For the first time in 4 years, I have consciously finished reading the NT, and back to OT, very much to my own dismay, I discovered numerous forgotten/overlooked books. For one, the book of Ezekiel is one (before now) which I had a visitation record of nil. Together with it were some other recounts from the minor prophets. For a long period, I was satisfied with getting inspirational verses via verse-of-the-day sites, or supplementary readings. To put it, I was pretty much a Christian who never quite read the Word.
But as a new season began, the fire got reignited, and the kind of consistency for the past 6 months had been unprecedented. Each day is a new day, a better day, a thankful day, and each day, a step closer to Home. I'm amazed at the distance I've covered, and looking up, I realize He had travelled much further to come to meet me.
Yet, the burden came in different volumes. Today's revelation came as a blow. "Kaboom!" It's a recognition of a common flaw, yet so common that it always gets overlooked, or even normalized. For the longest possible period that I remember, the 'power of prayer' is a notion which I have taken for a matter-of-fact- no analysis, no thoughts, even no sentiments. But in this new season; at this new level, the seismic shift forced me to look again. That knowledge hasn't quite been translated into behavior- powerful prayer, powerful it may be, had never quite been as powerful as it could have been. It has everything to do with the conviction (littered with a nonsensical enmeshment of convenience, laziness, ill-discipline etc.), and then the Right heart.
Tonight I had a prayer session with my sister and we did some sharing. An authority given, and taken with discretion- I am accountable for my family! That prayer- the lost, the lukewarm, the stranded, the neglected. An active participant in God's plan means the acknowledgement of the power of prayer in practice. God bless K and R!
Fellow Prince of the Kingdom,
Judah
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