Day 2 of Prayer & Fasting
Prep for the Day of Pentecost (Shavuot) (Sunday, May 31, 2020) is the Day we are believing God for greater glory, a season of the Rich outpouring of the Holy Ghost.
Prayer is one of the Principles of the Kingdom, which posits that one be given what they pray for.
Philippians 4:6
Asks us not to be anxious because that is what we do instead of asking God to intervene in our situations.
What a Friend in Jesus,
Christ is our friend, wants to carry our burdens, if only we carry them to him in prayer. Jesus tells a parable of the prodigal son, who asked for his inheritance and went and spent his money carelessly. He suffers, but he decides to go back home and ask to be one of the servants.
He goes back, and the father had been waiting, and he holds a feast to celebrate his coming back. His brother, in the field wonders, and upon arriving, he learns what is happening. He complains to the father, who says that all he owns belongs to his son, and would have received if he asked.
This parable shows that if we ask, we receive from God. Only that God wants us to be good stewards of everything that He has given us. What we have is not ours, we only have which we have received, what God has entrusted us with.
In the parable of the Prodigal son, however, we learn that we cannot receive if we do not ask., no matter how wealthy our father is. The writer of Ecclesiastes says that he has seen something saddening in the face of the sun, that princes walk on foot, while the servants use horses.
These princes represent us, who have been called into Kingship. However, we are not occupying our rightful position because we have not asked. The second son in the prodigal son’s story is a lesson to the people who do not pray. “We do not have, because we do not ask.”
Psalm 65:2
God hears prayers, and He expects men to come to him, believing that He answers prayers. Because God answers prayers, men should come to Him. We qualify for the blessing and the inheritance, and God desires to bless us with supernatural things. But many of us choose to live in anxiety about our businesses, families, ministries rather than trusting that He who began good work in us to bring it to completion.
Paul, in Timothy, says that “he knows whom he hath believed and is persuaded that He is able to keep all that is committed to him.”
Most of us would be very far, but we have refused to pray. Life is not about what we have or do not have, but the ability to access what we need “for life and godliness.” God, once He created you, provided all that you needed for life (food, shelter, and clothes, among others) and godliness.
Colossians 4:12
Paul talks of one of his disciples, Epaphras, who was always laboring for the people of Colossae in his prayer closet. He understands that prayer is work, and it works. The most excellent service that we can offer to God in life is that of laboring in prayer.
Prayer changes things, affects the spirit realm, changing things for people, church, families, nations. A person of prayer knows how to transact in the Spirit realm, impacting life greater than any other thing in life can do.
You may not be serving in church, but you can offer a service to God by laboring in prayer. Jesus is the greatest intercessor, this day, regardless of the glory given to him by God. We should desire to be people of prayer because prayer changes things. Even messages that are received in prayer are greater than those studies.
We can receive valuable things when we go deeper into prayer. A moment of favor with God is greater than years of human effort. God can do great things in one day than you can in a lifetime of great effort.
The men of prayer in the Bible were ordinary, but they made an impact that was beyond them. Prayer helps you shift from ordinary to extraordinary because instead of doing sth, you ask God to do it on your behalf. “Not by might or power, but by the Spirit,” the Spirit, which is greater than the flesh.
Isaiah 31:1
Woe to those who trust in people, on kings, on chariots, and their abilities, but fail to look on the God of Israel. Because God can bring disaster that does not know money, position, manpower, education, like the coronavirus.
We are living in a season where both the rich and poor, the helper and the helped developed and underdeveloped, all need help from God. The greatest power is not that which originates from the flesh but Spirit.
Let’s pray that God will send us his Spirit because the arm of the Spirit is powerful and transforming that the arm of the flesh. The church is still at a level where we have not learned how to labor or to pray fervently until praying prayer that comes from the heart, filled with life and fire that connects with God, penetrates the realm of the spirit.
The book Becoming a Spiritual Builder by Apostle J. K. William talks of being able to build in the spirit until we see the manifestation in the physical.
Jeremiah 1:10 talks of the empowerment that God gave Jeremiah to destroy and build, and uproot and plant. The spirit realm has some structures that God calls us to tear down that we may build godly structures. Others are planted in the spirit realm that causes our lives, families, and Nation to be how they are.
Some spirit structures were built by people who offered sacrifices to other gods, creating obstacles and limitations that have continued to stand in our way.
But if we labor in prayer, we can destroy, tear down, uproot.
Jesus, in Matt 15:13, says that everything that the Father has not planted will be uprooted by its roots. God has given us the ability to destroy all that was built in the spiritual realm that destroys our marriages, that limit us.
But Jesus says that He will build his church, and the gates of hades shall not prevail. The Kingdom of God suffers violence, and only the violent can take it. This is a week of prayer, and we cannot build in places that are already built. We must start by digging deep so that we can build strong and long-standing structures.
We need to be perfected, and this can only happen if we continue to labor in prayer. We can labor in prayer to shape our destinies, those of our families, that of our Nation. God will only do things in response to our prayers. The heavens are His, but the earth He has given to man. He will only do that which we allow Him to.
Rev 3:20 says that Jesus is knocking, and if we open, He will come in and dine with us. Only those that open can receive Christ. God has given us superior authority that other kingdoms. The work of the devil cannot prevail because Jesus became manifest that He may destroy all the works of evil.
Set apart some time to pray. Denying your body gives you more power in the spirit to access the spirit realm.
Prayers for today:
- Psalm 100:4
Enter His presence using “Thank you” as the password. Always go before the Lord with thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is the oil that lubricates or creates a good environment for prayer. It creates good flow for what is to follow.
You may be going through the toughest season, but if you are alive, you have a reason to thank God. Thank God, honor Him, and create a way for God to move greatly in your life.
- Isaiah 59:1-3
Repentance, seek God’s forgiveness for anything that may hinder Him from answering our prayers.
God hears our prayers and can save us. But iniquity (generational sin) separates us from God and hinders him from moving in our lives.
We need to repent for our sins, the sins of our families, and the Nation. You may have done things, spoken things against others that kill them spiritually. Allow God to search your heart and remove every wicked way.
Read: Psalm 139