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ELUL, THE 14TH DAY – A Prayer for Unity and Peace

Ascending the steps of Jerusalem in Prayer…

September 2nd: READING & PRAYING PSALMS 133-142

Ref: ELUL, OUR 29 DAY BANQUET OF PRAYER… TO HONOR THE KING OF GLORY!

There are fifteen Psalms of Ascent, 120–134 (119–133 in the Septuagint and the Vulgate). Known as songs of ascent due to the tradition of signing these specific Psalms of peace while in route ascending to Jerusalem, or ascending Mount Zion or ascending the steps of the Temple. 

PSALM 133 —A Psalm of Ascent

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

2 It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

3 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

Verse 1 and 2

The Priest was anointed for Life. This is why the oil was poured over his head at such a level that it ran down from his head and saturated his garments. He was drenched in the anointing oil to such an extent that even his sons were covered under his anointing. The anointing was their inheritance.

Aaron was known for his ability to help the brethren resolve disputes. His talents were utilized by Heaven to restore all levels of relationships; friendships, marriages. His ability to bring people back into right alignments, back into a place unity and friendship was legendary.

At his death it was said that there were 80,000 Aarons at his memorial service. A testimony to the number of marriages he helped and the people he impacted with his ministry. He would go to great lengths to reignite love, peace and kindness. He would appeal to the parties in a dispute and motivate them towards reconciliation, with such finesse that they thought it was their own idea to settle the matter and lay down their animosity and anger.

Their were many facets to the priestly robes, but one we need to recall is the of the ephod. The ephod contained the symbols (stones) of all twelve tribes. So when the oil flowed down Aarons’ garments, it covered the ephod in the same anointing oil. As Aaron was anointed, all twelve tribes were partakers in the same anointing, as one unified nation of people.

Verse 3

Mt Hermon: https://images.app.goo.gl/MH2Uh8J7CWipU46k9

Important pieces of information to know: de in Hebrew is ‘tal’. Mt. Hermon stands 9, 232 feet high and resides in the North. Mt Zion is 2, 510 feet high and resides in the South.

An enormous amount of dew falls on Mt Hermon during the better part of the year. When its not raining, their is dew, and the dew nourishes the land, the plants and fruits thrive.

Zion has a drier climate, less rain, less dew. In a year when the dew comes to Mt. Zion, the fruits and plants prosper and grow, as if a supernatural fertilizer has been poured over the land.

The dew of Heaven is as nourishing as the rain. The entire land is refreshed, prospers and grows. The harvest is bountiful. The symbolism of the dew connects us to spiritual blessings, a refreshing, unity, harmony, growth, prosperity, etc.

OUR PRAYER

Lord, we pray for the unity of your people. Send us our Aarons, with words of peace and reconciliation, words of harmony and love. Send us words and visions of peace in our dreams. Show us every place hat we block and frustrate the bonds of peace. Shows us the people that you are waiting for us to reconcile with. Show us the pathway to unity.

Help us to break down the walls of partition that we have created or the ones we did not build but have allowed to remain. Teach us how to remove them. What shall we do? What are the first steps we need to take?

For every nation that is in a dry and barren place, we seek the anointing. We desire unity LORD, We desire peace for your people. Saturate our dry places with the dew of Heaven, like the dew of Mt. Hermon.

We who are in a dry place, for everyone in a dry place, we beseech you LORD for the blessing, for the rain, for the dew.

May the oil from the bread of Aaron, renew us again.

Amen.


	

	
	




	
	

			
	

				

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A PLACE WHERE GOD’S PRESENCE CAN MEET YOU…

		

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And he called the name of that place Bethel:                                                                                           but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.                                                                       Genesis 28:19






And he called the name of that place House of GOD:                                                                                           but the name of that city was called ‘Light’ at the first.                                                                       Genesis 28:19










A few questions have come up regarding “getting into a place where the anointing dwells”.





You have to create a place for the anointing, or allow to designate one.





Is there one place in your home that you can dedicate to the Presence of GOD?  I have a friend who had a nice size walk in closet for her and her husband’s use and that actually became her prayer closet!  (I hope she post a comment on this blog so that everyone will know how sincere I am being).





Laura adorned her closet with comfy pillows against one wall of the closet, underneath her dresses.  She had a pad of blankets on the floor, with her bibles and books and I think I remember a CD player for praise and worship music.





She owned a beautiful 4 bedroom home, with plenty of nooks and cranny’s, but her personal prayer retreat became the closet, and she could be in there for hours.





In one home I had the coziest little bathroom.  There were 2 baths and just me, so the guest bath became a place of solitude.  I loved the position and placement of the room, the windows, the view, the tile and molding.  It was actually all quite nice. It felt like a luxury bath/suana at a really nice hotel.  I owned a sofa that used to be positioned at the end of my bed. It was made of pine wood (a nice aroma) and I always filled it with nice sized, soft pillows and moved it to my spa like bathroom at that time.   I could be in there for hours praying.





Another time, I fell head over heels for a little bench at a Presidential Museum, in the garden area.  It was so secluded, hidden away in a nice little corner where few visitors ever walked.  I used to go there, when I wanted an outdoors garden atmosphere that my concrete garden condo never provided.





I’ve chosen private-never ever used balconies, private prayer walks along a selective path at a dedicated time each day.  





These days, I hide away in my bedroom–the compfiest place of all- ever! Where I’m surround by all my books and pillows and comfortable blankets, in a room that captures the sun and blocks all the outside noise. 





I have another friend, that owns a business where she sees patients on a private individual basis.  There are no other people present during their appointments.  Because of the secluded, one on one nature of my friends business, her place also doubles as a place of prayer in between appointments. The decor is meticulous, from the pleasant aromas, the 5 star personal service, you feel special, cared for and it is like, you are the only person in the world that matters.





Her customers refuse to leave the place and will stretch out their time in her spa for 2-3- 4 hours if she does not stop them. (Next customer is coming folks!)  





Iv’e had special places –my own personal possessions–at the beach for the occasional emergency- this needs to happen today by any means necessary– kind of places for prayer!  





Which, miraculously, always seems to be cleared of people whenever I HAD to get there for a personal emergency discussion with GOD. This is my bursting down the door, kung fu fighting anyone who dares try to stop me- I MUST SEE THE KING–kind of appointment–           A Divine Appointment with GOD – My MOED- on whatever day of the week it is required!





GOD ALWAYS Answers me at the Beach!  It’s a special agreement that we have.





What do all of these places have in common?   





Seclusion, privacy, peace and tranquility.  Customized atmospheres.  Minimal foot traffic, if any.  Each dedicated to a specific, controlled use.  Clean, organized, inviting, no tv’s, no radios, no internet, no outside noise, no common usage whatsoever.  No confusion, no arguments, no bad/profane language, not even a secular book of any kind.  





Pleasant and peaceful colors, scented candles, no common or profane conversations or communications… silence, selective communication or only prayer, praise and worship.





Find a place, that you can dedicate to the anointing as if it was the temple itself.  Once it was my living room, because no one in the house ever spent time there.  I guess it was for decoration purposes only, until it became a place for the anointing.  Then everyone just wanted to sit in it.  I had to redirect them to other places of interest!  (This is not for you, people!).  I said that with love, of course.  🙂 





Take your best, whatever you have and place it there for the King.  Even if it’s only you and your bible.  Make the place your own.  When Heaven sees you at The Place, the Heavenly Court will recognize your intentions, and all of Heaven will come down and grace you with the anointing.





This becomes your secret place.  The place where GOD will meet you, there.  It could be library (some have an adorable quiet, unadulterated atmosphere).  It could be a broom closet in your home. It just has to be set apart for the anointing.  





The more consecrated, dedicated time you spend there in love and thanksgiving (just sheer appreciation and dedication), the more you will see of the Presence of GOD.  The more you pray, praise and worship there, the more you will come into contact with the Power of GOD.





This place can become so powerful that people who don’t know GOD, will feel the Presence of GOD.  Company will start to confess things that you did not even ask or want to know.   People will welcome prayer, be moved to tears, people will want to stay, people that curse will stop.  It’s amazing what you shall behold in this place!





Find Your Special Place at the Beach, the Bathroom, the Balcony, the Garage, the Closet, the Garden… Find Your Place!





Pick a place and just make it The Place…  Make wherever you are The Place!





I can be nicely laid out, but it doesn’t have to be.  Plain is absolutely beautiful and GOD will reside with plain.  It’s certainly His Favorite place.  God just wants to be in the company of His most personal “treasured’ possession… You!





So the next time, when the angels see you headed for the beach… they will just turn toward the direction of where ever your enemies are located, and say,





“We Got This!”





It’s called the The Place of GOD’s Presence…






And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: Genesis 19:27





And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering,                               and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.                                             Genesis 22:3





Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.                    Genesis 22:4
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son,                                                                        and laid him on the altar upon the wood. Genesis 22:9





And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set;     and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows,                                             and lay down in that place to sleep. Genesis 28:11





But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: Deut. 12:5










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SPIRITUAL BASICS: Increasing the Anointing in Your Life…

		

			 		

	


		

		

There are a number of ways to maximize the anointing in your life.  Simple and straightforward to explain, yet difficult to accomplish without a strong commitment to self-discipline.





For anyone that wants to increase the anointing over their life, they will have to equally increase their determination to die to self.  





And therein lies the rub…





For those who have been in my classes, you will have heard me speak often of my bootcamp training days in the anointing (which really never stops).  The biggest challenge for me was “not kicking against the pricks.”  Of course, dying to self is the critical first step we all must accept, in order to place ourselves in a position to walk in the anointing.  





The Yoke Shall Be Destroyed Because of The Anointing…    Isaiah 10:27





I would think that most of our Pastors have labored to teach us the meaning of Isaiah’s message—learning to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit.  





I’m fortunate enough to have had a grandfather who owned a farm, and I can remember him caring for the animals.  Leading his ox by the plow took minimal strength from my grandfather, because his ox was so adapted to the work, he practically led himself.





Obedience is a fundamental standard for qualification.





It was only when I relinquished the reigns, that the anointing was able to flow in my life.    In fact, this particular spiritual character flaw is the gage I use to assess whether or not I am resisting the WORD.  Being willful and resisting instruction will cause us to miss out completely on what GOD is doing.  





When I see my flesh getting in the way, I just stop and obey… I simply do, whatever it is I’m trying to resist doing.  When I’m paying close attention, I can catch myself and stop myself from engaging in small infractions… which in turn, prevent disobedience from escalating.  





Walking in the anointing means not resisting the small directional adjustments the LORD wants to make in our walk. 





Quickly Repent and Keep Moving Forward…





We each know when we are being willful, headstrong, defiant, difficult, etc.  Just stop.            Ask GOD for a better way.  We each know enough of GOD’s Word, in order to be able to respond in a more excellent way, or at the very least, recognize the type of behavior that displeases GOD and stop.  





Whenever we do what is personally difficult, but spiritually better for us and another person, that’s a small adjustment worthy of our time to make, in which we can then give honor GOD.  In taking this simple small step in dying to self, you will protect the anointing on your life and on the lives of others.   





Our Primary Objective, is Not to Grieve the Spirit of GOD.  





Our relationship with GOD becomes the principle thing.  What are we willing to do to please GOD and to preserve the flow of the anointing in our lives?  





GOD calls those who serve Him,  His personal possession (Ex 30:31 KJV).  





Have you set yourself aside for His personal use?   This would mean that we use all of our GOD given talents and abilities for Kingdom purposes.  





How can you serve the Kingdom of Heaven and lift the level of holiness?





Both our strengths and our weaknesses can be used for Heavens purpose.  Our strengths can be used to advance the Kingdom of Heaven, our weaknesses will help us to rely on the Spirit of GOD. 





Just a few more small measures we can take, to draw closer to GOD.