Harp and Bowl Intercessory Prayer Training
SESSION 1 – My House Shall Be Called a House Of Prayer Page 2
1. The Holy Spirit is orchestrating a prayer movement in the nations of the earth.
There is an unprecedented emphasis in the body of Christ concerning the subject of prayer. More than any other time in history the Lord is calling His people to return to Him in Prayer.
2. There have been more books printed and more articles published in the last 5 years on the subject of prayer than there have been in the preceding 50.
3. The Lord is bringing the prayer movement another step forward. He is inviting His people to seek Him in an unprecedented way.
A. “… It is written, “ My House shall be called a House of Prayer” (Mt 21:13
1. Jesus prophetically described that there would be a day when a spirit of prayer would rest upon His people
2. There is coming a time when the church of Jesus Christ on the earth will be characterized by the anointing and authority they possess in the arena of prayer. The unbelieving community will look at the church and recognize the spirit of prayer that is resting upon her.
3. Jesus was alluding to the hour in history when every member of the Body would regularly engage in corporate intercessory prayer. It wouldn’t just be limited to a few 50yr old ladies to carry the load of the whole body; it will include all the generations seeking the Lord together with authority in prayer.
4. We have limited the office of an intercessor to a certain personality type or gender, but the Lord never intended for it to be that way. In His heart he has desired for all to come and gather before Him to worship and to pray.
B. “ From the rising of the sun, even to it’s going down, My name shall great among the Gentiles; In every place incense shall be offered to my name” (Mal 1:11)
1. The incense of prayer is going to rise as a fragrance from the saints all over the earth to the very throne of God.
2. The Holy Spirit is moving upon men and women throughout the earth calling them to rearrange their lives that they may be poured out as an offering to the Lord.
3. The Father has promised His Son that there will be a company of people throughout the nations of the earth who will stand before Him day and night and minister with offerings of worship and prayer.
C. “ And shall not God bring about JUSTICE for His elect, who cry out to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them? I tell you that He will bring about JUSTICE FOR THEM SPEEDILY” ( Luke 18:7-8)
1. The key word in this passage is justice.( The word judgment is also applicable).
2. God’s divine intervention and plan is made manifest as justice, judgment or vengeance. Often we think of judgment strictly as God stopping rebellion or destroying the defiant. This is only one aspect of His justice
3. Judgment or justice in its purest sense is the making of wrong things right. It is God moving His hand to restore everything back the intended divine plan. The end of human history and the great last judgments will the movements of Yahweh to restore human life back to it’s intended state (Before the Fall).
4. Examples of divine justice
a. Healing of the sick is God’s judgment or vengeance on sickness.
b. 10,000 new converts is the judgment or vengeance on the realm of unbelief and darkness. Revival at its core is an extension of God’s judgment on darkness.
c. Unity among the brethren in a city is judgment upon division.
d. Liberty from sinful addiction is an expression of justice.
5. There is an irrefutable law in history that revival (justice) is released in a measure whenever day and night prayer is offered.
6. Night and Day prayer changes the spiritual atmosphere of cities in the earth. It is unstoppable. When God decides it is time to move with speedy justice in response to day and night prayer, then there is no religious leader or demon in hell that can stop it.
D. “I have set Watchman on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day and night” (Isa 62:6)
1. The Holy Spirit is setting watchman on the wall. The setting of watchman speaks of divine activity in calling us to lives of prayer.
2. The Lord promises that there will be a sovereign setting of these ones. They will be called to minister before Him day and night. They will be involved in other aspects of the great commission, but intercession will be their primary calling.
3. We have been frustrated with our lack of impact and power in the things of the kingdom, but God is going to use that as fuel to drive us to burn in prayer day and night before Him.
E. “ Anna… a widow of about 84-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayer.” (Luke 2:37)
1. Anna becomes the primary model we look to for example and courage in our pursuit of ministering before Him day and night.
2. Anna was a picture of intercession before the first coming of the Lord. The difference between His first coming and His second coming is that there will be hundreds of thousands that will stand in the house of the Lord day and night serving Him with prayer and fastings.
3. The Holy Spirit is restoring Annas before the second coming. Many of us even in this room will be called to this.
F. “ … I will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up; So that the rest of mankind may come and seek the LORD.” (Acts 15:16)
1. There is burning desire in the heart of God that the spirit that rested upon the tabernacle of David would be released upon the body of Christ on a global scale.
2. David touched a realm of God that was unprecedented in his hour of history. He invited a whole nation into an intimate experience of God that had never occurred before. He left us with the best earthly example of how God wanted to be worshiped day and night.
3. The model of Davidic worship and the tabernacle of David are essential truths to the end time prayer movement.
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