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 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.
When you go there, supper had better already be made or it might not get made.
When you go there, you turn off your mobile phones.
When you go there, you go with reverence and awe.
But you
and I were made for such a time as this. You were created to be in this place and be emptied of self and full of
God."
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