PRAYER JOURNEY

March 2, 2025

50 DAY PRAYER JOURNEY
Forty-fifth Day

Brothers and sisters in Christ…

Today is the Forty-fifth Day of our 50 Day Prayer Journey:
https://preservechristianfamily.org/category/prayer-journey/

TESTIMONIES TO HARVEY…AN ISRAELITE

Harvey…
I began searching for a vehicle for myself, and decided to look for a Toyota…either a Rav4 or a Highlander with under a 100,000 miles.  Also, I did not want to spend over $12,000, which eliminated everything newer than a 2011 vehicle.  I found 5 or six that fit those parameters, and visited the dealers to make an offer.  I used Kelley Blue Book price ranges for the particular vehicle and odometer mileage to determine what my offer would be, but the dealers were selling these particular models at a high premium, and would not accept my offer.  I found out that these two Toyota models are highly sought after [they are excellent cars mechanically, far superior to American made cars], which was the reason for the premium. 

On Tuesday, New Year’s Eve day, I went to see a car I really liked…a 2006 Highlander Hybrid [that’s 14 years old at the time!] with only 37,900 miles on it!  Of course, the Dealer wanted way too much money for this car…$9,994 [they had just received it as a trade-in].  I offered them $8,100 [which would not include Florida sales tax of $567].  The salesman disappeared to see the manager; when he came back, he said the best they would do would be $8,800.  I thanked him and left… their price was too much of a premium. 

Meanwhile, I visited a number of other Dealers over the next 4 days, and came up empty.  I had no more cars to look at…very disappointing.  Early Sunday morning, the Lord strongly prompted me to go back, after our church service, to the Dealer who had the 2006 Highlander to see if they might reconsider their selling price.  The original salesman I had seen was off that day, but the Assistant Manager asked if he could be of some help.  I told him I liked the 2006 Highlander and had offered $8,100 for it…but was told their best price would be $8,800.  He said he would look at the numbers to see what they could do…and disappeared for 15 minutes.  When he came back, he said they would sell the vehicle to me for $8,483 total… including sales tax!  That would make the price of the vehicle $7,928…nearly $2,000 lower than what I had offered on Tuesday!  Whoever heard of a Dealer selling a vehicle at a lower price than what a customer offered!  Incredible!  I don’t know what the Lord did or how He made this happen…all I know is that He intervened on my behalf, and enabled me to purchase a vehicle for myself that was really a great blessing, and now made it possible for me to gift my Hyundai to Garth.  What can I say?…all of this that just took place is beyond belief…another token of God’s wonderful and Divine love for me! 

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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]  

What is it that you are asking the Lord to do for you?  What are the specific blessings you are praying for?

Personal revival.  Revival begins in one’s own heart.  The prayer journey is a consecration of my heart to God, pleading with Him to bring revival, and to begin with me:

  • Longing for God…an ever deeper, more intimate, personal relationship with Him.
  • Hunger and thirst for personal holiness in my heart, manifested in living out my everyday life.
  • Seeking to keep on being continually filled with the Holy Spirit.

This is the entire focus for the prayer journey over the next fifty days.  It is intensely personal in nature, a heart-cry to God to touch my life by His Spirit, and work a deep change in me.  You may have this blessed assurance: you will never be the same again!

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PRAYER JOURNEY

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 hour in worship and prayer each day is not a time for intercession for family members, friends, co-workers, or church family.  Do that at another time.  If you get lost in intercession for others during this hour of prayer, you will have lost the reason for, and purpose of, this prayer journey: My heart longs to be inflamed with yearning for God alone… to pour out my soul, my life, my all for Him!

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.  Use the links as the Spirit of the Lord leads you to do so.  

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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REVIVAL

Revival begins in one’s own heart.  Our Journey of Faith as resident aliens on this Earth [we are citizens of Heaven] demands a consecration of my heart to God, pleading with Him to bring revival, and to begin with me.
My brothers and sisters in Christ…living in the Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit is the entire focus of our life-long Journey of Faith into the Holy of Holies.  It is intensely personal in nature…a heart-cry to God to touch my life by His Spirit and work a deep change in me.    

What is it that I am actually calling on God to do when I ask, “Lord, send revival?”  I am pleading with Him to pour out His Holy Spirit upon me…

  • to bring a deep conviction of sin and to make me painfully and consciously aware of sin in my life. 
  • I am crying out for Him to impress me with a deep need for Godly sorrow, confession of sin, and repentance.
  • I am asking from the depths of my soul that He create a pure heart within me…a heart that is inflamed with yearning to live out my everyday life in a purity, holiness, and righteousness of my own that comes from obedience to His Law…in every thought I think, every word I speak, in everything I do.
  • I am telling Him that the deepest desire of my heart is to be holy as He is Holy; to be perfect as my Heavenly Father is perfect…just as He exhorts His children to be.
  • And I am asking to be filled with His Holy Spirit…that His Spirit would become a fountain within me, welling up, flooding my soul with torrents of Living water, ever flowing, continually overflowing, spilling over, touching the lives of everyone with whom I come into contact…that the Name of Jesus would be glorified through me, with me, and in me…to the praise of His glorious grace!

What can you fully expect God to do for you in answer to this cry of your heart? 

  • He will make you miserable over sin in your life that you have heretofore been careless, complacent, and indifferent about, and He will make you painfully and consciously aware of sins that your heart…being deceitful and desperately wicked that it is…has hidden from you. 
  • He will reprove His children, “Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded!”  
  • He will cause you to “Grieve, mourn and wail over your sins, and in true repentance change your laughter to tears of sorrow and your mirth to deep sadness as you grieve over your disloyalty!”  
  • He will lovingly urge you, “Humble yourself before Me, and I will lift you up, encourage you, and help you!” [James 4:8-10]  
  • He will lead you to confession of sin and true repentance, and to have the same desire for purity, holiness, and righteousness in your life that He desires for all His children: “As the One Who called you is Holy, you yourselves also be holy in all your conduct and manner of living.  For it is written, ‘You shall  be holy, for I am Holy;’” and, “Be perfect, therefore, as your Heavenly Father is perfect.” [1 Peter 1:15-16; Mt 5:48] 
  • He will grant you the desire of your heart for purity, holiness, and righteousness, because Christ Jesus assured you: “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” [Mt 5:6]  He has assured me that my longing will be completely satisfied, and I will be filled up to the measure of all the fullness of God…to the richest measure of His unclouded Presence, a soul wholly filled and flooded with God Himself!
  • There will be an outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon your life, according to His command, “Keep on continually being filled with the Spirit.” [Eph 5:18]
  • You will experience the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in your life…singing songs, hymns, and spiritual songs and making melody within your heart to God. 
  • You will experience prayer, in accordance with God’s will, moving the hand of God. 
  • you will experience the blessings that come from obedience to the leading of the Holy Spirit in your life.
  • God will show you His Glory; you will see it with your own eyes, and you will thereby have occasion to testify to His great Name and mighty Power!  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God! [Mt 5:8]  Hallelujah!     

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.  Those who abide in the shelter of the Most High will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [Heb 10:19-20, 22; PS 91:1] Hallelujah!

LONGING FOR GOD

Brethren…

  • Is your soul longing to experience real joy…real peace…real comfort? 
  • Does your soul thirst for the felt-sense of the Presence of God?
  • Do you long for this deeper, more intimate personal relationship with the Lord…and His promise to pour all of His Blessedness and Goodness into you, to have deep and intimate fellowship with you, to become ever more one with you?  

Well then, if anyone thirsts, let him come to Me!  Let him drink who believes in Me…ever coming, ever drinking, continually satisfied!  The Water I give will become a fountain within you, welling up, flooding your soul with torrents of Living Water…ever flowing, continually overflowing!  No one who comes to Me will ever be hungry!  No one who believes and trusts in Me shall ever again thirst!  Your soul shall forever be satisfied, as with the richest of foods!  You will feast on the abundance of My House, and I will give you drink from My River of Delights…a River of unceasing glorious and rich eternal pleasures at My right hand…eternal pleasures at My right hand beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations…rich eternal treasures that no eye has ever seen, nor ear heard, nor has entered into the heart of Man to ever begin to imagine, what wondrous things God has prepared for those who love Him…a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness nevermore to cease! 
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the Waters; and you who have no money…come, buy, and eat!  The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come!” Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life!  

Following is a prayer entitled Longing For God.  You will be greatly blessed in embracing this as your own prayer: https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/22/longing/

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] 

PERSONAL HOLINESS: 
Wait on the LORD, and keep His way, and He shall exalt you to inherit the land. [Ps 37:34]
Since you have these promises, My child, purify yourself from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.  Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.  Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.  [Matt 5:6,8]
https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/23/repentance/

PURITY, HOLINESS, AND RIGHTEOUSNESS

Purity, holiness, and righteousness…first of all and above all…is a matter of the heart.  It is in my hidden life within my heart…in my mind, my thoughts, my imagination…where a pure, holy, and righteous life has its roots.

The only righteousness acceptable to God is purity of heart.  Without that purity, the outward physical life makes no difference.  God’s Divine evaluation takes place in the heart.  He judges the source and origin of sin, not its manifestation or lack of manifestation.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.  https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/24/purity/

WORSHIP YOUR MAJESTY

Lord God Almighty…I worship Your majesty; Your Name is majestic in all the Earth. You are glorious in Your Majesty, majestic in Holiness, awesome in Power, You are our wonder-working God.  You do whatsoever You will with the powers of Heaven and Earth.  You call the things that are not just as though they are.  You merely speak, and it is done; the very words You speak carry within themselves the power to effect what You have spoken…immediately, completely, continually.  The mountains quake before You, and the hills melt away.  The very mountains melt like wax in Your Presence!  The Earth trembles at Your Presence…the world and all who live in it.  Heaven and Earth flee from the Almightiness of Your Presence! https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/25/worship/

ANOINTING OF PROMISE

God is calling you, and desires to anoint you, to be part of His holy remnant.  Whether you are a pastor, a Christian leader, or a member of the congregation…this is what the Lord says: To the pastors I have placed in charge of My churches concerning your congregation and each individual member, write: This is the last call.  I have wooed you so many times.  This time, I say to you, in great love… there is a cost to an anointing; this is not a light, frivolous matter.  The anointing is not cheap. 

If you say in your heart, “We should go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly do it,” If you pay the cost of the anointing, I’ll open doors for you, I’ll speak through you, and I’ll use you again like you have never conceived.  The church and any members of the congregation embracing My call will move in the Power of My Holy Spirit, and bring great Glory to God!

The time of being pumped up is over.  I am tired of your solemn assembly’s, I’m tired of your sacrifices…they’re not from the heart.  Don’t miss what God is about to do.  The time has come; I need you, and I love you…but if you ignore this trumpet call…if you say in your heart, “We will not listen,” I am going to remove your anointing.  You’re not going to have anything to say to anybody; you’re going to be dry.  You are going into the desert…I will love you there, and I will keep you in My care, but you can’t go with Me, and I won’t go with you. 

Beloved child of God…let My Holy Spirit open your heart, and respond from the depths of your being, “God, once again, use Your church; use Your child.   Now…not another time…tonight, let something in my heart respond to Your call.”  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vmE2nbVctE [Note: this video opens in the middle of a worship song, which continues to the 2:15 minute mark before Pastor Wilkerson is introduced as the speaker]

COST O F THE ANOINTING

There is a high cost to an anointing; the anointing is not cheap.  It is a pearl of great value; you will have to sell everything you own to obtain it.  The Lord has reserved it for 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.  God’s holy remnant is called to a life of self-sacrifice and self-denial.  You cannot become part of My holy remnant without being willing to sacrifice your desire for anything and everything you own. 

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] 

As a bond-slave, there is nothing I have that belongs to me as my own…

  • None of my possessions belong to me; they all belong to You.  You are free to do what You will with them, for all that I have has come from You; You are free to give and free to take away.
  • I have no plans of my own; whatever plans I may have are all subject to Your plans, purposes, and will for me.  I am here to do Your will, O Lord.
  • I no longer have any privileges here in this world, because I am no longer a citizen here.  You have transferred me out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of Light.  All of my privileges are at my home in Heaven, where I am a citizen.  There I am privileged to walk the streets of gold, and eat those immortal fruits that grow along the river flowing from the Throne.
  • I have no expectations from the people of this world…nothing I expect of them to be or to do, for they continually fail to meet my expectations.  All of my expectations are from You, Lord…You have never failed me, and You never will.
  • I have no rights here on Earth, because I am not a citizen here; I am a resident alien.  Since I have no rights here, there is nothing that anyone can violate.  All of my rights are as a citizen of Heaven, and those rights will never be violated.
  • I have no honor here among the people of this world, for anything I have done that is worthy of honor was not done by me, but rather by You working through me, with me, and in me.  Therefore, all the glory belongs to You alone.
  • I have no time of my own; all of the time I have been allotted here on Earth belongs to You.  I have no “free time” that belongs to me.  You are free to use every hour of my time here as You will. 
  • I have no desires of my heart for anything this world has to offer; You are Lord of my life.  I have only one desire, “I desire to do Your will, O Lord, and to finish the work You have given me to do.”
  • I have no purposes of my own for my life, no goals that I cling to.  I live wholly surrendered to Your plans, Your purposes, Your will.  My only purpose for life is to do the good works that You Yourself have planned in advance for me to do.
  • I have no affections for the people of this world, or for anything this world has to offer, that competes with my affection for You.  My sweetest, most tender affections are reserved for You alone.
  • I have no attractions to the people of this world, or to anything this world has to offer, that competes with my attraction to You.  You alone are the choicest, most precious treasure of my heart.
  • All of my motives for doing things, my attitude in doing them, and my disposition while doing them, are subservient to You and intended to bring You glory.  Enable me, Lord, to have godly motives, a good attitude, and a sweet disposition in all that I do. 
  • I am wholly Yours, and You are wholly mine…wholly surrendered unto God, wholly given for the blessing and salvation of souls.  My heart longs to be inflamed with yearning for God alone…to pour out my soul, my life, my all for You!

FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR FORERUNNER

  • Beloved child of God!  My Divine Son Jesus came into this world as the Sacrificial Lamb of God; He laid aside His Majesty, Glory, and Almighty consuming Power, and came into this world clothed in meekness, lowliness, and humility. 
  • My Divine Son Jesus clearly stated, “I am able to do nothing independently, of My Own accord, but only as I am taught by God and as I get His orders.
  • You prepared a body for Me; Here I am, I have come…it is written about Me in the scroll.  I desire to do Your will, O My God; Your Law is within My heart.
  • I have come down from Heaven not to do My Own will and purpose, but to do the will and purpose of Him Who sent Me.
  • I only do what My Father shows Me to do; I only speak the words My Father gives Me to speak.  
  • The Son can do nothing by Himself.  He does only what He sees the Father doing.  Whatever the Father does, the Son also does. 
  • I do as the Father has commanded Me, so that the world may know that I love the Father and that I do only what the Father has instructed Me to do.
  • My food is to do the will of My Father Who sent Me, and to carry His work to completion.”

Brethren…Why ever, then, are we so arrogant, haughty, and proud to think I don’t need to live my life this way as well, when the Son of God lived His life on Earth in the character of a human nature in this manner?  My time on this Earth…that specific allotment of time…was given to me, NOT TO DO MY WILL, BUT TO DO YOUR WILL, Father.  

CALL OF THE SPIRIT TO ETERNAL LIFE

Beloved…FOR YOU THIS MAY BE THE LAST CALL. 
Today…right now…if you hear His voice calling you, don’t harden your heart and walk away for another time, ignoring His invitation.  God’s free gift of eternal life is available to you to consciously and deliberately choose to receive only while you are still living.  Death seals your eternal destiny…

  • whether Heaven by virtue of having accepted His offer of the free gift of eternal life, or
  • Hell by virtue of having ignored [as you clearly know, if you ignore receiving a gift, you don’t have it] or out-right rejected His offer.

Beloved…”let My Holy Spirit open your heart, and receive God’s gift in the depths of your being…now…not another time…tonight, let something in your heart respond to His call.”  

“Behold”, says the Lord Jesus in His last warning for the last opportunity offered to mankind to be among His redeemed, “I come for the last time like a thief in the night to gather those who would be among the elect!  Blessed is he who stays awake and keeps his clothes with him, in watchfulness, prayer and readiness for the summons when it comes, so that he may not go naked and be shamefully exposed, eternally without remedy.” 

There is one absolutely necessary preparation for every living soul on the face of this Earth, for the soon coming and imminent return of Jesus Christ…the one preparation that will irrevocably determine in which neighborhood you will spend all eternity, whether in Heaven or in Hell.  You must be a born-again child of God.  I tell you the truth, unless you are born again, you cannot be in God’s Kingdom.  I tell you the truth, no one can ever enter the Kingdom of God unless you are born of water and the Spirit.  Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit.  You should not be surprised at My saying, “You must be born again.” [Jesus…John 3:3-7]

If you have never been born again,
or you are not sure whether you have been born again,
or you have been living your life as a lukewarm Christian and would now like to recommit your life and enter into a deep and intimate relationship with Christ Jesus in preparation for the soon coming marriage supper of the Lamb…
then I counsel you to get alone with God, read the solemn marriage vows presented below you must make to become the bride of Christ and thereby be born-again, and with sincerity of heart from within the depths of your being, acknowledge before God, “I DO.”  

MARRIAGE VOWS 
SPIRITUAL BRIDE OF CHRIST

  • Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Divine Son in the Triune God, the Lamb of God Who came into this world to become the One only, all-sufficient, atoning sacrifice through His death on a cross and subsequent resurrection, thereby securing forgiveness for your sins and restoring your relationship with God that had been severed by sin?
  • Do you now solemnly vow before God to give yourself to be the bride of Christ, receiving Jesus the Christ into your life in a spiritual marriage, promising to honor and obey Him as both Lord over your life and Savior of your soul?
  • To be joined inseparably together with Him in a Sacred Covenant relationship…an Eternal living union of oneness through the new life to be conceived in you by the Holy Spirit…
  • To have and to hold Him, above all others and above all else this world has to offer, as the choicest, most precious treasure of your heart…
  • To love and to cherish Him, above all others and above all else this world has to offer, reserving for Him alone your sweetest, most tender affections…
  • For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, all the days of your life, until death of this body brings you to be together with Him in Heaven for all eternity.  

ETERNAL LIFE

Now this is eternal life: personally knowing You, Father, the One True Living God, continually ever more deeply and intimately in a daily living-out union of oneness,
and knowing Jesus Christ Your Son…the Messiah Whom You have
sent…in that same deep and intimate personal relationship,
joined inseparably together with Us in an eternal living union of oneness in a Sacred Covenant relationship. [John 17:3]

God Himself has given this testimony concerning His Son: I have granted you eternal life, and this life is given through union with My Divine Son Jesus.
Whoever is joined together with My Son in a living union of oneness 
possesses that life; 
whoever is NOT joined together with My Son in a living union of oneness
does NOT possess that life. 

I have written this to you so that you who place your trust in Christ My Son will know, beyond the shadow of any doubt, that you do now indeed have eternal life.
https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/21/bride-of-christ/

BLOOD OF CHRIST

Blessed Jesus…You laid aside Your Divine Majesty, Glory, and Almighty consuming Power, and came into this world clothed in meekness, lowliness, and humility.  You loved me with an everlasting love, and You voluntarily lay down Your life for me even unto death.  No one took Your life, Lord; You were free to lay it down, and free to take it up again.  You stretched out Your arms on a cross on my behalf, and declared, “IT IS FINISHED!”

IT IS FINISHED, for all time and for all Eternity…available to any soul who would freely and wholeheartedly choose to appropriate as their own the rich eternal blessings of the finished work of Christ on that cross at Calvary, through their solemn marriage vows to become Your eternal bride, Blessed Jesus…the bride of Christ.
By virtue of the Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of Your Precious and Priceless Blood poured out on behalf of the souls of Mankind on that cross at Calvary, You have forever freed me from my sins…past, present, and future…and restored my relationship with God that had been severed by sin.  https://preservechristianfamily.org/2019/01/21/blood-of-christ/

  • IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has secured eternal forgiveness of my sins, and has guaranteed and secured my Judicial Status of Eternal Righteousness before God as an accomplished and finished fact.
  • IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured my Eternal Union with You, Lord…now joined inseparably together with You in an Eternal living union of oneness as the bride of Christ in a divine spiritual marriage…flesh of Your flesh and bone of Your bones.
  • IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured that the Eternal Purpose for which God created me…to be joined together with the Triune God in a Sacred Covenant relationship…stands eternally fulfilled.
  • IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power and Eternal Worth of the Blood of Christ has guaranteed and secured my Eternal Access into the Holy Of Holies, and into the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father…as my birth-right.
  • IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Holy Spirit was indeed given as God’s Eternal Gift to dwell in me, never to leave me, never to forsake me…to be the Power in me Who continually guarantees and secures my capability to live my everyday life faithful to my solemn marriage vows as the bride of Christ in our Sacred Covenant relationship.
  • IT IS FINISHED…The Eternal Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit is now made continually available to me, Whose Power in me continually guarantees and secures my capability to live my everyday life faithfully within the Holy Of Holies, in the inaccessible Light of the Glory of Your unclouded Presence, Father, in our Sacred Covenant relationship. 

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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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