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Jun 14 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ Listen carefully

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 06/14/13

Listen carefully to my speech, and let my declaration fill your ears ~ Job 13:17.

God is speaking to His people, through His people today. Some things we hear are of God, from God, and for us through others. Some things we hear are half-truths and total lies from the false light of God’s enemy, looking to trip us up and lead us astray. Are we being careful in our listening to realize truth and letting that fill our ears, or are we following falsehood? Knowing truth begins with learning to hear the Spirit of God and follow His instruction on truth. Then hear and heed the warnings and instructions coming from God through His teachers and prophets in our day; as well as from friends, family, and well meaning—or not—stand-byers. Be careful what you hear, and more careful what you receive.

Sound shofar every day that God leads you to do so:

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Jun 13 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ Carefully keeping the charge

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 06/13/13

You have not deserted your brethren [the other tribes] these many days to this day but have carefully kept the charge of the Lord your God ~ Joshua 22:3.

God calls some to leave family obligations and follow Him into foreign lands. Others he raises up to care for parents, mates, children, and local peoples. Whatever your charge, are you carefully keeping it?

Sound shofar every day that God leads you to do so:

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Jun 7 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ Carefully listen; Watchfully do.

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 06-07-13

If only you CAREFULLY LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD, TO DO WATCHFULLY all these commandments which I command you this day. When the Lord your God blesses you as He promised you, then you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow; and you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you ~ Deuteronomy 15.

Remember, we are looking and praying for God’s people to know what God says to do carefully. For today, also prayerfully read John 10 (* vs. 1-5)

Sound shofar every day that God leads you to do so:

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Jun 6 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ God’s statutes and ordinances

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 06/06/13

Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your hearing, that you may learn them and observe them carefully ~ Deuteronomy 5.

Sound shofar every day that God leads you to do so:

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Jun 5 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ His Own Possession

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 06/05/13

The word “carefully” stood out to me in a passage of blessing and encouragement sent to me by a friend. It grabbed my heart, and I know that in this season of uncertainty that stands before us in our lands, as we cry out to Jehovah-God, we are to seek His face for His people to live “carefully” day by day in the land of our sojourning. During this busy season in my life, beginning today until God changes our path, we will pray through the call to “carefully” found in Scripture. I will simply give you the passage most days, trusting God to lead you to pray. That said:

“SO WATCH YOURSELVES CAREFULLY, since you did not see any form on the day the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the midst of the fire, so that you do not act corruptly and make a graven image for yourselves in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water below the earth. And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven. But the Lord has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, from Egypt, to be a people for His own possession, as today ~ Deuteronomy 4:15-20.

Until somehow coming as Immanuel in Jesus Christ, Yaweh took no form when He introduced Himself to Moses. He is Spirit and beyond what our eyes can fully behold. Therefore, giving form to something and calling it god is folly. Carefully watch yourself, you who are delivered from Egypt—or sin’s grip, for you are to be a people of His own possession, calling on none but Him alone who is God.

Sound shofar every day that God leads you to do so:

Jun 4 2013

Prayer Warrior – Testimonial, you are

“Therefore they spent a long time there speaking boldly with reliance upon the Lord, who was testifying to the word of His grace, granting that signs and wonders be done by their hands” ~ Acts 14:3.

May the Lord upon Whom we rely grant you to be His testimony of grace as He uses you as His conduit of signs and wonders.

Things are very busy with our Missionary friend, household issues, and other appointments. I am not having time to focus in on prayer thoughts. We are about to make a dent in the business portion of his visit, but it may take a week or two more to get things done so please bear with me and keep praying. Once we are past the main business reasons for his visit and he gets more into partner and family visits, things will slow down for me and we will get more on track here.

Hugs to you, and blessings too! Darlene

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May 31 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ Presence of Faith

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 5/31/13

‘I saw the Lord always in my presence; for He is at my right hand, so that I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart was glad and my tongue exulted; Moreover my flesh also will live in hope; Because You will not abandon my soul to Hades, Nor allow Your Holy One to undergo decay. You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of gladness with Your presence’ ~ Acts 2:25-28.

David, the man after God’s own heart, was a man of great faith who stood up against Goliath like the lions or bears he slew protecting the flocks. He did not rush God’s timetable to gain his throne rights, but trusted God to do it His way. He was not a perfect man, but he sought the Lord and trusted His hand. How? Why? Because God was a reality to his everyday life. He believed God was with him, in his presence, and that God’s hand strengthened him.

“You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have taunted…for the battle is the Lord’s and He will give you into our hands,” proclaimed David, because he saw the Lord always in his presence (1 Samuel 17).

Beloved, faith for these days requires us to realize with sincere belief that God is not somewhere “up there” looking down on us. He is here, in the power of His Spirit, in us, beside us, all around us, and all over what concerns us. And just as He helped David slay giants, so He will be with us in our battles.

Father, grant us eyes that see and hearts that trust in You, knowing Your Presence, strong in faith to realize You. In Jesus, amen.

I Know You’re There ~ Casting Crowns:

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May 30 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ Faith God responds to

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 05/30/13

A leper came to Jesus, beseeching Him and falling on his knees before Him, and saying, “If You are willing, You can make me clean.” Moved with compassion, Jesus stretched out His hand and touched him, and said to him, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.

Yesterday we saw a father who wanted God’s healing for his son, but his faith was weak. There we learned how to pray when faith fails us. Today we see faith God responds to, here doing so “immediately”. This man’s faith was total opposite to the one we saw yesterday. Here the man knows Jesus—Immanuel: God with us—is perfectly able to heal. He saw it, heard of it, and knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that His healing power was true, thus he said, “I know You can heal me, IF You are willing.” This is the faith we must grow into. And coupled with this we must enter into the acceptance seen in Christ:

“Father, if You are willing, remove this cup from Me; yet not My will, but Yours be done” ~ Luke 22:42.

Faith not only knows the answer to the question, “Is anything too difficult for God?” It also trusts that God has purpose in all He allows and trusts His will. This type of faith never leaves one disappointed in God, for it knows God has eternity in mind, He has a plan and is working the plan, and He always works for our good and His glory even when it does not feel that way in the moment. He is the one who is continually perfecting us until the day of Christ, and often times that requires the heat of the Smelter’s fire, and the crushing of the Potter’s hands. (Genesis 18:14; Jeremiah 32:27)

Father, Thank You that You are trustworthy and faithful. Praise You that You are more than able. Grant us to trust Your will and to confidently know that You can if You are willing. In Jesus, amen.

God of Wonders ~ Chris Tomlin:

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May 29 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ If You Can?

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 05/29/13

Please read this entire script in Mark 9:14-29

(Jesus) asked his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” And he said, “From childhood. It (the demon) has often thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, take pity on us and help us!” And Jesus said to him, “‘IF YOU CAN?’ All things are possible to him who believes.” Immediately the boy’s father cried out and said, “I do believe; help my unbelief.”

Too often, especially in America, we come across situations in life when our faith to believe is challenged. The situation seems so impossible and miracles so few and far between that we struggle to believe that “God can” much less that He will move in our hour of need.

Reading this entire script, we see his disciples—which if you read up to this point you will find have just recently returned from a mission trip when Jesus sent them out with power and they returned with many stories of having healed people and cast out demons. But now, just a short time after their return, they do not have the faith to do for this man’s son what is needed. In this account, all have forgotten the power given by God to be His conduit of healing and freedom in the earth. And just before the conversation in the verses quoted above, Jesus, in frustration shouts out, “O unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I put up with you?”

“O unbelieving generation!” When it comes to faith in God, honey, that title is too often descriptive of us today. I see two thing in our scripture passage today that we need to realize and do.

  1. Cry out with this man, “Lord, I believe; help me my unbelief!” Take what little belief we have and apply it while asking God to remove and replace the unbelief with a greater portion of faith to believe.
  2. “This kind cannot come out by anything but prayer.” (Some manuscripts add “much prayer and fasting.” Beloved, the closer we are to God, the more we talk to and commune with Him, the better we know Him, the stronger our faith and our power to perform. Prayer, communion with God, must have a priority in our lives.

Again I ask us, “How is your faith, beloved?”

Miracle Maker ~ Delirious:

May 28 2013

Prayer Warrior ~ According to earnest expectation and hope

Call to the Prayer Warriors: 5/28/13

“I know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, according to my earnest expectation and hope, that I will not be put to shame in anything, but that with all boldness, Christ will even now, as always, be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death” ~ Philippians 1:19-20.

In our post yesterday, Paul said, “I am confident of this very thing….” Today he says, “I know that this will….” The question God is asking me for us is, “Beloved, how is your faith?” Is your faith such that you have confidence in God and in all that you know about and through Him? Does confidence in what you know to be true raise you to earnest expectation and hope in Him? Over the next 2 to 3 days we will look at some things that come to mind regarding faith, for if we are to persevere through these days with power to perform despite any difficulty that may come as God shakes us and shakes the world / earth, our faith must be strong, and it must be set on the right source of our confidence. See you tomorrow.

Beyond Words ~ Tenth Avenue North: