I received the most simple revelation from God this week, but I think it will change the way I pray if I can take hold of it.  I discovered that all the time I’ve been praying for revival I’ve never really believed it would happen, despite all the positive prophetic words we’ve heard in this respect. In my mind I have, but really in my heart I just havn’t had the faith.  What I’m wondering now is whether it is faith that affects what we see spiritually, or whether what we see affects our faith.  The reason I ask is that even from being a small child I’ve always been very aware of the spiritual realm, but it has mostly been evil.  I seem to have a spiritual sensor that picks up on satanic activity quite easily. Even my dreams are full of enemy attack, and I’m often aware of what the enemy is seeking to do in my life, in my church, and sometimes in my nation.  However, I dont have the same acute awareness of what God is doing.  This really affects my faith when I pray, and to be honest, makes me quite miserable.  When all you can see is destruction and decay, and are so aware of the plans of the enemy, how do you have faith for what God wants to do?  How do you shift your focus towards God?  I mean, I know all this sounds really elementary, and after 18 months on Fire School I should know the basics, but there’s a huge difference between knowing it in your head, and having it deep in your heart.  Part of the problem is that, as an intercessor, you’re having to continually look at the awfulness around you in order to be able to pray about it.  It made me wonder if this is a common problem among intercessors, and if so, how to combat it?  I felt I received my answer as I picked up a book by Bill Johnson and read the paragraph of dedication to his wife.  He says of her ’she is a sign and a wonder, for she is a happy intercessor!‘. Well, at least I know it’s possible.  It’ll be a journey.

Well this is just a short snippet of what God was encouraging me with the other day, We were looking through the news papers and allowing the Holy Spirit to move our hearts as to what we should be prayin about. 

As i looked through the papers i started feeling discoraged by the state of the nation, but God spoke to me through Daniel 6:10 where it says Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.

The writing that it talks about is the decree that no one could petition any God or man other than the king for 30 days.  I imagine as Daniel was a man of prayer he would have been praying that this law did not come into being, but never the less it did, what amazed me was his response when the law was passed anyway, He wasn’t moved by it in that he did exactly what he had always done, he prayed and gave thanks to God.  He stood undetterred firm in his faith in God. 

This encoraged me as we pray into issues affecting our nation, for our eyes to be fixed on God undetterred and in fact spurred on to further prayer, by what we see happening around us.

Perhaps a generation form the ruins can arise;
A people called to holiness with anger in their eyes
at the sin and devastation wreaked by enemies of Christ
on a broken dying people with no hope left for their lives.

Perhaps a generation full of fire will arise,
To take up arms and battle ’til the Truth replaces lies
and people find salvation through the road of heartfelt cries;
Conviction cutting deep until repentant weepings rise.

Perhaps a generation filled wth passion will arise;
To sow their youth and give their lives to see Jesus lifted high
in the world in which they find themselves no matter what the cost,
because they love their Saviour and His desire for the lost.

We can be this generation, its for this that we were called-
to die to see revival and His kingdom in this world.
So cast away with holy zeal your idleness and sin,
pick up your cross and waste yourself that revolution might begin.

…….So expect a generation to be dragged out of the mire,
to do away with selfish games and become a blazing fire.
To no longer obey appetites of comfort ease and sin
but spurn them all to kneel and serve, and worship only him.

Isaiah 60 is my favourite scripture of the mo. I love the amplified version “Arise from the depression and prostration that circumstances have left you-arise to a new life. I feel like it’s time to get up and believe. Forget what’s happened shake it all off and let the Glory of God shine on you.

Chuck Pierce says we should take a leap of faith as it’s a leap year, and that’s what I’m doing. I feel like I’m going blindly ahead but when you walk into light you generally can’t see alot so it’s all good.

I feel in prayer i  am coming to that place where i am speaking out the prayer and i am sometimes seeing what i am speaking out like i might be praying for someone in a dark street corner at night homeless and broken and im praying for the light of God to shine down and its almost like i am inside of the prayer And there are also times when i pray and the words to a old song comes into my prayer a song from many years ago such as                    

There is a river that flows from God above

there is a fountain thats filled with his great love

come to the waters there is a vast supply

there is a river that never shall run dry

I thank God for bringing back to my memory some of the songs from years ago because the words mean so much more now than they did then and they’re coming into my prayers Thank you Father