Sunday, July 26, 2009

Beaten

Been beaten, battered the past week, I have been in war. A war not with weapons of this world, a war in the spirit realm, yet it is so real. I find myself being battered in emotions, physical, spirit. I’m surviving barely.

It started when I started to move deeply in intercession for others and FGA mainly. It was where I found myself in a position of a watchman, prophesying the messages of the coming movement of God. It was where I started to intercede for those who barely or can’t because they have yet to see or are too busy.

In the heavens, I find so few arrows of prayer being shot. I do feel that I’m being forgotten, thrown into the front lines to fight without support. I can sense little prayer coverings for me. In the mist of intercession for others, I find myself interceding for myself! It's really so so hard. I hope other brothers and sisters will send support. God please awaken them, not for my sake, but for the sake of their love ones.

By the grace of God, I’m barely hanging on, but I’ll still keep fighting.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Squash me not

I was in the mist of prayer walking in my house when I stumbled upon a large ant. I picked it up and wanted to squash it as I would in the past. Somehow I stopped. I had compassion for it. I remember the last bug I squashed and I had a sorrowful regret. So this time I decided to do something different. I brought it to a corner of my house and said, “do not enter my house again or you’ll be dead. I command you to leave in Jesus name.” Then I let it go and it did not turn back to my house at all!
I realized that the ant had recognized the authority that had been given to me and so it obeyed.

I asked God, “oh no, does this mean I’m going to be vegetarian?” Then in a laughter He replied, “ no, it’s ok to kill an animal for food, but not out of just killing for the sake of it.”
Phew…….. Beef steak.. here I come hahaha.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Intercessory Prayer

During these past two weeks, I have been lead to a new area of battle. This area is the area of intercessory prayer. In the past, I ministered to people who were strangers, people whom I come into contact once. In such a ministry, you pray just once and you don’t even remember their name. Because of such experiences, I am so used to the “touch and go” kind of ministry. There is no follow up, that I leave it to the leaders of that particular church. 

Now times are different, although I’m called to minister in such a manner every now and then, I’m now planted to a local church myself. As I get to know the people even more in FGA, I sensed the leading by the Holy Spirit to intercede for them, not just once, not twice, not occasionally, but every moment. To stand with them in their warfare against the kingdom of darkness even though you don’t meet with them in person to pray.

The difference between the “touch and go” and “intercessory prayer?” In the “touch and go” I find myself operating on the grounds where others have been praying for, the ground have been soften, I have been covered and prayed for, my duty is to bring a readied ground to a higher level. However, in the “intercessory prayer” ministry, the ground has not been touched at all.

2 days ago, I clearly remember myself interceding for a sister in Christ. As I was in a face flat position, I could feel myself breaking through spiritual barriers. Attacks were coming from all sides, trying to tear me, and stop me from interceding. It was a huge fight, but I pressed in. As I pressed in further, the attacks became stronger as the enemy becomes desperate. I felt like and arrow head piercing through the barriers laid before me. In the name of Jesus, I broke through. From that night, I can say that I have truly understood the dangers of intercessory prayer. My mother who is in the intercessory prayer ministry for a long time, gave me this advice,"cover yourself before you start interceding for others."

The intercessors cover us, but I wonder, who covers them?

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Travel to a restricted place

By the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, I post this:

The Holy Spirit suddenly dropped this phrase in my heart, “where I go you cannot go.”

Anybody can travel to different places in the world, all you need is money. However no matter how much they travel there is one place they cannot go, and definitely not with all the cash in the world. A restricted place

That is the place where Jesus says in the book of John 7:34 “and where I am, you cannot come.” However this place that Jesus talks about I find myself entering it occasionally, though right now, I’m only barely touching this place. That place is heaven. Only the children of God can have access to this place, even before they see death. The people that Jesus said “you cannot come” are those who do not believe Him. But for those who believe, it is the access of heaven that we can go to. As children of God, we are to touch heaven, go and see it, then, bring it down to earth. As Jesus taught us to pray “thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” I’m hungry for so much more of God. Let the travel to such a place be more often, longer, and deeper. Amen.