The Season for Planting ~ Sowing in the Atmosphere of Faith It is important that we know about seasons if we are going to sow and reap in the Kingdom of our God. “Then He also said to the multitudes, Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, A shower [...]
The Season for Planting ~
Sowing in the Atmosphere of Faith
It is important that we know about seasons if we are going to sow and reap in the Kingdom of our God.
“Then He also said to the multitudes, Whenever you see a cloud rising out of the west, immediately you say, A shower is coming; and so it is. And when you see the south wind blow, you say, There will be hot weather; and there is. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?”
(Luke 12:54-56 NKJV)
It is not good for us to leave all the knowing to God when the knowing is given to us for our good. A good farmer knows about seasons. He will plow, he will sow, he will care for and he will reap a harvest from his land, according to the seasons. A Season speaks of an establishment of the atmosphere. We are always in some kind of atmosphere that surrounds us and has great influence on any seed that is planted. A good farmer does not plant seeds in the wrong season or climate.
To you and I the climate to sow in financially is that of faith. In so doing: “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23 NKJV)
Because we do not want weeds and freeze to kill our seeds of finance we must not give in an atmosphere of sin: “. . . for whatever is not from faith is sin.” (Romans 14:23 NKJV)
Yet if we will create an atmosphere of faith to give into we will please God and His Kingdom will always react to the faith that we announce.
“But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” (Heb 11:6 NKJV)
That which you have given, for us to preach the gospel of God’s grace is a faith endeavor on your part. Rest assured that God the Father has placed into operation, the enlarging power of His Kingdom on your behalf. We are in faith by both receiving your bountiful gift and by believing God for an increase on your behalf.
When you are giving, give into an atmosphere that is charged with faith. If the atmosphere is not charged with faith then charge it! When you are sitting down to make out your check for your partnership giving, either to us or any other ministry, turn the music of God up loud, walk around the room and get into the high praises of God, and at the appropriate time, when faith has filled that room, and you believe God can do anything, then make out your check and send it off! You may say that this is crazy. But you will also say that it is crazy when you give and do not see a return and there is poverty and lack. These are issues of faith in God!
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Andrew Murray wrote a book after being healed from throat cancer at the beginning of the 20th Century. The book was out of print for decades but I attained and early copy of it. I scanned the book and am providing it HERE It is in raw format but you can both read it and [...]
Andrew Murray wrote a book after being healed from throat cancer at the beginning of the 20th Century.
The book was out of print for decades but I attained and early copy of it. I scanned the book and am providing it HERE
It is in raw format but you can both read it and print it off.
Having read the preceding parts of “Prayer That Will Change The World,” we now should discuss the “importune prayer” that Jesus taught his disciples about in Luke chapter eleven. (Luke 11:5 – 9 NKJV) And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to [...]
Having read the preceding parts of “Prayer That Will Change The World,” we now should discuss the “importune prayer” that Jesus taught his disciples about in Luke chapter eleven.
(Luke 11:5 – 9 NKJV) And He said to them, “Which of you shall have a friend, and go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves; a friend of mine has come to me on his journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; and he will answer from within and say, ‘Do not trouble me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give to you’?
“I say to you, though he will not rise and give to him because he is his friend, yet because of his persistence he will rise and give him as many as he needs.”
“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.”
The issue of the effects of prayer are much that same here as in the parable of the unrighteous judge. A key word is however mistranslated from the King James and in most English versions. This word “persistence” is more literally defined from the Greek text as “shamelessness.” The original Biblical Greek word from which it is rendered, has to do with the “face of shame” with the prefix reversing its actual meaning. In other words, this should be translated as “face without shame.”
Because of the grace of God that has been given unto the believer through believing on the Lord Jesus Christ, we are herein required to “face” this great and glorious throne of grace without shame, believing that He will give to you what you are asking.
The culture from which Jesus spoke was also of great influence in the listeners understanding at the time. Friends did not come to visit without receiving the best hospitality possible and one would beg or borrow anything needed to make one’s guests know hospitality. The greater shame would be to not be hospitable.
It is never too late an hour for God. He has not ever shut up the heavens from you. You may knock on that great gate of heaven and it will be opened unto you as you face it without shame. Unbelief is the shame of the Christian. Faith is our boldness. Faith in Jesus Christ and the fact that He has done all of the work for us in order that we can come to God without hindrance, without rejection.
Apostolic Direction For Prayer:
(1 Tim 2:1 – 8 NKJV) ”Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, Who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time, for which I was appointed a preacher and an apostle; I am speaking the truth in Christ and not lying; a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and truth. I desire therefore that the men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”
There is an apostolic command that becomes a spiritual strategy for a city, community or nation.
Supplications are an intercessory work; the pleading of someone’s case before the Judge. Presenting the facts of the case. Letting the Judge hear and see the testimony of the evidence. This is the first and most important step of spirit intercession.
Approaching The Lord With Your Need Face Up!
“And behold, a leper came and worshiped Him, saying, ‘Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.’ Then Jesus put out His hand and touched him, saying, ‘I am willing; be cleansed.’ Immediately his leprosy was cleansed. And Jesus said to him, ‘See that you tell no one; but go your way, show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.’” (Matthew 8:2 – 4 NKJV)
Once again, Jesus has healed a leper. This time the leper comes with a different approach to Him of his healing. What the leper does not do is ask Him if it is His “WILL.” The word “will” in its original text means, passion and desire. The statement, which the leper makes unto Jesus, is a loving idiom, saying, “You can heal me if you’d like to!” Jesus replies, “I’d love to!”
Because this act of heaven touching earth was between Jesus and the man who was cleansed, Jesus asked the man to go give a proper testimony of his healing and deliverance an obey the word of God!
In the same way, Jesus desires to heal you! Come to Him with the same kind of humility that this leper did and He will do the same for you that He did for him! Be sure that you account for your miracle and give testimony!
There is an old saying that is thought provoking in itself: “We are never so high as when we are on our knees.”
In Luke Eleven, Jesus was “praying in a certain place…” We need to enter into that place daily just as He did, and learn how to pray. His effectiveness in prayer was obvious to His disciples. So much so that they asked him to teach them how to pray.
On several occasions in both the gospels and the epistles we are given apostolic instructions concerning prayer.
I believe that following lines of prayer are apostolically important to this time and I seen them as biblical orders for apostolic prayer that will bring reviving life to any region!
1. Pray and ask believing! Without faith it is impossible to please God!
“For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.’” (Mark 11:23 – 24 NKJV)
2. Pray that you enter not into temptation!
“When He came to the place, He said to them, ‘Pray that you may not enter into temptation.’” (Luke 22:40 NKJV)
3. Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you!
“But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you,” (Matthew 5:44 NKJV)
This does not mean that we are to get out the “Killer Psalms” to pray for them, but rather speak blessings into their lives just as you would those who are dear to you. Stop cursing and start prophesying.
4. Pray the Lord of the harvest to send forth laborers into His harvest field!
“Then He said to them, ‘The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.’” (Luke 10:2 NKJV) also found in Matthew 9:36,
5. Pray for boldness! To speak his word with confidence!
“‘Now, Lord, look on their threats, and grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may speak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus.’ And when they had prayed, the place where they were assembled together was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke the word of God with boldness.” (Acts 4:29 – 31 NKJV)
We must put to work the things we learned in the preceding parts of this school of prayer that we call “Prayer That Will Change The World.” So, let us realize that God often uses you to be the answer to a people for which you pray. Let us pray for Churches Let us pray [...]
We must put to work the things we learned in the preceding parts of this school of prayer that we call “Prayer That Will Change The World.”
So, let us realize that God often uses you to be the answer to a people for which you pray.
- Let us pray for Churches
- Let us pray for Businesses
- Let us pray for New Businesses
- Let us pray for New Churches that will be planted
- Let us pray for Schools
- Let us pray for Governments
A Monument Of Prayer
(Luke 18:1 – 8 NKJV) Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart, saying: “There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man.
“Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Get justice for me from my adversary.’ And he would not for a while; but afterward he said within himself, ‘Though I do not fear God nor regard man, ’yet because this widow troubles me I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.’”
Then the Lord said, “Hear what the unjust judge said. “And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?
“I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?”
Here is a parable that was meant to be revealed to the children of God and yet stay as a mystery to those who do not have the ears to hear the voice of the Spirit of the living God. Prayer has to do with presenting ones self in the presence of a higher authority. Opening up communications, and even presenting facts and evidence, to receive justice that is due by right or by favor. To open up that communication status is to not only articulate your purposes but to ultimately hear from the Authoritative Party a word that is longed for. This parable is about just that.
First of all, we must see that Jesus in involved with “cities.” Over and over, the Word of God presents intercession on behalf of cities. Cities are covenant communities that were to be the possession of the King of Glory! Each city being a type and a shadow of the New Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven. Each city, where we live is a kind of Jerusalem to each of us. When Jesus gave the promise of the Holy Spirit, He said that we would then be witnesses, (as those who give testimony on a witness stand), first in Jerusalem. Now I know that He was speaking literally of the very city of promise in which those disciples lived. But if we are to take hold of the spiritual promise in regards to the covenanted power and the person of the Spirit, then we must also hear the words of another “Jerusalem” which is where the Holy Spirit visits us, personally. We take this testimony of Jesus Christ from our Jerusalem, but first, “unto” our Jerusalem.
The judge of this parable is the system of the world’s justice. I’m not talking about the court system. I’m talking about the principle of worldly judging. Opinions, lusts, desires fears, and greed, all contribute to the establishment of the “unjust judge.” This judge’s character is shown in his lack of regard for either spiritual judgment from the high court of heaven, or even earthly judgment and the discerning between what is right and wrong. He judges according to what he feels is good for him.
Because his conscience is founded upon his selfish lusts and desires he, at first, has no regard for the case of the woman of prayer. This woman is the type of the Church. She is a widow. The “widow” is the bride of Christ, whose husband has died and left her His Kingdom to abide in on earth. Someone has usurped her authority over that kingdom. She cries out for justice.
There are two halls of justice being spoken of here: The world and the throne of grace. We are given secrets into our victories in both courts. In the worldly court, we must approach with our case being built upon the knowledge of the satisfaction of the selfish desire of the world. We must therefore station ourselves with a persevering stand, convincing the judge that you are not going to go away and that it behooves him to judge on your behalf in order to get rid of you.
In the second hall of justice, which is the throne of grace, we must approach that throne with faith, in order that the word of God might find faith, (literally, “the faith”), that will over ride the physical laws of the world. The result of judgment from this throne is a miracle from the righteous Judge.
When we approach the judge of the world, it may very well take some time. Being filled with the Spirit, the Spirit will produce His fruit to include patience, self-control, etc. When we have made our presentation successfully, the worldly parties will assume that you are not going to fly away or be discouraged in your plight. They will therefore be much more willing to give in to your request. There is no need to be unkind, nor should there be any lack of gentleness in our approach to the world. If we deal with them harshly, we will more than likely be treated harshly.
In similar likeness, we must approach the Righteous Judge before His throne of grace with faith, rather than persistence. The fact that His elect who cry out day and night to Him shows the eternal existence and importance of our words unto our heavenly Father! This is not a picture of repetitive prayers. It is eternal words that are held as a monument and treasured by God because of the ingredient of faith.
So then, we take our stand boldly with the world and show our immovable persistence! We also take our stand before the throne of grace with immovable faith, knowing that, “Without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”
With faith in operation our prayers become a monument in the courts of the Lord! Consider Cornelius:
“There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment, a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always. About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, ‘Cornelius!’ And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said, ‘What is it, lord?’ So he said to him, ‘Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.’” (Acts 10:1 – 4 NKJV)
Cornelius became a model of giving and prayer for the Church. His praying brought about a visitation to his entire household. Was it worth his time and effort to show such diligence in giving and in praying? Can we see that the prayers of Cornelius became a memorial, or monument, before the Lord? From that very monument the Lord sent for the answer to his prayers and gave him a visitation of an angel, which precluded a visitation of an apostle! Wow! Cornelius establishes his life as a man of prayer and faith and result is a visitation of the kingdom of God to his household.
Let us become a model of prayer. Prayer for a lifetime.
“Our prayers will pull down false leaders and raise up the true ones. We open closed doors and bring light into dark places. We close doors of immoral businesses and clear the path for righteous business!”
If you have now read the preceding part of “Prayer That Will Change The World” you will know that we are on a quest to build notable and even measurable skills in prayer so that we are not religiously exercising some unknown discipline but we are actually partnering with God to see the will of the Father being done upon the Earth today.
As people of prayer we reign with the Lord Jesus being “seated together” with Him as He is seated at the right hand of majesty. He shares His throne of regal rule with us in united prayer. We are gathered together with Him!
The Lord hears the righteous. His judgments are just and true. If we seat ourselves with Him (by praying) we execute judgment upon the nations (Psalm 149) and this is an honor that He bestows upon us.
“Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand, To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments on the peoples; To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron; To execute on them the written judgment; This honor have all His saints. Praise the LORD!” (Psalms 149:6 – 9 NKJV)
We do not look at the work of the devil. We look down upon his strongholds. We thwart his strategic maneuvers. We break the bonds of his captives. We release his prisoners from the prisons that he has placed them in.
Our prayers will pull down false leaders and raise up the true ones. We open closed doors and bring light into dark places. We close doors of immoral businesses and clear the path for righteous business!
We pray and resistant people become receptive or they flee.
By prayer the Church is mobilized. ”As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, ‘Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.’” (Acts 13:2 NKJV)
Laborers of the harvest are sent to the fields and prayer will empower His workers to do signs, wonders and miracles in His name.
Jesus told the seventy as He sent them out, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest . . . and heal the sick there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’” (Luke 10:2 & 9 NKJV)
Prayer will reveal the apostles and prophets, the evangelists, shepherds and teachers that are not yet represented at His throne. They are delivered out from their places in the darkness of the world and placed into their dwelling places with the Father.
It is no wonder that Satan will distract us from our places of prayer and intercession. Yet we must become history makers. We must change the course of the generation and its destiny – direct its future by the will of God!
In the state of prayer we are kingdom shaking, nation taking, revival pouring, miracle working, light emitting, bondage breaking, devil stomping, etc. etc.
May the fire from the altar of heaven fall on every place, every people and every government and every business that you name! As you stand with your High King and annunciate the holy Father’s will.
“The devil sends an “orphan spirit” to battle against us and our heritage in Christ Jesus. This orphan spirit causes our thoughts and views of God to be obscured and misplaced.”
The first chapter of John states that: “As many as received Him, to them He gave the power to become the children of God!” Thus, we have the POWER to become His children!
But the devil sends an “orphan spirit” to battle against us and our heritage in Christ Jesus. This orphan spirit causes our thoughts and views of God to be obscured and misplaced. Our image of God becomes one of a task master or even a behavior supervisor and a critical judge irrespective of the works of Jesus in our lives.
The one who is free from the bondage of the orphan spirit sees God as a loving Father. The Spirit of Adoption surrounds with the confidence, care and compassion of the Lord as our Abba or Papa. Through the humble and loving approach to Papa God, we know that He loves us, accepts us, forgives us and displays His unending love to us.
“Lord Jesus, help me to see my heavenly Father as the ever present love of my life. I know that you lead me but you do not chastise me into submission to your ways. Send your light and life and love to break the thoughts and images that come from that orphan spirit and free me from any grasp that it may have upon my life. I ask you for peace to come upon me. Peace not as the world gives but peace that can only come from the Father of lights by the wonderful Spirit of Adoption. I am your child and I have not been abandoned! Thank you Papa for your peace and joy! Amen”
