49. Keep on Praying

I want to include here the series of prayers we have prayed together in “After My Own Heart.” Pray these together with us.

From Moses and His Stick
In our prayer together now, we will alternate from one session to the next between, first, calling God into our world and, second, calling the Church into her place. We have never done such a thing, and we have no idea what we are doing. That will not slow us down, however.

“Father, You fill our hearts with all overflowing abundance of favor. Father, we know that the birthing of Your Kingdom is the birthing of You into our world, that You would be part of Your creation in all joy and goodness.

“Father, we have no idea what we are doing, but we know You. And You told us to think the same way Jesus thought, as He called You to become visible through Him. Father, we call You to enter into our world through us, that You might be our gentle touch, our kind words, our love for one another.

“Father, we call You to be protection for Your people through us. We call You to be the proving of all Salvation in Your Church. We call You to be all provision of need through us. We call You to be total victory over all who oppose Your people. And Father, we call You to be, through us, all humility, all “hands-off,” all absolute trust in You.

 “Father, we know that it is You, the All-Carrying, coming through us to be part of our world. We know that God-with-us, that is, LOVE, is a miracle of faith.

“Father, cause us to know Jesus in our hearts, the very FAITH of the Son of God, the only faith we are, that we might expect, every moment, that we are walking in a thick God, in all outpoured goodness and favor.”

Note: God cannot be known, throughout all future ages, except THROUGH our confident expectation that He does, is, and has. We are the ones that look at everything and call it “God with us,” and “All-Goodness.” And so alone does it become good.

From Moses Standing Between
This time we are calling the Church into her place with the same condition as before; we have no idea what we’re doing. Nonetheless, I am convinced that the confidence of our faith, that God IS moving through our little and inadequate prayer, is causing enormous things to take place. Since we called God into our world last Sunday, I have sensed the authority by which we now see God being made visible.

“Father, Your Church, believers in Jesus all across this earth, Your Jerusalem. She does not know You as You are, nor does she know her glorious Salvation. More than that, she is caught in the web of lies being spun by the dragon and the beast, and she does not understand.”

“Father, this Church is Your Church and ours, Beloved of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we carry her in our hearts before You, together with You. Father, it’s not in us to care for Your Church, but it is in Jesus who is our only life. For that reason we declare the same passion that fills the Heart of Jesus filling ours to be our care as well.

“Father, we are coming to know with all joy the meaning of calling You to come out from our hearts into our world. We also know that calling Your Church into her place is to bear each one in our hearts before You, that all her hardness and delusion would vanish as a vapor that never was.”

“Father, we place Your people all across this earth, though they be in bed with the dragon and the beast, into our hearts to be joined there together with you in all compassion and lovingkindness. Father, we ask you to bring a hundred million or more of our fellow Christians into the fulfillment of Tabernacles, into the knowledge of Your glorious Salvation.

“And Father, we believe we have received all we have asked.”

Note: This is the key, that we believe we have already received all that we ask. Our asking must be hesitant and limited at first, for we have no idea what we’re doing. But we believe with all certainty that God is showing us the truth.

From the Example of Caleb
In our prayer this morning we are calling God into our world, using the confidence and wholeheartedness of Caleb as our example. We let God fill our eyes, our consciousness, and our persons, spirit, soul, and body. We see ourselves, most definitely – filled with God coming through.

“Father, You say, ‘love one another.’ For that reason we know that it is Your will, Your desire and intention, to come through us, out from our hearts, and into all our interactions together. Father, You fill all the space that exists among us.”

 “Father, we know that Your entire Church is filled with all of Your fullness just as much, every single one who belongs to Jesus. We know that You are already all interaction among them, all the fullness of love. But they do not know it, Father. And because of their ignorance of You, they stumble into death in unbelief.

“Father, cause Your people all across the earth to KNOW YOU as You are. Father, remove from them all the seals of ignorance that we have cast down in our prayers together. Let there come upon Your people a sobriety, a humility, a seeking for, a turning from this world and all false belief.

“Father, by our Atonement won by the Lord Jesus, we call You into Your wayward and wanton Church, that she might be pure, that she might know You alone. Father, we call You into the knowledge of Your people that they might know Father at home in their hearts, that they might turn around upon Your Mercy Seat and become the revelation of Christ into this world.

“Father, we call You into being “Love One Another” in the knowledge of all who belong to Jesus, that they might know God-among-us, that they, together with us, might become Your full dwelling place, that creation might know You.”

From the Rest of Joshua
“Father, we let our hearts go out over all Your people across the earth, everyone who believes in Jesus, everyone who longs to know You. Father, we recognize the compassion of Jesus towards each one filling our hearts with Your Love. For their sakes, but mostly for Your sake, Father, we stand upon firm in our confidence that You with us love them.

 “Father, we know that You are coming into our world through us and that as You appear, You are found placing Yourself beneath of each one, to carry each one all the way through the darkness and confusion and into all the life of Christ. Therefore, Father, we place ourselves with You and You with all-we-are for their sakes, that they might know You.

“Father, Your word says, ‘The Spirit and the Bride say come,’ therefore we say with Jesus, “Come all you who are weary and heavy laden and learn of Jesus, the only life you are, for you will find rest for your souls.

 “Father, we call each one who belongs to You into the land of Christ, that they might dwell together as Your Church in this present world, that they might be Your Salvation revealed. And Father, we ask in Jesus’ name that Your Holy Spirit go forth to fulfill all that You and we desire together. We know that we have received all that we ask.

“Father, we know that right now, Your Spirit is touching the hearts of millions in response to our confidence in You, that the way into all the life of Christ is standing wide open to them. Father, save Your people.”

From the Devotion of Ruth
Our prayer this morning is calling our Beloved, the progenitor of life, to enter our world. I brought “the Lord’s Prayer” into the JSV and made it the framework of “Sent as Kingdom.” It is the same as this story of Ruth, calling a God of life into our world to establish Communities of Christ across the earth. I will now increase that prayer as our prayer together.

Our Father, You live inside the heavens, the realms of Spirit. Father, we call You to set apart Your name and make it holy in the sight of all mankind. Father, come Your kingdom; become Your desire upon earth even as inside of heaven.

Father, come Your kingdom; become Your desire upon earth even as inside of heaven. Give us today our daily bread, Lord Jesus, for You are our Boaz. Cause us to dwell in life together upon the land, that we might know Your abundance in all things. Father, release our obligations even as we release the obligations of others. Father, BE all Love between us that our favor given to one another might be You in Person.

And Father, plant Your Seed, the Lord Jesus Christ, in us as every Word that You speak, that we might bring forth the knowledge of God into our world.

Father, come Your kingdom; become Your desire upon earth even as inside of heaven. Father, do not bring us into testing, but rescue us from toilsome labor. Father, break all remnants of the curse from off our daily life and prove the abundance of Christ upon us. Father, prove Jesus faithful and true through our daily life together and cause all the work of our hands to overflow with the abundance of God.

Father, become Your Desire inside of us. Become Your Desire through us towards Your Church. Father, Your Church all across the earth, cause her to KNOW You.

Father, look at us, for we are Your Bride, and we are beautiful. We know that Your bowels long over us. Father, plant Your Seed inside of us, the Lord Jesus Christ as every Word You speak, and become through us the revelation of Your glory.

Lord Jesus, BE all that You ARE and mean by every Word God speaks in us and as us and through us. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory into the ages. Let it be so; it is so. Let it be so, THROUGH us as You speak; IT IS SO!

From a Man after God’s Heart
This time, our prayer is to call God’s people into the knowledge of their full union with God through Jesus. The first issue is always what do you do with the word God speaks? There are two options only – “Let it be to me.” Or “What does it mean?” becoming “How do I do it?” “Let it be to me” acknowledges God as Word having already become our HUMANITY. This is David.

“Father, Your people do not know You, for they do not know the entrance of Your Word into their hearts, word that has already become them. They do not know that Jesus already shares all form with them.

 “Father, as You did with Jesus and with David, so we offer ourselves to You that You might be the same with us for the sake of Your people, millions of believers across the earth. Father, we invite Your people into our hearts upon the Blood of Jesus, that they might know Your Word inside our very human souls. Father, we set forth our own souls for the sake of Your Church.

“And Father, as we open ourselves to Your own Heart planted inside of us, we know that Oour Holy Spirit is going forth from Uus with that same energeia of life, an energeia that encompasses the whole earth calling each dear heart to know ‘Let it be to me.’ – Let it be so; it is so.”

– I also want us to pray together for that piece of property that God would give us and anoint as our “land” for a Community of Christ. –

“And Father, we know that Your people also need a visible expression of the revelation of Christ. For that reason, Father, as a local church together and as Jesus instructed us, we ask You for that land You have appointed for a first community of Christ here in the US, that it would be released to become ours. We ask for the provision of funds and the flow of Your abundance that we might begin a Community of Jesus as Your own heartthrob in the earth. We believe we have received, and we give thanks in Jesus.”

From David’s Faith in God
This time we are calling God into our world, and this time we need a God of WAR to come through us. If the leaders of the world do what they are saying right now they intend to do, then our lives are about to become difficult, to say the least.

“O Lord, our God, you are our Father, and you are our Protection. You say that when the enemy comes in as a flood, that You raise up a standard for the sake of Your people. Father, we are Your standard, the proving of Christ Jesus out from our hearts. God, our Father, we call You out from our hearts and into our world as the Mighty Protector of Your Church, our brethren across the earth and us.

Oh God, our Father, You are a God of war, mighty in battle. Let God arise from the midst of His Church and His enemies be scattered. Let God arise and all who oppose goodness and truth be cast down. Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; lift Yourself up because of the rage of the enemies of Your Church throughout the world.

We praise You, O Lord, with our whole heart. Our enemies are turned back, they fall and perish at Your Presence. You rebuke the nations; You bring to nothing those who seek to destroy Your Beloved Church. Your Salvation, O God, comes out from Zion, out from our hearts into our world.

Father, we have set our hope upon You as the carrying Grace revealed now through us into our world. You are our strength, the Rock of our hearts, our fortress and mighty deliverer. We call You into all Salvation now. We are that revelation of Your Salvation upon this earth. You show Yourself mighty through us into our world, casting down all that opposes Christ and His Church.

Let the God of our Salvation be exalted in all the earth. Subdue the peoples under us; deliver Your people from all their enemies in every place. We give thanks to you, O Lord, among all the nations, and sing praises to Your name.

From David Running and Hiding
In our prayer today, let’s pray a call to all those believers in Jesus who KNOW that they do NOT know the one thing they long to know, but who have sought for it with tears all their lives. Let’s call the losers and has-beens into the knowledge of Christ their only life, of Jesus Himself living now as them.

“Father, we focus our prayer this time towards those individuals among Your people who find that they no longer feel at home in the churches they have known. We focus on those who know that they do not know You as they want to know You, and who are searching for what is missing.

 “Father, we call all the foolish people in Your Church, those whom You have chosen, into their place inside the Feast of Tabernacles. Father, we call all the weak people in Your Church, those whom You have chosen, into their place inside the revelation of Jesus Christ. Father, we call all the low-born people in Your Church, and especially those who are despised as nothing, those whom You have chosen, into their place in Communities of Christ all across the earth.

“Father, let our hearts be the wide-open Doors of Tabernacles that many, many might run into Your Feast.

 “Father, we call all the desperate and discouraged people in Your Church, and all who are afraid, that they might run through open Doors into the knowledge of God. And Father, we call all those whom You have appointed to Christian Community together with us, to stumble across this word of Christ our life, each as they might, and that they would join with us in joy, that we might reveal Your glory as we love one another.

“Father, we know that You are calling with us, and have already answered us. Father, we know that many throughout the world are responding to Oour call now and over the next few months.”

From David at His Lowest Point
We cannot be callers of God into our world unless we ourselves are always filled with God, with a Spirit Word enmeshing every part of our humanity. We cannot stand as the revelation of Jesus Christ unless we abide IN union with Christ. This time, let’s call our God into the fabric of our lives, into the marrow of our bones.

“Lord Jesus, You are a Living Spirit Word, energeoing the Energeia of God All-Carrying inside our hearts and all through every particle of our humanity. Lord Jesus, we ask You to fill our KNOWING with all the fullness of God penetrating our humanity, spirit, soul, and body.”

 “God, our Father, we dwell utterly inside of You; You are our secret place, our refuge and our Rock. And here inside of You, Father, we look around and see all that You are by Your Word given to us. Oh God, our Father, we seize hold of everything You are inside of us; we fill our hearts with Your boldness; we ENCOURAGE ourselves inside of You.

“God, our Father, FILL our humanity with Your knowledge, fill every crevice with Your Living Spirit Word, the Lord Jesus. Penetrate into the cells of our bodies and the marrow of our bones, that we might LIVE inside of You forever.”

Lord Jesus, as the storm of great evil sweeps over our lives, we call You out from our lips to TURN every particle meant for evil into the goodness of Your revelation through us. Lord Jesus, we love Your Word; we ARE your Word. And as God is in our mouths, so we call our God into our world through every particle of our human frame.

“Having asked, Lord Jesus, that You would fill our humanity with Yourself as Living Spirit Word, the Energeia of God, we know that we have received All that we ask. Lord Jesus, we are utterly filled with God, our refuge and fortress, our ROCK in the time of trouble.”

From David and the Ark
I want to call God’s people into their place from the viewpoint of “the Ark is coming up the road,” that is, their joyful entrance into the City of David, that is, the fulfillment of the meaning of Tabernacles in the life of the Church. “The Ark is coming” is our joyful welcome to them.

“Lord Jesus, we stand inside of You right now, welcoming with all joy our brethren who are discovering Christ as them. Lord Jesus, we see all their outward foolishness, all their sins, all their pollution with the world, GONE, long ago into the cross of Christ. We see them pure and holy, made utterly clean by Your Blood. We see You carrying them into our joy.

 “But most of all, Lord Jesus, we see them as You, living now as them, speaking every nuance of their humanity and every circumstance of their lives out from Father’s wondrous thoughts and expression of Himself. As we welcome our brethren into the Feast with all joy, Lord Jesus, we are welcoming You, that You would grace us with Your presence as them.

“Lord Jesus, because we see the Blood, their ignorance of God is forever gone; because we see the Cross, they are safe inside of God. And because we see Your Resurrection; they are every word You are forevermore.”

 “Our dear brothers and sisters, precious beyond measure, enter into God with gladness and with all joyful dancing. Your time of sorrow is gone; there is no more separation from Your Father. God shares and has always shared your humanity with you.

“Dear brothers and sisters, enter into the knowledge of a meek and lowly God filling you full with all that He is. “Dear believer in Jesus, you are and have always been the Ark of God’s Covenant, for Jesus is already written as every Word God speaks all through the pathways of your heart. Dear believer in Jesus, enter now into the joy of your Lord.”

From David Loving the Church
We are calling a God who LOVES the Church, infinitely more than Paul or David could ever express, out from our hearts and into our world. This God of Love comes through in two directions at once, embracing His People into that Love and striking down all who seek to destroy her. As we saw in The River of Life, it is the grandest display of rescue ever set upon the stage.

"Father, we know that you love the Church, millions of believers in Jesus all across the earth, with a love far beyond what we could ever comprehend. Father, we belong to You; we are Yours. Father, we know that Your Heart is planted in ours as one together, and that we are Your entrance into Your creation and into our world.

“Father, come through us into our world as overwhelming LOVE for Your Church. "Father, we rejoice that we are so privileged to share in Your Love for all who belong to Jesus, yet we recognize that such Love is only You. And Father, we know that when You enter our world, You humble Yourself, together with us, for the sake of others. Father, be what You are through us.

"Yet, Father, we also respect and honor You in Your purposes in magnifying Jesus as every Word You speak faithful and true and that the accuser of our brethren has set great harm against Your people. We know, Father, that in calling a God of Love into our world, we are also calling a God of war coming to set Your people free.

"Father, we are aware of the hard unbelief, the refusal to live inside of Jesus, and all the prostitution with this world, yet we know none of that, for we see our brethren only through Your absolute Atonement, we see them with no consciousness of sins.

"Father, as You come through us, strike down, with Your mighty angels, all who accuse Your precious people with not-Christ and silence all the preachers who persist with their anti-Christ ‘gospel.' And, oh, our Father, as Your people come rushing out from all their low and empty places into Your great Feast, so rush out from us to them as the exuberant Father, with no thought of grievance, but only outpoured celebration.

"Oh mighty Father, You have given us to share Your Heart and to be Your Love for Your Church. Let it be so as You say, Lord Jesus; it is so."

From David Showing Us Jesus
Our prayer this time is to draw our brothers and sisters into our hearts, past all the anti-words that they hurl against us, and into the safety of the Love that is God, shed abroad in our hearts.

"Father, we place all our human everything into the Lord Jesus and thus into You. Father, we belong utterly to You and You direct and share every moment of our lives. Father, we call our every human experience as You in us, reconciling the world to Yourself. Father, in our agony and in every moment of our travail, we call ourselves only as You inside of us sharing our agony with us for the sake of others.

"Then we turn, Father, and we see this one, a brother or sister in the Lord. We know, Lord Jesus, that You live inside their hearts. Yet they speak such words of contradiction against You, Lord Jesus, against God Oour Father, and against us. How those words hurt, for they are carried by anti-spirit. Yet, Lord Jesus, as we stagger in anger and humiliation, we see You in and as them, and we are humbled by the Love of God to us we see from them."

"Father, we open wide our hearts and we draw these who speak such anti-words against You past all our hurt and into Your Love shed abroad in our hearts.

"Father, we join them with You and You with them, here in our hearts, above the Blood of Your Son sprinkled here. And we release them all into Your liberty and into Your joy, that they might KNOW You. "Father, we are just overwhelmed with tears of such gratefulness, that You have chosen to share Your Heart with us. Father, call Your Church into Your Heart through our confidence in You."

From Solomon and God
In our prayer today, we will translate Solomon’s prayer into our own, that is, we will use Solomon’s structure of calling God into his world as the primary structure of our call of God to enter His creation through us in all fullness of glory. [This prayer is found in Chapter 45 “Our Five Superpowers.”]

From Solomon and Love
Here we return to calling the Church of Jesus Christ into the Garden of Love. No love exists except as our togetherness.

“Lord Jesus, we turn our hearts now towards that “perfect dove,” that one love that has caught Your heart in this present moment. Lord Jesus, we see that remnant scattered all across the earth, those who are seeking to know You with all their hearts right now, as we are, those who are Your firstfruits in the gathering together of Love.

“Lord Jesus, we know that there must be the ‘few’ before there could ever be the ‘many.’ We know that this “perfect dove” is calling upon You right now.

 “Lord Jesus, we call Your firstfruits into Your garden of love, into Christ Community, the place where the aroma of spices flows out and where You feed among the lilies.

“Lord Jesus, we call ourselves into this garden, that we are already seized into You, that You make us to be Your expressions of Love inside Your Church. Lord Jesus, we call each one who reads these letters and who witnesses to this word into this gathering together into Christ as Your firstfruits in the earth.

“Lord Jesus, we call each one across the earth who is even now waiting upon You, that each would enter into Love.

 “Lord Jesus, as we, Your firstfruits, Your perfect dove, gather together inside of You, as You partake of our love for one another, so let us be that strong anchor, that great Love, that fierce zeal, that Fire that burns, calling all who belong to Jesus into the same love, into all victory over death.

“And Lord Jesus, we call those specific individuals that You have chosen to walk together in Christ Community with us, that they would hear the call of Your Heart, that they would come, that place and provision would come, that we might know what it is to be “God-among-us.”

“Lord Jesus, You are always coming; You are always gathering us together into You.”

From Elijah and Decision
God never removes from any human throughout this age the confrontation between life and death as began in Eden. In fact, you could find that very thing as the driving force of my life – “I don’t want to die; I want to live.” That is, “I don’t want to be ignorant of Father with me; I want to know God with me, coming through me into my world.”

“God, our Father, we know that You are always confronting every human with this enormous choice between life and death, but especially Your Church, that she might choose life. God, our Father, we ask You to be LIFE in Your Church.

 “Father, we call You into our world. We call You to be Fire; we call You to be Love among us and through us, that our brethren might know that Jesus alone shows us God.

“Father, we ask You to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Joel, to bring Your people across the earth into the valley of decision, that they might be faced with this stark reality of which image shows us God, Jesus or the serpent.

“Father, cause the distinction between life and death to become clear in the mind and face of every person who calls upon Your name. Be a burning Fire, be the Energeia of their lives, until they KNOW You only through Jesus Sent into them, written as life upon their hearts.

 “God, our Father, You burn as Fire inside our own hearts as we intercede for the sake of our brothers and sisters, millions of believers in Jesus all across the earth.

“Father, be the Love of God poured out in our hearts, now flowing out from us to them as we love one another. Father, this is the ‘Elijah to come,’ this burning heart You are inside of us, that we will not let You rest until You make Jerusalem, Your beloved Church, to be a praise and a glory in all the earth.

“Father, be through us Your mighty deeds of kindness and Your life-giving and power-filled words of encouragement.”

From Elisha and Confidence
We return to praying for God’s people across the earth, that they might enter into the knowledge of God. And I am finding that, as we allow the Bible characters and stories to shape our words, so our prayers come to fit the fabric of our world in surprisingly accurate ways.

“Lord Jesus, Your people across the earth, all who believe in You and who are calling upon You with anxious hearts, stand in great need, greater than they understand. Lord Jesus, we see how You and Elisha, Your foreshadow, simply met those needs as they happened. Lord Jesus, we ask for all of Your people right now, that You would meet their needs.

“Lord Jesus, we pray that You would be a pure Word going forth from us, a Word that would bring forth LIFE in all who hear it. We pray that all impurity would be removed from the speaking of your ministry and that Your precious Bride would be barren no more.

“Lord Jesus, we ask that You be that abundant Life poured out into the knowledge of all who love You. And in asking, Lord Jesus, we believe and know that we have already received all we have asked. We speak with all confidence in God to all who would hear a pure Word, “Be filled with a God who shares life with you. Lord Jesus, we ask for the sake of Your people, and we will never stop asking and we will never stop believing until You made the Church in the earth the revelation of Father.

“God, our Father, You are inside of each one who believes in Jesus, far greater than all the evil in the world. And God, as You share life with each of our brothers and sisters, so we CALL each one of them into Your knowledge, into Your Word and into Your life. Father, Your people are even now entering into the hour of their greatest need and they do not know. Through our confidence and bold speaking, all their needs ARE MET.”

From Isaiah and God
In calling our God into our world, we are not considering the remnant. We are the remnant, and this is our job. We are breaking the darkness that sits upon the hearing of God’s people, for that is the same travail God placed upon Isaiah. We are breaking a false “spell,” and we are doing so with the Words that are Christ Jesus now made personal as us as we are the entrance of God. This fabric of anointed words of Christ that we are speaking WILL accomplish all that God pleases, as Isaiah said.

“God, our Father, we see the darkness that sits upon Your people, the dullness of hearing that prevents them from knowing Christ their only life, and we share Your grief. Father, we know that we share Your grief because You fill us with all that You are and You flow out from us as rivers of Spirit. And Father, we know that Christ, every Word You speak, lives in our hearts and mouths.

“Father, as we speak Christ into our world, so we are weaving a fabric of Spirit Words going out upon the minds and hearts of our brethren all across the earth, counteracting that false spell cast upon all as darkness. Father, in the name of Jesus, we break that false yoke, we cast down that false anointing, and we silence the false words. Father, let Your Spirit go forth from us in power.

“Father, we know that You have given us all authority to speak Christ into our world out from Your Heart inside of us, sharing Your travail, even as we love one another. Therefore, we speak Christ, as anointed Living Spirit Word into our world, knowing that such Light going forth dispels all darkness, knowing that such a good consciousness of pure words inside of Christ must return to You having accomplished all.

“And Father, we know that Christ Jesus proves Himself faithful and true as Your Word from our mouths goes across this earth, that all Your Desire is right now being accomplished in Your Church. Let it be so; it is so.”

From Isaiah and Love
Our prayer this time is the same call of Isaiah and Jeremiah, John and Paul, to the Church, that she would close her mouth about herself and hear Christ alone.

“Lord Jesus, we place ourselves utterly with You as part of You. We are Your voice; we speak the words You are speaking. We never think other than You through us.

“God, our Father, we come before You as the Lord Jesus Christ, for we are utterly inside of His name. And as Jesus, we place our heart inside Your Presence – Your Church, Oh God, precious believers in Jesus all across the earth, who are wandering inside of lies and are binding themselves to darkness, yet they love You.”

“God, You say that when there is no man, when there is no one to stand between Your people and the darkness, that Your own arm brings Salvation to You. Father, as the Lord Jesus sent into us, we give ourselves utterly to You that we would be that arm of God. Father, BE Salvation revealed through us now into our world. Be the Salvation of Your Church.

“Oh, My people, you believe that the world is telling you the truth, but you do not believe that I am telling you the truth. You believe in what is falsely called ‘science,’ but You do not believe that I am your only life. But where has your darkness taken you, My beloved? Has it not taken you into the agonies of death? You believe in God; believe also into Me.

“Father, You have given to us all authority inside of heaven upon earth. Father, by that authority, we call Your church, more than a hundred million believers in Jesus, out from the darkness, out from the lies, and into Your Feast.

“Come, you who call upon His name. Be silent, and never speak of your own ‘self’ again. The world hates you, good; come out of her, for she lies to you. Jesus is your life; Jesus is all there is inside of you. Turn around and BE His salvation in your world.”

From Jeremiah and Tears
We are calling God into our world, and we are calling Him first as Judgment. The entrance into life is the Doorway of Judgment, for to know Christ is to cease from all not-Christ. Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, all three show us this Judgment and how God enters as Judgment through us.

“God, our Father, we ask You together, as Jesus instructed us to speak in faith, that You would enter our world through us now as Judgment. For Father, we know that no one can hear Your wondrous Mercy, until they first accept their guilt in silence before You. Yet we also know, Dear Father, that Judgment to life remains a terrible thing in its beginnings.

“Yet Father, we also know that it is not Jerusalem, our fellow believers across this earth, that is being removed, but Babylon, the confusion of falseness that has sat upon Your people even through the Church age. Therefore, Father, we ask You to be strength in us, that we might stand immovable as a bulwark for the true Jerusalem and against the false Babylon.

“And Father, we ask in confidence, knowing that it is not our doing or our size or our significance that means anything, but rather our shared Spirit of Devotion going forth from You and us together as Life.

“Yet Father, even as Your purifying Judgment comes now upon Your people, we stand inside of Your Presence for their sakes, just as Jesus does, Father, FORGIVE them; Father KEEP them: Father, MAKE them HOLY to You.

“Father, we accept the same tears of Jeremiah over Your people, that You through us would not be just a tearing down, but that which builds a HOME for all, and that You through us would not be just a plucking up, but that which plants a garden of life and abundance for all. Father, we ask of You, let Your Judgment now be swift and true, and let Your Mercy triumph inside of all.”

From Sacrifice to Church
We are calling the Church of Jesus Christ, more than a hundred million believers in Jesus all across this earth, to HEAR the voice of Jesus as their only life, to hear, to receive, and to live. We are calling them to see the wide-open entrance into all Salvation now, and to run into those wide-open doors. And we are calling them out from the passion and desire of Jesus that we KNOW fills our hearts to overflowing.

“Lord Jesus, we know that You live inside our hearts because of our confidence that You do. Therefore we know, Lord Jesus, that Your Desire for Your people is our desire as well.

“And Father, we live inside Your presence as the Lord Jesus Christ, and we carry, here, inside Your Heart, inside of our hearts, all our brothers and sisters across the earth and throughout the heavens, all whom You have given to the Lord Jesus. 

"Father, the Passion and Desire of Jesus for the sake of His Church flows out from our hearts, with You, into this world. Hear the Word that is Jesus, brothers and sisters in Christ. Let your ears be unstopped, let your mouth be silent, and hear Him alone speaking you in all that you are.

Hear the Words that are Christ Jesus, Spirit and Word together, entering into you to be your life in all that you are. People of God, all across the earth, HEAR the voice of the Son of God, HEAR and LIVE! And having heard, dear Christian believers in Jesus, then turn and BE what you are, the Salvation of God in all creation. Let the Church be the Church; let Jerusalem arise across the whole earth. Let her name be a praise and a glory everywhere the name of Jesus is named. Let Christians everywhere LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

“Dear Father, let us be for Your people’s sake. It is so.”

From Ezekiel and Judgment
We are calling God into our world, and we are calling Him first as judgment inside God’s HOUSE! There can be NO fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles in the life of the Church – millions of believers in Jesus walking now as the Salvation of God in the earth – apart from a sword passing through and splitting apart between Paul’s gospel and the serpent’s gospel in the Christian heart. Or, as Ezekiel and John the Baptist called it, an AXE!

“Father, we sit here inside Your presence, inside Your Seat of Mercy, and we place all our brothers and sisters in Christ, here upon the Blood upon our hearts, entirely inside of You.

“Inside this Seat of Judgment, Father God, we call You as Judgment into Your Church and for the sake of Your name in the hearts of many. O God, our Father, the mental identities of our brethren are focused upon the flesh and upon death, even as they imagine that such thinking is ‘salvation’ and even as they worship an image of superiority.

“Father, together with You, we speak forgiveness upon all. Father, together with You, we strike down the power of the gospel of the serpent over the minds of our brethren. Father, together with You, we speak Paul’s wondrous gospel of Christ our life into their understanding.

“Father, we welcome You, here, inside Your temple, inside our hearts. Father, You belong with us; You belong through us; and You belong inside our world. Father, we want no more world without Your presence welcome and known.

“Father, we have wept over the false knowledge in our brothers and sisters, and You have sealed us with Your name written upon our hearts. And Father, with the all-authority that You have given to the Jesus of our hearts, we speak the release of our brethren from all darkness, and the arising of Christ inside their knowing.”

From Daniel and Devotion
We have turned, now, to prayers specifically for the Church and for the establishment of Christian Community as God intends the fullness and completion of Christ to be. And so we will start with Daniel’s prayer, converted into Paul’s gospel and the Church in our day.

“Oh God, our Father, You are so wonderful to us, for You keep Your Covenant with us in all things, the Lord Jesus written upon our hearts. And You have made us part of that Covenant with You, that we would be Your mercy to others because we love you. Father, we keep and watch over Your Word in our hearts.

“God our Father, we stand in Your presence for Your people’s sake, all our fellow Christians all across the earth. Father, except for Your wondrous Mercies to us, we have been as any. We have not believed Your word, and we have spent our lives cursing Your goodness.

Father, when we hear the serpent’s gospel in the mouth of our brethren, we know that we have spoken the same things against You as well. Father, just innocence belongs to You alone; apart from the Lord Jesus Christ in His kindness to us, only shame belongs to us, for we have walked as if You were far away from us, as if You were being unkind to us.

“Father, all that is coming upon Your people, all the difficulty, is to get our attention, because we have not listened carefully to hear Your voice. God, our Father, hear our prayer this day; cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary, the Church of Jesus Christ, regardless of all our refusal and unbelief.

“Father, we do not ask because we are anything or because our prayers are anything, but because of Your great Mercies. O Lord hear! O Lord forgive. O Lord, listen and act. Father, move upon Your people now in power, Your Jerusalem, for Your name’s sake, cause us and they with us, to hear and to live, in Jesus’ name.”