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The more I love Thee with a truly gracious love, the more I desire to love Thee, and the more miserable I am at my want of love. The more I hunger and thirst after Thee, the more I faint and fail in finding Thee. The more my heart is broken for sin, the more I pray it may be far more broken.
A Puritan’s Prayer.
From Valley of Vision by Arthur Bennett
Yet I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion.” Psalm 2:6
When the nations rage against God and attempt to cast His fetters, God is not moved even in the slightest. Instead He has a word for the rulers who dare to speak past His established plumbline of truth and righteousness. The sure and clear message of God, even in times of national moral crisis, is that God’s Son is seated high in majesty and power above ever other name that is named. Once our hearts are united in prayer with Jesus, and at the moment that He draws us into His secret place, everything becomes so expressly clear: “He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure: “ Psalm 2:4-5.
Just as in the time of Elijah we face a confrontation with a demonic force that exalts itself against God and against His anointed. Elijah was a prophet sent by God to bring down the strongholds of darkness that Jezebel had built all over Israel. The spirit of deception which Jezebel had sown in Israel brought the people out of communion with God and into covenant with false idols. Instead of worshipping God, the Israelites were led to believe that their salvation could come from another source. But Elijah knew God in the secret place. Elijah knew that God was the King and all other ideas or idols or false gods were deceiving the people into great sin. Elijah was so intimately acquainted with God’s voice that he didn’t doubt of God’s power to draw the hearts of the people back their God and King.
In California today there is a battle for identity – the very definition of marriage is under fire. We are facing a confrontation with the influence of ethical humanism which claims that man’s ideas and opinions are superior to God’s. But just as Elijah spoke to the people of Israel, there are prophets and intercessors throughout our state that are contending for the destiny of our state. Instead of trusting in and relying on the operations of the mind to survive, we are people of the Holy Spirit. God’s ways are far better and longer lasting and exceedingly more bountiful than any humanistic ideal that exalts itself against the Cross of Jesus. God’s eyes are set upon the treasure at hand: the hearts of the people of California. “How long will you falter between two opinions. If God is God, then worship Him!! Let the sacrificial altar of fasting and prayer be continually kept aflame along with the passionate fires of intercession in faith that God will answer from on high and baptize our state with justice, righteousness, truth, and mercy and turn our hearts back to God’s heart.
I look down to see that I am standing on this big snakehead; this serpent is the root of all evil – it’s the deepest river of injustice that’s ever been engraved on the hearts of men. The issue of the justice that we must recognize, that abortion is against the law and thus requires “blood for blood” has marked us with unclean hands and the only thing that we can do as intercessors is to cry out for God’s mercy. However, the injustice of humanism is higher, wider, deeper, and longer than any other issue of unrighteousness or evil or witchcraft that ever been or ever will be.
The cuts on the outside leave lasting wounds on the inside, this is the deep river, the influence that has been carved into our essence, into our humanity, and without God there would be no longer any hope whatsoever. The shards of humanistic evangelism (inflicted by the preachers of humanism, prophets of humanism, professors of humanistic philosophies…) create lasting impressions on our minds, our hearts, our souls, and mix like oil and water within us. Would that pure oil of holiness finally once and for all come apart from the bad water of humanism!
Today I realized while overhearing a multitude of various conversations within the airport, that I no longer feel such a desire as I have in the past for exotic travel and for the discovery of new countries and places around this great world. I have seen, heard, and set foot within the land of promise. I listened on as people talked about kite-surfing in the Caribbean, touring the Italian countryside, and many other similar things. Whereas in my former years there had once been such intrigue and curiosity for exploration around the entire world; all of these distant travel destination now just seem to fade as all of my dreams are set upon Jerusalem. In Him, I live I move and I have my being. The only proper and reasonable explanation for this re-alignment of desire is that Yeshua has renewed my mind from the inside by the Holy Spirit of Promise which is the inheritance of all the saints. It is the indwelling Spirit of God, the resurrected Lord and Saviour. I feel so free today; I have a hope and a promise which I am going to realize. I can say of the world and its passing pleasures that there’s nothing for me here. It had once pulled sway over me completely but through the mercy of God in Messiah Yeshua the Spirit of Grace has enabled me to no longer become conformed to its image. Now I behold the glory of God in the face of Yeshua and everything centers on His Will. Now I am left to give thanks for this righteous gift of which He has made me a Son in His Image.
I have been weeping for the fulfillment of God’s promises for Israel the land and the people. The overflow of my soul has been even more so now over these past two months in Israel a fountain of heavy tears and sobs. It seems as if my heart is swollen with a burden that can but pour forth tears of petition, prayer, desperation, and compassion. God has blessed me as it were with an overwhelming Spirit of deep sadness accompanied by trembling, by groans, by tears upon tears. Oh for the sweetness of falling into the convulsions of prayer and to be washed from cheek to chin with tears of intercession. Psalm 126. Yet there is a conquering faith within that God will bring every captive heart back to the stronghold of hope, to Yeshua, to Zion, to the land; This is the spirit of overcoming that lives inside of me. In fact Yeshua lives inside of all who believe and are these who worship in Spirit and in Truth. This is the priest who lives according to the power of an indestructible life; this is Yeshua who possesses by being. It is not at all that I am doubting; I prayed for God to help my unbelief; and indeed He has. What a mighty God we serve! And it is a true blessing to go forth with weeping because there will be much rejoicing on a day soon to come.
