by lighthouse | Apr 30, 2021 | Fasting & Prayers, News & Announcements
Mouth Open Wide
Scriptures For Meditation — Ps 81:10; Ps 71:8; Prov 18:21; Eph 3:20
In the blog post of Day 2 of our fasting and prayers, we talked about Open Gates and Open Doors being a consequence of open heavens. Today, we’ll be talking about another important component that facilitates our walking under and enjoying the blessings of open heavens in our lives — Open Mouths!
As one of my friends liked to say:
“A closed mouth is a closed destiny”!
In our first scripture reading for today (Ps 81:10), God gave an instruction which could also be said to be a challenge, to the children of Israel —He said to them:
“Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it”!
At first glance, this charge may be understood to simply mean opening of the mouth in prayer.
However, the command goes much beyond just that, as it says, to open it wide — to be bold and daring; to take the limits off our minds and off of God, and believe Him to exceed our expectations. (Eph 3:20)
As the Bible commentator Giles says:
To open the mouth wide in prayer is to pray with great freedom, to pour out the soul to God, lay open its whole case, and tell him all his mind and wants; to pray with great boldness, and with much importunity and fervency, and in full assurance of faith, pleading with great strength the promises of God, and asking in faith for much, according to them; and God may be said to fill this wide mouth of faith in prayer, when he grants the desires of the heart, gives his people what they will, even very largely and abundantly, yea, more than they can ask or think.
It could also mean that when we get to that place where having been wearied in our waiting and weakened in faith by disappointments and deferred hope, even though we have no more words to pray, we open our mouth wide in faith and allow the Holy Spirit to fill it with His words of faith.
Dear friend, the promise of God to you; His instruction for us today, is to open our our mouth – WIDE and allow Him to fill it!
Shalom,
Pastor Wale Ola
Prayer Focus
Open your mouth wide and prophesy into the month of May. Declare that it is only the counsel of the Lord that will stand in your life, family, household, business, ministry, education, etc.
Petition God for, and declare open heavens over the month of May.
Prophesy divine alignment of your life with the resources, provisions and blessings that God had purposed for your season.
Prophesy the opening of the miraculous gateways and the doorways of blessings, favour and breakthroughs for yourself, your household and the church family in Jesus’s Name.
Let God fill your mouth with praise as you thank Him in advance for answering your prayers. Amen.
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by lighthouse | Apr 29, 2021 | Fasting & Prayers, News & Announcements
Open Gates, Open Doors
Scriptures For Meditation — Isaiah 60:11-12; Matthew 16:18-19; Rev 3:7
The Bible in many verses particularly in Old Testament prophecies, would often refer to gates and doors.
Figuratively, both gates and doors can refer to control of access or right of passage. So, the person that has the keys to the gateways and the doorways gets to decide what comes through those access ways.
One of the consequences of open heavens is uninterrupted or unhindered access to provisions or supplies. Whether they be spiritual, material, physical or otherwise —This means open gateways and doorways.
When Jacob had his dream of open heavens at Bethel, one of the things that he declared was: “This is the gate of heaven..!” (Gen 28:17)
In our first scripture reference for today (Is 60:11-12) which is a follow up to the earlier prophetic instruction to Zion to arise out of darkness (Is 60:1-10), God promises Zion that her gates would not be shut, but be open continually so that her supplies may come in unhindered.
In our second scripture (Matt 16:18), Jesus declares that the “gates of hell” shall not prevail against the establishment and advancement of His Church, and Rev 3:7 tells us why — He is the One that holds the keys to the gateways and the doorways!
Keys denote power, authority and control; all of which are vested in Christ Jesus and have been made available to us as redeemed children of God, through His sacrifice on the cross of Calvary.
Let’s begin by thanking God for the provision that He’s made for us in Christ Jesus.
PRAYER FOCUS
Let’s use the keys that He’s given us to block and destroy every gateway through which the enemy has, has had or plans to have access into our lives, family, or to impair our destiny.
Let’s pray for the gateways and the doorways that God has ordained for our blessings and provisions to be opened in Jesus’s Name.
Let’s pray that God will open miraculous doors of favour, promotion, breakthroughs, provisions and deliverance for us and every member of our families in Jesus’s Name.
Let’s pray that in the month of May, the Way maker will make a way for us, and that He will empower us to enter in through those gateways and doors that He will open for us, to fully appropriate our blessings in Jesus’s Name.
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by lighthouse | Apr 28, 2021 | Fasting & Prayers, News & Announcements
Open and Aligned
Scriptures For Meditation — Matt 7:7-8; Is 64:1-4
A few years ago, I had a dream of a big funnel filled with oil that was pouring down from heaven to earth.
It was a continuous stream of oil that was flowing out of the funnel, and as I followed the path of the stream, I saw that there was a big container – a bucket, at the bottom of the flow that was meant to collect the oil.
However on looking closer at the sight I was seeing, I realised that the container was slightly misaligned off from the spout of the funnel, and the oil that was meant to be flowing inside the container was actually being wasted, pouring on the floor around the bucket instead.
As I meditated on our fasting and prayers theme for this month, the Holy Spirit reminded me of this dream again, using it as a follow up to the prayers that we prayed last month.
Divine Alignment
Last month, the theme of our prayers was open heavens. We prayed that God will Open the Heavens over us and our households in every area of your lives.
But as God reminded me in the dream that I shared above, it is indeed possible for the Heavens to be open and for God to be pouring out oil from the funnel of His blessings, but for our container to be out of alignment and not be receiving the intended blessings.
On this first day of our fasting and prayers, we will be praying a prayer of Divine Alignment.
I pray that God will hear and answer our prayers speedily in Jesus’s Name.
Shalom,
Pastor Wale Ola
Prayer Focus
• Let’s start by thanking God for the open heavens over our lives, acknowledging by faith that we believe He heard the prayers that we prayed last month.
• Let’s ask God to show us areas of our lives that the enemy may be exploiting to accuse us before God or rob us of our blessings.
• Let’s confess and repent of any sin and plead the blood of Jesus over our lives.
• Let’s pray that God will reposition us correctly to receive the blessings that He has for us in this season.
• Let’s pray that God will reposition the people and the resources that are meant to be the vessels of our blessings in the places that they will be aligned to deliver what God has purposed for us.
• Let’s pray that our containers (whatever these may represent in our individual lives – our jobs, ministries, businesses, careers, projects, plans, ideas, proposals, etc) will be in perfect alignment with the funnel of God’s blessings that we are meant to be receiving.
• Let’s pray for the restoration of everything that we have missed out on because of us being out of alignment with the plans, will, purpose and provisions that God intended for us.
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