REVIVAL TARRIES BECAUSE PRAYER DECAYS Whereas the Church was birthed when Men and Women lodged in an "UPPER ROOM" and agonized ceaselessly in Prayer, it seems that the Church has today halted somewhere between Calvary and Pentecost. The Church is today made up of so many 'Prayer-less Christians'. Little wonder we see little of the Supernatural today. All we do is tell stories of the men of old who subdued kingdoms; wrought righteousness.....stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire and received their dead raised to life again. (Heb. 11:33-35).
Except for camouflage and manipulations, we cannot say we are experiencing the Supernatural Power of God consistently today. We are limiting the Holy One of Israel by our prayerlessness for God is able to do 'super abundantly, far over and above all that we dare ask or think - infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes or dreams - but only according to His power that is at work within us (Eph. 3:20).
Although, if we should look around within the Church today, we will see so many activities going on. People are doing many things in the name of the Lord, yet most of the work is produced through hard labor and toil. Men pay so much to achieve so little and even then people are not blessed. Their needs are not being met. All we have is just noise, self-promotions, and little results. Why? Because we lack the Authority of Praying-Men and Women. We create official authority for ourselves to cover up our lack of spiritual authority.
Spiritual Authority from God does not entail struggle or physical might. Spiritual Authority is not strategies. Spiritual Authority is not many, many activities. Spiritual Authority is a compelling release of Power that makes things happen whether devils likes it or not. Spiritual Authority does not beg. Is the Church not a beggarly Church today? Are you not a begging Christian? Do you not go from Church to Church, from crusade to crusade, from Evangelists to Bishops falling under all manners of 'fake' anointing? Everyday, you send the same Prayer request to the Prayer team, yet your problems remain. Is it not because your closet, your prayer room, remains empty and unoccupied?
Said the saintly James Gilmour of Mongolia "Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole Earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah"? God is where He has always been, in the Throne Room, but He is waiting for His Elijahs to call on Him. It was said of the Apostles ... "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spoke the word of God with boldness". A true account of today's Church would read something like ... "and when they had entertained and done launching and played religion, the World was taken in".
Even Sinners feel at home and comfortable with our 'Modern Gospel’. It no longer causes a ‘Pricking in the heart' of the Modern-Man. It lacks authority. Preaching is like begging the devil when there is no authority. Unction and utterances cannot be learned. Knowledge of Greek and Hebrew does not confer it, neither is it found on Google. It can only be earned in the place of prayer. Are you a Pastor, Bishop, Evangelist, Bible Teacher, or Disciple of Christ? Your Preaching or teaching cannot bear the mark of eternity until you kneel daily before Him who inhabits eternity.
The World is not waiting for a new definition of the gospel, but for a new demonstration of the power of the Gospel. We can preach about Prayer, write about the power of Prayer or organize talks on Prayer, but until we fight and agonize in the place of Prayer, we only deceive ourselves. A title, undeniably true of the Church today, would be, "WE WRESTLE NOT". Yet, we have as a cloud of witnesses Men and Women who were as frail as we are, who faced the same issues that we do, but who prevailed and fought a good fight of faith in their generation because they knew how to wrestle and prevail in the Prayer closet.
Revival eludes our Nation and the Nations of the World politically and economically because God's Watchmen over the nations have gone to sleep. We have all turned to our own way, each one to his or her gain. Did not God pledged that, "If my people, which are called by my name... shall pray, and seek my face ... I will heal their Land? ( 2 Chronicles 7:14). God is not looking for a Committee. God is actually searching for just a Man or Woman who will deny himself or herself, who will turn from the public glare unto God in the secret place and allow God to sit upon his or her life. Lands perish not so much because of the Sins of the people as because of lack of Men or Women who would make-up the hedge, and stand in the Gap before God for the people. (Ezek. 22:30). The Holy promise still stands: "Ask of me, and I will assuredly give you the nations as your inheritance, and the ends of the Earth as your possession" - Psam 2:8 AMP
Revival tarries because we lack earnestness in prayer. Daniel prayed earnestly and God sent fierce, hungry lions on hunger-strike and prevailed on the government of that day to change an un-changeable draconic-decree! Esther proclaimed a National Prayer and Fast to challenge the death decree passed upon her and her people venturing 'If I perish, I perish! We can preach and perish but we cannot pray and perish. "From the time of John the Baptist till now, the Kingdom of heaven has been enduring violent assault, and the violent have been seizing it by force, "(Matt 11:12 Weymouth).
In a prolonged battle between Israel and her enemies, when night rapidly set in and a few more daylight hours were needful to ensure victory, Joshua took it by force. Said he in the sight and hearing of all Israel: "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon!" And because a praying man of God dared to make a demand on the God who answers prayers, the bible recorded that the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies ... and there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man.
What is that which prayer cannot do? What is it which a praying Man cannot accomplish through prayer? We ought to draw motivation from four scripture evidences: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer and God delivers by prayer. Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons and widens all straits by which God’s people have been held. It is always only when the hand of prayer becomes weak that the enemy of God gets an advantage. In the battle against Amalek at Rephidim, as long as Moses was raising the rod of prayer on the mount, it does not matter how Joshua and his Soldiers fought, they continued to prevail.
The God of Heaven and Earth said, "I sought for a Man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none" (Ezekiel 22:30 KJV). What say ye? Will you be God's man or woman in these endtime? Will you like to arise and ascend unto the mount of Prayer and dwell in God's secret place? If you hear His call to interceed for the Nations and His Church, please harden not your heart! Revival tarries because Prayer decays!
“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem”, saith the Lord most high, “which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make ….”. - Isaiah 62:6-7 (KJV). If you wish to join other Watchmen every Saturday to pray for the Nations and for lost Souls, please send your names and telephone number to prayers@watchmanonthewalls.com and we will add you to the Watchman WhatsApp Group. The Saturday Prayer meetings are held via Zoom. God bless you.
Although, if we should look around within the Church today, we will see so many activities going on. People are doing many things in the name of the Lord, yet most of the work is produced through hard labor and toil. Men pay so much to achieve so little and even then people are not blessed. Their needs are not being met. All we have is just noise, self-promotions, and little results. Why? Because we lack the Authority of Praying-Men and Women. We create official authority for ourselves to cover up our lack of spiritual authority.
Spiritual Authority from God does not entail struggle or physical might. Spiritual Authority is not strategies. Spiritual Authority is not many, many activities. Spiritual Authority is a compelling release of Power that makes things happen whether devils likes it or not. Spiritual Authority does not beg. Is the Church not a beggarly Church today? Are you not a begging Christian? Do you not go from Church to Church, from crusade to crusade, from Evangelists to Bishops falling under all manners of 'fake' anointing? Everyday, you send the same Prayer request to the Prayer team, yet your problems remain. Is it not because your closet, your prayer room, remains empty and unoccupied?
Said the saintly James Gilmour of Mongolia "Do not we rest in our day too much on the arm of flesh? Cannot the same wonders be done now as of old? Do not the eyes of the Lord still run to and fro throughout the whole Earth to show Himself strong on behalf of those who put their trust in Him? Oh that God would give me more practical faith in Him! Where is now the Lord God of Elijah"? God is where He has always been, in the Throne Room, but He is waiting for His Elijahs to call on Him. It was said of the Apostles ... "And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spoke the word of God with boldness". A true account of today's Church would read something like ... "and when they had entertained and done launching and played religion, the World was taken in".
Even Sinners feel at home and comfortable with our 'Modern Gospel’. It no longer causes a ‘Pricking in the heart' of the Modern-Man. It lacks authority. Preaching is like begging the devil when there is no authority. Unction and utterances cannot be learned. Knowledge of Greek and Hebrew does not confer it, neither is it found on Google. It can only be earned in the place of prayer. Are you a Pastor, Bishop, Evangelist, Bible Teacher, or Disciple of Christ? Your Preaching or teaching cannot bear the mark of eternity until you kneel daily before Him who inhabits eternity.
The World is not waiting for a new definition of the gospel, but for a new demonstration of the power of the Gospel. We can preach about Prayer, write about the power of Prayer or organize talks on Prayer, but until we fight and agonize in the place of Prayer, we only deceive ourselves. A title, undeniably true of the Church today, would be, "WE WRESTLE NOT". Yet, we have as a cloud of witnesses Men and Women who were as frail as we are, who faced the same issues that we do, but who prevailed and fought a good fight of faith in their generation because they knew how to wrestle and prevail in the Prayer closet.
Revival eludes our Nation and the Nations of the World politically and economically because God's Watchmen over the nations have gone to sleep. We have all turned to our own way, each one to his or her gain. Did not God pledged that, "If my people, which are called by my name... shall pray, and seek my face ... I will heal their Land? ( 2 Chronicles 7:14). God is not looking for a Committee. God is actually searching for just a Man or Woman who will deny himself or herself, who will turn from the public glare unto God in the secret place and allow God to sit upon his or her life. Lands perish not so much because of the Sins of the people as because of lack of Men or Women who would make-up the hedge, and stand in the Gap before God for the people. (Ezek. 22:30). The Holy promise still stands: "Ask of me, and I will assuredly give you the nations as your inheritance, and the ends of the Earth as your possession" - Psam 2:8 AMP
Revival tarries because we lack earnestness in prayer. Daniel prayed earnestly and God sent fierce, hungry lions on hunger-strike and prevailed on the government of that day to change an un-changeable draconic-decree! Esther proclaimed a National Prayer and Fast to challenge the death decree passed upon her and her people venturing 'If I perish, I perish! We can preach and perish but we cannot pray and perish. "From the time of John the Baptist till now, the Kingdom of heaven has been enduring violent assault, and the violent have been seizing it by force, "(Matt 11:12 Weymouth).
In a prolonged battle between Israel and her enemies, when night rapidly set in and a few more daylight hours were needful to ensure victory, Joshua took it by force. Said he in the sight and hearing of all Israel: "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon!" And because a praying man of God dared to make a demand on the God who answers prayers, the bible recorded that the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies ... and there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man.
What is that which prayer cannot do? What is it which a praying Man cannot accomplish through prayer? We ought to draw motivation from four scripture evidences: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer and God delivers by prayer. Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons and widens all straits by which God’s people have been held. It is always only when the hand of prayer becomes weak that the enemy of God gets an advantage. In the battle against Amalek at Rephidim, as long as Moses was raising the rod of prayer on the mount, it does not matter how Joshua and his Soldiers fought, they continued to prevail.
The God of Heaven and Earth said, "I sought for a Man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none" (Ezekiel 22:30 KJV). What say ye? Will you be God's man or woman in these endtime? Will you like to arise and ascend unto the mount of Prayer and dwell in God's secret place? If you hear His call to interceed for the Nations and His Church, please harden not your heart! Revival tarries because Prayer decays!
“I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem”, saith the Lord most high, “which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make ….”. - Isaiah 62:6-7 (KJV). If you wish to join other Watchmen every Saturday to pray for the Nations and for lost Souls, please send your names and telephone number to prayers@watchmanonthewalls.com and we will add you to the Watchman WhatsApp Group. The Saturday Prayer meetings are held via Zoom. God bless you.