PRAYER JOURNEY

January 15, 2025

50 DAY PRAYER JOURNEY
January 15, 2025


Brothers and sisters in Christ…

I sense the leading of the Holy Spirit to launch a 50 Day Prayer Journey.  Please pray about making a decision to personally participate in it.
Break up the fallow ground of your heart!  Plant the good seeds of righteousness in your heart, and reap the blessings that your devotion to Me will produce.  It is time for you to turn to Me, your Lord, and I will come and shower blessings of righteousness upon you. [Father God…Hos 10:12] 

“Even now,” declares the Lord, “Return to Me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.  Rend your heart in deep sorrow, and not your garments!  Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love; He is always ready to forgive and not punish.
If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” [Joel 2:12-13; 2 Chron 7:14-15]

Therefore, heed the warning of the Holy Spirit: “Today if you hear Jesus calling to you, do not harden your heart against Him.” [Heb 3:7-8]

GOD’S HOLY REMNANT

Even as God raised up a remnant of just 1% of all the men Gideon had marshaled to fight against the Midianites, even so there is a holy remnant whom God is raising up for Himself in these Last Days…a Godly remnant of the 1% of His children who will not bow down, who will not shrink back, who will not compromise, who will remain steadfast and immovable in their commitment to follow the Lamb whithersoever He goes.
Here are the defining characteristics of the children of God’s holy remnant:

Purity Of Heart:

  • True Christianity lies in the heart, in the purity of heart; the washing of the heart from wickedness.  Those who truly belong to God will be motivated to purity.  The deepest desire…the consuming desire…of the redeemed is for holiness, even when sin hinders the perfect fulfillment of that desire.  
  • Obedience is what characterizes the life of My child…obedience continually and unceasingly day and night.  You are called to a life of unquestioning child-like obedience…both to do the will of God revealed to you, and to accept His will in the things He allows to touch your life.  Obedience is better than sacrifice; rebellion is as sinful as witchcraft, and stubbornness as evil as worshiping idols. [1 Sam 15:22, 23]

Purity Of Devotion:

  • God’s holy remnant is called to a life of self-sacrifice and self-denial.  You cannot become My holy remnant without being willing to sacrifice your desire for anything and everything you own. Our Lord told his disciples, “If anyone would come after Me, he must sacrifice and deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.  Anyone who does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.”     
  • What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God.  As God has said: “I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.  Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord.  Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.  I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty.”
    Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. [2 Cor 6:16-7:1]      
  • In Scripture’s account of the rich young ruler, Jesus told him, “You know the commandments,” and he responded, saying, “All these I have kept since I was a boy.  What do I still lack?  There must be something more, something I am still missing.”  Jesus looked at him and loved him, and said, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in Heaven.  Then come back, follow Me, and be My disciple.”  The rich young ruler walked sadly away, unwilling to embrace the Lord’s call.  The cost was too great for him to part with his idol and become a true disciple…part of God’s 1% holy remnant.  He wasn’t WILLING to sell everything he had. 
  • In contrast, Scripture’s account of the merchant seeking fine pearls…when he found a magnificent pearl of great value…HE SOLD EVERYTHING HE HAD in order to have sufficient funds to buy it. It cost him EVERYTHING HE HAD…but HE WANTED IT above everything else.
    Brethren…becoming a true disciple of Christ…part of God’s 1% holy remnant…will cost you everything you have!  You will have to want it above everything else!  It has to be the consuming desire of your heart!
    Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you. [1 John 2:15]    
  • Our Lord will always put His finger on the idol in our heart, and take us to the Cross-roads of Decision: I know your deeds; you are neither hot nor cold, having a pretension and claim to My Name, yet having too much love for the world to stand steadfast and immovable with Me.  Make up your mind, would you please! 
  • Here is the Lord’s high calling to every child of God…to you, my brother, my sister: if you want to be perfect, go…sell, give away, walk away from…the idol within your heart that you don’t want to part with. Choose this day whom you will serve.  Then come back after you have done this, follow Me, and be My disciple. 
  • Only a very few will embrace this call…universally, only 1% of the children of God.  But for those few, your life will literally be transformed, and it will be your privilege to abide in God’s inner circle in the Holy of Holies!  For those few…He will show you His Glory!  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God! 

Purity Of Motives:

  • This is my motive…to proclaim Your Glory. I do not have a selfish motive, a self-serving agenda, something I want to gain for myself.  I do not desire any glory for myself, nor the praise of men.  I do not seek to be acknowledged, or given credit, or to be acclaimed by men for anything I do that is praiseworthy; all the glory, honor, and praise rightfully belongs to You, Lord. 
  • I want the people of the world to know how great You are, Abba Father!  Show me Your Glory; bring Glory to Your Name; bring Your blessings and Your salvation before the souls of Men!  In the presence of the congregation, I will proclaim Your Great Name and Mighty Power according to all that my eyes shall see!  Hallelujah!   

Purity Of Worship:

  • Free Will: Abba Father…You created Mankind with a free will… free to choose to accept and enter into this Sacred Covenant relationship with You, free to embrace Your Eternal Purpose for creating me.  And free to choose to reject or ignore this relationship and Your Eternal Purpose…free to do whatever I want, whatever I desire; free to go my own way, to do my own thing; free to pursue my own goals, my own desires, my own purposes; free to spend my time on whatsoever I will.
    You laid aside Your Sovereignty as my Creator to determine the course of my life, and gave me absolute sovereignty to determine the course of my own life.      For that reason, I am fully responsible and accountable before God for the choices I make during my lifetime on Earth…and ultimately for the neighborhood I will end up existing in for all eternity after death.  And there are only 2 neighborhoods available. 
  • True Worship: Therefore, Father…I understand. The only act of worship on my part that is acceptable to You, that is pleasing to You…which must be first of all before any other worship or sacrificial offering…is to take the free will You have given me in my creation and freely, of my own free will, lay it on the altar of sacrifice in absolute surrender, and say from my heart, “No Father, Not my will, but Thy will be done.”  Apart from that, I cannot truly worship You…I cannot worship You in Spirit and in truth.  Giving my free will back to God is the only thing I can give You, Father, that You don’t already have…because You had freely laid aside Your Sovereignty as my Creator to determine the course of my life, and gave me absolute sovereignty to determine the course of my own life. 
  • God’s High Calling For His Royal Children: Brethren…God’s high calling for His royal children is hereby clearly set forth: The story of my entire every day life…every thought I think, every word I speak, everything I do…must be WORSHIP in Your eyes. WORSHIP is not a part of my life; WORSHIP IS my life. 
  • My only true worship is a life wholeheartedly embracing, and manifesting continually and unceasingly, NOT MY WILL IN ANYTHING, BUT THY WILL BE DONE IN EVERYTHING in living out my every day life.  True worship is the life of a bond-slave, wholly surrendered unto God, wholly given for the blessing and salvation of souls…solely and only, wholly and always, surrendered unto God.
  • My life…my heart, my soul, every fiber of my being…consecrated and set apart to the WORSHIP of God is what glorifies God and fulfills the chief end of Man…which is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever, abiding in the Holy of Holies…in the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father…continually and unceasingly even now all the days of my life on this Earth, and then throughout the endless unfolding ages of all eternity.  Brethren…this is why my God brought me into existence; there is nothing else.  Period. 
  • Absolute Surrender: Bond-Slave By Choice: Blessed Holy Spirit…I freely lay my life on the altar of sacrifice, giving You free reign over the course and direction of my life on Earth.  I am wholly surrendered unto God, wholly given for the blessing and salvation of souls. 
    I voluntarily become Your bond-slave…which was a choice made in times of old…not out of coercion or gratitude, but out of love.  But if the servant…having been released and set free…shall plainly say to his master, “I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go free,” then his master shall bring him to God [the judges as His agents]; he shall bring him to the door or doorpost and shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall serve him for life. [Ex 21:5-6] 

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The 50 Day Prayer Journey is not for everyone…even though everyone is called, whether new in the Lord, a mature Christian, or a child of God seeking to re-dedicate your life to the pursuit of God.  You are encouraged to invite family, friends, neighbors, and co-workers as well.  The only criteria of this calling is that your heart-cry is as was David’s, “As the deer pants for water brooks, so my soul pants for You, O God.  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God; when shall I come and behold You face to face?”

The Prayer Journey is a solemn commitment before the Lord during these coming 50 days, to spend one hour every day in prayer.  It is not for general prayer, but rather intensely personal and focused prayer for personal holiness, and for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in your life.  The one hour consists of…

  • worship and praise,
  • confession of sin and repentance,
  • prayer for purity, holiness, and righteousness in your everyday life, and for
  • the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in your life.

The one hour can be planned at a convenient time in your own home; I will be available by phone or E-mail for counsel and encouragement whenever desired.  Over the next seven weeks I will provide you with ample resources that will more than enable you to spend an hour in focused prayer…in case you wonder how you are ever going to be able to spend an entire hour [if you have never done that before] in this manner.

Are you prepared to go into the Garden that Jesus went to that night of His betrayal, and to walk along the path He walked?  It is the path of obedience and suffering, self-sacrifice and self-denial, death to sin and death to self.  It is the path Jesus walked and the way which He Personally dedicated for us…a new and living way to God, through the veil, that is to say, through the veil of the flesh…my sin-enslaved human nature.  It is the ONLY path that leads up to the Gate that opens into the Heavenly Sanctuary and into the Holy of Holies…into the inaccessible Light of the Glory of our Father’s unclouded Presence.  The Gate bears on its header the inscription “THY WILL BE DONE.”  No one can walk through that Gate without first checking his/her own will there with the gatekeeper in absolute and unconditional surrender.

Here is a link to a personal testimony that will be a great blessing and encouragement as you prayerfully consider, and count the cost, of making a commitment before the Lord to the Prayer Journey:
https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/26/divine-fellowship/

Wherefore brethren, having now boldness to enter into the Holy of Holies by the Blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us…a new and living way to God through the veil, that is to say, through the veil of His flesh…let us then without further hesitation or delay draw nigh in fullness of faith; here let us continually abide in the fullness of faith. [Heb 10:19-20, 22]  Those who abide in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [PS 91:1]  Hallelujah! 

Please forward this invitation to as many of your personal contacts as you are led by the Spirit to do so.  If there are others you invite who are planning to participate in the prayer journey, please encourage them to forward their E-mail address to Michael: mihkail43@comcast.net.  I will add them to my daily postings for the Prayer Journey.  

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PRAYER JOURNEY

Preparation: Following is an example of a format for the daily hour of prayer during the Prayer Journey, to provide guidance on how a participant might effectively approach it.  The prayer journey is so intensely personal, however, that within this framework each individual will need to give the Holy Spirit free reign to lead and guide you in the way He alone knows is best for you.  Become familiar with the following referenced Scriptures and Links beforehand, so you will be able to plan a good start for the 50 day prayer journey on the starting date. 

SWEET HOUR OF PRAYER

Heart preparation: Longing For God https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/22/longing/
My House Shall Be Called A House of Prayer Video:
https://vimeo.com/132887856/

A]  15 min:  Worship and Praise: [Ps 100]

B]  30 min:  Personal Holiness: [Mt 5:6, 8; Heb 12:14]

C]  15 min:  Outpouring of the Holy Spirit: [Eph 5:18; Acts 1:8, 12-14]

Counseling and Encouragement:
Michael: mihkail43@comcast.net

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Arise My bride, and prepare to see My Face

Behold, I am coming soon!  My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done.
Then the angel said to me, “Write this down: Blessed are those summoned to the marriage banquet of the Lamb…all true believers who are members of His Universal Church.  They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with Power and great Glory.  And He will send His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect…God’s holy people…from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.”  And he said to me further, “These are the True Words of God.” [Rev 19:9]

Blessed Jesus…I rejoice and shout triumphantly for joy!  I celebrate and ascribe to You glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb draws near, and Your bride, the Universal Church and each of her members, has been preparing herself and has made herself ready! [Rev 19:7]  Hallelujah!

Hallelujah!  For our Lord God, Sovereign All-Ruler, reigns!  Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him Glory!  For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.  The finest linen, dazzling and white, was given her to wear.  Then the angel said to me, “Write: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage banquet of the Lamb!” [John…Rev 19:6-9; Luke 14:15-23]

ENDURE TO THE END

Behold, I am coming quickly.  Hold on to what you have, so that no one will deprive you of your crown.  Everyone who overcomes by means of their faith…I will make a pillar in the Sanctuary of My God.  Never again will you leave it.  I will write on you the name of My God and you will be a citizen in the city of My God…the new Jerusalem…which will come down out of Heaven from My God; I will also write on you My Own new name.

Holy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcx2O9WXvn8&feature=youtu.be

 

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