In the days we live, many people who have somewhat “coasted” in their walk with Yahweh are now scrambling to “catch up”, no more putting Him on “the back burner”. It’s time!! Now is the time to get in the place of prayer and learn how to connect with the Father’s heart. Now is the time to align our hearts and lives with His. Now is the time for renewal and refreshing in the Holy Spirit. Because if not now, when? Scripture tells us in 2 Corinthians 6:1-2 “As God’s partners, we beg you not to accept this marvelous gift of God’s kindness and then ignore it. For God says “at just the right time I heard you, on the day of salvation, I helped you”. Indeed, the right time is now. Today is the day of salvation”.
The “secret” of prayer and of life itself is to “partner” with Yahweh.
We can only do that by spending time with Him in His word and His presence to discover the things of His heart so we know what to partner with. It seems one of the biggest battles we have, is in that journey of discovery for once we discover this great treasure, the enemy loses a foothold in our lives immediately. Matthew 6:6 “But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is unseen”. Then your Father will see what you have done in secret and reward you”. Sometimes it seem that the enemy unleashes multiple attacks against all our efforts to “go in and shut the door”!
Why? Once we learn to shut the door, we learn to shut out the voice of the enemy, the voice of distractions, the voice of all outer influence and hear only the voice of our Father with clarity. When we come into agreement and communion with Him, all the other voices are immediately silenced. This alone produces an increase in power and authority in our lives because when we partner with God, when we learn to be seated in Christ Jesus, we are seated in His power and authority. It is not an earthly kind, but one that is supernatural, divine in nature. This is the place of John 17, oneness, the place of John 15 abiding in the vine.
If we are going to continue to “build God’s church” in the coming days and years ahead, we must not only learn this secret, but learn how to walk it out every day. This the place of endurance, the place of persevering until the end for without abiding in the vine, partnering with Yahweh we end up trusting ourselves, our own knowledge, trusting in our own faith and abilities and we will ourselves fall under the great deception we see spreading across the earth today