TAKE YOUR PLACE IN PRAYER, AND STAND IN THE GAP!

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

SUNDAY OCTOBER 02, 2022.

SUBJECT : TAKE YOUR PLACE IN PRAYER, AND STAND IN THE GAP!

Memory verse: "So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found no one.” (Ezekiel 22 vs 30.) 

READ: Psalm 106 vs 23:

106:23: Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.

INTIMATION:

Everyone of us has a place in the body of Christ. God created you for a purpose. The big thing of life is to be in the Will of the Father, in communion with Him, and in fellowship with one another. We are in communion with God in prayers. You may think you are not called or set apart to give your life to prayer. No please, you may not have been set apart by the Spirit for that special ministry, but remember what Jesus said in Luke 18 vs 1; "Men ought always to pray and not faint." There are only two ways of getting acquainted; through the Word, and by prayer.

Our memory verse shows the desire of the LORD on His children; to commune with Him; standing in the gap for others, and the world. The wall spoken of here is not made of stones, but of faithful people united in their efforts to resist evil. This wall was in disrepair because there was no one who could lead the people back to God. 

In First Peter 2 vs 9, the Scripture says, “But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” 

As believers,we have been chosen by God as His very own, and we have been called to represent Him to others. Remember that your value comes from being one of God’s children. Christ’s victory on the cross has instituted the priesthood of all believers. This was contrary to the practice in the Old Testament times when people do not approach God directly, rather a priest acted as intermediary between God and sinful human beings. 

Christ’s victory—His substitutionary work for us on the cross abolished all that, and that pattern changed. Now we can come directly into God’s presence without fear, and are given the responsibility of bringing others to Him also. When we are united with Christ as members of His body, we join in His priestly work of reconciling people to God:

“Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.” (Second Corinthians 5 vs 18 - 19.)

God is looking for us to take our places, stand in the gap for others, the nation, Church, our families and so on. He needs us to pray, to be in constant communion with Him. Our requests are only made to Him through prayers. There are people who will be utterly lost unless you take your place in prayer. And unless you do your part, men will cry against you through eternity. Do you realize that there are men and women who are defeated and are breaking down in their business, home, and spiritual life because we haven't prayed? Or better still, because you haven't prayed?

In the passage we read today, Moses stood in the gap, served as the Intercessor for the people of Israel, to turn away the wrath of God on them when God considered them as stiff-necked people, and wanted His wrath to burn hot against them and He may consume them (See Exodus 32 vs 7 - 14).

Have you been occupied with your pleasures and your dreams, while men and women, staggering under the burdens you should have carried, are breaking down? The greatest duty that you will ever perform for your family is the prayer duty. And so it is for your nation, your friends, enemies etc. take up your responsibilities NOW!

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for the privilege of sonship, and ambassador of Christ. I desire to engage properly in the ministry of reconciliation as your royal priesthood. Endue me with the right spirit to take my place in prayer; communing with You for myself, my family, all believers, loved ones, friends, enemies, and the whole world, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!