Times of shaking are upon us and will become more severe as the End Times unfold. In His mercy, the Lord always first releases “warnings” giving man an opportunity to respond. God’s plumb line is being dropped into our midst. His Word and His character are His measuring lines which are being dropped into the midst of the church, the nation and the nations, resulting in chiropractic adjustments to achieve His purposes. As this occurs we are seeing storms result. As it is in the natural, it is in the spiritual.
1. Storms of God’s Judgment - Our response: A Cry for Mercy requiring brokenness and tenaciousness.
2. Storms of Dark Demonic Attack - Our response: An authoritative place of intercession, requiring faith, endurance, boldness, believing in the promises and no common ground with the enemy.
3. Storms of Consequences of Sins - Our response: Repentance requiring humility, lack of defensiveness.
Each storm requires a different biblical response, but in one way each storm requires the same response - Desperation. Ultimately every storm can redemptively be used to forge character in us and be used in the purposes of God. We must remember at all times, that all things will work together for good for those who love God and are called to His purposes.
How to Respond to Global Crisis
God governs (releases power) the universe in partnership with His people through intercession. The majesty and mystery of intercession is seen first and most in Jesus’ relationship the Father.
He (Jesus) always lives to make intercession for them.
(Heb. 7:25)
(The Father said to Jesus)…Ask of Me, and I will give You the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for Your possession. (Ps. 2:8)
God opens doors of blessing and closes doors of oppression in response to our prayers. There are blessings that God has chosen to give, but only if His people rise up in the intimate partnership of prayer to ask for them. Jesus continues to run the world this way even after His return.
You do not have because you do not ask. (Jas. 4:2)
This kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.
(Mt. 17:21)
The LORD longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on High to have compassion on you....19 He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you. (Isa. 30:18-19; NAS)
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. (Ezek. 22:30)
The LORD said to Moses, "…indeed it is a stiff-necked people! 10 Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them…" 11 Then Moses pleaded with the LORD his God, and said: "…turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people…” So the LORD relented from the harm which He said He would do to His people. (Ex. 32:9-14)
Corporate intercessory worship is the primary means that God has chosen to release His government (power) in His relationship with Jesus and His redeemed. It is the highest expression of government in time and eternity. It is the most powerful weapon that exists. It is far stronger than the combined strength of all the nuclear weapons in the world.
God’s primary call to a nation in crisis is to gather in solemn assemblies (Joel 2:12-17). In other words, corporate intercessory worship is what we need most in this hour of history.
Corporate – requires humility to embrace all that is necessary in gathering corporately. The difference of styles, doctrine, personalities, etc. makes humility necessary. In Mt. 6, Jesus warns of praying in public to make a show of our dedication. In this, the Lord was rebuking a wrong spirit while praying, not trying to limit the location of our prayers to a prayer room.
Intercessory – to stand in the gap and declare back to God Biblical prayers and promises.
Worship – prophetic music and singing unifies God’s people in a unique way in providing the way in which thousands can feel the same thing for sustained periods.
Corporate intercessory worship releases God’s judgment (Ps. 149:6-9). Corporate intercessory worship stops destruction as when the nations of Moab and Ammon came to battle against Jerusalem under King Jehoshaphat’s leadership (2 Chr. 20).
The Shaking and the Glory Come Together
Haggai 2:6-9 - This is what the Lord Almighty says: `In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the Lord Almighty. `The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the Lord Almighty. `The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,' says the Lord Almighty. `And in this place I will grant peace,' declares the Lord Almighty. NIV
Closing Exhortation
God is looking for a humble, contrite people who know the times in which they live and what the Lord requires of His people in that hour. We must learn now the principles of intercession, confession and repentance. We must equally learn to cultivate an authentic Spirit of faith mingled with the Spirit of revelation from the heart of the Father, and then get in the face of the enemy and say, "This far and no more!"
“Here we are Lord! Use us! Let crisis intervention through intercession arise for such a time as this! Teach us to stand in the gap for your Kingdom to come on earth as it is in Heaven. Capture us Lord for your holy purposes in Jesus Name! Amen and Amen!”
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