Yesterday was The National Day of Prayer.  I usually make the lunchtime prayer meeting.  This year, I am back in Traverse City, I went to the Courthouse and  parked at the new courthouse parking lot. The local radio station was broadcasting it live – so I could hear the activities.  After some prayers and singing suddenly above the old courthouse I saw the Angel to the church of Traverse City appear.  This Angel was joined by a semi-circle of brilliant white angels.  As I watched them there appeared a white wedding dress.  I felt the Holy Spirit say “The Father is looking for people who have prepared their walk to be able to wear this wedding dress (for the Bride of Christ).”  Then this dress turned into a brilliant white pulsating light.  I knew that to be the Holy Presence of the Lord.

The Angel to the Church of Boyne City appeared in my vehicle.  That Angel is a ministering angel and doesn’t speak as the messenger Angels do.  I believe that was a transfer recognizing my move back to Traverse City.  The appearance of these Angels seemed to be activated by a very anointed worship music segment.  I believe anointed prayers during the meeting from the Spirit activated this activity but as the meeting became less anointed the angels left.

I bless all who organized this prayer meeting and the many people that gathered together to pray.  God bless you!!

Do our prayers make a difference? Does it matter to God – or to the world – if we pray? The Bible from genesis to Revelation, shouts the answer, “Yes!” And yet the Bible also gives us a picture of an almighty, sovereign God who can and will do what He wants but who has chosen to limit Himself to work through weak, frail humans. The truth is that our prayers can make a difference; the God of the universe wants us to participate with Him to fulfill His plan of redemption in the earth.

The ABC’s of Prayer is a collection of twenty-six principles of prayer, principles which line up with Scripture and have proven to be true in everyday experience. They are simple and easily remembered. However, we believe God can use them as teaching tools to effect powerful prayer for the establishment of His Kingdom on the earth.

Ask God to change your heart and fill you with His compassion

Lam. 3:22; Mark 1:41

Be natural. Talk to Jesus in everyday language, perhaps over a cup of coffee. He is our friend and counselor.

Matt 6:7; John 15:15

Choose to pray. Make prayer a vital part of your life.

Mark 1:35; 6:46

Discover who God is, what He promises He will be in given situations. God is our strength. God is a very present help in time of trouble. God will never leave nor forsake us.

Ps. 118:14; Isa. 12:2

Expect God to act. Intercession initiated by the Holy Spirit always calls for action on God’s part.

Ps. 65:5; Jer. 33:3

Forgive and let go of feelings of resentment, anger, and hurt. Unforgiveness closes us off from receiving answers to our prayers.

Matt. 6:14-15

Give God all glory for answered prayer.

Dan. 2:20; Matt. 6:13 (KJV)

Help yourself. Take generously from the Word of God. A good starting place is to pray selections from the Psalms and raise your voice in praise with the psalmist.

Psalms

Intercede as the Holy Spirit brings people or situations to your mind-whenever, wherever.

Eph. 6:18; Rom. 8:26, 27

Jump in! Approach God boldly with the problem in the authority of Jesus’ name.

Eph. 3:12; 1 John 5:14, 15 (TAB)

Kick the guilt. Accept God’s forgiveness. Let yourself off the hook. Guilt is a trap that brings condemnation and closes us to God; conviction comes from the Holy Spirit and offers a way of release.

1 John 1:9; 3:20 (TAB)

Listen to Jesus’ voice. We allow ourselves to become more accustomed to hearing the accusing voice of Satan (he never reminds us we’re cleansed and forgiven!) than the comforting, encouraging voice of Jesus. Satan’s lies can cause us to feel unworthy of going to God in prayer.

Matt. 11:28-30; John 10:27

Marvel at the provisions in His name!

EL suggests power/authority

EL SHADDAI: strength, stability, permanence; God is enough; His grace is sufficient (Gen. 17:1-8)

EL ELYON: Supreme being, most high (Gen. 14:18)

EL OLAM: the everlasting one, same yesterday, today, and forever, unchanging (Ps. 90:1, 2; Isa. 26:4)

ELOHIM: creative and governing power (Gen. 1:1)

JEHOVAH: eternal, self-existent (Ex. 6:1-3)

JEHOVAH-JIREH: the Lord will provide (Gen. 22:1-18)

JEHOVAH-ROPHE: the Lord who heals (Ex. 15:22-27)

JEHOVAH-NISSI: the Lord is my banner, victor (Ex. 17:9-15)

JEHOVAH-M’KADDESH: the Lord which sanctifies you (Lev. 20:1-8)

JEHOVAH-SHALOM: the Lord our peace (Judg. 6:1-24)

JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU: the Lord our righteousness (Jer. 23:1-6)

JEHOVAH-ROHI: the Lord our shepherd (Ps. 23:1-6)

JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH: the Lord is there (Ezek. 48:29-35)

EMMANUEL: God with us (Matt. 1:23)

ADONAI: The sovereign one (Ex. 23:17; Isa. 10:16)

Nourish your relationship with the Lord. Prize it, give expression to your thoughts and feelings as you would to a close and dear friend.

Ps. 37:4; John 15:15

Outwit the enemy; agree with the Word of God. Say to Satan, “It is written…”

Luke 4:1-14; Eph. 6:17

Persist in prayer. Keep on asking, keep on seeking, keep on knocking.

Luke 11:9-13; 18:1-8 (TAB)

Quiet your fearful heart. Be still and know that He is God. Often we tend to trust more in our fears than in God.

Ps. 46:10, 2 Tim. 1:7 (TAB)

Rejoice because of who He is. Delight yourself in Him.

Ps. 37:4; Phil. 4:4

Sing to the Lord. Sing to the barren places in your life. Sing for fruitfulness out of the barrenness. Call forth what is not as though it were.

Isa. 4:1; Rom. 4:17 (TAB)

Trust Him. He cares for you. His character is trustworthy.

Prov. 3:5, 6:2; Thes. 3:3

Use your prayer language.

Rom. 8:26-28; 1 Cor. 14:14, 15

Value the moment.Voice your prayers in the utility room, as you wash dishes, in the marketplace, in the car, etc. Pray without ceasing.

1 Thes. 5:17, 18

Watch and pray. Be vigilant and observant. Guard and protect the lives of those around you. Wrench them from the hands of the enemy.

Col. 4:2; Jude 22,23

X-out wrong beliefs. Wrong beliefs about ourselves and God hinder our desire and ability to pray.

John 8:32

Yield to God. Ask Him how He wants you to pray in a given situation. Then agree with Him.

1 John 5:14, 15 

Zero in on specifics. Be explicit with your requests.

Phil. 4:6

You cannot begin to think in your finite minds the awesome things that I have on My agenda, MY AGENDA, My people. Not the agenda that you set for yourselves each and every day, but the agenda the I have set for you and for Me. It is a time when I desire to come into My people in an awesome mighty powerful way. To come into My people the way that My Son Jesus was anointed when He walked this earth. When He imparted it to His disciples as they went away and did the bidding that He set upon them. I say that same anointing is available today and My Father’s heart says I DESIRE MY CHILDREN, MY SONS AND MY DAUGHTERS TO WALK IN THAT STRONG ANOINTING THAT MY SON DID.

First of all you must get rid of the things in your heart that are impure. You must get out of your mind what is causing you to think erroneously. I say that this is a time when I desire you to walk in the Spirit; not after the flesh. So many of My children are gratifying their flesh. So many of My children are walking in the world’s ways and in the world’s system. I say you should be IN the world but not OF the world. Too many of My people are OF the world. They are trying to prosper in a season when prosperity in the world system is not very viable in this day and age.

I say, My children, this is a time when I desire to pour out. This is a time when I desire to fulfill that great commission as My Son, Jesus, said “Go ye therefore and preach the gospel.” Preach the Good News of My Kingdom. You shall heal the sick. You shall see the lame walk. You shall set the captives free.

Those are the things that I desire to have happening. Oh, yes, all My children say they desire that too; but so few have even let go of the strings that the earth has wrapped around you. The world and its system have encumbered My people. In order to walk in the strong anointing, it is a Highway of Holiness. I have said, “Come up My Mountain”. It is a Highway of Holiness. It is a way that you have to think My thoughts not your thoughts. I have told you that My thoughts are higher than your thoughts. I say let go of those thoughts that are of the world system – those thoughts that you have allowed to nurture in your minds. I say bring your thoughts captive. Do I not say that – bring your thoughts captive?

I say so many of My people think like the world system instead of putting on the mind of Christ. So many of My people are interested in having a merry old time than they are in walking in My Holy Presence. I say this is the time when I will have a people that will be coming out of the churchianity system. They will come out of that system that has doctrines that are not pleasing to Me. They will come out of that religious system that has some teachings that are very displeasing to Me. They have taken portions of My Word and wrapped their own thoughts around it.  They came up with doctrines that are not doctrines according to what I have set for My people.

This is a season when I desire to speak to My people. This is a season when I desire My people to speak to Me. A lot of people pray and pray and pray but prayer should be a communication. Communication is two ways. You speak for a while, you pray a petition, but then you listen for the answer. Then you listen how I want you to pray. Even something as simple as that; My people are stumbling because some of them do the same prayer over and over again. They don’t even expect that I would desire to answer them. They don’t even expect that I would really answer these prayers.

I say that I desire to have a relationship. I desire to have a love relationship with My children the way a good Father should. I desire to bring My children close to Me and let them feel My Holy Presence. This is a season when My desire is strong toward My people that they will want to enter into My Kingdom. For I say over and over I have told you that this is a season when I desire My Kingdom to come upon the earth even as it is in Heaven. I desire that, but so few of My children want to come into a time frame where they spend time with Me.

I have given you many tools but so few of My children really use the tools that I have appropriated to My Church. Those ones that are called by My Name. I say I have many things for My people. They shall be like a mighty [I am seeing a swift Army]. They shall all take their place. They shall not break rank. It is quick time. It is a quick time. Sometimes when the army is training up its people in your world system they do a quick step. That is the way I am now. I am quickening. I am quickening. This is not a season where you will have to sit back and wait for a long time for something to transpire because I am doing things quickly in the day in which you are living. Because this is a time when I desire to prepare that precious Bride for My holy Son. I say so few are even talking about that they are the Bride. So few even realize that the Bride is mature. The Bride is not an immature – she is not a baby, she is not an adolescent – she is a MATURE Bride. So few even recognize that there is such a thing.

I say that My Church is My Bride. So few even equate that Bride with the Church in which they are involved with. I say this is a season where there are those people who have allowed Me to come into their presence, who have allowed Me to have a relationship with them. To have allowed Me not only listen to their prayers but to talk back to them the answers to those prayers; to speak to them because I desire. What would it be like if as an earthly Father your children only came to you and say they called you on the telephone and they did all the talking, they never gave you a chance to say anything. That would be very lopsided. They would miss the wisdom that the elders have. Sometimes My children are so busy jumping around and playing games, they are satisfying their fleshly desires.

So few come really come into the Spirit where they worship in Spirit and in Truth; in Spirit and in Truth. I say this is a season where I am calling My children. I have been speaking to My children. I have been beckoning My children. I have been wooing My children. But I say so few have listened to the call. This is a time where the Turtle Dove has been calling. This is a time where I have been wooing My children. This is a time where I have been preparing My children; but so many of them are absent without leave. They have left their first love. They have gone after other attractions.

I say I have a people. I say they will be used mightily in the days that are upon you. This is a season where I will pour out My fullness upon those who have allowed Me to bring them into a mature relationship. This is a season, this IS the season that I have talked about in My Word that you call the fullness of time. This is the fullness of the time in which the Church has been upon the earth. The time has now taken a shift as I have told you many times that there would be a paradigm shift. The shift has happened, but so few even recognize that there has been a change.  They like doing things they are comfortable with. They like doing the things like they have for generations.

I say I WILL have a generation that I AM raising up that will do GREAT and awesome exploits. They will give ME all the glory. They will give ME all the honor. They will give ME all the praise. They will KNOW that it is nothing that they did – it is only that they happen to be an instrument that I use. You have many who have heard the song about the old violin that was at the auction block and nobody wanted to bid on that old violin because it looked like it was all scratched up. It looked like it had no good left in it. Nobody wanted it, but THEN the Master stepped up and took that violin in his hands that knew how to make that violin sound wonderfully. Then the auction price began to go up and up.

I say I am much like that old master violin player. I have a people who are pliable in My hand. When I take even the most lowly person upon the earth or if I take the most acclaimed person upon the earth, but when they are in the Master’s hand they will make beautiful music. I say that is where you are in Church history right now. I AM taking those ones that will allow Me to and place them in My holy hand; and when My holy hand comes upon them they will recognize that they have been touched by the Master’s hand.

I say THAT is the Anointing that will go forth and do those things that I have said in My Word that My People would do. I say the Master’s Touch is what so many people need. It is not a touch from some big name preacher. It is not a touch by somebody who agrees with you all the time. But it is the Touch of the Master’s Hand. I say in order to have that Touch, that awesome Touch, you must come away and spend time with Me. No master violinist gets that way just over night. It takes much, much practice and much, much patience. I have been patient with My people. Some of them have even been practicing much but I say THIS WILL BE A SEASON WHEN I WILL POUR OUT MY TOUCH UPON MY PEOPLE. When they have My Touch they will find that they will touch others and they will be healed. They will touch others with My holy Presence and those people will find that they will have a hunger and a thirst after those things which I AM about which they didn’t even ever think they would have a hunger and a thirst for.

I say put on garments of praise. Put on garments of praise. Put on that armor that I have given you. Do those things that I have given you. I have given you what you call the Lord’s Supper. I have given you that kind of a tool. I have given you My Word. I have given you the Light of My Word. I say read it often. So many people have read it and they seem to have put it on a shelf and it is gathering dust. It is the same as it has been for generations in some denominations. But this is a season when I desire you to read My Word because it IS My Holy Word. It is a living Word and as you get My Word in the fabric of your life you will find that you live out My Word. Because it is a Living Word, you will find as you get more and more of My Word in you your flesh and your soulish realm will become less and less predominant in your life.

I say these are peak times when I have a desire. I have a strong desire to move in a mighty awesome powerful way. My people have been praying for revival and I desire that many times more than they do. But they are not willing to pay a price to learn My Ways, to walk in My Ways, to be the people of God that I have chosen for them to be. You can’t just say you want revival and just say it with lip service. You MUST have heart service. You must have heart service. Those ones who love Me – they WILL take the time. Everybody has the same amount of time in a day. No matter how busy your day may be, put My agenda first. As you put My ways first, as you seek Me you will find that your day will revolve around that instead of revolving around your agenda. This is the season where I WILL have a people who are called by My Name; that will humble themselves and seek My face and if they have any sins I will be happy to forgive them. I say I will hear your prayers. This is a time of seek ye first the Kingdom of God. This is a time when I desire, much more, My heart overflows with an urgency; with an urgency. This is a time when I desire to pour forth. You pray for the lost and that is good and that is well; but I desire to move in the midst of them. I desire to use YOU as My fine-tuned instruments to take you to the lost so that you will recognize that they, too, need a Savior. They, too, need a Power of the Holy Spirit. They, too, need the Kingdom of God in their lives. I say the urgency of the hour, the urgency of the hour.

I say My children many of you I bless. I bless many of you because you have listened to My Sound. You have listened to the cry of My voice. You HAVE taken the time to come away and be with Me. This is a time when I am desiring to do mighty exploits in My people – far beyond what most of you have been doing. This is a time when I want you to come into My Holy Presence. I say COME UP! Come up and seek Me! Come up and seek Me! I say this is a time when I am opening floodgates up. I am opening up the gates of Heaven. You shall hear the roaring of the Spirit as I open up the Gates and it shall flood your presence. It shall flood your presence! It shall overpower; it shall overpower your flesh. These are days that are awesome in My Holy sight and you will find as you learn to walk in My Holy Presence; as you learn to humble yourself; as you learn to be obedient; you will find these are the most exciting days. Those people who are just the nominal Christians that have been doing the same old same old – they are not going to find the excitement unless they conjure it up in the flesh and it is NOT of the Holy Spirit – it is of some other spirit. I say but there ARE those people who will walk in My Power. Who will walk in My Might. For I say surely, surely the Presence of the Lord – when you go in My Presence people will recognize that surely the Presence of the Lord is in that place. I desire to use My Temples – you are My Temples. I tell you that in My Word. I will fill you with My Holy Presence and you shall see awesome things will transpire because I have CHOSEN, CHOSEN in this awesome Day of the Lord in which I have chosen for you to be upon the face of the earth. And I say for such a TIME as this. It is a Glorious Time for my Ecclesia, those ones that have allowed Me to take them and shine them and polish them and nurture them and make them into the people of God that I so desire. Especially in this day in which you are living because the things of the world are in great tumult – even the earth is in tumult, even the earth is in a convulsive state. But I say My People Will Stand Solid because they stand upon the solid Rock of My Son. All the things that He did – all the things that He said in the Word – I say all those ones that have built their life upon The Rock of My Son shall not be shaken by the shifty sands that are so prevalent in the world today. I say unto you, My children, look up for your redemption draweth nigh. Look up for your redemption draweth nigh. I say unto you, My beloved ones, My precious holy ones, I pour out My love. I pour out My Love no matter if you are the worst wicked sinner that ever existed, or whether you are the most Godly saint that has ever existed I pour out My Love upon all because I AM LOVE! I AM LOVE! I don’t separate My love by what you do or what you don’t do – I just LOVE. I do have a place for those ones that are lining up with My heart’s desire which is to go forth in the season in which I have place you upon the earth so that great and mighty things that will happen in MY Kingdom. Jesus said He did miracles so that the lost would recognize that He was the Son of the most high God. Many sons and daughters are walking upon the earth today. Those sons and daughters have decided to lay down lives, take up the cross and follow Me. Those are the ones that I will use in a powerful, mighty way in these days in which you are living. They are great days as you keep you focus upon My Son, Jesus. These are great days as you keep continually filled with the Holy Spirit and with My Fire. I bless you My precious children. I am calling forth. I am calling forth those ones that have taken the time to follow hard after Me. I bless especially those saints that have learned to be in a relationship with Me; who love Me as I love them. They have put down everything else – their own agendas, their own fleshly desires to follow Me. To follow Me. They are My true disciples. This is the day when I am raising up true disciples of My Son, Jesus Christ. Same as His original disciples followed Him, I have people in this day that are following Him. The same way, they have left everything behind to follow the Master. I say many more will come, many more will come because this is a time and a season where awesome things will transpire. Awesome things will transpire because I have ordained it to be so. I have ordained it to be so.

I bless you, My precious sons and daughters. I bless you, My precious sons and daughters. I pour out richly upon you. I pour out richly upon you. I say unto those ones that are following hard after Me – well done My precious sons and daughters. Well done My precious sons and daughters.

Your Heavenly Father