For the past two (2) weeks I have been studying the Biblical term watch. Before I really delve into this blog, I want you to know that my desire is to be a blessing to you in such a way that your desire to know God strengthens.
This morning the Spirit of the Lord led me to pray on grass. Yes, to stand between trees, look up at the sky, the clouds, and feel the rain; just to spend time with the Lord. Yes, I am speaking of praying outside!
How often, do you fight with the inner voice that says to you, "Go outside and be with Me!?" Well, the voice that I am speaking of is the voice of the Lord. We cannot make the leap of experiencing the voice of the Lord in a different atmosphere unless we are at a maturity level to desire God in a different way. Unfortunately, we cannot be deceived into believe that our experience with the Lord will be greater by praying the same way we prayed when we were 17 years old. Some people that are 48 years old, 35 years old, 55 years old pray on a second grade and third grade level and are not experiencing breakthrough! I will be 31 years old in less than a month, and I refuse to pray to God and spend time with God with the mindset of a child.
My encounters with God are becoming more and more unexplainable, but intimate. I do not know if that make sense to you, but it makes a whole lot of sense to me! In all seriousness, I cannot explain the mandated purpose of God that is brewing as a result of stepping out of my comfort zone in prayer. Conceptually, it is equivalent to consistently exercising while increasing the intensity, challenge, and weight of the exercise plan. Which means, that your time that you spend with God must be pre-meditated. Our time with God must be intentional and deliberate along with keeping in mind the great expectation of growing in greater knowledge of God.
When our knowledge of God is greater, i.e. spiritual wisdom and knowledge, our language changes. Our vocabulary that we use when we pray has greater understanding and purpose embedded in the words we utilize. Some people do not understand why they are praying and what they are praying for themselves or someone else. Many people just pray and do not believe what they ask and say to God! Because of this, many people that pray, pray on a first grade level.
What does this have to do with getting from under the roof? It has everything to do with getting from under the roof! Getting from under the roof means, upgrade your time that you spend with God! It means take your prayer life to the next level. Do not always pray at 6:00 p.m. Experience what God is doing in another watch! Go in your backyard and stand on the grass and look up at the clouds and thank God for surrounding you with His glory!
People of God, we have been educated so well that we miss God everyday when we walk out our house doors. I remember when I was in a science class learning about the clouds and how they are formed. I have not done any recent research with how clouds are formed or what is in a cloud. I have, maybe, a 1st grade level understanding of clouds. However, I do remember hearing that clouds are caused by pollution. I am not sure if this is or is not a fact, but I do know that it is a lie from hell. Pollution may play a part in some other aspect of the formation of clouds, but I know that God purposely led Israel on their journey with "a cloud" during the day and fire by night. The purpose of God releasing His cloud was to surround the Israelites with His glory. The Israelites were actually privy to experience God hovering His glory over Israel by the cloud. This is called God's Shekinah; God's glory! Moses was so illuminated by the knowledge of God that his face shined brightly to the extent that the Israelites could not recognize Moses.
In the Bible we witness why God sent clouds and we should know that God is the Creator of heaven and earth and everything that is in it, but we overlook that there are many clouds in the sky. It is the glory of the Lord! You must realize that the glory of the Lord hovers over you and what it means when God's glory hovers over you!
This is when I recognized that I needed to go back to experiencing God in a different way rather than what I am consistently accustomed.
Go outside and listen to God, talk to God, pray in the Spirit of the Living God, listen to God, write what God says on paper, and go out at different times to know the different moves and waves of the Holy Spirit!
Do not limit yourself to a closet! There is limited revelation in the closet; but there is more revelation in the garden. There is only a certain level of miraculous understanding and awareness in your living room, but there is more out in the wilderness.
This is the second installment of the series: WATCH
I promise to share what this watch term is all about, but there must be a foundation that is set before we can move onto understanding the mandate of watching. Before I end this blog, I must share with you that you have an established time with God. A time when God is waiting for you to speak with Him and wine and dine Him; i.e. intimate time with God! You have a pre-ordained time slot when your anointing will skyrocket. This time is a heavenly ordained time in which you, before the foundations of the earth, were thought of to grab hold of all that God has for you. You have a time slot in the heavens, when God is waiting for you to sing to Him; for you to play your instrument to Him; to adore Him, and love Him.
God is telling me that there is more for you to gain than there is to lose! Whatever you have that must be lost is necessary for you to lose because you cannot transport the cargo that has to be lost where God wants you to go! You must lose all that is stopping you from all that God wants you to be! I believe the next installment will be this time next week! God has given me this word watch when a prophet told me that God was going to give me a word for His people!
And this is the word: WATCH!
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