PRAYER JOURNEY
50 DAY PRAYER JOURNEY: January 18: SECOND DAY
Brothers and sisters in Christ…
Today is the Second Day of our 50 Day Prayer Journey. Please click on following link for full presentation on my website:
https://preservechristianfamily.org/category/prayer-journey/
TESTIMONIES TO HARVEY...AN ISRAELITE
Harvey...
My spiritual journey to that Brooklyn hospital on Sunday, February 8, 1998, where Arthur lay on his death-bed, began 14 years earlier, when the Lord miraculously placed me as Comptroller in Arthur’s privately-held family-owned Corporation. There I was…working in Brooklyn, a location where I had always said to myself I would NEVER work! Even so, I knew it was the Lord Who had placed me there! The first few months were not the greatest. On a number of occasions, Arthur would instruct me to do something unethical that I had to respond to by saying, “As a Christian, I can’t do that.” He would get absolutely livid, and angrily tell me, “You won’t go to Hell because you do that!” I replied, “I know; but I still can’t do it.” After a while, my boss learned not to ask me to do those questionable things; he would ask someone else!
As time went on, I became CFO of the Company. Then one day Arthur called me into his glass-enclosed office and went into a ballistic tirade against me for the next 20 minutes over something I had or hadn’t done [I can’t even remember what it was]…his face beet-red with anger. The entire office was witnessing this scene through the glass, as I sat there calmly listening to his onslaught [they told me later they couldn't believe I was just sitting there so calmly listening to this!]. Finally, reaching the pinnacle of his livid ranting, he was determined to lay upon me what he considered the crowning insult: Furthermore…you are only a clerk, and not even a good clerk; the only reason you are here…THE ONLY REASON…is because I trust you!! Well…I was hardly able to contain myself; I could have done cartwheels! What he meant to be the crowning insult was for me the highest compliment a Christian could possibly receive! I didn’t realize it at the time…but that would prove to be the reason why he would listen to, and accept, what I had to say to him eight years later in that Brooklyn hospital as he lay on his death-bed and I presented the Gospel of Salvation to him. He could trust me!
I don’t know whether in the depths of your heart you really believe there is a God in Heaven or not, but this I do know…my boss’ god was money, but the Lord neutralized his god and made it to be of no value to him. He placed me in Arthur’s Company, commissioned me and prepared me to be His ministering spirit, for the purpose that 14 years later I would be there at that Brooklyn hospital, alone together with him, just he and I, four days before his death!
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Break up the fallow ground of your heart! Plant the good seeds of righteousness in your heart, and reap the blessings that your devotion to Me will produce. It is time for you to turn to Me, your Lord, and I will come and shower blessings of righteousness upon you. [Father God…Hos 10:12]
“Even now,” declares the Lord, “Return to Me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning. Rend your heart in deep sorrow, and not your garments! Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love; He is always ready to forgive and not punish.
If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” [Joel 2:12-13; 2 Chron 7:14-15]
Therefore, heed the warning of the Holy Spirit: “Today if you hear Jesus calling to you, do not harden your heart against Him." [Heb 3:7-8]
What is it that you are asking the Lord to do for you? What are the specific blessings you are praying for?
Personal revival. Revival begins in one's own heart. The prayer journey is a consecration of my heart to God, pleading with Him to bring revival, and to begin with me:
Longing for God...an ever deeper, more intimate, personal relationship with Him.
Hunger and thirst for personal holiness in my heart, manifested in living out my everyday life.
Seeking to keep on being continually filled with the Holy Spirit.
This is the entire focus for the prayer journey over the next fifty days. It is intensely personal in nature, a heart-cry to God to touch my life by His Spirit, and work a deep change in me. You may have this blessed assurance: you will never be the same again!
May the Eternal Christ Jesus the Lord bless you and keep you!
Michael