1. DURING SOAKING TIMES – WAITING ON GOD
Psalm 130:6 My soul waits for the Lord, More than the watchmen for the morning; INDEED,
MORE THAN the watchmen for the morning.
- Find a place and posture that suits you either in the large room
or the glassed in room.
- Sit, lie down, walk about quietly, use the flags if you do it
without distracting others
- Wait on God
- If you want to know how to do that, there is a guideline sheet of
suggestions of how to posture your spirit to wait and hear from God.
- Please be considerate of others and not get loud. You can pray
audibly in a quiet way, but do not bring attention to yourself, so
others can focus on God and enter in.
2. DURING CORPORATE INTERCESSION TIMES
Matthew 18:19 “Again I
say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they
may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven”.
Acts 4: 31 “And when they had prayed, the place where they had
gathered together
Was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and
began to speak the word of
God with boldness.”
- Follow the leaders who have taken time to discern for the
meeting
- We are always open to anything the Lord may be saying. There
will be time given to share and submit words. When we start to have
several words come with the same focus, we believe God is speaking as
it is confirmed through two or three witnesses.
If it is your first time, we ask that you be considerate of this as the direction can be
distracted and we want to be obedient to the Holy Spirit and what he
wants to focus on in each meeting. We all have our personal focuses
and even other focuses (city, or nation, or nations) which are all
very important, but during a prayer meeting with a certain focus, we
need to lay down those issues for the higher corporate purpose that
the Holy Spirit is directing for that specific moment.Also, we may
know how to do that, but even in each meeting, there may be certain
targets that are on His heart and we need to lay down that which we
think is a “good” target of prayer that even fits with the focus, but
which may be a human idea of what needs to be prayed for.
We are
trying to catch the vein of what God wants prayed for in each
meeting. God’s heart, not good ideas. There is a specific timing in
God’s plans for everything. If we just try to put everything into one
pile, it may be human understanding and hinder the higher purposes of
God. We are trying to be discerning of what is on God’s heart for
each meeting. God wants us to be like the sons of Issachar who knew
the times and seasons of God and knew what to do.
Please feel free to
email us during the week if you are getting something from the Lord.
If you are one who faithfully attends a certain prayer meeting, we
believe you will be hearing from God as you are waiting on Him during
the week. These emails will help us in discerning focus for the
prayer meeting. Don’t hesitate to email.
- If there is an open time given to pray and declare, stay on the
focus. Don’t be overly long unless the Holy Spirit is
blowing on it.
PLEASE NOTE:
PERSONAL MINISTRY:
As people come from different churches, we encourage you to get
personal ministry as much as possible in your home church/ family
setting.
At the House of Prayer, we want to mainly focus on corporate issues,
for the city, nation and nations.
OFFENSES:
Mark 11:25
"Whenever you [Matt 6:5] stand praying, [Matt 6:14] forgive, if you
have anything against anyone, so that your Father who is in heaven
will also forgive you your transgressions.
But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father who is in heaven
forgive your transgressions.”
You are welcome to be here at the House of Prayer. However, we want
to remind you of the above scripture. If any of us have undealt with
offense against a person, or church, or in any way in our hearts, God
does not forgive us. He especially reminds us of this when we are
posturing ourselves to pray.
How do we deal with offense? To be effective, we need to repent of
unforgiveness, judgment, bitterness and resentment. We need to
forgive those that have hurt us, and to have a generous spirit toward
them and press in for healing where it is needed. Sometimes these
things take time. Soaking in His presence helps the ground of our
heart to soften.