Here the last few weeks my community group has been doing this study on Prayer with a video series from The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir. This study has really meant volumes to me in the last few weeks since coming back from training camp. As most of you know, the Lord has blessed me with the gift of intercession, and I have asked the Lord that He would grow and use this gift in my life. This study has shed some much needed light for me on this topic, and I wanted to take a few minutes and share what I am learning from this study.
One way that we can learn about God’s heart (which He has been giving me more of like crazy!) is through prayer. My communion with The Lord helps to define who I am in Christ and is one of the most important things in my life right now. If we can grow strong in prayer, everything else in our life will naturally flow from that, in fact, I am willing to say that anything God can do, prayer can do.
In the last several months, I have been praying for more of the Holy Spirit in my life. I saw this prayer answered at training camp not just for me, but for every person on my squad. It was such a beautiful thing to sit in our nightly worship service, and just see and feel the Spirit of the Lord fall upon His people. Most revivals happen when people, as few as 5 or 6, or as many as 52, say, “Lord, Im TIRED of the status quo.” When we get desperate and cry out for the Holy Spirit to come and rest on us it happens in miraculous ways. When God’s people pray, the heavens are moved and the Holy Spirit is manifested in us. As we pray, God begins to pour out MORE of His Spirit upon us, and things begin to happen…CRAZY things even! In a previous blog I struggled with the fact that I was just an ordinary person, why would the Lord choose ME to bear such a gift as intercession? I just couldn’t understand it. Now, I see more clearly that The Lord takes ordinary people like you and me and with the annointing of the Holy Spirit He allows crazy, amazing things to happen!
Something that really just blows my mind right now, is the fact that prayer is something that the Holy Spirit births in our hearts, and yet, it is that SAME Holy Spirit that comes in response to our prayers!! I am realizing more and more that our words have WEIGHT and ANNOINTING when the Holy Spirit is present. Acts 8:26 says, “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.”
A quote from The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir study that I absolutely love says, “Somebody opened up and touched heaven, and heaven touched them.” 
That is what it feels like to have the annointing of the Holy Spirit come and rest on you! I have realized that what we will be doing in not only this next year but throughout the rest of our lives…isn’t possible without the Holy Spirit. We can never accomplish what the Lord has sent us to do, (whatever that may be) without the Holy Spirit. And yet the Lord is a gentleman. As much as the Lord pursues us, He EAGERLY waits for US to pursue Him and His Heart.
That is what it feels like to have the annointing of the Holy Spirit come and rest on you! I have realized that what we will be doing in not only this next year but throughout the rest of our lives…isn’t possible without the Holy Spirit. We can never accomplish what the Lord has sent us to do, (whatever that may be) without the Holy Spirit. And yet the Lord is a gentleman. As much as the Lord pursues us, He EAGERLY waits for US to pursue Him and His Heart. “All consuming fire, You’re my one desire,
and I love You dearly, dearly, dearly, Lord.
Holy Spirit fire,
You’re my one Desire
and I love You dearly, dearly, Lord.
So take my heart and set us free,
I trust in You,
Completely Lord.”
**Picture courtesy of Joel Chitwood :)**
