Intercession + My Weakness

I have been praying for years.  My mother taught me how to pray when I had nightmares as a child of just 3 or 4 years old.  Although I did feel somewhat adequate in my own prayer life where no one else heard me but God, I still feel quite inadequate praying in front of others.  In an emergency if someone asked me to pray, I would drop all of my fears and pray.  Yet by my early 50’s I still felt quite skiddish about praying out loud around anyone else.

While living in Palmetto, FL, a BFF was living at Christian Retreat (Christian Retreat.org) and I attended some conferences there at the Family Church.    

At one Billy Burke conference (billy Burke.org) a lady asked for prayers for herself as an intercessor.   Billy told others who thought they were intercessors to claim the prayer that he was about to say for themselves.  I had not yet seen myself as such but prayed, asking the Lord if I should claim this prayer and I believe he told me to claim it.  All of us who claimed this prayer for ourselves outstretched our arms towards him.  As I held my arm out, it was though I could even see a lightning bolt come from Billy, up through my outstretched arm to me and I hit the floor.  “Obedience”.  This has happened to me more than once when I followed what I thought the Lord was telling me to do.  Powerful prayer and I was still on “cloud 9” regarding it when I got home.  I can still “see myself” standing in front of the mirror talking to God.  I was telling Him how weak I felt regarding prayer and He said to me “that’s when I am strong.”  

*2 Corinthians 12:10 “Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.” 

May God bless you through my writing. If He has especially touched you in any way, please leave a comment below. Your comments are so very encouraging to me to help me to keep writing. Also, click on the “Uptweet” button on the above right and share! I pray you will keep coming back. I fully believe that my writing is by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit so if I am writing, there is someone that needs to read it! Maybe it’s you? Also, please be sure to share any questions you might have with me and if you would like to keep them personal (just between you and me) please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at juliana.pace@gmail.com. If I don’t know how to answer you, I will may every attempt to refer you to someone for more information. Thanks and may God bless all your days! 

CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS

I have been awaking in prayer for several hours today.  In my prayers, I believe I was inspired to pray for myself and then God expounded upon that, making this a special day each week to not only pray for others but to make a special point to pray for others who feel a calling upon their lives to intercession.  For some time now I believe God has been pointing out to me the overabundance of physical needs of the other prayer warriors.  We need to be bound to one another in a spirit of unity, praying for the loss of all hindrances of this gift (as each of you is inspired) that we may all have favor in our freedom to pray!  For more who are called to know of this gifting upon their lives!  For dreamers to dream dreams and to awake mid-prayer so they have no doubt of this gift!  I believe God is inspiring me to share this, this morning, so that we may all be brought to our full effectiveness in prayer which is being needed even more each and every day during these years of such turmoil on this earth.

I have had an attack on my prayer life (voice) since I was a little girl and in more recent years delivered from a spirit of fear (Hallelujah) and after 50 years I am just learning to pray out loud in front of others and even speak in front of others without terrifying hallucinations.  I am claiming out loud that God has not given me a spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind (2 Tim. 1:7) And, “In the day when I cried out, You answered me, And made me bold with strength in my soul” (Psalm 138:3). Please agree with me regarding this.

May God bless you through my writing. If He has especially touched you in any way, please leave a comment below. Your comments are so very encouraging to me to help me to keep writing. Also, click on the “Uptweet” button on the above right and share! I pray you will keep coming back. I fully believe that my writing is by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit so if I am writing, there is someone that needs to read it! Maybe it’s you? Also, please be sure to share any questions you might have with me and if you would like to keep them personal (just between you and me) please don’t hesitate to e-mail me at juliana.pace@gmail.com. If I don’t know how to answer you, I will may every attempt to refer you to someone for more information. Thanks and may God bless all your days!