INSPIRED WORD

PRAYER GROUP

NOVEMBER 19, 2003

SUMMARY OF INSPIRED MESSAGE The Lord is calling us to step across the threshold, to a new beginning, to step away from what is behind us, and to enter into the holy of holies.

RECOLLECTION OF INSPIRED MESSAGE FROM FIRST PRAYER MEETING OF 2003

At the first prayer meeting of 2203, there was a prayer of exhortation that said that the Lord wanted us to come the way we are. If we are tired, jobless, hungry, concerned about loved ones, we are to come the way we are. He asked us not to try to wait until we are perfect, but to come just as we are. There was also prophetic word and the Lord asked us to draw near so that he could pick us up by the arms and hold us and put us in his lap. He asked us to trust him and believe that he would do that. These messages are true this night as well. The Lord asks us to come and praise him as we are. To praise him, praise him, praise him!

VISION I am seeing flames of light above everyone's heads here tonight. They are bright and are burning everywhere.

VISION I have been seeing the Lord perched on a high hill, blowing the shofar and calling his people to glory, calling his people to praise, calling his people to bow and prostrate themselves before him in worship. I see him calling from a high peak. I see a wide, open valley below. I see people coming from every direction, from every race, from every walk of life, entering into the holy of holies. PRAYER Lord, make us ready to enter in. If it takes you picking us up and carrying us into the holy of holies, we know that you have already done that. Make us ready. Open our hearts. Make us wide open in our hearts and in our spirits so that you can enter in. As we take that first step, we know that you will be faithful to carry us the rest of the way.

CONFIRMATION I see in the valley that people are walking and when they hear the Lord calling, they stop in their paths and turn around and gather as a Body of Christ. He is pleased with that.

VISION I see a small child looking up at the Father, holding his hands up to the Father and saying, ‘Hold me, Father. Pick me up. Hold me.'

PROPHECY Each one of you, no matter what, has cause to praise me. If you reach into your heart, each one of you has cause to rejoice in me. Regardless of your pain, regardless of your situation, regardless of your circumstance, I am with you. I dwell within you. I who made the universe, I who set it spinning with glory, dwell within you.

PROPHECY Take the first step, my beloved, take the first step. The door has been opened. I have heard your praises. I have heard your prayers. The door has been opened. Now I say to you once again, take that step. Take the first step.

PROPHECY No longer servants, but friends, I call you, for my heart has a place for you. No longer servants, but I call you friends, my own friends, my lovely, beloved, holy friends. Prepare a place in your heart for I am a big God. I am a God that can fill you with all that you need, and more, and more. There is no limit to my love for you, my beloved, my holy, my chosen. Be filled. Right now, this very minute, I would enter in and fill the hearts of my chosen. Know the manna that I pour out in this new age, the manna of my own love, poured out, from my heart to yours. Receive, be blessed. I will bless and magnify in you, my presence. I would lift you up. I would raise you up. I would pick you up, and I would carry you. I have put you in a race, but know that the strength comes from my legs. Know that the heart that you have is limited and weak, but the heart that I have is mighty in strength, mighty in mercy, mighty in power, mighty in love. I would pour out for you, my beloved, my own blood, as it was poured out on the cross of Calvary, my love, my holy love, my blessed love, for you, only you, my chosen one, my beloved, my holy ones. Know that my love within you shall accomplish all that I call it to do, and there will be no lacking, no shortcoming of my love, in you, able to accomplish mighty and great things, for I have raised you up and set you on solid ground. I have sent you forth into the world, to proclaim my holy glory, my glory that I share with you. I have chosen to bestow upon you my very glory. As you go out into the world, know that you will have my glory within you, for I am a God of covenant, a God of peace, a God of mercy.

PROPHECY Why do you hesitate? What do you fear? You have prayed that the door be opened, and I say to you, it is opened. Take the first step. Come with me. Come with me to my Father. There is nothing to fear, my beloved. There is nothing to prepare. I have called you, and you have only to say yes. Take the first step. Do not be…..

PROPHECY CONT ….hesitant, for I am with you as you take the step. Come, come to my Father.

PROPHECY CONT… Yes, my beloved, I am calling you now, calling you each by name. I am calling you to cross that threshold, to come into a place of refreshment. Let my refreshing waters run over you. I am calling you to let the fire of my Holy Spirit pour over you. Come to a place of refreshment. Come to a place of empowerment. When you leave here, I have a world that needs you. Come, be refreshed. Come, be empowered. I need you.

PROPHECY CONT.. Remember who is with you is I. I have placed each beat in your heart, each breath in your lungs. I have kept you from your birth, I have kept you. I have secured your love, your salvation, because I have desired that you know me in a way you have never known me before, and that others would know me in ways far beyond their imaginings, far beyond anything they could every hope or dream. I have placed within you that spark of life, and if I can keep the universe spinning, I can keep you going. I can keep you faithful if you do but one thing, and one thing alone, and that is to trust in me….daily, hourly, by minute, by second. Know that I will not, I have not, I could not abandon you. I could not leave you orphaned. The resurrection is real, and you are a part of the resurrection, for you have known glory because of the resurrection. You will know glory because of that same resurrection.

PROPHECY CONT.. Come, the door is open. Take my hand. Come with me to the Father.

PROPHECY CONT.. Again, I say come to the place of freedom. I have loosened the shackles around your feet and hands. Why do you stand there as if they are still together tightly. I have loosened them, I have loosened them. You are free. You are free in me. I have done it. There is nothing more for you to do. Come, enter into that freedom. Let me lift you above that circumstance, that pain, that woundedness. Let me lift you above that disappointment. For you see, I know the plans I have for you, and they are for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. O my beloved, let the chains fall. Be no longer shackled. In me, you are free!

CONCLUSION PRAYER Lord, we have stepped, once, twice. Freedom is your gift to us. We give you praise and thanks for removing those shackles from our feet and our hands. Lord, we accept that gift of freedom. Glory to you, God! We are walking in freedom as your children, as your sons and daughters. We are walking in the freedom of the Holy Spirit poured out. We are walking in the freedom of Jesus Christ given to us on the cross. We are walking in the freedom of the Lord!

Hos. 14: 4-8 I will bring my people back to me. I will love them with all of my heart. No longer am I angry with them. I will be to my people, like rain in a dry land. They will blossom like flowers. They will be firmly rooted like the trees of Lebanon . They will be alive with new growth, and beautiful like olive trees. They will be fragrant like the cedars of Lebanon. Once again, they will live under my protection. They will grow crops of grain and will be fruitful like a vineyard, and will be filled with the oil of Lebanon . My people will have nothing more to do with idols. I will answer their prayers and take care of them. Like an evergreen tree, I will shelter them. I am the source of all of their blessings.

CONCLUSION PROPHECY Tonight, I have met you in a special place. You have asked for me, in a new way, and I have come. I have brought you over the threshold. You have glimpsed my glory and felt ‘a bit' of the great love I have for you. I say ‘a bit,' because my love is abundant, and my glory is great. Keep searching for me, my people, for I do not disappoint. I have come and I have carried you across. We have begun anew. I love you, I love you. Let others know how great and deep is my love.

CONCLUSION EXHORTATION With his love in our hearts, we are compelled to give that love away. There is darkness in this world. There are places that need the light of Jesus. There are people who need to know him in a personal and deeper way. There are eternal consequences to paths in this world, and there is a sense of urgency. Lord, you pour forth your love in our hearts. Help us be givers of that love, with boldness!

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