We behold your power. We behold your glory. We behold your Angels in the angelic realm. Dear God, may the Seraphims, and Cherubims, and the Angels of God take to heart these intercessors and these people who go about their lives everyday, every hour thinking and praying onto you.

For even when we're not aware of it our spirits are reaching up to our Heavenly Father and to our calling, the high calling of God. This is the book of Ephesians. This is the high calling of God. This is where we have been seated in Heavenly Places and none can gain say or resist nor take us from our positions that are given by God.

    Earthly trials, tribulations and problems do not negate the spiritual calling, the anointing, mantles and positions placed upon people. It only enflames it; it only further seeks it to grow larger and deeper into God. For trials, our problems, and our situations push us closer to the Throne of God. They draw us nearer to the heart of God. They bring us into a greater and a deeper fellowship with God Almighty.

We learn more about our calling, more about our power, more about our authority, and more about the humility and the grace that it takes to walk this walk in God. Ego, and pride, and arrogance are stripped away as we are lifted into the heavenly realm through trial, through tribulation, through the callings of God.

    We thank you this morning, Father, for every blood bought, bruised, and whipped intercessor in this room. Much blood has been shed; much blood has been spilled over these callings. But it's precious to you, Lord, and the Angels pick it up and they bring it into heavenly realms and present it before your Throne - the trials and tribulations that we all walk through.

We thank you this morning, God, for every stripe that has been laid on us, for every time that we have been told no, for every time we've had problems and trials in our lives. We thank you, God. They are friends; they are steppingstones to your glory and to your Throne.

     And Father, we are further and even more determined to lay ourselves before you in the coming days in powerful intercession onto your Throne. Lord, we've reached your feet I feel; we have reached your feet where we lay at your feet in intercession. No longer are we miles off; no longer are we a ways from the city. But we lay at your feet this morning literally on your feet in intercession.

Yes, bleeding from the trials that we've walked through, but with praise, like Paul and Silas in that prison, with praise in our hearts from the beatings, with praise in our hearts to the God who has saved us, and with the hope and the power that you will shake the prisons. You shake the kingdoms of this earth through those who have learned how to persevere in prayer, for those who have learned to stay at the feet of God despite the trials, despite the setbacks and the persecutions.

     We thank you this morning, Father. We thank you this morning. We are not downtrodden; we are not down heartened concerning the spiritual condition inside of us, Lord. Though our earthly trials at times bow us low they simply bow us low before the Throne of God that we may be raised up by the Hand of God in the coming days.

We thank you, Father, that we have learned great lessons in your Kingdom of perseverance, and of staying on track through difficult times. Thank you, Father. Thank you that these have not fallen away, that these are gathered together at your Throne, that their prayers are as fervent as ever.

     And once again the quiet ones at times like Hannah can raise up a Samuel; not an audible word was spoken. Not one single verbal word came out into the air, yet God answered with the Prophet Samuel that woman's quiet intercession before the Lord. Though the travail was great in her heart yet she spoke not an audible word.

And for those who do not proclaimed themselves loudly at times it does not mean that their intercessions are not heard before the Throne of God, that God does not hear these quiet ones. Many times the answers to their prayers are more imminent than we realize, yet they do not boast or brag about their victories. They simply go their way quietly before the Lord, yet God knows who and when to raise them up and to proclaim them publicly.

    And in the coming days many who have been behind the scenes will be raised up to be rewarded by the Hand of God, to be given credit for that which was done in secret. For He said, "That which you do in secret I will reveal in the open, the good as well as the bad."

Father, we don't hear much about the good being rewarded, but it will come. The good things that have been done quietly you will see to it that there is a reward according to your plan, your purpose. Thank you, God; thank you, Father.

Prophecy    

     Those that are the forerunners go deep into the realm of the spirit and bear much, saith God, they bear much. There is much misunderstanding of their calling; there is much misunderstanding of their anointing; there is much misunderstanding of their intentions. But fear not, there was One who was misunderstood also and rejected. And did I not make Him the head of all things?

Great power will come from great suffering. And you have walked through great suffering. You will remember the times when you couldn't even lift yourself out of bed that you were so stricken by the powers of Darkness. And there will be a softness in you; there will be a humility in you. There will be no boasting; there will be no putting down of anyone.

And there will be no grabbing of my glory or credit. For you will remember, saith God, the wound of God. For I've visited everyone with the wound of God. And you have been wounded and you have been healed and you are being raised.

So fear not. Set your sights on that Throne that is in the heavens and stay there, stay there, stay there. Do not look at what goes on around you on a national level, on a world level, or even on a local level. But stay before the Throne of God and bow your hearts before Me now and pray as you have never prayed. Simply go into the Holy Spirit. Kneel and pray, saith the Lord. Pray, saith the Lord. Pray, saith the Lord. Pray, saith the Lord. This is a time of prayer. I will release an anointing of prayer.

    And you will come together as a corporate unity, as a group. There will be great unity among the body. You will lay down your differences; you will lay down "who is closer to this one and is closer to that one". And all that nonsense will go out to the window. And do not worry about it for even my early disciples fought over who was greater in the Kingdom.

There's been much fighting over who's greatest in the Church. Baloney, saith God. I am the Great One. I am the greatest in the Church! Lay at my feet. Do not compare yourselves one with another. I will burn that carnality out of the Body of Christ. I will burn that thinking out of your minds and you will come together as one, as true brothers and sisters in Christ. You will know each other by the Spirit and you will lay down in the Spirit with each other's burdens and help one other along.

    I am going to weld you together where you are like an ocean; you can't tell one drop from the other. All you will see is the ocean of intercessors, the ocean of anointing, the ocean of unity, saith God. All division will disappear as the melting Hand of God comes down and forms you into a liquid, a liquid pool of intercession.

And it is through this that I will raise up a great cry unto the Lord, onto the God of the heavens, for not only this hemisphere but for this world. Though you've been cloaked in humility and dressed in a humble exterior there is great glory within you. This is the Book of Ephesians.

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