You want to know how to get into this place,
in the presence of God, in the inner court, the holy of holies, that
place where God is God and you are in Him; the place can be anywhere, but you get
into this place by supplication.
I asked
God, can’t you give me a better buzz word than supplication? And God said to
me, “ you want a better word than, “the place where you go in the spirit and
stay there, bound together with Me, until
the urgent requests that are on your heart have all been thoroughly dealt with
and the answers you need have all been thoroughly revealed, the place where you
come wanting and leave filled?” “You
want a different word?”
Forgive
me LORD. For I am foolish and
proud. No I don’t want a different word.
Supplication is that word.
Supplication
is a complex word and comes from a combination of five Greek words, that simply
mean: “the
place where you go in the spirit and stay there, bound together with God, until the urgent
requests that are on your heart have all been thoroughly dealt with and the
answers you need have all been thoroughly revealed, the place where you come
wanting and leave filled?”
Supplication
is used 60 times in the old and new testament.
Almost
everyone who came into the presence of God, came via supplication. Moses, David, Solomon, Jeremiah, Isaiah,
Daniel, Ezekiel, Peter, Paul, You and I come into this special place by
supplication.
There’s
not a lot of talk about supplication because supplication takes effort.
Supplication
means travail and patience, sweat and tears.
Supplication means finding time
to go to God, not setting time limits for how long God is permitted to
commune with you.
Supplication
means setting aside your plans just long enough to discuss them with the plan
Maker.
It may
take only seconds, it may take hours, it may take longer, but nobody rushes God
behind the veil."
Excerpt
from God Thinking XIV - The Inner Court by Keith C. Powell Copyright 2013
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