While at a local prayer event, the word “fallow” kept coming to mind. Fallow: “usually cultivated land that is allowed to lie idle during the growing season; dormant, inactive, dead, inoperative, unused, vacant. Land that was once tilled, plowed and made ready for seed but seed was not sown. In others words a condition in which we were once being prepared by the Spirit to receive but became hardened, unproductive and backslidden instead. We see the word in a few instances in Scripture, but the most noted place is Hosea 10:12 “Show yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy. Break up your fallow ground for it is time to seek the Lord until He comes and rains righteousness upon you”. Jeremiah 4:3 also references the word in a similar way. A ground that was once prepared yet did not receive the seed and is now dormant.
Often when we want to grow a ministry or prayer in a region, the biggest obstacle is the very fact that it has been a fallow or a prayer-less region for so long, the ground must be re-tilled first and prepared to nurture the seed. It can be a frustrating, and often tiring work if we are sowing seeds of prayer on ground that is unprepared to receive the seed. As I looked around, I asked the Lord “why does it seem the laborers in this work are so few”? I was immediately brought to Matthew 9:36-38. Jesus looked with compassion upon the vast crowds saying “the harvest is great, but the workers are few. So, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send more laborers into His fields”. When we hear that passage quoted it is often connected to outreach, church ministry in which people are mobilized to action. Knocking on doors, putting on events, serve serve serve in a physical sense. But in this case, it is time to pray pray pray! Galatians 4:19 “Oh my dear children, I feel as if I am going through labor pains for you again, and they will continue until I see the fullness of Christ formed in you”. The question is, are we willing to “labor again” in prayer? If we want the Lord to “send the rain” of the Holy Spirit the soil must be prepared to receive the rain.
The power of agreement is found in the corporate setting. We can pray and we must in the secret place alone with the Lord. That is an unquestionable part of our daily devotion and even alone there is agreement when we are aligned with the Holy Spirit in our prayer. Matthew 18:19-20 “I also tell you this; if two or you agree here on the earth concerning anything you ask, My Father in heaven will do it for you. For where two or three gather together as my followers, I am there among them”. We are clearly instructed here to “gather together” in prayer and when we do, our Great God is faithful to respond..
Most Christians will say the world is increasingly wicked and more difficult to navigate while “keeping the faith”. Violence and drug addiction is at an all-time high. Gender confusion is gaining momentum and swallowing up our children at a rapid pace. Our government takes our tax dollars and pays to murder our children and people are living in fear of a virus as well as the so-called treatment of the virus. Jobs are on the chopping block for refusal to inject poison into our bodies and social distancing has become the norm causing loneliness and isolation. Everything we have taken for granted in now under threat of being taken away and Christians are being labeled “domestic terrorist for disagreeing with the government. Counselors and Psychologist are treating record numbers of patients for spousal and spiritual abuse like never before with anxiety, depression and PTSD being symptoms of the trauma this abuse has caused.
We know that we are moved to action by what we believe. Considering that statistically, the prayer ministry is the least attended one of the church, it says something about what we believe. Do we not believe God hears us? Do we feel “unqualified” to come into His presence with our requests and declarations? Do we leave it to the “prayer warriors”? Do we not pray unless it “touches our own door”? Keep waiting and it most certainly will!
It is time!! There is no more delay! There is no more waiting! If the groanings of the earth have not awakened the people of God unto prayer and repentance now, when? Tomorrow is never promised and if we have even a clue of the times and seasons we are in, we should at the very least realize the time is shortening quickly. If there is a prayer ministry in your church or community go! If there is not, start one! It is that simple. Jesus did NOTHING without first consulting His Father and neither can we. Maybe that is the key to our powerlessness in the body of Christ, complete disconnect from our source and authority. It is time to re-connect! #MyGodisYahweh