“This is my prayer in the harvest” (2009)”…I know I’m filled to be emptied again. The seed I’ve received I will sow.” The words to a great song introduced to the world last year. I love it! I love being sown into and I love to sow. Which is one of the reasons why I really enjoy blogging. I pray something touches someone supernaturally.
A friend shared a book with me recently that is SO touching my life. I read something in it today that so clearly pictured what God has done recently in my life and I want to share it here. It refers to God's Name Jehovah-Nissi, our Banner. I know Him (to some degree) by that Name but not fully. I will need my new heavenly mind to fully perceive Who He is in all of His glory. But, maybe you can relate to this prayer of blessing like I did:
“God promised to be at war against the Amalekites from generation to generation. The context of the story (of God revealing Himself as Jehovah-Nissi) is of Moses having to lead his people into battle when they weren’t ready to go to war. They were attacked by the Amalekites. As he lifted his hands to the Lord, the Lord warred on behalf of Israel.
I bless your spirit with knowing when to war and when to lift your hands to the Lord. There will be seasons when God calls you to use the greatest of your strength. There will be seasons when God presses you to the wall and yet expects you to work hard, like Israel had to make bricks; then they had to make bricks in a harder way without straw. Then they had to march during the middle of the night to escape from Egypt. There will be times when God will celebrate the gifts that He has placed in you, when He will celebrate your strength. At times God will place you in a context where every talent and ability that you possess can be brought to the front and be used to make changes in the kingdom. That is good. That is fine. That is excellent. That is the will of God.
But there will be times, when God will very specifically put you in a place where everything that you have is not good enough, where you have to do something you have never done before. Enemies that you have never irritated will seek to attack you just because they are opportunistic. I bless you with having the courage not to depend on a skill set that is inadequate but to have the courage to lift your hands up to God on the mountaintop and ask Jehovah-Nissi to war for you. Because where you are inexperienced against any enemy, Jehovah-Nissi has the experience of the ages. Where you don’t know how to do it, Jehovah-Nissi has done it endless times. Where you have not walked that way before, Jehovah-Nissi has worn a path with the mighty tread of His feet. (Hallelujah!!)
Jehovah-Nissi has promised and recorded in Scripture that He cannot lie, that He will be at war against the opportunistic coyote, the spirit of Amalek that prowls around. It never attacks directly but takes advantage of your vulnerabilities, takes advantage of the opportune times of transition when you are not ready for war. Jehovah-Nissi has promised to war on your behalf.
I bless you with finding profound security in Jehovah-Nissi, celebrating your giftedness while always knowing that Jehovah-Nissi is there for those battles that He permits which you don't anticipate. He anticipates the battles that blindside you on a path that you've never walked before. Israel did not know the desert area. The Amalekites lived there. Israel didn't know the safe places, the high places, the hidden places. They didn't know how to craft an effective war strategy. They just went out and bumbled around while Moses stood on the mountain with his hands lifted high.
Celebrate your areas of strength, but when you are in a new area and the enemy attacks you and you don't know what to do or how to do or where to do it, go to the mountaintop. Lift your hands and let Jehovah-Nissi war on your behalf. I bless you with knowing Jehovah-Nissi experientially in your generation. I bless you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.”*
*From Blessing your Spirit by Sylvia Gunter & Arthur Burk
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