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July 11 - July 18, 2022
They taught me not to wait on my favorite song to play before I started praying, but to take the Word of God, mingle it with communion with the Holy Spirit, and begin to declare God’s Word back to Him. All of these things marked me deeply, but even more deeply than that was experiencing what I felt and what I saw when they opened their mouths: I could feel God. I got to watch them bring Heaven down to Earth.
We see Mary only three times in Scripture, yet in every instance, she is at Jesus’ feet (see Luke 10:38-42; John 11; 12:1-3).
Waiting before Jesus, sitting at His feet, listening to Him—these are the agents that draw the power and glory of God earthward!
When you sit at His feet, you become filled with the dreams of His heart, and that puts you to work to manifest His dreams in the earth. But it’s absolutely critical to find yourself at His feet, prioritizing Him over the stuff and needs around Him.
You know you are serving in a wrong spirit when you become aware of what other people are not doing. This kind of serving will ultimately lead to accusation against Jesus concerning His empathy and fairness.
I believe we’ve lost the power of His Word in our mouths because we’ve lost the power of His Word in our ears. There is a direct connection between the priority you give to hearing Him speak and the authority of your speaking for Him.
Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire (1 Corinthians 3:12-15). In this message, Ravenhill highlighted the difference between the gold, silver, and precious stones and the wood, hay, and straw. He stated
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John the Baptist, and he lived his entire life in one place: the wilderness. Though this man never performed a miracle, never opened a blind eye, never unstopped a deaf ear, and never raised a dead person from the grave, His life and message literally shook a nation.
I knew God was calling me to more than “just dancing around someone else’s fire.” He was calling me to get into the fire.
We need messengers who walk with a limp.
We need preachers who know and love the Bible. The Church is in a famine of the Word, and we must have a revival of biblical preaching that restores honor to the Word of God and equips the saints in love and honor for the Word of God.
We need a generation that is full of the Holy Spirit and that loves Him deeply.
whisper this prayer: God, make me a voice in this generation. God, make me a shepherd after Your own heart. I want to know You for real. I want to burn with Your holy fire. I want to feel what You feel, see how You see, and move like You move. I open my heart to You. Release upon me the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of Your Son. Set my heart on fire. Lord, make my life a life of prayer. Amen.
Jesus lived in complete dependence on the Father. As He attested Himself, The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner (John 5:19). I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me (v. 30).
I counted and found close to 175 verses where Jesus either was praying or teaching on prayer.
“So, your first lesson in prayer is, when you think prayer, you think list, but I think Person. I want to introduce you to a Person, a place, and the Person’s name. It’s ‘Our Father in heaven, by the way.’”
By the first line in the Lord’s Prayer, we see that Jesus came to share His Father with the whole earth. He came to reveal the most glorious, kind, righteous, just, powerful, wise, loving, gentle, zealous Person who has ever been, and we get to call Him, “Abba” (Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6).
Jesus wanted us to know, when we pray, we are praying to our Father, and we must know who He is. We were made to worship Him—to gaze upon Him. He wants to remove the scales from our eyes so that we may see Him in all His glorious splendor. What better way to do this than in prayer!
When Jesus said, “Our Father in heaven,” He was connecting us to where our Father lives.
Scripture tells us to look up to where God is in Heaven. And Jesus told us to pray, “Our Father in heaven.”
when Jesus was teaching the disciples to pray, His very thoughts were “set on those things which are above.”
We say, “Jesus, I need it! I need eye salve!” Our saying it is the currency we need to buy it.
“From the throne proceeded lightnings, thunderings, and voices” (v. 5). The lightning, thundering, and voices in Heaven remind us of what happens when the Church wakes up to who we are in Christ. It releases the prophetic spirit in power, glory, and creativity. I believe the Psalm 29 thunders are coming back to the pulpits. That’s bringing Heaven to Earth when God thunders in His glory and power and majesty.
Jesus told the disciples to pray to their Father in Heaven, “Hallowed be Your name.” The one word that surrounds the throne is holy.
“Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” was what Jesus told them to decree. Note that prayer comes down from the place of revelation.
Revelation accesses Heaven, and faith pulls it down.
From Heaven flows every prayer summed up in, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” You can only release into your sphere of life what you are touching in Heaven. We must first ascend to the throne so that we may bring down the resources of Heaven.
Everything we need comes from our Father in Heaven, and so in the rest of the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus addressed our daily needs, our receiving forgiveness and giving forgiveness, and our deliverance from temptation.
Put simply: Prayer is about walking through opened doors and opening closed doors.
Leaders are the ones who don’t quit and who press on and press into the release of fullness. Jesus said, “Though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give to him as many as he needs” (Luke 11:8).
The friend with the bread got up and gave the friend standing outside his house all that the friend outside needed because of the outside friend’s persistence, not because of their friendship.
Jesus, then looked at His disciples and said, So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to
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It’s in the furnace where all of the wrong views of God are brought to the surface. It’s in the furnace where we cast down arguments and lies that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God. It’s in the furnace where we declare the truth of who our Father is over and over and over again. It’s in the furnace where we declare who we are to Him over and over and over again. It’s in the furnace where we wait and just burn before Him. The furnace is where the new breed continues to be fashioned and shaped. It’s where we are forged in the fire of delayed promises. We are delivered from fantasies
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The new breed of followers and leaders are the ones who stay—the ones who don’t quit! We know what God has promised He is able to fulfill.
“IF YOU BUILD IT, I WILL COME.” THAT’S WHAT I HEARD THE Holy Spirit speak to me a few years ago.
The statistics of video game use is absolutely staggering. Sixty percent of Americans play video games daily, more than 2.5 billion people are gamers in the world, and that gaming is a 148.8 billion-dollar industry!4
The statistics say 90.4 percent of Millennials, 77.5 percent of Gen Xers, and 48.2 percent of Baby Boomers are active social media users, and people spend on average 3 hours per day on social media and messaging.
It’s the life of wisdom that can be filled with the Spirit of Revelation. In fact, the house of wisdom houses the Spirit of Revelation.
One of the biggest keys in cultivating a consistent prayer life is building a consistent time and place to meet with the Lord every day and not missing that meeting for anything in the world.
1. My prayer life has been formed in early morning prayer.
Over the past twenty years, I’ve found that, when my mind is the quietest, I pray the best.
2. Early morning prayer saved me from stupid decisions after 10:00 p.m. because I’ve made many stupid decisions after 10:00 p.m.
3. Early morning prayer has increased the Spirit of Revelation on my life.
4. Early morning prayer recalibrates me to His lovingkindness.
5. Early morning prayer is a sacrifice.
6. Early morning prayer is where I give my wife and daughters the gift of stored prayers before they awake.
VALUE 2: WEEKLY AND MONTHLY FASTING
1. Fasting quiets my soul and causes my spirit to rise within me.
2. The Word grows louder and clearer in fasting.
Fasting delivers me from the fear of man.
