Prayer Forever

"Though the body may die, our words spoken to Him do not."

IF WE EVER DOUBTED the Father’s desire to answer our prayers, see the golden bowls of Revelation 5:8, where the spoken words of multitudes of people are gathered and stored for their fragrance before Him. He not only doesn’t want to lose our prayers (He cannot lose them) but wants to keep them near and always before Him.

We doubt He hears. Here, we see He not only hears but listens again and again. Because our voices are precious to Him. How much we can see His heart for our redemption in this. Without the shed blood of Christ, He would have remained estranged from us, left to deal with His beloved creation through a veil, and to watch us stand and fall and fall again.

That we are beloved is in His actions. He sent His Son to die as we die. He who is beyond death and outside of time, chose to partake of time and submit to death, and although the physical body was dead, the spirit of Him was not. For the Holy Spirit, the anointing that made Him Christ, cannot die and would not be parted from Him because Resurrection was imminent.

“To day you will be with me in Paradise,” Jesus said to the thief (Luke 23:43). TODAY, not three days from now, and WITH ME, meaning “together.” He could not enter Paradise as a dead man, nor a sinful man. His victory was in that He was not spiritually dead after physical death but was then King of Kings and Lord of Lords, and Satan no longer in control but made powerless. The devil thought he had won and greater, that he would claim his captive, but there stood God.

Christ lives in us, both the Savior, Jesus, and the Spirit of God. Here is the completion of God’s desire for us, that we would be filled with the tree of life and the wisdom of God for eternity, and in us are all the prayers that fill the bowls that the Father hears day and night. Prayers never hit the ground, they never expire or die out. Though the body may die, our words spoken to Him do not.

“And I will go on rejoicing, knowing that because of your prayers and the working of Jesus in my life, what has happened to me will eventually, one way or another, result in my deliverance.” (Philippians 1:18-19, Remedy)

So think of this now. When the church has risen into the air, when the tribulation of the end time happens upon this earth, has the Father washed His hands of men? Or is it that we rose as a glorious church without spot or wrinkle, our prayers sufficient for all that will transpire? God not only hung the earth upon our existence, He not only gave Himself for our salvation, but He has designed the end’s fulfillment upon our prayers.

What we read of us as helpless in the face of what will transpire is instead that we have strengthened God’s ending because we have been redeemed by Him, and our fervent words speak life to the Father of Life who will use them for people’s deliverance in ages to come.

“I have an opinion on how to pray, but when I get into the Presence, I tap into His opinion on how to pray, and that’s the whole deal, is to learn how to pray from the one who is directing traffic, from the one who knows the ins and the outs and the real issues.” | Bill Johnson, The Impact of Constant and Fervent Prayer

“There’s a point in a relationship with God where the Lord lets you go behind the scenes to see His motive, His heart, His thought, His ambition, His dream, His desire. All that stuff becomes exposed … You start feeling the heart of God in a way where you know there is an answer that is available, it is possible, but it must be pursued with relentless prayer.” | Bill Johnson, The Impact of Constant and Fervent Prayer


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Suzanne D. Williams, Author
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