KLMM Prayer Watch

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You don’t want to miss this gathering of destiny!

Trumpet Call of Prayer – September 18-20, 2008

Karen Lee Mosely Ministries

6532 E. 71st St., Suite 107

Tulsa, OK 74133

Please call 918-307-1643 for more information.

James 5:17 (AMP)  “Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we have [with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours]; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months.”  The earnest heart felt, continued prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available dynamic in its working.

Proverbs 23:26 (NLT)  “O my son, give me your heart. May your eyes take delight in following my ways”

The heart is the place we abide in God and the place where our life in God flows from.

We can pray fervently out of that place of our heart, and the Holy Spirit can inspire a deep heart-felt hunger for the things of the Spirit of God and the things of Him we are hungry for and these heart felt prayers bring results and we see an outward manifestation of these prayers.  We must guard our hearts and keep the fire and passion for Him burning always.  We can often slip into praying certain things and not even notice that our fire and passion has begun to fade away and we are focusing more on the things we’re praying about and less and less on the ONE we are praying to.

If we make drawing near to Him always the number one focus and priority of our lives (Hebrews 10:22 KJV - “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.”) and if we will purposefully keep turning our affection toward Him until our hearts are so intertwined with His that our prayers spring forth from the depths of that divine fellowship in Him, then we can obey His command in Proverbs 23:26, “My son, give me your heart.”

In a favorite book of mine written by a woman named Madame Guyon in the 17th Century, she explained so well this process of drawing near:  “Of course the closer you are drawn to God, the further you are removed from the activities of your natural man.  The natural man, to be sure, is very opposed to your inward drawing toward God.  Nonetheless, there will come a point when you will finally be established in having turned within.  From that point on, it will be natural for you to live before the Lord!  In the past it was natural for you to live on the surface of your being; now it will be your habit to live in the center of your being where your Lord dwells.”

Some people have called this “practicing the presence of God.”   I have found just as Madame Guyon said, that to keep the Lord foremost in my heart, there are certain things I can and cannot do.  There are particular activities - not sinful activities - but legitimate natural activities that I must refrain from because if I engage in them, they will distract me so much they will draw me out of my fellowship with the Lord.  These activities can so draw you out of that place and then you find yourself continually thinking about it and it draws you away from your heart-felt consciousness of the Lord.

The process of continually abiding in and turning inwardly to the Lord is very simple.  There is nothing pretentious about it. It is totally an action of your heart.  It is just an inner shift that allows you to settle down and rest in the fact that God is there abiding within you.

The moment you make that shift you will find your affections immediately drawn again toward the Lord.  You may not even have a conscious thought that you could put into words at that instant.  Yet the awareness of His presence and His love will soon wash over your soul.  His Glory will come and wash over your soul and He brings His refreshing waters to your being.  Your heart will respond to His nearness and you will know what the Psalmists meant when He wrote:

Psalm 84:1-4 (AMP) “1How lovely are Your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!  2My soul yearns, yes, even pines and is homesick for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh cry out and sing for joy to the living God.  3Yes, the sparrow has found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young--even Your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.  4Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are those who dwell in Your house and Your presence; they will be singing Your praises all the day long. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!”

As you continue to practice this turning inward turning toward the Lord, you will develop a habit of returning to Him.  You will be like a little bird that must fly out of her nest to attend to the necessities of life, but always returns to her nest.  Then you will make the pattern of returning to your heart your constant experience.  Since your heart is the dwelling place of the Lord, you will find yourself abiding in His house, singing His praises, fellowshipping His life in you, and becoming more and more a House of Prayer.

The apostle Paul called this “walking in the Spirit” (Galatians 5:6).  The more you do it, the more you will be able to fellowship with the Lord even in difficult and distracting earthly places and the more you will be able to live from and therefore pray from your heart.

To keep our prayers fresh and anointed with fire and passion of the Spirit we must daily keep our connection with the Lord alive and aware heart to heart with and in HIM.  He is our vital living abiding place and then we bear fruit of Him that remains.

Meditate on John 15:4-27.

He is truly our source for Life in these last days.