I could start by bringing up a whole lot of things that I need to be praying about during this fast. I could start with a list of requests or complaints. We have a lot of things that we need to be praying about but I want to start by just declaring how big our God is. Our God is great and our belief about how great He is effects the way we pray.
Psalm 70:4 Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; And let those who love Your salvation say continually, “Let God be magnified!”
I love this verse. When we know how much God did for us in salvation through Jesus then our response is to declare continually how great, big, and amazing He is. ”Let God be magnified!” I want that to be the declaration of this church as we start this fast. I want our prayers to be drenched in the belief that God is big and He is greater then anything.
So let me give you some things to meditate on as we begin our fast…
(1) How big is God in your eyes?
(2) Do you believe that God is greater then anything?
Take time in your prayers today and just meditate on how big God is and spend time opening your mouth and declaring how big He is. I pray for those of you that love the salvation of Jesus that we would continually stand on one declaration, “Let God be magnified!”
I had this revelation yesterday during praise and worship. I’ve always known that He is a big God and that I cannot even comprehend the miracles that He’s done in my life and of those around me. I realized that I was not quick to put it into words… Yesterday, in praise and worship, something came over me, where I could no longer keep my mouth shut. I just started to yell out praises to Him that came from deep in my spirit. It definetly was not based on emotions. It was totally motivated by a reminder of the miracles that His done in my life. I’m excited to see a new aspect of Him during this fast. I am truly humbled to be in His presence.
Beth,
I love that testimony. Some times we forget How Big and great He is and I think that is a great mistake of any believer. I am really battling with that right now and the more I focus on the size of my problems I quickly loose sight… But when I look at Jesus and how big He is and I really meditate on this… my problem do not seem as big.
THanks for sharing and keep on shouting out the greatness of Jesus… we need to hear it!!!
Gotta agree with Beth. There was a moment yesterday when I felt we were with the angels singing “You are worthy to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things…” Rev. 4; and I was quite overwhelmed to join all of heaven in celebration of salvation.
Looking around the sanctuary last night, I was completely broken and couldn’t even stand up. I was completely blown away by looking into the lives of individuals in our church. We have seen people delivered from all sorts of evil, marriages saved, children healed when the odds were against them, non believers experiencing the love of Christ. Then I began to look at myself and my life, I shouldn’t even be alive right now!! I spent my life sinning against God and cursing his name, He could have let me die that night and condemned me to hell, but no. Not only did he have mercy and spared my life, but he wrapped me in love and gave me the breastplate of righteousness! He has taken a sinner like me, and shown me His love and is continuously at work inside of me!! If that is not magnifying God, then I don’t know what else is. He is literally everything to me, I am here on borrowed time!!
I dont know if I can even describe the intensity of what God did last night during prayer/praise/worship. The reality of the greatness of God came rushing through me. The lyric from "Solid Rock" was replayed in my mind – "It will make or break us, reinvent us, it's time to lay me down." Yesterday, I was reading in 1 Sam. 15 when the kingdom was ripped from Saul because of his disobedience and Samuel confronts him in verse 22 with the truth of obedience being better than sacrifice. I was convicted with my tendency to choose a "battle of the wills" with the Almighty, the Creator, my Maker, rather than immediate obedience. Needless to say, I was broken and humbled. Verse 29 states that "He will not relent, for He is not a man that He should relent." Realizing that God is not a man who can be manipulated by my "fits", or my questioning, or my arguing… HE IS GOD, my King, my Source, and my Truth. Why have I tried to fight Him on so many levels? Seeing my immaturity in the light of His greatness… I can't help but feel like a sorry little nothing. And yet, knowing that He desires me, and pursues me, and adores me even still… well, I am overwhelmed with gratitude and an all-consuming desire to please Him with everything I am.
"It's time to lay me down. On Christ, the Solid Rock, I will stand. All other ground is sinking sand."
Thanks for the testimonies…
Brett, We have had so many people who have been regenerated by the Jesus by the spirit. I am so thankful for you and all those who are changed by the gospel.
Christy,
Great stuff. I love the thought of God not being able to be manipulated. But I sure do try.
Hey all keep the testimonies coming…. I love to read them then really encourage me and I am sure all the readers.
A month or so ago that the Lord
showed me standing on a beach and just seeing the waves..and being afraid to move forward and go where he’s telling me to go spiritually trust him for real in EVERY area of my life. Well i was reading this article yesterday in this christian magazine i get monthly
and there was this picture in it of a beach and i know now that the Lord gave me that vision so he could speak to me through the article. It was about this guy that knew the Lord was directing him to step out in new areas…so he drove to this location which was a hotel on the beach to really seek God. When he got there after driving all night he decided to walk on the beach and wanted to get in but decided not too because he saw that there were broken little fragments of shells and he didn’t want to step on them in the ocean that was too deep for him to see the bottom. So, he started to walk away thinking he would go to the hotel pool when he heard the Lord say, “Jump in.” He didn’t want
to because he was scared…but he ended up wading in for a like a minute and then went jumped into the hotel pool and took a swim. Well, when he was done with that he went onto his balcony and looked down at
the pool and the Lord began to speak to him about wanting to go into the comfortable pools of our life instead of stepping into the unknown (scary ocean) and trusting Him. He told him to “Look up to the horizon” and he saw the ocean and the Lord told him that that was where he was
out there. That verse, Philippians 3:13-14- Focusing on forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead. – I praise God because HE IS
MY FUTURE. Not my plans, but HIS WILL…I am giving all, everything Him and trusting Him because He is so big and mighty.
My protection, husband, guide and future.
It is so easy for me to become consumed with my struggles and battles and I quickly forget to lift my eyes up to the mountains, where my help comes from. But last night was a time when I was reminded by the Spirit to lift my eyes to the glorious mountains and saw a glimps of God in all his majesty. I was broken by his overwhelming greatness. I felt that I could not get low enough because He was present and His spirit was basking in our praises. I literally felt as if I was pouring myself out onto the floor as a perfume offering hoping that God would be pleased with it, but knowing full well that there was no reason why He should be. God has been put back on His rightful throne in my life and by the response last night, I imagine many others! The freedom that God has brought in our house is amazing and it is something to be marveled at!!
AMAZING! You all are blessing my socks off! Wait I do not have any socks on so you are blessing my brains out! Good stuff…