Dear Prayer Warriors,
I must reiterate the necessity of the
intercessor’s coming together and engaging in intercession for their
nations. We have a false flag that is about to occur here in the states
which, if not stopped through our intercessions, has the capacity to
take 100,000 lives or more. This issue is one of great concern and the
staff of World for Jesus Ministries will be taking this to prayer during
our staff prayer time as well as the corporate intercession times
throughout the week. Nita joined us last week and plans to do so again
this week. We are on high alert my friends! Rise up to the call of God
on your lives and pray!
The subjects we are praying over reach
beyond our borders and are not restricted to the United States and
Russia. The enemy has plans in place to use these issues and take us
into World War III. The Lord has stepped in before - in the situation
with Syria - and He will, in fact, engage Himself in this situation with
Russia if we will come together and intercede with fervency until the
breakthroughs have come.
Please join us for our corporate
intercession as often as you can – prayer is one of the most powerful
tools at our disposal, let us not waste what God has given us!
We meet four times per week via phone/Skype. The schedule is listed below - join us as often as you can!
Corporate Intercession:
Call in number for all Corporate Intercession times:
We will come together on the following days:
Wednesday Morning, April 2, 2014
10:20-Noon PST
11:20-1PM MST
12:20-2PM CST
1:20-3PM EST
Thursday & Friday Nights
April 3 & 4, 2014
Time: 5:50-7:30pm PST
6:50-8:30pm MST
7:50-9:30pm CST
8:50-10:30pm EST
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Time: 5:50 - 8:00 PM
(PST & EST)
Please join us as we intercede!
Blessings in Him,
Ricci
Following is the final installment in "Choose to Trust: Trials and Truth" by Nita Johnson.
Choose To Trust:
Trials and Truth
Part D
By
Nita Johnson
Seattle
Circumstances are going to come
deliberately to cause offense in your heart before God. You cannot let
the offense take root. You cannot just shove things down; you have to
deal with them. When you feel offended, or if you are offended with God,
deal with it. He knows it before you ever say, “Lord, I'm offended with
You.” Deal with it, and let Him help you through it. Because where
there is offense toward a person or toward God, it is going to slow down
your ascent.
Now as He dealt with this stuff that built
up over those terrible years, He showered me with His love. He helped
to strengthen what had become weak. But it can only happen as the light
of truth touches that area. If you are not willing to let truth in to do
what it needs to do, you will never be healed. You have to understand
that during that period of time, I never quit chasing after God. It was
not that kind of thing. I did not go back out into the world. However,
there were these tiny barriers that built up in my heart, and it came
out of fear. There was the fear that He may lead me into another storm
such as I had just come through, and I would not make it. Now that is an
unreasonable fear, isn't it? But that is the kind of thing that comes
up out of offense.
That is why I am being vulnerable with
you. If you want to go deeper in God, learn to deal with your offenses
properly. If you will do that, God will help you to not make the
mistakes. Take truth very seriously. I cannot tell you enough: take
truth seriously. Whether the Holy Spirit tries to correct you with
truth, or He sends someone to you to correct you with truth—love it.
Love correction. Plead with God for His correction. I tell Him all the
time, “You correct me where I'm wrong because I know that where there is
contention, You are always right, and I am always wrong.” That is true
of you as well. Cry out for the correction, and then humble yourself
deeply so that the correction can heal you. That is how you get to the
next step, and the next step.
When God has done His work, your walk with
Him will seem refreshed. That is what is happening with me. Now we are
getting back to where we were where I spend the hours, and I love every
minute of it. Do not let your walk get old. Keep it fresh and alive. Do
not lift yourself up in pride, stubbornness, self-righteousness, or the
things that hinder you from seeing His glorious face. Always go down low
so that He can be lifted up. Keep your walk like a fresh morning spring
that you want to go to every day.
Father, I pray that You will lead those
reading this away from temptation and deliver them from evil. I pray
that in Your shepherding of their souls, You will show them the light.
Let them taste the fruit of truth, and may they find it a sweet thing
that they desire very much. Father, strengthen them with grace to gain
it, appropriate it, and to eat of this wonderful, delightful fruit.
I would save anyone from having to go
through the fiery trials, Lord, except that I know these trials cause us
to grow. As You begin to bring us out of the trials, if we keep our
heart right, we will find years of growth that was kept hidden under the
covering of the trial.
Lord, may they love Jesus above all else.
Let Your Spirit come upon them even this very moment, and let Your
Spirit renew its effort to teach them how to love Jesus more. We are so
human, Lord, and we are so given to the ways of the flesh, but there is
something from Your Spirit that is living and alive. It will carry those
who yearn for Christ into the higher places, into the deeper places,
and help them to dwell in what is real. I hunger and thirst for You,
Lord. It is You that I want and long for, and I pray that you will put
that fire in the heart of every person reading this. Those who have gone
through the sifting of the trials and the burning cauldron and have
felt almost a death come to their spiritual life—send Your own fire into
their hearts. Revive us, Lord. I want a faith that is real.
I remember one time, in the midst of a
fiery trial, Lord, You appeared to me. You asked me, “Nita, what is it
you want from this?” I said, “I want to hand You, Lord, a beautiful vase
that is ornately decorated with the emblems of this trial. I want the
vase to be gold so that it will shine in Your face and glorify You. So
that You will know that I chose to trust when it was so hard.” I will
never forget the way You reacted. You began to smile. Your smile grew
larger and larger until You became iridescent and translucent. I am so
thankful that I said the right thing.
Birth in the hearts of those reading this,
Lord, the grace to let You deal with their heart, even if it means
going through a fiery trial, Lord. Deal with the hardness of the heart
that keeps them separated from You. Give them faith to believe, hope to
stand, and trust to walk. Pour heaven's substance into their hearts.
Help us to understand, Lord, that the path into the Holy of Hollies is
the path of the cross. We must walk through it. We must learn to submit
to it, or we will never learn submission to the great King of glory. You
told us to pick up our cross and come follow You! Pick it up! You want
us to learn to submit to it, and come follow You!
Thank You for my trials, Lord. Thank You
for what I have gained from them. Thank You for what I learned about You
in them. I would not trade any one of them for what You have taught me.
Thank You for the trials. They are always given to make us strong and
that we may be sharers in Your holiness. Put that same thankfulness in
the hearts of those reading this, Lord. Teach us Your way, O God. Guide
and direct us. Unite our hearts that we may fear and honor Your name. In
Your precious Name, Amen.
In His Love,
Nita |
