LORD Teach Me To Pray
Intensify
by
Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (May 23, 2014)
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (St. John 10:10, King James Version, KJV [Christ is the door]).
Greetings in the Holy Name of Jesus,
My brothers and sisters, Christ is the door and “it is yours for the asking” are words that should prevail in your life on day two of your seven day prayer cycle intensified with fasting. Yesterday, I met strangers at my gate because I did not want them to enter in to the estate. Those strangers asked for my SUV, a vehicle that seemingly draws the attention of a few but the covetous eyes of those few relentlessly worked using others to keep asking for it because I live in an area that practices hate and deception. I knew Satan persuaded the stranger to come but it was the spirit of Jesus that stopped the stranger in his tracks and turned him around without harm to my person.
Christ Jesus lives, I tell you. He lives within each one of us, those that God gave to Jesus. I spoke to one of the strangers as a neighbor yet I did not receive them in for I knew they struggled inside their hearts and struggled inside their minds. Even more so I knew they sought to do battle but this battle they sought was not their battle and this battle they sought was not my battle. The battle was the Lord's battle and unbeknownst to them God prepared the battlefield---it was already prepared and my intercessors were there in agreement with me, in spirit, all the way from California.
I did not know I was going to battle but my spirit did and the spirits of my intercessors knew for their spirits were present, willing and able with their words of Jesus in my mailbox, so the battlefield was between the mailbox and the gate, in the driveway. I tell you I never witnessed a battle in such a state of peace as this battle was infused with peace. You know there was a supernatural anointing of using ordinary people to do extraordinary things that was present as extraordinary people set forth to do the business of ordinary laborers, in fact, of Jesus. The attack did not last long and the strangers left without my SUV and without my cousin's black Angus cows that wandered in the road out of their pasture.
Amazingly, it appeared they felt all the better for it as if they did a good deed then, by telling me the black Angus cows were running down the road. Believe me they did do a good deed and the good deed did not turn on them and bite them---the good deed done did not punish them. I did not punish them by calling the sheriff. I called my cousin the owner of the cows and he gladly returned to his home to secure his property. God is a great God.
Yet all this was not possible without intensified prayer---adding fasting to your prayer. My household was fasting and praying even the animals fasted on the sweetness of pear, sugar and water because the temperature was 93 degrees Fahrenheit. The animals were there, too, on the battlefield between the mailbox and the gate, ready, willing and able but the battle was not the animals' battle. The battle was the Lord's battle.
I witnessed the transforming power of Christ Jesus for the men were changed as Apostle Paul was changed on the road to Damascus in front of his entourage--- all the men that traveled with him---the light of Christ prevailed and tried Saul on the road. I know the hearts of the strangers were tried on that battlefield---right there between the mailbox and the gate. I know their thoughts questioned them, each one of them, “Why are you at her gate? Why do you ask for her property and the property of her neighbors, her cousins? What is your business? Is it peace you seek?”
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Christ Jesus tried them this time. I feel compelled to tell you that was not the first battle fought between the mailbox and the gate and I pray that it was the last battle for that place is a battleground not only for me but for my animals as well. Many animals died on that battlefield trying to make it back to the estate homestead. My brothers and sisters you might not know where your battlefield is or recognize that you are on a battlefield yet you are and the intercessory power of Christ Jesus is “yours for the asking”. Call on the name of Jesus! Your intercessor might be animal, another stranger, a good Samaritan, or another neighbor.
God will take care of you. Christ Jesus is still sitting at the right hand of God. God is still on the throne. The angels of God are still able to get to you in less than the twinkling of an eye. The spirit of Christ is able to defend you in whomever he sends.
The intercessor Christ Jesus appears in does not always have to be men strong in the power of Christ Jesus as you know of as my intercessors were strong prophets of Christ Jesus, God Almighty ready, willing and able to do battle at less than the twinkling of an eye---always ready, always armored up---suited up with the breastplate of love and faith and the helmet of the hope of salvation (Thessalonians 5: 8, KJV [comfort against persecution]) to forcibly snatch the children of God back out of the hands of Satan, out of the hands of his demon foot soldiers and draw them back nigh to God's love.
As a child of God, you must remember God is able to bless you even in battle. God's love blesses you even in battle---even while you are on the battlefield---even a whore as Rahab was known to be in order to take care of her family loved God and helped God's family. Rahab is also known as the wife of Salmon in the lineage of Christ Jesus (34th generation – Roboam - before Jesus [In the 14 generations from David until the carrying away into Babylon]).
Is it that amazing to think, out of a whore continued the line of Christ Jesus. Or, is it amazing to think that even more so that God blessed Rahab from the crown of her head to the sole of her feet sparing her family (“scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by” Joshua 2:18, KJV [Rahab's covenant with the spies]; “... only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent” Joshua 6:17, KJV), she loved God and protected the spies---men Joshua sent in order to deliver the town she lived in to the children of God for their inheritance “and the walls of Jericho fell down flat” Joshua 6:20 KJV [Jericho is destroyed] (Joshua 2: 16-22, KJV)? What about Abraham's nephew protecting the men of God who came to check out Sodom and Gomorrah from the perversion---the ways of the people of Sodom and Gomorrah? Why do you think less of a woman's love than that of a man or do you, if you do not feel less about a woman's courage while in love than a man, then celebrate the power of prayer to bless you even in battle on the battlefield?
I know you probably think I will say, “A woman had to do what a woman had to do to take care of her family and survive in times when whoredom was quite common work”. I will not say that because if one woman did not have to live life as a whore, then there was hope, for all women. What levels the playing ground for women? Is it the men who protect her or is it her God who raises her up to do His will as God raised up Rahab and placed her in the line of Jesus? Did not God tell Hosea to “take a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD” (Hosea 1: 2, KJV [ Idolatry warned of judgment]) so then he would be their God and the God of their children? (“...that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God” [verse 10])?
So, I say to you, whoredom did not stop God's love and whoredom did not stop God's blessings in the time of Rahab and in the time of Hosea. Many trials and tribulations come out of “the spirit of whoredoms” (Hosea 5:4, KJV [God's judgment against Israel]). I say this to you, plain and simple, “Do not leave God for the ways of the world. Do not commit adultery.” Ezekiel spoke of “God's love
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for Jerusalem” (Ezekiel 16:8, KJV [God's love toward Jerusalem]). This is no ordinary love. It is a love
of marriage. Let us pray:
Hallow be thy name,
Let us call on the east wind
In the time of Moses the east wind brought the locusts
In the time when Job waited for change men questioned the unquiet knowledge blowing in wind
In the time of Job the east wind carried the hypocrite away, hurled him out of his place
God's power parted the light that scattered the east wind upon the earth
God answered Job, by the way of parting light, His power
God's power reserved against trouble, against the day of battle and war, answered Job
Is this the power you seek to awaken?
To hear your cry, to answer your plea
Is this the power you call on for your daily bread?
When he knows what you need
Let the people pray---restrain not the prayers of the people
God is a great God who delights in the love of His children of His family
Let thy will be done
We call on the east wind, which breakest the ships of Tarshish
For God removed our transgressions from us as far away from us as the east is from the west
In a time when what you ask for shoots forth like a vine and you struggle with all that it is
In the time when what you asked for is a rough wind for you and you must stay the east wind
LORD, send me a good man
LORD, fill my pantry with food from the floor to the ceiling
LORD, give me children as the sand
LORD, grant me wealth
LORD, strengthen me to hold on
LORD, bless me all my days
LORD, give me increase
LORD, lengthen my days to the days of Methuselah (969)
LORD, grant me peace
LORD, deliver me out of oppression
LORD, deliver me out of captivity
LORD, deliver me out of bondage
Let thy will be done
Hallow be thy name
We call upon the winds, from the north to the south and from the east to the west
LORD, deliver these dry bones.
LORD, deliver to me all that I need
IN THE NAME OF JESUS
LORD, have mercy on our souls
LORD, have mercy on our souls
LORD, have mercy on our souls
In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen.
