A Day in His Chambers

--->Meditation: Song of Solomon 1:4:

Draw me after you; let us run. The King has brought me into His chambers. We will exult and rejoice in You; we will extol(remember) Your LOVE more than wine; rightly do they love You.

--->Revelation -The King has brought me into His chambers.

Today I was amazed as I came to the LORD in His word. I find when I first get into His word through meditation(long & loving as Mike Bickle says) I enter into seeing the Lord with clear eyes, and I find myself overwhelmed by the love of Jesus-even when I don't feel anything. So today I came before Him reading and meditating on the simple phrase 'the king has brought me into His chambers' I began to talk to Him about it and He shared with me what I am going to share with you today.

The King's chambers referring to Jesus as our King and the secret place His chambers for me is that place of deep fellowship with Him, the place where He so intimately whispers to our hearts what is really on His mind. His desires. His passion. The chambers of our King Jesus is the place where we choose what is better instead of doing 'other' things we choose to sit at His feet, and in response to our humility He makes His love known to the ones He loves-You and I! His chamber is where He deeply makes Himself known. His chamber is the deepest place of His heart reserved for the hungry heart of man. The things He makes known to the children of man in this place are the things even angels wonder about, the things they long to look into. The fellowship between God and His people is friendship beyond what any mind could ever imagine.

There is nothing greater in this life than to be loved by the King of kings and LORD of lords. His grace and mercy and love are freely given to those who are in need-those who are seeking, and loving Him wholeheartedly. Why would we settle for less as He invites us to this place of encounter-whether it is dramatic or it seems like you are somehow missing it. His invitation to His people, His bride I believe is to just receive His love, and to live in Him. To know Him.

The secret place is more than a requirement of Christianity- it is where we come into knowing Jesus, it is the place where we find who we are, what we were made for, and how He wants us to live. The foundations are laid in love as we seek the Lord in this place. The invitation to love Jesus is to give everything to Him in wholehearted obedience.

He loves to make Himself known to the ones He loves.

Kasey

Putting my hands back to the clay

For a little while now I have taken a break from posting as you may have noticed. Even though this is true the LORD has still been showing new aspects of Himself, and old aspects of myself the I have been unaware of. In showing me those old aspects of myself, thankfully, He has been helping me to die to those old ways and take on His new ways. I am very thankful for what the Lord has been doing in my life. Even though I mess up constantly His grace covers me still, and He shows me how to 'get better' and receive forgiveness, and mercy.

Yesterday the Lord really moved my heart, and reminded me how much I LOVE TO WRITE!!! =] And how much He loves me to write also! I feel His delight over me as I write on this blog once again, and simply do one little thing I love to do for Him. I know that even though this is a small small thing He loves it and will use it to move His kingdom. I found yesterday that for the Azusa Street Revival, which was 100 years ago, Frank Bartleman daily wrote, and journal-ed about what the Lord was doing in the revival . I also found that Frank B., even before the revival began, would daily write/journal in some sort of paper that people read. The reason I mention this is because the Lord in showing me this gave me such excitement and confidence that I am hearing Him right in doing this blog. It is amazing how one little journal this man named Frank Bartleman faithfully kept over the years before and during this great revival impacted many lives for the Kingdom of God!! Because he faithfully wrote so many heard of what the Lord was doing, and by hearing their faith was stirred-kindling a passion for the supernatural God we were made for!!

Though I say all of this in excitement, and expectation I know that keeping this blog will be really hard. Still, because of the days we are living in I know the LORD is calling me to take note of what He is doing, and even what He is showing me in the secret place. I realize that it doesn't even matter if anyone reads this! This blog is for the LORD! So I am really blessed because He reads it. =] Just thought I would throw that in here. I do want to ask all who read to be praying that the Lord would continue to call me to write, and even for the saints in our city, nation, and the earth to answer the call of God on their lives. I have heard so many a time that it just takes one person for the Lord to use to start revival-even though He could start revival with no one at all- I want to encourage us to just live in obedience, and wholehearted love to Him. The Lord is faithful to those who remain faithful to Him.

I will be posting everyday as much as possible.

My Revelation To Share.

=]

I can't resist.

Song Of Solomon 1:4

Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol(remember) your love more than wine; rightly do they love you.

RIGHTLY DO THEY LOVE YOU!!

I have been meditating on this scripture, and one thing the Lord has shown me is that no matter what I am doing or how I feel about Him or even what I think He thinks about me if I am loving Him according to His command I am right before Him!! Think about it search it out.

What does this mean?

For me, I am always striving to be right before the LORD, and sometimes I get really stressed out because I think I am not making Him think I am right or I feel like I have messed up too much to be right before Him even after I confess and repent. (He has been killing that old mindset in me) I have found in this little phrase in Song of Solomon that it doesn't matter what I have done, but as I love Him with all my heart -according to His Word- He finds my heart in total righteousness! He is the God who is LOVE who keeps NO RECORD OF WRONG!!

This alone blows my mind.

He loves me-He loves US! MORE THAN WE KNOW!!

ha ha. =] He just makes me happy!

So! Let's dig once again! And follow Jesus on this path we are on!

Kasey

From the desk of Lou Engle:

Friends,

Recently, I sent out an urgent call to prayer concerning the healthcare bill. I received some constructive feedback challenging me to look at the situation of the poor and those who cannot afford healthcare. I want to clarify that I believe there must healthcare reform. As believers, we need to identify deeply with the agonizing injustice that the poor, and those dealing with overwhelming medical situations face everyday as they encounter the exorbitant cost of healthcare in it's present form.

The Funding of Abortion

We must pray for our leaders that God would give them wisdom to handle the complexities of healthcare in a compassionate and just way. However, the main premise of my appeal was that we cannot allow a healthcare system that helps the poor yet allows for systemic abortion to be mainstreamed in society. President Obama recently declared on a phone call to christian leaders across the nation that federally funded abortion is not in this healthcare bill, but that is not true. Seven amendments were put forward in the Senate and the House that would not permit tax payer funded abortions in the healthcare plan. All of them were rejected. All the President needs to do to confirm his word is to declare that he will veto every healthcare plan that includes the funding of abortion. I would not expect that to happen because the funding of abortion is part and parcel of the whole agenda.

It's Time

As believers, we must insist on compassion for the poor without compromising the moral absolutes of the sacredness of life from conception to death. I will be sending out a statement on this issue once again before the September 8th reconvening of our government leaders in D.C. It's a time to pray and it's a time to raise our voices.

Lou Engle


Lou Engle | President, TheCall, Inc.

He loves me.

Lately I have been thinking, and meditating just on this hugely overlooked treasure of how the LORD feels about me, and how He loves me, and all I am for Him, and all I do for Him. And really even though it is good to do things for Him I am more overcome by this simple truth that He loves me no matter what I do, and He is pleased with me more than anything right now. Just the fact that I can sit down and be still and not do anything, and Him be completely overwhelmed that I love Him, and want to be with Him-how amazing is that!

To be loved by God has to be the coolest thing for me right now because even when I get busy, and it's hard to find a moment to just sit and be with Him-He loves me the same, and He doesn't take away any plans He has for my life, but He uses what is going on to write my story down in that little book that He has written all of my days in.

It is an amazing thing. When I get to heaven, and I stand before me-I cannot wait for this-He will tell me how He feels about me, and I will get to hear Him say it to me face to face out loud, and I love this-He only thinks good things about me. Yes He corrects me, and sometimes He rebukes me.... which is not unheard of, but He still loves me the same, and He still feels the same way about me.

So one thing I have to think about is how can I love Him.... in any way even close to the way He loves me, and really I can't think of anything other than what He says He wants from us, and that is wholehearted love.

Wholehearted love moves His heart-even though our love is weak-it moves Him in ways we cannot understand.

I love that!

He just wants us to love Him with everything, and that doesn't mean we have to do all of the ''right'' church required things, and it doesn't really mean that we go out and party all the time, but it just simply means that with all that we are=we focus ourselves on loving Him. And I don't know if that qualifies as a definition, but I know that He just wants our love. So however that looks for you.... for me.... that is all He wants.

That helps me to sleep at night.

I was made for this love.

hmmm.......

That is really cool.

Captured

Wow. So I have not posted in over a week.

I have been so blessed this week by what the LORD has done in my life, and what He is doing even now in my own life, and in the lives of others. I have been witnessing people being ministered to by God, and I am so ready to just get into the place of prayer now more than ever.

This week has been our church youth conference, and the LORD just spoke to my heart all week about the issue, and sin of sexual immorality, and how my generation desperately needs deliverance from it. One thing we so often neglect, and do not realize is that sexual immorality is not confined to having sex before you are married, or while you are married with someone else, but it is also things like looking at the opposite like you shouldn't, and even thinking about someone impurely, and more so than you need to be, and more so than God. We can fall into sexual immorality with our physical body, our minds-thoughts, and our eyes, and really many other ways as well. I am convinced that we need deliverance from this.

We were created for fascination. We each have longing in our hearts for intimacy, and partnership, and love. We long to be known, and loved. We desire to be told who we really are, and what importance we really have.

These longings are not sin, and these desires are not of Satan, but truly of God we have only perverted the ways they are fulfilled in us. God's plan is to lead us into the ultimate fulfillment of our longings, but we have so often taken it into our own hands. We have slowly, surely, and secretly been searching to be satisfied by the things of this world, and we have been caught up in these acts of sin.

These things only lead us to depression, sadness, suicide, and only more unfulfilled desire.

Truly and ultimately I tell you today, there is only ONE THING ONE PERSON ONE MAN ONE GOD who can TRULY SATISFY. At His right hand are pleasures forever more.

There is only one thing, One God, who can satisfy. We know this in our minds, yes, but I want to challenge you today to let this sink down deep into your heart. You have been looking for God, for what is real, and His invitation to you is extended. Who will accept, and receive His love?

If you want to be free, there is freedom in Jesus, and the only way to get free, and to stay free is to come to God, and then live your life going hard after God.

We can no longer be satisfied with a perverted version of Christianity. We need the real Jesus, and we need to live real Christian lifestyles in all boldness.

There is more to this life than we know, and my question to you is will you go after the more, and if you will how?

If you don't figure this out now then when will you, and are you willing to post-pone true life-true living even more? This lifestyle takes devotion, and humility, and we are fully able to live this lifestyle. Are you ready to be free? Will you step out in faith and go after the only one worthy of praise? Or do you choose to stay in the same place where you are at, and possibly remain in bondage, and remain with the same old strongholds holding you down? There is freedom in Jesus, and this is an invitation to all who need even a little turn around.

I pray you would be blessed, and find favor with the LORD. He loves YOU! Be blessed. In Jesus Name.

Faithful

-Meditation-

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: Faith, Hope, and Love. But the greatest of these is Love.

--TheSecretPlace--

Hello all. I would like to let you who read this know that I will not be able to post on this blog for the next week, I will have no access to a computer.

Before we get started on 1 Samuel 3, I just wanted to take this post to talk about the LORD's faithfulness. Faith will remain forever, because the LORD will be forever faithful to us, His Bride, and we will be forever faithful to Him, our Bridegroom God.

Something that really strikes my heart about how the LORD truly is faithful to us is that He loves to be faithful to us, He really enjoys it! There are so many times when I am carrying out a commitment to the LORD, and to others, and sadly it is not really the most fun or enjoyable thing for me to be doing-even though it is the best thing for me to be doing. But the LORD is not like that at all. He loves to be faithful to us. He sees us for who we really are, and He wants to show us how He loves us, and He wants to be with us forever.

He wants to establish faithfulness in our own hearts as well, because it lasts forever. God is the Everlasting-Eternal God, and because He is forever the work He establishes within in, if we let it, will last forever. The fact alone that God is faithful to us because He wants to be faithful to us makes me want to be faithful to Him, because in all of my falling, and failing He is still so faithful to me, and He still wants me in His kingdom so we can be together forever! How could we not respond in faithfulness to a love like this. I want to encourage you and tell you that He is just as faithful to you as He is with all of His children, and in all that He does. His faithfulness is great, and it lasts forever-into eternity. We get to be established in His faithfulness. We get to be the ones He is faithful to!! The God of the universe loves you, and is faithful in all He does. So in that I want to encourage you that in all the LORD has put on your heart to do, and in all that you are doing in your life right now even if it doesn't really seem to spiritual, be faithful in all you do, and do it as if you are doing it for the LORD. He will reward you. He sees you!! And He loves you!!!!

How blessed are those who put their trust, and hope, and faith, and love in the LORD!!

Be blessed!!!!!

---Intercession---

Lord, I thank You for being faithful to us even though we are undeserving. God there is no greater love than the LOVE You show us, and I ask Father that You would make Yourself known to us in ways we have never known You. Jesus thank You for loving us, and thank you for being faithful. I pray that You would help us to be faithful to You as well. I love You LORD. Be blessed! And thank You for loving us. In Jesus Name. Amen.

He Is Raising Up Faithful Priests

-Meditation-

1 Samuel 2:34-36

³⁴ " 'And what happens to your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, will be a sign to you—they will both die on the same day. ³⁵ I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who will do according to what is in my heart and mind. I will firmly establish his house, and he will minister before my anointed one always. ³⁶ Then everyone left in your family line will come and bow down before him for a piece of silver and a crust of bread and plead, "Appoint me to some priestly office so I can have food to eat." ' "

--TheSecretPlace--

I just want to take some time on verse 35.

I love this verse because we see here what God is looking for. We see here just a little bit what God is searching for, and what He is raising up in His house even now. We also can see through this one verse, this one word from the LORD what we will be forever in the kingdom of God, and that is we will be faithful to the LORD, we will do whatever we do according to His heart, and we will minister to Jesus forever, and always-This is also what we are called to do/be even now. I love that! It is an amazing thing to me when we can actually look into what God has for us to do now into eternity! He desires a people who are faithful in all they do. He desires a people who will minister to Him, and before Him always, and this is what I want to encourage you in today.

The LORD made this known to Eli, and when the LORD speaks what He is saying is(or it should be) the most important thing that concerns you. He was telling Eli that basically I gave you a chance, but you were unfaithful, so now I will raise up one who will be faithful to my heart, and I am going to bring one to my house who will do according to my heart-one who loves me the way I show Him how to love me-one who wants to do according to my heart-you were more concerned about yourself, and now I am going to raise one up who wants what I want more than what they want.

The LORD was making known what He wanted, and I believe that the LORD is the same today as He was that very day, and I dare to say that this is what the LORD is offering us, His people to be. In every area of life we can be faithful, and in every area of our lives no matter what we are doing we can be ministering to, and before the LORD.

We are so blessed!!!

So I want to encourage you and challenge you in saying that this is what you were made for-loving God, and this verse is just a mere picture of what that somewhat looks like.

You were made for LOVE-and God is love. So why not spend your time with LOVE Himself, and why not spend your life ministering to His heart out of your love for Him. I believe He wants to encounter you, and when you set your heart on Him, no matter how you go after Him, when you do go after Him you provoke His heart in a holy way to where He can't help but meet with you, and show you His heart.

Man! HE LOVES YOU SO MUCH!!

My prayer is that you would be encouraged to position your heart in such a way that you will be able to love the LORD with your whole heart.

I just want to encourage you also to open up your heart and ask Him how He wants you to come before Him, and minister to Him. I want to encourage you to pursue Him in all the ways He is calling you to, and sometimes it is hard, and sometimes you really won't feel like obeying Him, but trust me His voice is sweet, and His face is lovely, and when you come face to face with our God in the secret place words will not be able to describe the ways He encounters you, and the ways He reveals Himself to YOU! Because HE REALLY LOVES YOU!! And HE REALLY REALLY LIKES YOU!! Be encouraged! Be blessed in your pursuit of the LORD!

---Intercession---

Jesus I pray that you would strengthen your Bride, and Your people to pursue you with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. I love You, and thank You for how You love us, and are doing great things among us, and I pray that You would help us. We love You, in Jesus Name. Amen.

-Meditation-

1 Samuel 2:30-33

³⁰ "Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and your father's house would minister before me forever.' But now the LORD declares: 'Far be it from me! Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained. ³¹ The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your father's house, so that there will not be an old man in your family line ³² and you will see distress in my dwelling. Although good will be done to Israel, in your family line there will never be an old man. ³³ Every one of you that I do not cut off from my altar will be spared only to blind your eyes with tears and to grieve your heart, and all your descendants will die in the prime of life.

--TheSecretPlace--

Let's dig into this scripture. When I first read this I was a little confused, and wondered why in the world this Bible was telling me what I thought to be God breaking His promise to Aaron(Ex. 29; Lev.8-9; Nu. 16-17;25:13) because of Eli. I was very confused, and that is why I have yet to post on this scripture. So I dug into it a little, and I looked back on the scripture where God sets up Aaron, and his sons to be priests to the LORD, and I also read some of the notes out of my Study Bible, and that helped too! So I understand a little more than I did before, but honestly I have not searched out this passage as much as I would like to, and as much as it deserves to be searched out.--So I will be doing more digging.

For now I feel like I should throw out some thoughts on it.

Basically I have found a few things in this scripture that I believe are of importance, and one thing is that the LORD does not break His promises, and He is very very faithful to His word. He set up the tribe of Levi to minister before Him always, and because Eli, and his family did not honor the LORD in serving Him, the LORD decided to forever exclude Eli, and his household from ministering to the LORD because they were -fully aware- honoring themselves first, and not paying attention to the command of the LORD. Eli, and his sons were being unfaithful to the LORD, and 2 Samuel 22:26-27 says

"To the faithful you show yourself faithful, to the blameless you show yourself blameless, to the pure you show yourself pure, but to the crooked you show yourself shrewd."

The LORD does not break His promises, but those who break their side of the covenant, and refuse to repent, and are crooked^^in their ways, He shows Himself to them shrewd, and stands in righteousness. I am not done with this passage, and I feel like I have not even begun a deep study into it-I have a long way to go.

I want to ask you, and challenge you to search this out. Dig into the Word of God, and ask the LORD what this whole passage means, don't just take my word for it but instead wrestle with the LORD in this(Acts 17:11), and find the meaning of this scripture, and I will do the same.

I want to encourage you to let me know your thoughts on this, and let me know what you find in scripture concerning these things.

Remember that the LORD loves to show true wise things to His children-those who are foolish in the world's eyes- to confound the world's wise!

---Intercession---

Father of glory, I ask in Jesus Name that You would give Your servants reading this, and those who are not reading this a Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of You as we search out Your Word. Let Your presence fill our hearts, and our homes. God I pray that You would be eternally glorified in us. I love You, and I ask that You would equip us to search out Your Word, and take our place with You in the heavenly realms. In Jesus Name. Amen.

God Has a Better Way.

I got this e-mail today, and I wanted to put it out there for all who read this blog to read. As I read this, and listened to this video my heart was broken within me, we truly do not realize the hour we are in, and it is time to get on our faces before the LORD, and return to Him with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. The hour is urgent for the people of God to cry out to Him in intercession for our country, and even the nations of the earth.

God Has a Better Way

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

As you may know, three years ago, I sent my son and several young people to San Francisco to pray that the love of God would be poured out on the homosexual community in the Castro district. For three years they wept, worshiped and witnessed in the Castro. Then the Prop8 contention arose. I found myself in the great challenge to represent Christ's love to the homosexual and at the same time stand against deception and the homosexual agenda that is threatening to mainstream destructive lifestyles and laws into the veins of American life and culture. Jesus modeled the proper posture and was described by the Apostle John as full of grace and truth. We must be filled with the love, compassion and mercy of Christ when ministering to the homosexual, but we must recognize the spiritual darkness behind the homosexual agenda and confront it with massive intense fasting and prayer.

Five years ago we launched a prayer movement that became Bound4LIFE and is now multiplying across the nation contending against abortion and praying for adoption. It is time to raise up a nation wide prayer movement now to stand in the gap crying to God to restrain the homosexual ideology that is hostile to biblical ways and the freedoms we have been able to live in and enjoy in the 233 years of our American history. Even now in certain places christian schools are being pressed to teach pro-homosexual curriculum. Pending hate crime bills will make it extremely difficult for people simply to speak truth on this subject in the public square. In Massachusetts we are very near the point where pastors will not be able to preach biblical truth without punitive measures being taken against them.

In Charlotte, North Carolina, a great stand of truth with compassion is now being made through the church that is actually turning the tide of the homosexual agenda there. Dr. Michael Brown, well known as a catalyst in the revival in Brownsville, is spearheading this movement, speaking with clarity the biblical understanding of the homosexuality, but also ministering and witnessing in love to the community.

This past weekend we called for a 21-day season of fasting and prayer in Charlotte and in Atlanta declaring we must win the battle against spiritual unseen powers if we are going to see freedom for the homosexual and the restraining of the ideology. 40 years ago the Stonewall Riots of New York City, marked the beginning of the homosexual revolution. 40 years later we are coming to the ripening and legal empowering of the movement. Apart from God there is no way of turning this back. We are headed the way of many European nations, but I believe the Lord wants to raise up a "Stonewall" of intercession, a prayer stand if you will, expressed in Ezekiel 22:30 "I looked for a man to stand in the gap to build up a wall before me ...".

In Charlotte, and on this 21-day season of fasting, we are seeking to begin to build that wall of prayer. After my time in Charlotte I came home and watched that movie, Facing the Giants with my children. I was stunned at the last part of the movie when the Richmond Giants are on the one yard line ready to score. The opposing coach shouts to his team who have been experiencing spiritual revival, "Build me a stonewall!" The team stops the giants from scoring on four downs and then in amazing turnaround score themselves. I felt the Holy Spirit speak to me "Build me a Stonewall of intercession that could hold back this giant rumbling across America."

On July 25th, the 21st day of the fast, we are calling those whose hearts stir them from around the nation, to come join Dr. Michael Brown for a day of intercession and public sensitive witness on Charlotte's gay pride day. Our desire is that God would raise up a house of prayer to contend there against the spiritual powers behind the ideology and to contend for an outpouring of the delivering power of Jesus that can set the homosexual, the transgender, and the porn addict free. Come take your stand with our brothers and sisters in Charlotte and cry out to God for a great mercy to sweep over America.

I also just wanted to encourage you that the LORD may turn, and send revival to America. Your prayers move the heart of God, so let us comtinue on in the place of prayer!

I believe the LORD could turn the tide, and pour out His Spirit, and this is what I am hoping for.

There is NO ONE like our God!

I am currently thinking about how the LORD honors those who honor Him, and how even though the best way we honor Him doesn't even compare to the ways He honors us, but we are still loving and honoring Him with all we are--even though it is weak, and broken. I also am thinking about how our prayers move His heart, and He moves our hearts, and the thing about that is that our prayers move His heart so much more than His feelings, and emotions move our hearts because we cannot wrap our minds around the love He has for us, and the way He feels about us. Even though that may be the case, I still want to be moved by Him, and I want to be moved in the way even He is moved. His heart longs to be with us, and if we could wrap our minds around that I believe we would be in the secret place more than anywhere else. It is amazing that the LORD wants us, and is willing to wait for us to come to Him before He shows us His heart, because we can't know His heart until we get to the place where we can learn from Him, and get into His heart. Does that make since? We can't know God unless we get to the place where He makes Himself known. We need to get to this place. I realize also that though this is the most important place where we can be spending our time, it is sometimes very hard to stay in the place of prayer, but even, and especially when it is hard the LORD sees us, and if we would stay faithful, and persevere when it's hard, He will pour out His Spirit, and really sometimes the waiting process is loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong.

But the LORD is still faithful, and He wants to know if we will still be faithful even if He prolongs revival, and the break-through, and whatever we are contending for in prayer. Will we still believe He is in the middle of our circumstances when we are surrendered if everything seems to be going down the tubes?

I know that it is hard to stay true, and in the place of prayer a lot, but the LORD loves our efforts, and He loves that we want to stay true, He loves that we are honest that we want to be with Him, but it is just a little rough sometimes, but in Jesus there is delight evermore because we can rest in the truth that HE LOVES US. HE CARES ABOUT US. HE IS INTIMATELY ACQUAINTED WITH OUR WAYS.

Praise the LORD.

This is what we were created for, and this is what-WHO we were made to give our lives to. In intercession, in intimacy with Jesus.

I just want to encourage you, where ever you are in life, to really examine the weight in this, and to really seek the LORD in how He wants you to pursue Him, and love Him, and I promise you that when you choose to seek the LORD you will be blessed like never before, and there will really even be a revival in your heart.

Be Blessed!

You are loved beyond what you know!

Loving God First.

-Meditation-

1 Samuel 2:27-29

²⁷ Now a man of God came to Eli and said to him, "This is what the LORD says: 'Did I not clearly reveal myself to your father's house when they were in Egypt under Pharaoh? ²⁸ I chose your father out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to go up to my altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your father's house all the offerings made with fire by the Israelites. ²⁹ Why do you scorn my sacrifice and offering that I prescribed for my dwelling? Why do you honor your sons more than me by fattening yourselves on the choice parts of every offering made by my people Israel?'

--TheSecretPlace--

Hello all, I just want to talk about this scripture with you for a few moments, and really look in at what the LORD would say to us through it, and concerning it.

First before you go on why don't you read again the scripture posted up top.

I will let the Word speak for itself, we see that the LORD revealed Himself CLEARLY to Eli's house, and called them to a place of honor, and yet they did not honor the LORD more than anything.

Eli and his sons had little honor for the LORD even though they were priests to the LORD. I also see that a lot of people even in the body of Christ are like this. They have been called to the Light, and are children of God, and they go to church, but they honor their ways of being 'good Christians' even more than they honor God, and I am not speaking of any person specifically, I just believe that this is an evil spirit going throughout the church that is attacking believers.

We are called to be people who honor God FIRST. We are called to LOVE HIM FIRST, and to not let anything, or anyone else get in the way of that. Let's run after God with love in our hearts.

I believe this is the most important thing for us as God's people to do, and I believe Jesus even made this clear while He was on earth, and that is to love the LORD our God with all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength. The LORD is looking for men, and women who will walk in this high calling, and be found in His LOVE.

Let's be found in LOVE with our First Love Jesus Christ.

---Intercession---

God I just ask for Your help. Lord, we are in desperate need of You, and I just ask that You would convict us in the areas of life where we need convicting, and I pray that You would stir our hearts in holy love for You Jesus. You are our Jewel, our Prize, and I just pray that You would overcome us, Your Bride, with revelation of Your LOVE. How You love us, and how we are called to love You. Please be our Help LORD, I love you. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Stay In The House Of The LORD.

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1 Samuel 2:26

²⁶ And the boy Samuel continued to grow in stature and in favor with the LORD and with men.

--TheSecretPlace--

Hey everyone. I just want to share some of my thoughts on this verse. As you probably know up to this point I would say a lot has happened, Hannah prayed to the LORD for a child, and the LORD blessed her with Samuel, and then just as she vowed she would, she gave Samuel back to the LORD forever. Then from that point on Samuel ministered to the LORD in His house under Eli the priest. Eli's sons were committing a lot of sin, and throughout this scripture so far over, and over, and over it says things like this verse. 'Samuel continued to minister to the LORD' 'Samuel continued to grow in stature, and in favor with the LORD, and with men.' Over and over we can see how Samuel just stays in the house of the LORD, and yes we are only 2 chapters into this book, but these 2 chapters really have taken place over years, and it is amazing to see that year after year, and time after time Samuel is still in the house of the LORD, and even though he is not too old here, that doesn't take away from the fact that the lifestyle he lived was so radical to God!

Here is Samuel, and he is this young kid in the house of the LORD, and here are Eli, the high priest's sons, and they are being found committing great sin. Samuel is found right in the eyes of the LORD, and he is growing in favor with GOD, and with men, and Eli's sons are found condemned, and the the Word even says that it was the LORD's will to put them to death. Eli's sons were priests, and they were put to death. Samuel was just a kid who lived in the house of the LORD, and he lived!! He was completely given to the LORD, and he lived, and was used mightily by the LORD. Samuel's age did not hinder him from being favored, and respected, and in the same way we need to be people who no matter what examples are being set before us, we are pursuing the LORD, and loving Him with our whole heart, soul, mind, and strength. I believe there will come times when you are the only one to 'stay in the house of the LORD', but through those times when you stand firm, you are storing up treasures in heaven, and you will grow in the LORD, and in favor with the LORD.

So my encouragement to you right now is to no matter where you are in life, and no matter what others are wanting you to do, and no matter what others are doing, if you would be faithful in the place of prayer, you will not only grow in the LORD, but you will also be storing up treasures in heaven. Continue on in the place of prayer! There is no telling what your prayers prayed in faith might move in the heavenly realms. God loves to hear your voice in prayer, and that alone gives us reason to pray. HE LOVES IT! HE LOVES US! May His kingdom come to earth! May His will be done in us!

---Intercession---

Jesus I just want to thank You for how you honor those who honor You, and for always helping us to know, and love You. You are Wonderful, and Beautiful, and I just ask in Jesus Name that You would extend Your arm to help us pursue You in even the lowest place so that we may even see Your face. I pray that we would have faith to stay in the place of prayer no matter what everyone else is doing. We trust in You, and I just ask for You to rend the heavens, and come down. We love You Jesus.

Respond

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1 Samuel 2:22-25

²² Now Eli, who was very old, heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they slept with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.²³ So he said to them, "Why do you do such things? I hear from all the people about these wicked deeds of yours. ²⁴No, my sons; it is not a good report that I hear spreading among the LORD's people. ²⁵ If a man sins against another man, God may mediate for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who will intercede for him?" His sons, however, did not listen to their father's rebuke, for it was the LORD's will to put them to death.

--TheSecretPlace--

Hey everyone, I just want to make a couple of quick points on this scripture.

One thing that stands out to me in this scripture is that the sons of Eli obviously fell into sin, and their father rebuked them, but they did not listen to their father's rebuke, and the Word says that it was the LORD's will to put them to death. I see that in the Body of Christ right now so many are falling into sin, and we are not giving any attention to our Father's rebuke, and that is dangerous ground. The LORD is making known among His people the desire of His heart for us to walk in righteousness, and in holiness, but over and over we choose to go our own ways. Though this may be the case, right now in the earth the LORD is raising up people to at the first rebuke, they turn, and repent of their wicked ways.

I believe that the LORD is looking for people like Samuel who will stay in His presence, in the place of prayer so that they may not even fall into any sin. So right now I just want to encourage you to look to the LORD, and even ask Him to rebuke you, and show you where you need correcting so that you can respond to Him in love. Let's not let our hearts grow cold. Let us instead at the first correction from Him, turn to Him! Give our sin over to Him!! Let us live recklessly abandoned lives.

---Intercession---

Jesus I pray that You would strengthen us, and help us to in the moment where we are corrected, please help us to utterly hand over our sin to You. God You are SO GOOD!!! I love you, and I just want to thank You for all You do, and for pouring out Your Spirit on Your people. Be blessed in our lives, I pray that we would be fully repentant to You. Thank You God for all You are, and for what You are doing. Bless Your Name. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Be Encouraged.

Hey you guys, firstly I want to apologize for not explaining why I have not posted these past two days the reason is simply, I was out of town. I want to just take a few minutes to just encourage you to go after the LORD in the place of prayer and consecration, and just in the place of holy living.

I have been brought through a rough season where I have just basically not pursued the LORD like He has called me to, and the deal is not that I have stopped pursuing Him at all because I have, but I have not been pushing to reach my full potential like I was, and the LORD convicted me about this. So I have been seeking the LORD's will for how He wants me to pursue Him, and He keeps on directing me to the same place, and it is the same place He wants all of His people to get to, and that is the place of prayer. I have realized that cultivating a lifestyle of prayer, crying out to the LORD is the most difficult thing anyone could ever do, and though that may be the case, I believe, it is the most desired thing of the Father. He wants a people who give themselves to Him. He wants His people to be wholly His, and He wants to know if we will give ourselves to Him in the way He wants us to give ourselves to Him-no matter what- He is longing, and waiting for a bride who will take her stand before Him, crying out for Him to come. I read today Isaiah 51:4(ESV)

"Give attention to Me, My people, and give ear to Me, My nation; for a law will go out from Me, and I will set My justice for a light to the peoples."

Jesus wants our attention. God wants YOUR ATTENTION! It is so easy to be a Christian, and not give the LORD your attention. When I was little I would go to church with my family, and to places where I had to be quiet, and that is really hard for children-to be quiet, and completely still- well basically I was in a meeting whether it was church or something else that my mom would take me to, and I would be in the meeting, completely quiet(a lot of the time), but I would fall asleep, and give NO ATTENTION to the speaker. I was in the room fully, but what good were the words of the man speaking if I didn't care or give any attention to what he was saying. Here is the deal with God though, He wants us in His presence, and when we get there, He wants us to give Him our attention, and not only in the secret place, but He wants our attention all the time. He wants us to cultivate a lifestyle of PRAYER. He wants us in the secret place, where it is just you and God, and He wants us in the place of prayer, practicing His presence, giving our attention to Him all the time, and this looks different for different people, but it also looks the same. I have found that, yes, this journey is hard, but every step of the way we are getting closer to the LORD's heart, and He loves that. The fact that lifestyles of prayer pleases the Father needs to be enough for us to just do it, and go all the way.


The point I want to make right now is simply that the rewards of sowing deeply into this lifestyle of prayer are everlasting, and worth some struggle. The LORD sees you where you are in your closet, and He loves to bless you! So please be encouraged, and I pray that the eyes of your heart would be enlightened in the knowledge of God.
He is worthy of what you are doing in secret for Him. Thank you for going after Him. I pray that you would continue on! Even when it gets hard press in, and even if you don't see any results press in, and even if you don't feel any different, I want to impel you to believe that you are storing up treasures in heaven. Praise the LORD!!
Be blessed!
Kasey

To Grow In His Presence.

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1 Samuel 2:21

²¹ And the LORD was gracious to Hannah; she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

--TheSecretPlace--

I love this!!! Jesus is so so good to His people! Sometimes we don't realize this but sometimes we go through really tough, and rough, and 'barren' seasons, and what we find at the end of the barren road is a beautiful garden bearing fruit that is most delightful, and I am not saying that this is the same for everyone all the time, but little did Hannah know that this was exactly what came upon her. Hannah cried out literally to the LORD, and He blessed her with Samuel, whom she blessed the LORD back with, and as she was faithful with what she was given she was given more!! And that is one truth that is true for every person. The word says that if you are faithful with little you will be given much in this age, and in the age to come, and that is also true in a lot of circumstances in life. The LORD saw her in her weakness, and in her faithfulness, and blessed her with more children. In the meanwhile Samuel ministered to the LORD, and grew up in the presence of the LORD, and that is also a huge blessing! To be before the LORD, and even though it is hard sometimes, Samuel was blessed to experience the joy of pressing on in the place of prayer, and in the place of serving the LORD.

What this really reminds me of right now is how the LORD puts people in our lives, and He blesses us with many blessings, but even through all of those blessings and people, He wants us to grow in His presence. He wants us to continually have our minds, and hearts put on Him. He wants us to walk with Him, and be with Him, and this is truly such a blessing, and really it doesn't even matter what blessings we have on this earth, and the friends He has given us are all great, but nothing compares to knowing, and growing in the LORD, and walking with Him in His presence. This is truly our highest calling. To know God, and to get to the place where it is you and Him alone. That is the place where we grow, and find Him, and also it is where we find ourselves.

So therefore, I want to directly encourage you right now in the LORD to keep the first things first, and the last things last. I want to encourage you to yes receive the blessings the LORD has for you, but sow into the eternal blessing He is offering to you at all times! Get to the secret place, and get into His heart. The amazing thing about the LORD is that He just wants your whole heart, and for you to give your whole heart may look different than how I give my whole heart, or how someone you know may give your heart, so in that I also want to encourage you to ask the LORD what it would look like for you to give your whole heart to the LORD.

Be blessed in that. The LORD wants to bless you in that!!

---Intercession---

Father, thank You so much for the way you are moving! Thank You LORD for being so faithful to us, and revealing Your heart to us LORD. We are unworthy of Your love, but You gladly pour it out on us, thank You Jesus!! Thank You for the way You love us, and for helping us to love You, and grow in You, and know You. Thank You for helping us to pursue you with all that we are, and I just pray that You would help us to do what it takes to love You whole heartedly. I love You LORD. Thank You Jesus!!! Thank You so much Lord. In Your Name. Amen

Ministering To The Lord.

-Meditation-

1 Samuel 2:18-20

--TheSecretPlace--

What strikes me about this scripture is in verse 18 where it says that Samuel ministered before the LORD, even as a child. I love how Samuel in the place where he is, a young child, in the LORD's temple under a priest named Eli who has wicked sons, he just ministers to the LORD, before the LORD, all day, every day. In the same way in the midst of a dark generation, an evil wicked people, the LORD is looking for those like Samuel, who will press in and minister to Him even though all oppose them, and ministering to the LORD may sound lame to others, He is looking for those who do not care if they look or sound lame, they just want the LORD. They just want to sit before Him. This amazes me, that Samuel in the LORD's eyes, though he was a child, was blessed, and highly favored, and I believe he found characteristics about the LORD that no one else had ever looked into, and we are blessed because we benefit from Samuel by reading, and learning what he learned from the LORD, and it encourages me to press in, and hear from the LORD.

Hannah would come up with Elkanah every year, and she would bring a little robe for Samuel, and Eli would bless her, and Elkanah saying "The LORD give you descendants from this woman for the loan that was given to the LORD.''

I believe the dedication of Samuel to the LORD made by Hannah is a very significant, and risky thing to do, but her faith to the LORD in remaining true to her word gives us such a great picture of what it looks like to remain faithful, and true to the LORD in all we do, and when we make commitments, and promises this promise that Hannah kept brings new meaning, and life to what promise, and faithfulness really is.

I want to be, and believe that you want to be faithful to the LORD, and to others in the way Hannah was. No matter how hard it may be sometimes the LORD is worth all that we are, and when we do remain faithful He rewards us greatly. I want to call you, and challenge you to stay true to your commitments to the LORD, and to others. Stay faithful in your fasts, and remain in the place of trusting in the LORD. Most importantly I want to urge you to love the LORD with all of your heart soul, mind, and strength, because that is what we were all made for-LOVE. Let's stay true to our number 1 calling.

To LOVE God.

---Intercession---

Lord, though I haven't said much, I just ask that You would speak to those who are reading this powerfully. Lord, I pray that You would make Yourself known to us, and pour out Your Spirit on us. Lord, You are so good, and wonderful, and I just ask that You would help us to minister before You even when all of the rest of the world is turning away from You. Lord, You are worth all of our struggle, and You are worth Your people being faithful to You. Thank You LORD for Your goodness. I love You Jesus!! Come Lord Jesus!!

-Meditation-

1 Samuel 2:16-17

--TheSecretPlace--

Eli's sons were obviously very wicked in the LORD's eyes, and we see one reason why in these verses, it says that they treated the LORD's offering with contempt, which means with disgrace, dishonor, and in despise. That is not very pleasant. They considered the LORD's offering like it was worthless. This displeased the LORD. Though they were Eli, the priest's sons, they were wicked in the LORD's eyes. Though they were themselves priests, and were in the house of the LORD, their sin was very evil, and great(in a bad way) in the LORD's eyes.

This reminds me about how so many people go to church, and call themselves Christians, and still go on with sin, chasing after the desires of their own hearts. So many abandon the LORD, in the LORD's house, and turn away from Him. This truly breaks the heart of the Father, and I believe He is calling His people back to Himself, but still only few will enter in through the narrow path. We have turned away from the LORD, even in the LORD's house, and we have even become so so occupied with ourselves, and what we want that we disregard the things that the LORD wants and is looking for.

I want to call you, and encourage you strongly to examine your heart before the LORD today, and even though we may not be rebellious, and evil, the LORD may want to reveal something to you in your life, and heart that needs to change. We always need improvement, and help from the LORD. Don't be timid to just get rid of your sin, and walk in the freedom that the LORD is offering you today, and even right now in this moment.

---Intercession---

Jesus I want to lift up to you our hearts today, and I just ask that You would show us where we may have gone wrong, and reveal to us the ways we can improve, and get closer to Your heart. You are so good, and You are always good, thank You LORD that You never stop being good!! Jesus, You are so Beautiful, Wonderful, and Glorious. Be exalted in our lives, and reveal to us more the depths of Your love. I love You LORD. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Regard For The LORD.

-Meditation-

1 Samuel 2:12-15

--TheSecretPlace--

Hello all. As I think upon this scripture I think about how many people have turned away from the Lord, and we have had no regard for Him. I think about how the LORD wants a people who have high regard for His Name, who long to see Him. Who desire to know Him, but His people are turning away.

Eli was the priest in Shiloh, and his sons were decided to turn away from the LORD, and do evil in His eyes, they had no regard for the LORD at all. What this makes me really think about is how we in America, so many of us have forsaken the ways of our forefathers, and the Solid Rock on which our nation was built, and that is Jesus Christ. Our nations leaders have gone from calling national days of prayer, to shedding the blood of millions of innocent babies. Sadly this has been going on for a while, but RIGHT NOW the LORD is raising up an army of intercessors, (because we are all intercessors) and He is raising us up to cry out to Him for the establishment of righteousness, and justice, and for His kingdom to come to earth. Now is the time to cry out.

Today is July 5, and a national call has gone forth from some of the Christian leaders in the prayer movement calling the body of Christ in America to cry out for mercy on behalf of our nation. The call is to fall on out knees, on our faces, and to cry out to God, and ask Him for mercy for our nation.

I believe that even though our nation has many who have no regard for the LORD, God is still holding back some judgement that we so do deserve, and I want to call you just as the LORD has called many, and me, I want to call you to get on your face before the LORD, and pray the prayer out of 2 Chronicles 7:14, and even more of the Bible.

WE NEED MERCY. God is the only one who can give us mercy, so let us lift our voices to Him!

Just as the sons of Eli the priest turned away from the LORD, and were wicked, we can see that many of our leaders in America today have turned away from the ways of our forefathers in America who modeled their lives after Jesus. Let us be the change!! Let's turn back to the LORD, and cry out to Him on behalf of our nation.

---Intercession---

Jesus please strengthen us, and encourage us to cry out to you every single day for Your kingdom to come, and You will to be done. Thank You for the way you want us, and for loving us with the deepest love, I just pray that you would reveal to our hearts this great love, and show us Your heart. I love You Lord Jesus. In Your Name. Amen

To Love The LORD.

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1 Samuel 2:11

Then Elkanah went home to Ramah, but the boy(Samuel) ministered before the LORD under Eli the priest.

--TheSecretPlace--

This is truly amazing to me because even when the rest of Samuel's family went to Ramah He stayed before the LORD, and he served the LORD under Eli. When I read this verse I think about how the LORD is looking for people who, when everyone else leaves their side, they do not leave the LORD's side. He is looking for people, His people, to stand before Him day and night ministering to His heart, and sowing into the Spirit. He is extending an invitation to His chosen people to minister to Him, and to have an intimate relationship with Him. We have an invitation given to us by the King of Glory, El Shaddai, Adonai, El Ohim, and the invitation is to LOVE-With all of our heart, soul, mind, and strength.

God's love is the greatest love, and delight, and we have a personal invitation given to us by Love Himself to love. How could we not accept??

Though it is to me, and maybe you as well, unthinkable some push away this great love that the Father wants us to receive. Some don't want anything to do with Jesus. But this is one thing I know, and that is that the LORD takes so much pleasure in us, and even when we mess up, and even when things are going horrible, HE STILL LOVES US!!!! With all that He is He wants us to enter into right relationship with Him, and this love is worth all we are, and all we have to give.

Just as the LORD is, I want to encourage you in this invitation to holy love. To love Him with all of your heart soul mind and strength. To pursue Him, and minister to His heart even when you are the only one to do just that, and even if everyone who is close to you abandons you, I want to encourage you, and extend this very invitation to you to even in those times, SEEK HIS FACE, and stay before Him. We were created to love, and we were created for love.-For LOVE HIMSELF. Jesus Christ. The Holy and Risen One.

---Intercession---

Jesus I just want to thank You for extending this invitation to love wholeheartedly, and to love you even when we are the only ones loving You. I just want to thank You that we are able to be apart of what You are doing in the earth, and I just ask Father that You would strengthen, and empower us, Your people to be faithful to You, even unto death, let us take into our hearts the Words of Your mouth. I just ask in Jesus Name that You would make Yourself known Lord. You are good, and Your mercy endures forever. You are forever, and Your kingdom is forever! Lord, I look forward to spending eternity with You, and I just ask that You would set all of these things into our hearts, and that You would help us to love You wholeheartedly. I love You. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Let Your Kingdom Come.

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1 Samuel 2:10

those who oppose the LORD will be shattered.
He will thunder against them from heaven;
the LORD will judge the ends of the earth.
"He will give strength to his king
and exalt the horn of his anointed."

--TheSecretPlace--

This scripture just reminds me, and gives me a picture of what Jesus is coming back to do. He is coming to judge the nations of the earth, and even right now is making ready His people for His return. We are being set up to cry out for justice, and for Jesus to establish His kingdom on this earth even now. The LORD is, I believe, about to wake up His bride, and pour out His Spirit on the earth, and on those who are crying out to Him. The establishment of His kingdom is the one thing we need to

be praying for. In Matthew when the disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray He says to pray that His kingdom would come, and His will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. I am moved to ask Jesus to release anointing, and strength to pray for His kingdom to come, and I believe that we are in a time, and season of grace to pray, and seek the face of the LORD, and what a true, and blessed calling it is!!

---Intercession---

Father I just want to thank You for Your awesomeness. Please teach us how to pray for Your kingdom to come and Your will to be done. I love You Lord, and I ask in Jesus Name that Your kingdom would come and Your will would be done on earth as it is in heaven. In Jesus Name. Amen.

Knowing the LORD for who He Is.

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1 Samuel 2:8-9

For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's; upon them He has set the world. He will guard the feet of the saints, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness.

--TheSecretPlace--

The LORD is so so good. I am reminded by this scripture that everything is held together, and in the LORD. I am reminded that God, our God is the CREATOR GOD, He is the uncreated creator, and He is watching over the earth, and He guards the feet of the saints, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness. He loves us all, but for those who are HIS-those who belong to HIM, are guarded by the LORD.

The foundations of the earth are the LORD's.

I am blown away at how amazing the LORD is, He laid the foundations of the earth--> That which we are standing on! He died for me, because He loves me, and He died for you, because He loves you! I don't thank Him enough for all He does, or who He is. I am brought to the place of just realizing that I don't really know that much about God, and who He is, and because of that I really want to begin to get a really clear view of who God is, and how He feels about me, and about others. It is so important to know Him as He is, and really it is that way with every person, I wouldn't want to know you for who I am, but for who you are, and in the same way I want to know God for who HE is, and not who someone else is.

I believe that when we begin to view God rightly, our whole lives change, because truth is breaking into our lives, and that really does change us. I want to believe the right things, the true things, the things that the Word of God says about God, about God. And I am convinced that the LORD is making every way possible to know Him the ways He wants to be known. Just like this scripture, so let's take advantage of this, and go after the heart of God to know God.

I just want to encourage you to go after this with all you are. He is worth it ALL.

---Intercession---

Jesus Thank You! Thank You for making yourself known, and available to us, weak and broken people. LORD I pray that You would just pour out Your Spirit on us, on Your people, and I just ask that You would please help us to go after You to know You for who You are. I love You LORD. You are so so good. In Jesus Name.

The LORD is Always Good.

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1 Samuel 2:6-8

6 "The LORD brings death and makes alive; he brings down to the grave and raises up.
7 The LORD sends poverty and wealth; he humbles and he exalts.
8 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; he seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor."For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's; upon them he has set the world.

--TheSecretPlace--

Hello everybody! I absolutely love this! This scripture highlights many truths, and I really love the way it tells about how the LORD works. So many times we get these false views of Jesus that He does all we want Him to do, or He does everything He does against us, we so often take our situations, good or bad, and blame them on Jesus. Really I think He wants us to realize that He is good no matter what our circumstance is. He may be moving in ways that you don't understand like He normally does, and you may get mad or frustrated with Him, and He may be working in ways that you like a lot, but really no matter how He is working what determines whether it is good or bad is not how it makes you feel, but it is that He does everything He does for your good, and He has a purpose for what He is doing, and no matter what He is a good God, and who He is, is marvelous, and beautiful, and glorious, and He is full of love for you. So no matter what your circumstance, you may feel like He is far off just know that He does everything for the good of those who love Him, and even though our love is weak, He sees it, and He loves it, and He does good on our behalf.

That changes the way I think.

I don't know about you, but in my life in the past yes, but even now I go through hard times, and I don't understand what is really going on, but I know that the LORD sees me, and He is doing good on my behalf.

Our God is worthy of ALL of our praise!!

My encouragement to you is that no matter what the LORD sees you, and is doing a good work, even though we may not see it as good, He is a good good God.

Praise the LORD.

---Intercession---

Jesus, Thank You for the way you move, whether you make us low, or make us really really really low, You do it all for our good, and I just want to tell You that I am thankful for the ways you move, I pray that You would move powerfully in the lives of each person reading this. I love You LORD, and thank You Jesus for all You do. In Your Name LORD. Amen.

His Ways Are Not Our Ways,

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1 Samuel 2:4-5

--TheSecretPlace--

1 Samuel 2:4-5 says-->

⁴ "The bows of the warriors are broken,
but those who stumbled are armed with strength.

⁵ Those who were full hire themselves out for food,
but those who were hungry hunger no more.
She who was barren has borne seven children,
but she who has had many sons pines away.

This scripture really just give us a picture of how Gods ways are not our ways, and about how God doesn't look at the things man looks at. He looks at the broken, and the weak, and heals them and gives them strength. He looks at the barren, and the hungry, and fulfills their deepest hunger, and makes them fruitful. He takes what is old, and bad, and makes it good, and new. This is true for me in my life. I am at my core a broken, and weak person, and I can bear fruit in no way, meaning I can't make stuff happen-unless the LORD helps me. The LORD is my source. HE is our source. He doesn't look at the strong, because honestly there are no truly 'strong' people, only weak and broken people, the LORD just uses those who realize their weakness, and offer it up to the LORD, and He uses it for our good, and the good of others even.

At the end of the age the LORD is going to turn the tide on Satan, and all of the people who are in the world's eyes strong and wise, and the LORD is going to humble them, and bring them down low, and He will be exalted, and His people are going to be all good with that because we will realize that HE ALONE is the ONLY ONE who is worthy of praise, and recognition from men.

Those who turn to the LORD, and lift up to Him their brokenness, He will heal. Those who are weak, He will arm with strength. Those who are hungry, He will fill, and Those who are barren, He will make fruitful.

I believe this applies to every single person, except God Himself. We need to realize that we are weak, and broken, and have nothing to offer but our weakness, and brokenness, but that it the beauty of what the LORD is offering, because He knows how we are. He knows that we are weak, and broken, but He loves us anyways! He loves us just the way we are!! That is so glorious. So Wonderful, and I just want to encourage you to lift up all that you are to the LORD, because He is the only one who can help you overcome any problem you face, and that is more important than we know.

---Intercession---

Jesus, I just want to thank You for how You use our weaknesses, and our brokenness for Your good. Thank You for offering to us Your way, and Your will for our lives, and I just pray that even though things don't always go our way You still work on our behalf for our good, and You love us more than we know. Thank You Jesus. In Jesus Name. Amen.