THE MYSTERY OF REVELATIONAL PRAYER!
"So David inquired of the Lord, saying, “Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them?” And He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.” 1 Samuel 30:8. Revelation prayer is the key to breakthroughs and recovery.
David would not depend on his own skills, experiences, knowledge or strength, he knew God's ways are far higher than ours, despite the desperate situation he and people were in, still, he makes time to seek God's face in revelation about the matter at hand. When ever he was faced with problems, David always enquired of the Lord first. The victory that came thereafter was sweat less. David recovered all that was lost. Learn to enquire first before you launch into other kinds of prayers.
There are many kinds of prayer in the Bible:
1. Prayer of Thanksgiving.
2. Prayer of Petition.
3. Prayer of Intercession.
4. Prayer of Binding and Loosing.
5. Prayer of faith.
6. Prayer of Agreement.
7. Prayer of Supplication
8. But one of the greatest prayer to pray is the prayer of enquiry.
The prayer of enquiry will open you up to the strategies and secrets of God.
WHAT'S THE PRAYER OF ENQUIRY?
1. It is a 'question and answer' session with God.
Prayer is two-way communication. It involves man speaking to God and God speaking to man. Questioning is vital in every communication. It's an appeal or demand for an answer, or for more information. Questioning is used to clarify a point. It help us to express our feelings and to communicate our fears and frustration.
There's nothing wrong with questioning God. He's not angry when we ask questions. In fact, He invites us to ask questions. God never rebuke us when we comes to Him with sincere questions or honest doubts.
2. The prayer of inquiry is reasoning with God (Isaiah 1:18).
3. It is prayer for direction. Job.34:32.
4. The prayer of enquiry is asking the Lord what to do about a particular situation before you start praying binding and loosing prayers.
5. It gives insight and direction.
6. Prayer of enquiry is a prayer from the heart.
7. It is having a roundtable discussion with God about the issues of your life.
8. Prayer of enquiry is seeking prayers.
9. It is asking to know God's will concerning an issue.
10. Prayer of enquiry is Revelational prayers.
When you are at the crossroads of life and don't know what to do, there are some questions you need to ask God: Why? Which? How? and When?
HOW DO WE GO ABOUT IT?
1. Find a quiet place. Avoid distractions.
2. Enter into His gate with praises and thanksgiving.
3. Communicate. Remind God of His promises. Talk to Him about your daily troubles, thoughts, hopes and dreams. (Matthew 7:7)
4. Pay attention to possible feedback.
5. Have faith to receive. Don't be afraid.
6. Be patient.
God is a God of revelation! Don’t be so much in a hurry to make important decisions when faced with challenges or choices whether small or big.
DIVINE INVITATION
"Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3.
From the verse above:
1. God invited Jeremiah and everyone to come to Him in faith-filled prayer.
2. He promise to answer our prayers. We should expect answers.
3. He will show us great and mighty things (divine revelation) as we pray.
So what are you waiting for? Are you going to honour the invitation or not? God invites you to call Him in prayer today. There's no reason to procrastinate.
THE HOLE IN THE WALL REVELATION
"8 Then He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall”; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door. 9 And He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they are doing there.” 10 So I went in and saw, and there—every sort of creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed all around on the walls. 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick cloud of incense went up. 12 Then He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, ‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land." Ezekiel 8:8-12.
The leaders of the nation of Israel were going about their businesses believing their sins were hidden from the people. They failed to realize that God saw everything they did. He knew every thought, every action. And He knew the many ways they had tried to cover their sins. Yet, they could not hide from Him. God sees all things and showed the prophet Ezekiel through a revelation of a 'hole in the wall'. Information is a gradual revelation. Prophet Ezekiel gained some insights, knowledge and information kept from many people. There are certain information that are deep and are secrets. By divine revelation, he was able to see concealed, confidential information.
God has secrets. (Deuteronomy 29:29)
"He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, And light dwells with Him." Daniel 2:22.
"Surely the Lord God does nothing, Unless He reveals His secret to His servants the prophets." Amos 3:7.
God is still revealing these secrets to His servants.
WHO ARE THOSE GOD REVEAL SECRETS TO?
1. Those who know Him.
2. Those who know who they are.
Do you know who you are? You're not defined by your past or failures. Discover who you truly are. See yourself as God sees you.
3. Those who are His servants:
You must have a heart of a servant.
4. Those who are faithful:
Be loyal and dedicated to God. He's not looking for ability but availability.
5. Be humble:
God loves humble people.
6. Those who are willing to sacrifice time, sleep, and food in other to hear God.
7. You must have a searching spirit.
Mathew 7:7, ask seek and find. Search and you will find the secret of God.
8. You must be prayerful.
Pray faith filled targeted prayers.
9. You must have the fear of God:
The God fearing person is teachable and open to divine discipline.
10. Those who are addicted to the Word of God.
10. You must have faith to receive.
Faith is a catalyst for answers to prayers and divine revelation.
EVERY PROBLEM HAS A ROOT!
"6 Then Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. 7 And Joshua said, “Alas, Lord God, why have You brought this people over the Jordan at all—to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh, that we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan! 8 O Lord, what shall I say when Israel turns its back before its enemies? 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?” 10 So the Lord said to Joshua: “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? 11 Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. For they have even taken some of the accursed things, and have both stolen and deceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff. 12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you." Joshua 7:6-12.
The children of Israel had just conquered the city of Jericho. God instructed them to utterly destroy and not to take anything out of it. But the people disobeyed and God was upset with them. They thought everything was alright. What they didn't know was that there was a problem in the camp. There was a man in their midst who was causing problems for the entire nation. The next city on their path was Ai, a much smaller city compared to Jericho. Joshua sent men to Ai but they suffered a terrible blow. They were defeated and 36 men of Israel were killed.
Unlike David, nowhere in this passage does it even hint that Joshua sought the face of God. If he had, God would have revealed the problem before the people died. After the tragedy, Joshua went to complain to the Lord. In his anger, he prayed some enquiry prayers, and God made him to know the reason for the defeat.
Beloved, when there is a problem, we need to look within and see where the problem is, before we pray cast out demons prayers. The question we need to ask when things start falling apart is, "What's the source of this problem?"
STATEMENTS OF FACTS ABOUT DIVINE REVELATION?
1. It is being able to see what God is saying.
When you hear it, it is information; when you see it, it is revelation.
2. Revelation is God opening your spiritual understanding or comprehension.
3. It is to have divine insight into the spirit behind a matter.
4. Revelation is divine enablement where our eyes are opened to secret things.
5. It is to get instructions from the Bible that will enhance our success.
6. Revelation inflames your faith.
When you see divine revelation, doubt dies (Psalm 119:18).
7. It inspires you to pursue your destiny. (Genesis 13:14-15).
8. Revelation gives assurance of supernatural wealth (Job 22:21-25).
9. It secures your dominion on earth.
10. Revelation enhances divine health.
11. It gives zeal to birth your breakthroughs.
12. Revelation hastens your speed and progress in life.
13. It is the key to supernatural recovery.
Whatever you have lost in the past, as you seek God's face in revelation you will experience miraculous restoration
14. Revelation without obedience leads to frustration.
Don't expect to see the manifestation of prophecies when you are living in disobedience. Disobedience truncates divine blessings.
15. Prayers without revelation will lead to frustration and depression.
Many are frustrated at the place of prayers because they don't have access to what God's doing behind the scenes. Revelation fuels your prayer life. You can’t be tired of praying when there's revelation. The more you pray, the more you see, the more you see, the better your recovery.
16. Every revelation is time bound. (Habakkuk 2:2-3)
When it’s time for the manifestation or fulfilment, it will manifest.
17. Revelation is access into the deep things of God.
18. To access revelation, pray in the language of the Holy Spirit.
19. The more you know about the will of God, the more effective your prayer life will be. The more effective your prayers are, the more answers you will receive.
20. Revelation increases your expectation. (Proverbs 24:13-14).
We must ask, seek, and knock until revelation is obtained.
HOW TO RECEIVE REVELATION?
1. Engage the Spirit of Revelation:
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Revelation. He quickens your understanding (Isaiah 11:3). The Spirit makes you spiritually alert and sensitive to what God's saying.
2. Read the Bible.
The Holy Spirit will not reveal something to you that contradicts what has already been revealed in the Scripture. To reward Daniel’s willingness to search for answers and to pray, God gave Daniel a revelation.
3. Inward Witness.
4. The word of Wisdom and Knowledge.
5. Visions and Dreams.
God often uses dream or vision to communicate revelation; however, not all dreams and visions are of divine origin. We must be sensible enough to test all things.
6. Prophecy.
7. God can tell us things through others.
We can learn to recognize and hear God’s voice speaking to us through other people. God can speak through anyone – young or old, believer or unbeliever. Even our critics and “enemies” can be used by God to teach and reveal truth to us. So we must not limit ourselves to thinking that God must always speak directly to us and would never speak through someone else.
8. Circumstances.
FASTING HELPS REVELATION!
Fasting combined with prayer is the gateway to spiritual power and divine revelation. Fasting is voluntarily going without food or any pleasurable things in other to seek God concerning an issue. It is a spiritual vitamin that nourishes the spirit, thereby clearing any hindrance to receiving divine revelation. Fasting gives us victory over fleshly desires, and diminished the power of the flesh. To hear clearly from God, you must control the flesh. Fasting empowers divine revelation.
As you fast, read the Word, praise God and build up your faith.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?
The enemy wants nothing more than for you to miss your destiny. He wants to keep everything you need to know hidden, so you can stumble around in the dark. Satan doesn’t want you to ever come to the revelation of who you are and what is available to you in Christ. He can sometimes put road blocks in your paths to cause you to give up in frustration right before your breakthrough manifests. But God wants to show us where we are and what steps we need to take to get us to our next place in life. He's interested in revealing to us how to fulfil our destiny and purpose. Come to Him today. He will help you.
It has been rightly said, "When the purpose of a thing is not known abuse is inevitable." It's time to come out of spiritual ignorance. You must confront the spirit of spiritual blindness and deafness. Get ready for divine revelation that will change your life. Things will never be the same with you from today!
If you are willing to repent and surrender your life to Jesus Christ, then pray this prayer right now: LORD Jesus, I come to You right now. I know I am a sinner, please forgive me my sins. With my mouth, I declare that Jesus, from today, I accept You as the LORD of my life. Change my heart from a disobedient heart to a heart that will obey You. With my new heart, I believe that it is because of me that You came into this world; You died for my sins, take away my problems, fill me with Your Holy Spirit, write my name in the Book of Life, and make me brand new in Jesus mighty name.
PRAYER POINTS FOR DIVINE REVELATION!
1. O God I thank You for the revelation power of the Holy Spirit.
2. O Lord, give unto me the Spirit of revelation and wisdom in Jesus name.
3. O God, reveal to me every secret behind any problem that I have, in Jesus name.
4. O Lord, bring to light every thing planned against me in darkness, in Jesus name.
5. I remove my name from the book of those who grope and stumble in darkness, in Jesus name.
6. O Lord, make me a vessel capable of knowing Your secret things, in Jesus name.
7. I paralyse the activities of spiritual blindness, in Jesus name.
8. My spiritual ears, connect to the voice of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus name.
9. I silence every strange voice assigned to confuse me, in Jesus name.
10. Thank God for answering your prayers.
