What Heaven is Saying Today
Wow! I’m on fire again today and it is hotter than it was yesterday. Can you feel the fire of God on you today? I pray that you will and that it will increase more and more. The Spirit reminded me of Psalm 115:14, “May the Lord give you increase more and more, you and your children.” The Lord is burning away some things we don’t need to be carrying. The Lord is refining the gold and purify the silver in our spirits. Can you feel it? I just keep praying, “More Lord, More! In Jesus’ Name!” Amen?
This morning I walked around my neighborhood and proclaimed the holiness of the Lord. I made proclamations about who He is and what we need to be in order to please Him. I kept crying out for His glory to fill the earth as the waters fill the sea and for His glory to cover the earth even as the waters cover the sea. I proclaimed aloud throughout my neighborhood that “The Lord is good and His mercy and love endure forever!” I proclaimed His Glory, His Majesty! His Power and His Purpose and called for it to spread throughout my area of influence! I was praying for the road in front of my house and through my neighborhood would be a “highway of holiness” and that the Lord would be comfortable walking these streets as He was in walking through the Hebrew camp in Moses’ day! Are you praying over your neighborhood?
In the worship room, I was lifted up by the Spirit to the Training Room. I began to see all kinds of very strange looking things. I don’t even want to describe them because they were so unusual. I asked the Holy Spirit to guide me into the truth about what I was seeing. Then the Spirit told me that these were all things that the people of God were praying for, but which the Lord would not release because they are not of His will. The Spirit reminded me that our prayers must meet certain standards if we expect the Lord to answer them. Our prayers must be in accordance with God’s Word and God’s will. The results we can expect will always bring glory to the Father. None of the things I was seeing would bring Him glory. The prayers that will be answered by the Lord are those which seek to establish His Kingdom on the Earth – the prayers which cry out for His will to be done on earth as it is in Heaven.
I felt a strong call for the Body of Christ to examine carefully what we are praying. Are we trying to pray our will into the earth or His will? My thoughts went back to Jesus’ teaching on prayer in Matthew 6:7-15, “And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
In the last few years, I have studied the prayers which are recorded in the Word of God, especially the prayers of Jesus. I feel very confident when I pray these same prayers. They are obviously in accordance with the Word of God and the Will of God. They bring Him glory and they help to establish His Kingdom on the Earth. The Lord was showing me very unusual things today in the Training Room. Perhaps it is because we are living in very unusual times and our prayers need to rise above the chaos and confusion of the world and of the flesh and release the Truth of God into our circumstances.
My prayer for you and for me today is from Ephesians 1:15-21, “Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.” Amen and Amen!!!
James
Pastor James Durham
Higher Calling Ministries, Intl
P.O. Box 292335
Columbia, SC 29229-0335
May the Lord bless you and keep you,
May the Lord make His face to shine upon you
And be gracious unto you,
May the Lord lift up His countenance upon you
And establish for you Shalom, Shalom, Shalom!