God is wanting to do such mighty things now. The end of this age is bearing down rapidly upon us and He is fervently desiring to break through in power upon humanity.

He is longing to show Himself as God so that all the people of the earth might have the opportunity to worship Him.

Despite His burning desire, however, God still cannot do anything in the earth unless someone asks Him. That is the way He has always worked. And even in these most urgent final hours, He holds to that way of doing things.

So He is reaching out now to those who will pray.

Many times in the past it has been as if we were reaching out to Him. But these days the tables are turned. He is reaching out to us with great strength and intensity. He is saying to us, "Ask! Ask! ASK OF ME!"

He is moving upon us to pray prayers of supplication. He is stirring us to obey Ephesians 6:18 by "praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit."

If you will study the word supplication, you will find it means an earnest entreaty or request. It means to ask from the heart with deep feeling and fervency. It isn't just a casual asking. To supplicate, you must desire something so desperately that you cannot be satisfied until you receive it.

In these days of destiny, God needs for us to do more than make simple requests of Him. He needs for us to have His heart. He wants us to be so aflame with His desires that we cry out in desperation for them to be fulfilled.

I've experienced some of that kind of desire in recent days. There have been times in prayer when I so yearned for God to display His greatness that I felt absolutely undone. There have been times when my spirit was so ablaze with the flame of God it seemed I would just burn up! Others here have had the same experience.

Surely it was this kind of spirit of supplication that came upon the prophet Isaiah when he spoke to the Lord and said:

Oh, that You would rend the heavens and that You would come down, that the mountains might quake and flow down at Your presence—as when the fire kindles the brushwood and the fire causes the waters to boil—to make Your name known to Your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at Your presence!
(Isa. 64:1-2)

Obviously, we cannot muster up such fervency on our own. It must be granted to us by God. But we can cooperate with Him by yielding to Him. We can learn to work with Him more effectively so that He can instill and enlarge His desires in our hearts.

One way we can do that is by lifting up to Him the desires He has already placed within us, even though they may seem to be initially quite small. If we will do that, He will be faithful to send those desires back to us in a stronger way.

As we continue in that cycle, we will grow in fervency until we reach the level of power and intensity to which God is lifting us. Then God can use our prayers to do the great things He is longing to do.

Isaiah 55:8-11 describes this process so beautifully. There, the Lord says:

...My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. For as the rain and snow come down from the heavens, and return not there again, but water the earth and make it bring forth and sprout, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes forth out of My mouth: it shall not return to Me void [without producing any effect, useless] but it shall accomplish that which I please and purpose, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

One word of caution is necessary here. As we continue to pray and our burden of prayer increases, it is sometimes a temptation to talk more to others about it than we should. We must be alert and not to yield to that temptation. Too much talking can dissipate the desire of our heart. It can dilute the prayer burden God is giving us. So we must guard against that.

I'm not saying you should never speak at all about what God is putting in your heart. At times, the Lord may lead you to share something with another pray-er in order to help them. If so, that's fine. Just be sure you're being led by the Lord.

Just remember that our fervency must be granted from God. Let His spirit of supplication come upon you, just like the prophet Isaiah, in order to lift you into a new position and place in God. A place where your prayers can be used more effectively by God because of a newness of power and intensity.

Excerpted from the newsletter Prayer Notes by Lynne Hammond
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