immerse yourself in Scriptures concerning the topic at hand and to read books by others who have pursued the topic.
Use journaling to ask God to show you the insights you need to master the experience.
Go to sleep pondering the
"He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him with the fruit of the fields. He nourished him with honey from the rock, and with oil from the flinty crag." (Deuteronomy 32:13)
Where the sting of hope deferred, heartbreak, and devastation has struck your life, He is now striking the rock on your behalf. From the rock will flow honey as a healing balm, to restore and repair the ruin caused from the pain and trauma of the onslaught of enemy attack. He will nourish you with honey a
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to His great mercy, He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." - 1 Peter 1:3
The Lord is redefining His Church and calling them out of a place of stagnancy and redundancy into a place of passion.
Have you ever felt as if you were running around in circles, going through churchy motions but getting nowhere? When we lose sight of His Kingdom, our lives can
"...He has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature..." - 2 Peter 1:4
Promises from God are met with contradiction in the natural realm. God is announcing a reality to you that will most likely appear very distant and disconnected from your present situation. God's promises are prophetic glimpses of the realities He wants to release into and through your life.
SUPERNATURAL BENEFITS OF THE PROMISES OF
You may be in a season of trials and feel there is no hope. Peter talks about the fiery trials we go through so our faith can come out as pure gold – glory!
Lay down your thoughts, your will, your plans; lay them under the winnowing fan of the glorified Son of Man.
You are set free from the bonds of the past, the flesh, the soul -- all your sins are forgiven and you are always in right standing with God. Now let His glory be revealed through your Christ calling as you bear fruit
Regardless of what we see or don't see in our earthly circumstances, we can be encouraged by four things from Jesus in His teachings on prayer (Luke 11:1–13; 18:1–8):
1. Our prayers will be answered. "'So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you'" (Luke 11:9).
2. God will always answer our prayers with good things (even if they aren't in the form we expect). "'Which of you fathers, if your son asks for
John 15:1,2,4 - "I am the Real Vine and my Father is the Farmer. He cuts off every branch of Me that doesn't bear grapes. And every branch that is grape- bearing he prunes back so it will bear even more....Make your home in Me just as I do in you.....When you're joined with Me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant." - (The Message Bible)
God must show us the great darkness we are in when our soul tries to find its ultimate happiness, consol
Matthew 3:13-17 - 13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan [River], to be baptized by him. 14 But John tried to prevent Him [vigorously protesting], saying, “It is I who need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?” 15 But Jesus replied to him, “Permit it just now; for this is the fitting way for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then John permitted [it and baptized] Him. 16 After Jesus was baptized, He came up immediately out of the water; and behold, the heavens were opened,
"The winter is past…the flowers are springing up, and the time of singing birds has come…the fig trees are budding, and the grapevines are in blossom," and then he repeats his invitation for her to arise and come away with him (Song of Solomon 2:13).
Like in the Song of Solomon, you have entered into a new season. The Lord is beckoning you, wooing you, inviting you to come away from where you have been and arise into a new place with Him – a place of greater revelation and demonstrat
PRAYING FOR YOUR CHILDREN
That they will know Christ as Savior early in life.
Psalm 63:1, Timothy 3:15
That they will have a hatred for sin. Psalm 97:10
That they will be caught when guilty. Psalm 119:71
That they will be protected from the evil one in each area of their lives: spiritual, emotional, physical. John 17:15
That they will have a responsible attitude in all their interpersonal relationships.
Daniel 6:3
DOING BUSINESS WITH GOD
As Believers who are seeking to advance His Kingdom we have the right and privilege to do business with God.
Why does we need us to do business with Him?
1. God has given mankind dominion over the earth. Therefore, we have the authority to release Him to work when we pray. God has never violated the free will that He gave humankind.
Psalm 8:4-8 says: "What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? Fo
Hebrews 4:9-11 LB - "So there is a full complete rest still waiting for the people of God. Christ has already entered there......let us do our best to go into that place of rest, too..."
In the life of faith, when you learn that you are living FROM victory and not FOR victory and yield yourself entirely, to your CALLING in Christ, living a life of walking in the Spirit -- that is when you enter the rest of God. You live in your Christ identity, from heaven -- in your God-given authorit
Luke 5:16 - "...Jesus often withdrew to lonely places to pray."
Many want the spiritually intoxicating new wine God is pouring out in this hour, but to hold that new wine, you must have new wineskins. You cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
There is more prayer on Earth today than ever, yet most of it is temporal prayer for everyday things. What if, instead of praying for things you started praying the Psalms?
The Psalms are unique in that they
APPREHENDING THE GOD OF INCREASE
Right now, we celebrate the Holy Spirit bringing us into a divine convergence to position us for a continual increase in wisdom, stature, and favor!
Luke 2:52 reads, "And Jesus kept increasing in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men."
WISDOM is the application of your understanding and the supernatural ability to turn your encounters and dreams with God into reality. This increase in the Spirit of Wisdom is being poured
THIS IS YOUR MOMENT! God is raising up a radical movement of misfits for the Kingdom to go where no one else will go and to SAY what no one else will say! This is the season God is giving the remnant of misfits a new name, a new vision, and a fresh new start.
Sons are repenting into a right relationship with God and BACK INTO POSITION. Many have been out of position, diverted from their original Christ calling and purpose through the attacks against what they carry –- BUT NO MORE!
It's essential that we as Spirit-filled Believers understand the power of our words and decrees.
Isaiah 55:11 is a word in season for every hungry Believer to take advantage of. As you open your mouth and speak out your DESTINY, you will breathe life into your situations and see impossible circumstances turn around.
In 2024 the Holy Spirit wants to build the lives of our children, family, friends, community and the Church; and it is vital that we come into agreement with
Hosea 2:16 - "'It will come about in that day,' declares the Lord, 'that you will call Me Ishi....'"
Ishi, in Hebrew, is a name which means, "my husband" and expresses the intimacy of a close relationship. You might be in a desert, but the desert doesn't have to be in you. Jesus said there are springs of water in you, "springing up into everlasting life."
The springs begin to well up, and praise and adoration flows out of you. Before you know it, the springs are watering everythi
"My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working." - John 5:17
We work and partner with what he is already doing in Heaven. The father works in heaven and we work with the Holy Spirit on earth. "So Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he "sees" the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise."
We are totally dependent on the Holy Spirit to discern the Father's will for us in advancing
Break the bondage of a passive spirit. Take up the sword of the Spirit and embrace the fight of world challenging faith.
Speaking to the mountains in your life and believing what you say transitions you from seeing God as far off in Heaven, answering your requests, to you recognizing that God lives by His Holy Spirit inside of you.
You can bear the burdens of others and you are the go-between for them before God. You ask on their behalf, in faith, believing, then GO and
"Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? What communion has light with darkness? What agreement has Christ with Belial? Or what part has he who believes with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God."As God has said: I will live in them and walk in them. I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 'Therefore, 'Come out from among them and be separate,
The first thing God did was speak with His voice. We are created in the image and likeness of God. When we speak through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, there is power to shift atmospheres from darkness to light.
The enemy always aims to shut down your voice. Our voice, anointed and inspired by the Holy Spirit, is one, if not the greatest, weapon God has given us to shift atmospheres. We've been created with a voice. In the beginning, God said, "Let there be light" (Genesis 1:3)
"Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the Cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God." - Hebrews 12:1-2
We are all running the race in our calling in Christ. The Lord wants
Job 33:4, "The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life."
When God breathes in us and upon us, we are receiving His inspiration. Our goal in worship is not just to sing a song to God but to get to such a place of intimate connection that inspiration takes place where we receive a deposit from Heaven.
The result of being inspired by God brings us into alignment with His thoughts, His heart and brings a flow of true worship in our lives. He is looking f
The passionate pursuit of God will deliver you from the religious mindsets that attempt to bind and hinder you. Find freedom and victory as you move into a powerful place of pursuit in the Holy Spirit. Find the high places of the Holy Spirit!
Faith is the foundation for our authority. Believing the words of scripture is essential for our faith to be alive and active.
God wants to release His people from condemnation, fear, and shame. These are the foes of authority. They keep
In Acts 26:16, when Saul met Jesus in the explosive glory fire, Jesus "appointed" him to bear witness of Him.
The Lord is releasing a glory fire (fire of the Lord that brings sudden breakthrough and divine turnarounds) as in the days of Saul, and out of that fire He is "appointing" a generation of the Sons of Thunder (see Mark 3:17).
Thunder (in the reference in Mark 3), in the Greek means to roar. These Sons of Thunder, who will be released throughout the earth, will roar with the voi
