The battle feels so intense today.
There's just Dawn and I at Church this morning.
An empty church.
Stripped bare.
I've felt a heaviness lately. A hopelessness even. Someone has spoken about us to others saying we have nothing to say to the SA anymore because we are from something they label as generation X. A generation who supposedly didn't disciple the young in a proper way. Which in our case is really rubbish because we are both fairly new Christians anyhow.
And it's not good.
It kind of knocks you. And that kind of talk the enemy uses to try and disarm and immobilize you.
That kind of theology is devoid of love and encouragement. That kind of theology writes people off, renders them dead and of no use to the future of Gods kingdom. Which in my book renders it null and void.
But humanly it still hurts.
So.
We turn to God.
In a big way.
We start to cry out to him for something we can grab a hold of.
Suddenly.
The emptiness of this building comes alive.
We are led to a scripture Acts 12.
The exciting example of the power of prayer.
Peter chained between two guards. In a top security prison.
His church were back at base praying like mad for his release.
A supernatural snapping of chains occurs and a temporary lapse in sight of the guards and Peter gets up and walks out of his prison.
I noticed something this morning.
In verses 8-12
Then the angel said to him, “Put on your clothes and sandals.” And Peter did so. “Wrap your cloak around you and follow me,” the angel told him. Peter followed him out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision. They passed the first and second guards and came to the iron gate leading to the city. It opened for them by itself, and they went through it. When they had walked the length of one street, suddenly the angel left him. Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.” When this had dawned on him, he went to the house of Mary the mother of John, also called Mark, where many people had gathered and were praying. (Acts 12:8-12 NIV)
A dawning occurred.
It dawned on Peter that what was happening was really true.
He was free.
Supernaturally
And as Dawn and I were crying out to God we felt God speak.
This is what he said.
Do not pray insipid prayers. Th time now is to roll out the big prayers. The prayers that are wrapped in the miraculous, in the supernatural.
Big.
Big prayers.
It dawned on us.
The same kind of dawning that Peter had.
A beautiful dawning.
This is real.
So we once again began to pray chain snapping prayers into the air of the kingdom.
For ourselves.
For our ministry.
For our family.
Yeah.
Our prayers had become a bit insipid. Wrapped up in self pity and guardedness.
We have something to say I believe.
And.
I'm saying it now.
I believe our prayers need to push into new ground.
Ground never been trod before.
Don't be frightened by it.
Are you fed up with insipid prayer?
Weak feeble attempts to acknowledge God.
I have experienced God this morning wanting me to pass on a message.
Do not be afraid to ask for the chains to be snapped off whatever is going on right now. Pray seriously big prayers. Believe in the miraculous.
Has it dawned on you?
The reality of Gods awesome power?
Have you prayed things you just thought were a vision?
Has it dawned on you that God is really doing stuff. God is really snapping chains.
Miraculous.
Breathtaking.
Has it dawned on you that prayer is vital.
Earnest prayer.
Does our lack of faith leave us in the safe lands of insipidness when it comes to prayer?
Faith is going to lead is into the dangerous grounds of the unknown. Every time! Leading us Into those uncharted waters where we will not meet the expected.
There is an unexpectedness attached to God and to prayer.
I want to be in that Land.
So much.
So.
Today.
I urge you guys to be bold in prayer, raise the bar, Whatever you want to call it.
Imagine the possibilities.
Imagine the meaning.
Imagine the lives touched through the unexpectedness of a mighty Savior.
Blessings on your life today.
