Following is the final installment in Nita's teaching, Pray to the
Father. I pray it will encourage you in your walk and development in the
Lord!
Blessings in Him,
Ricci
Pray to the Father
Part C
By
Nita Johnson
New Orleans Services
-We learn to turn away from human judgment so that we might walk in
divine judgment. We learn incredible lessons about such things as
long-suffering, covering love, freedom from bitterness and
unforgiveness, overcoming faith and overtaking fear. A life that is
centered on Christ and the needs of others replaces the former
self-centered one. He lifts us up out of the soul realm where the
self-life rules, to where we begin to see life through His eyes.
I said to Him this afternoon, "Lord, I think about my oldest
granddaughter Tiffany and how different her life has been compared to
the three younger ones and I wonder, should I have prayed more or
differently for any of my grandchildren?" Before I could ask Him another
question He said, "The young ones have a different purpose in this life
than Tiffany; her life has gone according to my purpose. The three
younger ones I am preparing in a different way for a different purpose."
Fear and soulish concerns are banished when you know truth, see
through His eyes and understand through His understanding. This is what
the Lord is trying to say to His disciples. When you pray don't keep
your thoughts centered on the things of the earth but come up to Him who
is above. He is your heavenly Father and He wants to join in
co-operation with you to move earthly mountains from above.
Don't forget that His name is holy. He is holy and He inhabits
eternity. He is transcendent with no limits of time or place. He is, and
is for every generation always everywhere at the same time. In one
respect we say He is coming and in another, “He Is.” How are we to
understand all these mysteries? He inhabits eternity while it lies
within Him. He is holy and He dwells with the one who has a broken and
contrite heart.
When we remember that He is holy and we can only live our life holy
by the power of His Spirit to please His holiness, it creates in us a
spirit of brokenness and contrition. In this place of lowliness all of
our prayers get answered because they are all born of the Spirit of God.
Keep His name holy. Pray,“Your kingdom come.” That is where we are
today. Although in one sense the kingdom was released two-thousand years
ago, you might say a new phase of the kingdom is being released today.
Therefore, it has never been more important in the history of man than
to pray right now,“Your kingdom come, “ because the Church is,
as it were, a midwife and the baby is the kingdom. As the world enters
into travail, the Church must pray to bring forth the glory of the
kingdom.
The world is in travail heading into birth pangs and the midwife must
not leave now.She must stay and pray like she has never prayed before.
“Your kingdom come, Lord” and as we are praying travail is breaking
forth in the world. You can feel the birth pangs and travail like an
earth quake opening up in the earth.
It is amazing to me, when I consider that for two thousand years the Church has been praying, “Thy kingdom come,”
and now at the conclusion of all time is when the Church most need to
get on her knees and travail. Now is the time she needs to birth the
kingdom because it is coming! It is the kingdom of power and glory that
chose the truth about God. In His kingdom He must show off His people
like jewels in a crown, that the world must know, by the glory resting
upon His bride that Christ has come. We must pray for His kingdom to
come into the earth and when hard times come, because they will, don't
stop praying! The midwife doesn't abandon travail before the baby is
born. Neither must you.
When the hard time begins, press in and keep praying for His kingdom
to come in you because it must come to His bride. She must be changed,
glorified, transformed, and transfigured. For two-thousand years He's
been instructing us to pray this prayer, but today it must be prayed
like never before. Thy will be done.
You see how He snuck up on us? He begins to lift us up off the earth
into heavenly thoughts, then He grabs us and we know we've been forever
changed. We've been touched by glory, taken into the holy of holies to
see the “ark of the covenant.” We have been changed and cannot help it;
everything inside of us has been changed and shaken in preparation for
the coming of the ark. Don't run away like the foolish virgins.
A holy revolution is coming. There is warfare in the heavens like
never before. Never before have the heavens seen the kind of warfare
that is going on today. But what is the Church doing? Praying, “Thy
kingdom come,” is not a foolish or frivolous prayer to be hung on our
wall framed in a nice plaque. It is a prayer we pray because we want our
minds filled with the Spirit of truth not with the spirit of the world.
We want our thoughts punctuated by glory rather than soul. I want my
soul to be filled with faith instead of fear. He wants to rewire the
brain of His Church with wires of glory and truth.
First, we must come to a place where we decide we are sick of the old
and want to be changed. We want our thoughts lined with His Word and
our beings changed into His image. Yearn to get out of the soul and into
the life of the spirit. How do you do it? Live the Word and read it
until you know it very well and you do it in prayer. He is a good God
isn't He?
God’s great plan is right now in the process of coming into
full-term birth. The Church is on the precipice of greatness and glory. I
pray she doesn't sit by the road too much longer. He is a good God. He
is a God of goodness who is awesome and wonderful, and I long to know
Him more than ever before. I hope you want to know Him so much so that
your head must expand and your spirit grow fat to be able to contain the
revelation.
Prayer:
Dear Jesus, Lord, what do you want to do now? What is Your will
now Lord? I feel like He wants you to start praying the way that I've
shared - “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done…” in me, and pray it with a
passion. Pray it as one who will not be denied. I want God to help you
and impart faith in you and strength into your will.
Blessed be God, Hashem Adonai, and may you know His wonderful blessings.
In His Amazing Love,
Nita Johnson
