I love sharing this heart to heart with the scriptures, in this medium I will like to share with us about prayer where the disciple said to Jesus teach us how to pray and I think this is still our cry because prayer restore power, prayer restore spiritual strength, Paul says “renew my inner man - strengthen my inner man” but how? Prayer!
Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength;…
it’s a process, it’s a daily contact with lord that renew our strength. Hear what God has to say about this:
(Isa 40:28) Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
(Isa 40:29) He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
Follow carefully because he is introducing Himself to you and what He can do for you.
So (verse 30) “Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
so those who are strong in the flesh will collapse (and) will fall, natural strength will not do it. (Isa 40:31) But they that wait…” what God is saying is when you pray you will reach that same strength that is in Him because He say “I don’t faint, I don’t weary” the next thing you read they that wait in other word will have the strength of God to where God is they will be, that’s the powerful thing that the lord is showing us here and then he says He gives power to the fainted and to them that have no might He will increase strength spiritual and physically.
The lord is talking about both. You see prayerlessness is a disease and these begin in the garden where Adam hid from the lord not in the lord because hiding in the lord is prayer but hiding from God is prayerlessness. So there he was hiding from the lord because he sin, so sin is the problem, the fall of man brought about prayerlessness.
-Now we can defeat prayerlessness in our life we can be heal from the deathly disease if we pray. But its our decision to get in there, it our decision to say to our flesh you will obey me I want to pray because Paul the Apostle says in (1Co 9:27):
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
He was saying to force himself into submission and subjection meaning that the flesh is fighting you back struggling, but we win when we pray and we lose when we don’t. So Job 21, show us what happen when we do not pray very frightening, no counseling, no light , no blessing and forgiveness, no preservation, no provision and protection.
So no these note I want us to know that there is a realms of prayer and how to get into the presence of the lord and gain victory and coming to place is now you really participate with the lord in decision making because the book of Ezekiel says that. Because agreement with God is the highest form of prayer but we will get there soon. Now note what I want to point out here in Isaiah 27, and this is what we all need daily and remember daily contact is the key –
Jesus said give us this day our daily bread because when you negated time with God that’s when your battery begin to go down. Now think about this you charge your phone battery or any other battery as you have. You know like every day I charge my cell phone. Now think about your spiritual battery how it takes to charge and I will tell you how long. Two weeks, have seen this from my own experience if you want to be in full capacity again, it two weeks of prayer daily contact with God for two weeks will recharged your way back again is full capacity but if you neglect prayer after that, it start going down so you have to stay daily in contact with God to keep in full capacity its important you understand this principles.
“ They that wait…”, it means they that wait in a process of time not just waiting for one time, one minute, one hour or one day no; you have to continue waiting is that pray without season “Paul talk about daily prayer and the lord thought us have to pray daily he don’t faint, don’t give-up because when you give up that’s when every will go wrong and the enemy gain strength against you remember this every time you pray you gain strength against the enemy and everyday you do not pray the enemy gain strength against you and you began to get weak and slow down.
It say in Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
– meaning your discernment is back now in the spirit and mount up with wings as eagle, means that you are up in the high place of the earth when the wings are strong the power of God are strong and its says …they shall run. So in the high places of the earth, the place of praise and worship where prayer can take you into. now you are able to run and catch up with God
…they shall run and then they will walk. In the spirit we run before we walk, not in the flesh but in the spirit . so we always have to run before we walk in the spirit. You see prayerlessness slow us back it put us in the back row where Amalek can get you because the old testament it talks about where Amalek killing the Israelite show up in the back those who could not follow the cloud were killed by Amalek.
Well you I have to stay under the cloud by prayer, it only the prayer that keeps under the cloud in the right place with God that why I said they run to catch up in where God is and now they walk. The fellowship is restore and fellow with fellowship with God is powerful because fellowship with God is a continuous prayer life and as you are praying daily you are exhaling the flesh and inhaling the Holy Spirit every time you pray and it takes two weeks of that before your battery is fully charge to 100%. Now when you are in the place of prayer everything is right, hear what it says in (Isa 27:5) :
Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me.
I love this verse, therefore only prayer will bring you to a place where you had peace with God – remember what the psalmist says in Psalm 3, because is the key victory against the enemy, don’t forget what am saying here if you want to see victory it comes only through prayer:
(Psa 3:1 LORD, how are they increased that trouble me! many are they that rise up against me)
Do you feel like that, you have enemies?
3:2 Many there be which say of my soul, There is no help for him in God. Selah.
3:3 But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.
3:4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
3:5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
3:6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
Here is the key verse 4; I cried unto the lord with my voice… (that’s prayer) the next thing you read is how calm he become – verse 5-6 and in verse 1 he was afraid then in verse 6 he’s fine, to pop up again why? because he call unto the lord. And when you called upon the lord your God enemies will run away. So if you want to see your enemy running and only prayer will do it.
(Psa 56:8) Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
(Psa 56:9) When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
Then from here we can know how to move into the three realms of prayer which I would like to discuss next time.