Stay the Course… Day 8

With age, comes a different perspective, which the youth has not yet acquired. Experience is a great teacher if we are willing to learn. In the early morning hours just before daybreak my mind woke to the Holy Spirit praying for people. Our Church is doing a 21 day prayer and fasting and we learned yesterday that over 1200 people have signed up to fast and pray. You know God is going to honor his children because we are willing to do what he has said to do…we’ve heard of some attacks, people are going through, and that is ongoing because the enemy of our soul never stops…but we have also heard how God is moving in mighty ways through this time of prayer and fasting, too…God is greater!!!!

The message yesterday was powerful…as I entered the lobby of our church there was a stillness it was as if everyone’s attention was fully engaged in what was being said by our Pastor…the message was captivating and intense…we heard that when you fast and pray, God honors his word, by giving us power to overcome the enemy. It takes fasting and prayer…these are powerful weapons to defeat the devil.

Pastor spoke about how that Daniel, the prophet of God, was fasting and praying for 21 days but he didn’t get an answer on the first day, or, the second, or, the third… it wasn’t until after the 21^st day that an angel of the Lord showed up, he was a powerful magnificent being which caused Daniel to fall to the ground in fear and trembling. (Daniel 10) The angel told Daniel that God heard his prayer on the first day he fasted and prayed but that he was delayed in the heavenly realm by the King of Persia…Satan…but he was able to break through after 21 days and bring Daniel God’s answer…

We must not give up on the first day we start… we must stay the course and remain faithful and stedfast…and don’t give up, the answer is on the way…we must keep on praying, keep on fasting…because God has already given us the victory through Jesus his son….don’t become weary…don’t give into temptations to quit…You Will have your answer… God is a faithful God…He sends His angel army to fight for you…Be strong and diligent, not in your own strength but in the strength of the LORD!! When you fast and pray, you empty out selfishness, and things, you, desire. God sees humility and He will honor a humble heart every time.

Like our Pastor said yesterday…Satan and 1/3 of the angels fell from God’s grace and was cast out of heaven…but there were still 2/3’s of the angels who remained faithful to God and He uses them to help us…we don’t worship angel’s they are messengers of God they are strong and powerful beings. So when we pray, God will send them to assist us with a message and to even help fight the enemy.

You have an angel army at God’s command to help you in the fight….It reminds me of a little child putting on his daddy’s big shoes he doesn’t fill the shoes because his feet are tiny…but God size shoes are worn when we empty ourselves and let him do the walking through us…Put on God’s shoes and walk victorious. Not only that, but we have the Holy Spirit living right inside of us he is our helper just ask him and he will help you. He’s given us His armor, His word, to defeat the devil…when we praise the Lord and draw close to him…the devil will flee…he can’t stay where the Spirit of the Lord is…Praise the Lord!!

When Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane after he prayed…an angel came and ministered to him. (Luke 22:43) When you go through your Garden of Gethsemane, He will send an angel to minister to you too…

When you fast and pray and have faith in the Living God, He will, answer! Amen! (So be it!)

He will satisfy your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s…

Psalm 103:1-6 Modern English Version (MEV)

A Psalm of David.

 “He has given thee true pleasure: He satisfies thy mouth with good things” (Ps. 103:5); it is only the favour and grace of God that can give satisfaction to a soul, can suit its capacities, supply its needs, and answer to its desires. Nothing but divine wisdom can undertake to fill its treasures (Prov. 8:21); other things will surfeit, but not satiate, Eccl. 6:7; Isa. 55:2. (3.) “He has given thee a prospect and pledge of long life: Thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.” The eagle is long-lived, and, as naturalists say, when she is nearly 100 years old, casts all her feathers (as indeed she changes them in a great measure every year at molting time), and fresh ones come, so that she becomes young again. When God, by the graces and comforts of his Spirit, recovers his people from their decays, and fills them with new life and joy, which is to them an earnest of eternal life and joy, then they may be said to return to the days of their youth, Job 33:23.

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits, who forgives all your iniquities, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with lovingkindness and tender mercies, who satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Psalm 103:5