hope|sounds

Day 2 in prayer room - September 21, 2010

Praise the Lord your God for He is God and He is high and lifted up above every principality and every ideology!

He is WORTHY! Declare My worthiness to the nations!

Your eyes flicker with flames of fire
Burning right through every other lover!

This morning and upon entering into the prayer room, I sense the theme for today to be seeking God as "the Beloved."

Father, I pray that we would establish Jesus as our Beloved at Onething. That in each heart we would regard you not just as Master or Lord or King, but as Friend and Lover of our souls! Just like the lovesick shulamite who searched all throughout the night for the One that her heart loved, I pray that we would fall more in love with You and that would keep our fires burning to keep seeking after You in prayer.

End the separation, God...All we want is to be near You, with You where You are!

SOS 3:1-4; 5:2-16

For those whose hearts have fallen asleep...I say, "Wake up, O Sleepers! It is time to awaken Love!!" (SOS 5:2)

For those who have lost their hearing...I declare that you have ears to hear what your Beloved says. (SOS 5:2)

For those who have grown weary...I say, "Strengthen what remains for there is no cost counted in Love." (SOS 5:3, Rev 3:2)

For those who have lost heart in seeking...Love will lead you on. "Do not lose heart! I will withdraw to test your hunger and desire for Me." (SOS 5:6)

For those watchmen who have grown weary in watching and have let doubt and bitterness overcome the call & for those who have lost sight of the LOVE and have become legalistic...Grace and mercy to you! May you be given eyes to see and ears to hear once again, that you may declare to God's people the signs! (SOS 5:7,9)

SOS 5:9 - The watchmen ask the lovesick woman, "What is your Beloved more than another beloved?"

I believe this is the question of the hour. The world is looking at the Church, not seeing any difference except legalistic traditions and is asking, "Why is your God better than these other gods of other religions, better than my understanding of other gods, better than my self sufficiency?" And the Church, because she has not had the personal revelation and encounter of the intimate communion (bedchamber experience) with God, cannot answer how the Lovesick woman in the passage answered...

SOS 5:10 - "...He is the chief among 10,000."

Oh God, I'm asking that you would give us the revelation of Jesus as Lover, as our Beloved today! I pray that you would encounter us today with that ravishing, jealous, fiery gaze of your eyes!

God, you are raising up an army of laid-down, lovesick who contend for justice and righteousness - not out of obligation, but out of pure love. We need a love revelation that will lead to a love revolution so we may declare to your people who you really are so that when we do, the chains of bondage break free!

Holy Spirit, I thank you that you know all things. You know the end from the beginning. You know every corner of our hearts. I praise you that for each person on this campus and for the campus in general that you know the plans you have for us and they are good plans to prosper us and not to harm us, but to give us hope and a future! I thank you that you have chosen us for such a time as this to declare your praises and sing of your goodness and manifest your kingdom in the earth.

Father, I thank you that Love (Jesus) is the foundation of the Kingdom. I thank you that prayer is one of the greatest demonstrations of Love. And so you have chosen us that we would be a house of prayer for all peoples - that you would set us up to be a house of Love...a dwelling place for Love to manifest himself.

It is an honor. Father, would you send your Holy Spirit to stir us up to pray for one another and so demonstrate Love. Teach us to sit and wait and hear from you and to declare in the open what you tell us in the secret. Holy Spirit, we as a campus desire to do the will of the Father, so I ask that you would give us ears to hear and willing hearts to say yes to you no matter what the charge. I pray that you would strengthen what little faith we have - increase it, God, and let your peace guard our hearts and minds so that we would give the enemy no authority by our doubt.

*Prayer for Intimate Team