In hours when the heart grows dark, God is the answer. It’s time to not look around, not look to people, and look to heaven, and see the Man Jesus ressurected. He rose up out of the wilderness with the glory of God, and He is leading me to a wedding day. These things are important. These things I need to keep in mind.
The Lord is so faithful, and now I am delving into Joel, w/ my helpful study guide from IHOP!!! It’s a great joy to see Scripture open up. The cool thing I noticed is that Joel talks about the emotions of God a bit, and I’m sure that this bit that the Spirit has put into this wonderful little book is very crucial to the overall message. Therefore, I want to go deep.
Joel talks about the DAY OF THE LORD, which is future, but lesser days have been historical and can be present. I don’t think, however, that this matters only to historical, world-wide events. Crisis in families can be dealt w/ according to the principles of Joel. So does personal and church crises. I feel like in a time where I need to press on in prayer, fasting and weeping; to go on ahead asking for the rain of the Spirit. I just realized something the other day that I cannot do it on my own strength. I cannot change men’s hearts. It has to be the outpouring of the Spirit who brings conviction.
And I know I am called to live in a semi-perpetual state of Joel 2.
So, here is my prayer focus for this season:
1. Breakthru of the Spirit in healing and righteousness in me and my family (again, i can’t do it. but He’s merciful, gracious and slow to anger. He’ll hear me)
2. Breakthru spiritual strongholds in me and my family (i need His victory manifested against all the spiritual strongholds and demons constantly in battle)
3. Breakthru of the Spirit in power and miracles in me and my family (i want to live here w/ the righteousness and resources of heaven)
2 responses so far ↓
aclamotte // May 11, 2007 at 11:14 pm |
Hey Ed, goodness. I haven’t talked to you in forever. I was cleaning out my Bible the other day and you know what I found? Prophecies. From you from last spring. I found one dated May 2nd talking about how I had the gift of healing. Funny thing is, a year later (round about), this year, I received another prophecy talking about healing. God’s pushing it all over again.
As for your prayer requests…AMEN! So much like my own. I pray you are doing well, Ed. We miss you around here!
-Ashleigh
Winnie // May 13, 2007 at 3:03 pm |
Hey Eddy – just an fyi, I’m directing people to your pages on Second Coming and Rapture in my blog cause I think you’ve done a great job providing a short summary of those two topics. Hope you’re doing well!