Ripple Effect
July 17, 2007
Scribe: Priscilla Van Sutphin
James 5:16-17 NKJV Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another , that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. 17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
Job 42:10 NKJV And the LORD restored Job's losses when he prayed for his friends. Indeed the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
“ Many of you are very guarded right now because of going through the fire, but I assure you that if you pray for one another and not just focus on your own problems, that you will get through this faster. There is something to be learned in not becoming so self focused, and self centered in your walk when you are going through crisis after crisis.
YOU must learn to rely on ME, & TRUST ME. and not your own efforts.
You must learn to rest in the knowledge that I am in control and can see what you are going through and have answers to all the problems already lined up.
You must learn to PRAISE instead of moan and complain.
You must learn to cast all your cares on ME so I can care FOR you. That is humility.
You must learn to pray for others, even when you are suffering because the WORLD is suffering, and if they don’t see anything different in you when you suffer, like PEACE, LOVE, JOY from within, then how will they SEE ME ?
Will you learn to endure if you don’t suffer at all ? Will you learn to TRUST Me if you never go through hardship at all ? Will you ever know how to have FAITH if you don’t see ME come through for you in the midst of the FIRE ?
I am breaking down all the arguments the enemy has used to get you to move in an opposite spirit than trust in me. I am removing all doubts. I am removing all distrust and skepticism in MY intents towards you. And I am bringing to you GLORY in the midst of the FIRE. Can you see that when Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego were in the fire, that the KING OF GLORY was there with them, bringing them through and protecting them, and when they came out, they were different. They had no chains on them. They did not smell of smoke or fire. They received GLORY for all they suffered at the hands of evil men.
Do you really want My glory ?
I am asking you sincerely. I am warning you sincerely, that is it is not to be trifled with. My glory is MY PRESENCE. Will you give up YOUR WILL that you can receive MY GLORY ? Don’t you know how much I love you and want to pour it into you ? Yet you know that it could kill you if you try to TOUCH IT ! It is MY PRESENCE, not YOURS. Do not seek to be preeminent when I AM THE ONLY ONE TO BE PREEMINENT !
THE RAZING, THE RAZING, the RAZING is coming. What will you do ?
What will you do in the midst of a Consuming FIRE ? What will you do when you have nothing to cling to but ME ? Will you complain ? Will you be terrified ? Or will you PRAISE ME in the midst of the terrors and turbulence ? When Paul & Silas were thrown in JAIL, what did they do before the earthquake ? Were they moaning and groaning ? NO, they were praising ME ! That is when I SHOOK THE EARTH under them and showed them I was with them. That NOTHING could keep them if I wanted them to be loosed. They knew what to do because they accepted the fellowship of MY SUFFERINGS.
Raze: 1 a archaic : ERASE b : to scrape, cut, or shave off
2 : to destroy to the ground : DEMOLISH
Phil 3:8-11 NKJV
8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
So beloveds, as you go through, PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER. Stop focusing only on yourself. Pray for your brothers and sisters who are going through the fire also. Pray for those incarcerated as if with them. Pray for those being beheaded, stoned, beaten and persecuted, as if they are your brothers, for indeed they are.
Listen for the sound of My voice, so I can lay the call to intercession on you who are given to ME. Put away all love for the things of this world. For this world is passing away, and the systems of men are falling. I assure you THEY ARE FALLING and FAILING in this hour. The pride of man will be crushed. Pray that men everywhere will REPENT and be SAVED.”
