Before there was a Samuel, there was a Hannah. Before Jeremiah there was a Hilkiah. Without mothers and fathers of FAITH, there will be none to run with the Word of the Lord to the nations, none to stand and minister before Him in the last days. In order to fulfill the call for sons and daughters to arise in Romans 8:19-22, and the manifestation of priesthood as found in Isaiah 61:6 and 1 Peter 2:9, there must be a birthing room of prayer including a holy Spiritual groan.
1 Samuel 1:1-18 Hannah was barren and initially she cried out for a child to vindicate herself from her tormentor and her husband. But the more she cried out, the more God delayed, the more that cry turned into a holy groan that produced a child dedicated to the Lord. 1 Samuel 1:24-28 shows us that what began as a natural longing, became a holy one and now her child was not hers but God’s alone. In Jeremiah 1:1-19 the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, son of Hilkiah as a prophet to the nations. But Hilkiah was a Priest of the Lord. He stood before God and ministered to Him. Without Hilkiah and his devotion to Yahweh, there would have been no prophet!
Isaiah 24:4-5 “The earth groans and fades away, the world languishes; the haughty people of the earth languish. The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and broken the everlasting covenant’. Today, the earth is longing for righteousness and justice to be restored, for truth and love to find its way back to humanity. It literally groans because of the sins of the people.
This restoration happens through the revealing of the sons and daughters of God the that are willing to go into the unseen places and minister before the Lord crying out “Make way for the coming of the Holy One”! This revelation requires us, now to cry until a holy groan begins to stir in us for the children of nations, not just the natural children God has given us. It requires us to discover our priestly call to stand, minister, serve and burn before our great God, to begin to live consecrated lives that display who our God is and our love for Him revealed on the earth. It requires that we, the bride, make ourselves ready with oil in our lamps and extra on our backs.
If we don’t know who we are, how can we expect our children to know? If we are not willing to suffer in tears before the Lord how will they? Mothers and Fathers it is time to arise and take your rightful place before the Lord and learn His heart so that we may rightly minister to Him. It is time to put the “serving the church” aside and learn what it really means to serve the Lord! It is time to make the secret place of devotion a priority and prayer ministry at the top of the church list instead of the bottom! The earth groans because of the sins of the people and it groans until the sons and daughters arise knowing who they are, and the authority given unto them from Heaven itself; until eternity stirs in the heart of man producing a holy groan! The question is, are we willing? #MyGodisYahweh