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Preparing the Bride of Jesus Christ

Prophetic Voice: Heaven Touching Earth

The Powerful Sun

What can GOD do when we are in unity… when we are a prophetic voice altogether?

Nothing is impossible for GOD

What can’t He do? 

Recently, I have had several prayer experiences within groups (on line and in person) where the unity in the Spirit was tangible and effective. We are in such exciting times of prayer, for there us much that is being accomplished. If we can listen to Holy Spirit, come together to pray, expect the power and presence of GOD, then we can pray the prayers GOD wills… and action can move in this nation, in our nations, and GOD can touch hearts and minds for transformation. 

Hallelujah!

We are in a season of heaven touching earth

Allow me to explain, citing one example.

Recently in a What’sApp group, during a text exchange, one person referenced the fire of GOD. I felt the presence of GOD as I read the text and replied, based upon that fire, a prayer I’d prayed on my own that morning. The specific prayer was that the bias in the print media needed to be exposed.

There was agreement in the replies that came back from others in the group.

Scriptures were cited: “Unless the LORD builds the house, they labour who build it;” (Psalm 127:1)  and “zeal for Your house…” was referenced. (Psalm 69:9)

There were several Amens!

Then another wrote, “The Spirit of the Lord says the Kings Eklisia is rising up with their New Mantles.”

I remembered another exchange a few days earlier, when two of us had discussed mantles on intercessors. I reminded the group of this: hangers and a wooly jumper. We prayed into this.

As we prayed, I had the sense of the Hillsong’s song, “Heaven touching earth”. 

Someone else wrote, “Oh, Something BIG is about to happen!”

I replied, “It is the sound of Heaven touching Earth.”

Another expanded on this further, “But for me, it seemed something even more special this time. Here was heaven and true Ekklesia coming together as one, in a way, perhaps never experienced before….”

At the time of these exchanges, it felt as though the whole earth waas pregnant — and in the 9th month…

This exchange, this encounter, is a mere snapshot of how can work through His people in unity. Days later we met in person to pray, and the Holy Spirit gave us visions and a real clarity of how to pray into our government…. We are seeing change and we are seeing a positive shaking, as truths are exposed and the mainstream media is being side-lined and exposed for their biases.

Government, Media — is shaking

This is only the beginning. GOD is doing a new thing and is using His people to pray, “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”

When we pray together 

We move mountains in the Spirit, when we pray together. When we meet together, we are a powerful force for what GOD wants to do. When we wait on Him, He is moving, shaping, transforming us as individuals, as they church and as a society. 

“Wait on the Lord…” Wait! Expect and see His glory come.

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Preparing the Bride of Jesus Christ

Is it getting harder to Pray?

Are all of our thoughts are own, and fostered by the Holy Spirit?

Is the enemy getting into our thoughts? Or revealing himself to us? Is it getting harder to pray?

A time to pray

I am finding it hard to pray today, even though I aim that my thoughts are His thoughts, and my ways are His ways.

Scripture says, “But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:” (2 Timothy 3:1)

Then as Paul writes to the young man Timothy, he lists many of the perils that will come at the believer. 

We need to “guard our hearts and minds” and “meditate on these things” which are good, virtuous, pure.… (Philippians 4:7-8) even though I am sensing the enemy is exposing his evil by attempting to attack my thoughts with his evil.

And perhaps this is what leads me to write…

Keep your mind on that which is good

Have you noticed an increase in negativity or nasty thoughts which you know are not your own, invading your “head space”? I have!

I’ve had anti-semitic thoughts, I’ve had hateful thoughts toward neighbours, I’ve had images injected into my thought pattern, which bear no likeness to my own thinking. Why? 

The LORD is revealing the enemy to me

Demonic spiritual activity is on the rise. If you don’t believe me, look at the increase in violence on our streets. Children are being knifed around the UK by random attackers. 

Wars are on the rise. 

Hatred, racism (the stuff where white people are hated simply for being white, even by some elected politicians), which are being expressed through vandalism and looting.

Abortion — even until birth — is legal in some places and other government officials are pushing it in other places. 

Euthanasia, assisted suicide is become legal in nations and people are being advised to commit suicide in cases where there seems to be “no hope” for a change in their circumstances. 

And so our minds are infected… or if ours are not, certainly others’ are.

I believe the LORD has been revealing to me the sorts of fears and thoughts that are plaguing other people.

What do I do with this?

So what does a person who longs to pray do with all these horrific images or thoughts? How do we pray into the horrible circumstances that are arising on our streets and in our societies today?

How do we pray?

“My thoughts…”

We call on Christ, the best of all prayer warriors. 

We plead with Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.

We remember that GOD has forewarned us of the horrendous last days, “For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.” (2 Timothy 3:2-5)

And we know, ““For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.” (Isaiah 55:8) and we trust Him to lead usl in our prayers.

Yes, I think it is getting harder to pray. But it’s all the more important to do so, for the world is imploding upon itself. 

Prayer is the key to victorious overcoming

As He has said, “if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (2 Chronicles 7:14)

And so we must give time and space to GOD. We are His handiwork, His voices, we are the power and authority of GOD on this earth.

Whether it is getting harder or not, we must pray. And the harder it gets, the more we must engage, to pray upon this earth, God’s will be done in earth as it is in heave, and pray that the LORD will set the captives free.

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For Mothers

For Mothers: Hope

As mothers, hope is something we have for our children. We hope the best for them, we hope for their successes, hope for their friendships, hope for their health and safety, and for their futures.

What is Hope?

An Oxford dictionary definition says hope is: “a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.” We care, we expect, we desire for a particular event or change to take place.

The Bible says, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for” which suggests hope is powerful, that it can lead to change. 

How can Hope be satisfied?

Many of you who read this blog will be people who pray. Some of you may not, however. Here is what I urge: Mums, let’s pray for our children. If you don’t know what to say, or to whom you’re speaking, it’s okay to ask!

When we ask who is listening, we begin to get a sense we have “someone’s” attention and that will help us to focus our prayers.

My prayers are spontaneous, rarely planned. That’s because I just talk to GOD, and wait for His response, as I would in any two-way conversation.

Each of us will find our way to pray…. We can wait, we can ask, we can call out or stay quiet and focused. But let’s pray for our children.

What can prayer do?

When my son was a tot, each time he bumped — a knee, a shin, an elbow or his head — I would pray. I prayed for his safety and for there to be no bruising (I bruised easily as a child so I thought this would be a good thing to pray). Do you know, he never got a bruise! Never. When he was 8 or 9, I stopped praying, trying to encourage him to pray for himself. In the meantime, he had a bump and showed me his toe, with a big blue bruise. “What’s that!?” he asked. It was the first time he’d ever had a bruise… at 8!

Prayer works!

I pray to Jesus

I don’t seek to impose my prayer life upon you. I just encourage you, if you pray, to pray to the One with the most power to heal: Jesus, also called Yeshua (in Hebrew). He has the most power to respond… He intercedes for us, He sits at the right hand of the Creator of the Universe. He answers me and He can answer you too.

So, Hope

We don’t have to hope blindly but can ask for help from the One who answered prayer 2000 years ago, and who answers even today. We want what’s best for our children… What are we waiting for!?

Every blessing,

Sarah

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Examining Biblical Scripture

Prayer: Our Source of Power and Authority

LET US NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF PRAYER

We have a power and authority we do not fully recognise: Prayer

We must learn to meditate much more, to pray in authority: not my will but thine; what is Your will?

Isaiah 11:9b states

“For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD

As the waters cover the sea.”

And Psalm 29:1-2 says

“Give unto the LORD, O you mighty ones,

Give unto the LORD glory and strength.
Give unto the LORD the glory due to His name;
Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.”

And Psalm 29 repeatedly mentions the power of “the voice of the LORD” which, when we pray, we activate.

We have authority given by GOD to move mountains

We need the knowledge of the LORD and the willingness for His will. Then the earth and everything in it will bow down.

This is NOT a prosperity Gospel, because GOD does not seek our prosperity for ourselves.

This is NOT a name it and claim it Gospel, because that presumes the knowledge of the LORD is for us.

This is a Gospel of Love, Hope, Victory and Blessing. The LORD seeks to bless and we are to be available to hear His desire and His blessing and then to proclaim it.

In Isaiah 11, the prophet speaks of the coming Messiah, and the peace that he will bring.

In Psalm 29, the psalmist writes of worship from us, and that we give to Him all the glory due to Him. When we do this, great things occur.

We have a powerful weapon against all unrighteousness in the world

That weapon is Prayer.

We have a powerful tool to procure God’s will be done on Earth as in Heaven. That weapon is Prayer.

We have all that is necessary to change this world from darkness to light. That weapon is Prayer.

For the weapon of our warfare is the armour of GOD; not tools in which to fight, but armour to protect us against the battle.

How to Pray

“Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” (Ephesians 6:11-12)

Let us learn to pray, to make a difference in this world. Let us pray to bring Heaven to Earth. Let us pray as Jesus prayed, to that GOD’s will IS DONE on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Hallelujah and Amen.

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Examining Biblical Scripture

Prayer that bears another’s burden and leads to victory

Have you often wanted to help someone who is suffering, yet have felt helpless? Have you ever wondered, ‘How can I help my friend who is in pain?’

Do you know that you have the power to help anyone who suffers?

Distress is painful to experience, but it can be equally painful to observe from the sidelines the pain of a loved one. Those who follow Christ know that we are to “Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” (Galatians 6:2)

Though we may feel powerless to help someone else, we know the power that does help, which comes from above.

Prayer moves mountains and heals the physically and emotionally sick.

Prayer changes your heart and the hearts of others.

Prayer determines our course and touches the course of Heaven, when we pray the LORD’s prayers.

“Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” (Matthew 6:31-34)

As we mature in our personal prayer life, a natural shift begins to take place: We begin to ask more for others than for ourselves, trusting God knows and satisfies our own needs. As we pray, we are bearing others’ burdens in the Spirit; likewise,  when we share our needs with others, we are sharing our burdens. Doesn’t God love it when we knit ourselves together, bonding in Godly love and support for one another! (Psalm 133)

Ready: Who do you know who’s need is great and who perhaps God has laid on your heart?

Set: Find a verse that supports the needs of this person. (Bible Gateway will help you to find the location or specific wording of any verse.)

Go: Commit to pray for this person and allow God to lead your words. WAIT to hear what God will say, and how He’ll lift the burden. Trust that, when it lifts, God has done the work that needs to be done, through your prayer and your love toward your ‘brother’. Then, you can praise God, trusting, with faith, that the work has been done.

Bless you for your love. Trust that love is a gift from God and that, in the Spirit, it is powerful in the pulling down of strongholds.