What have you been searching for?

"Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and heed you. Then you will seek Me, inquire for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart."~Jeremiah29:12-13(Amplified)

"Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart."~Jeremiah29:12-13(NIV)


Have you ever lost something and could not rest until you found it? Well put yourself in the position of never having had something, but desiring above all else to obtain it. For instance say you never felt love, and you wanted to obtain love. Or say you never felt abundant joy, and you desired to obtain that joy. At what lengths would you go to obtain those things that you desire? We have to ask ourself just what are we willing to do to have a thriving relationship with the Lord! It is going to take some seeking. I mean some searching, but it is oh so worth it!

I love that the scripture says you will call and pray to me, and I will listen to you. Isn't it amazing to know that the words that we speak to the Father are not in vain. He hears every word. He sees every tear. But oh it does not stop there, the scripture tells us that we will seek for Him and find Him when we seek with our whole heart! Our whole heart, my friend. That means we can't just think we are going to give a half hearted effort and be in the presence of God! It is going to cost you something. It is going to take a sacrifice! It is going to take an act of obedience! It is going to take all of you, my friend.

If you are at a place where you need more love, more hope, more joy, more peace, more of an abundant life it is time to seek God more! It is time to really lay aside your pride and your preconceived notions of how you will hear from God. It is time to allow God to reveal Himself to you. This can only happen when you earnestly and diligently seek Him. You can have more love! You can have more joy! You can have more peace! You can have an abundant life! Do you know how? By seeking God above all else! In order to have more of these attributes you have to have more of God!

Don't allow another day, another minute, another second to go by without you dwelling in the presence of the Most high! It is time to not just know who God is! It is time to have a relationship with the King of Kings! It is time to know without a shadow of a doubt that when you pray that God hears your prayers! It is time to know, that you know, that you know, that when you seek for God that you shall find Him! It is time, my friend! Seek God above all else and you shall find Him! He is waiting! What have you been searching for?

Have You Reached A Spiritual Plateau?

When we are working out we can hit a plateau! When we keep doing the same thing with the same resistance, we can get to a place where we no longer get results. In the beginning, when we work out we loose weight and we see results. If we keep the same routine, we can hit a plateau and we no longer see results! We may not be gaining weight but we are not seeing any results. Has anybody hit a plateau?

In our spiritual walk we can also hit a plateau. (A spiritual plateau) In the beginning you where on fire for God. The glory of God was all over you. You were hearing from God and you spent quality time in His presence. You reaped great benefits from spending that quality time like peace, joy, and soundness of mind. But you got to a place that I like to call a spiritual plateau and you no longer reap the full benefits of walking with God!

In order to begin to loose weight a person has to switch their routine up. You have to add intensity, or resistance, or work out for a longer period of time. To get out of your spiritual plateau one must seek God more! Give to God more sacrificially! When the word sacrifice is used many automatically assume financial sacrifice. Know that God is ready to reveal Himself to those who eagerly sacrifice their time, praise, worship, lifestyle, gifts, talents, and money! 

If reading 30 minutes a day of your word use to meet your spiritual needs, you may have to read 30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes at night. If just coming to church without serving on a ministry use to be okay in your spiritual walk, you will have to pray and seek God and get your hips active in a ministry! If you are on a ministry but you are stagnant, then I submit to you, that you need to seek God more. Seek God like never before! Ask God to reveal Himself to you in every area of your life! Change and increase your desire to seek God and watch how God takes you out of your spiritual plateau! "He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."~Hebrew11:6 

And it is so!

It is so important to get before God and just lift up one another. It is also just as important to get before God and just praise Him for His faithfulness! I am humbled and honored to be able to go before our Father God and touch and agree with you! So join me in going before God together on one accord!

Father God I come before you magnifying and exalting your holy name! Father I thank you for this day! I thank you for this set time. A set time to come together on one accord before our Father and cry out and intercede for one another! Father you are so worthy of all the glory and honor. Father I come before you this day to just lift up my brothers and sister in Christ. Father show yourself mighty in our lives in the mighty name of Jesus! I thank you that no weapon that is formed against us will be able to prosper and every tongue that rises against us will be condemned! We praise you for that promise in the mighty name of Jesus!

I ask that you would lead, guide, and direct us in the way that you desire for us to take. Make the way plain in the mighty name of Jesus. Father I ask that you would create in us a clean a heart and renew a right spirit within each of us. Father we desire to be closer to you. You said those that diligently seek you will find you! So Father we come earnestly seeking you! You said that if we knock the door would be opened for us so Father we come knocking today! We come with one purpose and that is to be in the presence of our Daddy! We desire to hear from you Lord. You said those that have an ear let us hear what the spirit of the Lord is saying! So speak Lord! We will choose this day to lay aside every weight and every hinderance that will come and try to distract us from hearing from you! Father move like only you can and draw us closer in love!

I pray for marriages right now God. I pray that you would knit husbands and wives together like never before. I pray that you would rekindle passion within marriages! Father allow marriages to be a reflection of your greatness of your mercy and of your love! I pray that there will be unity in marriages in the name of Jesus!

I pray for singles. I pray that you would lead them in what you desire for them to be doing in this season of their lives. Father I pray that you would place a hedge of protection around your singles! Continue to pour wisdom and revelation into them!

I pray for children. I pray that our children will be lights shining bright for you even in their youth. I pray that our children will cry out to you even in their youth! I thank you that you are hiding your word in their hearts! They will be brought up with fear and admonition of the Lord in the name of Jesus!

I pray for men as a whole that you would show them who they are in your eyes. They are mighty men of valor! I speak favor over men so that wherever you lead them they shall be prosperous! Father I thank you for the warrior spirit that you are creating in your men! Thank you Father for equipping your men for the battle in the mighty name of Jesus!

I pray for women as a whole. I pray that you would reveal who they are in your eyes. They are women of virtue! Father I thank you that women will know their worth and not rely on anyone to validate them! You alone are the one who lifts up our head and who has redeemed us! Father we thank you that we will be quick to listen and slow to speak in the mighty name of Jesus!

Father God thank you for the authority through and in Christ Jesus to be able to declare a thing according to your word and it is so! I declare in the mighty name of Jesus that because of the Holy Ghost dwelling on the inside of us we are going to be environment changers! Just our very presence because of who you are in us is going to create an atmosphere pleasing to you! We are going to pull down strongholds in the name of Jesus. Generational curses are going to be severed in the name of Jesus! Father we declare healing and deliverance right now in the name of Jesus! By Jesus' stripes we are already healed and we declare that healing! You are the God that heals us! You are the great physician! And we thank and praise you in advance for out healing! We thank you for liberty in Jesus name!  Liberty to be free to praise you! Liberty worship you! Liberty to live a life pleasing to you in the mighty name of Jesus! Father we count it as done and we rejoice in the mighty name of Jesus Amen!