The whole book of Ephesians is wonderful for meditation. It tells us who we are in Christ. I want to share an example of a prayer and meditation—based on Ephesians 1:17—that I pray and say every day.
My eyes stay open through the watches of the night, that I may meditate on your promises.
(Ps. 119:148)
The whole book of Ephesians is wonderful for meditation. It tells us who we are in Christ. I want to share an example of a prayer and meditation—based on Ephesians 1:17—that I pray and say every day.
First, I pray it over those in authority, both government and spiritual leaders. Then I pray it over myself. You can also pray this over your loved ones.
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
(Eph. 1:17)
I pray through verse 23 and then go over to Ephesians 2, verses 1, 5, and 6.
First, I pray the prayer part. Then I meditate on my position in Christ. God has raised me up together with Christ, and I am seated with Him in the heavenlies—far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named! How could we ever feel depressed when we are so seated and blessed!
Meditating on God’s Word is not difficult. It just requires a little time and effort on your part. But if you will commit to do it, God’s Word will not return void. It will transform your life. 1
Pray the prayers in Ephesians 1 and 2, and meditate on the wonderful promises that are yours because of your new life in Christ.
1 Billye Brim, Make Your Day Count magazine (July-Sept. 2003) p. 10.
by Lindsay Roberts
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Billye Brim's Christian heritage is rich. She sensed the call of God in early childhood. However, it was only after an encounter with the Holy Spirit in 1967, that she as a young wife and mother of four began to follow Him to walk out her call. For almost ten years she served as Editor of Publications for Kenneth E. Hagin Ministries where she also taught at Rhema Bible Training Center.
Immediately after ordination in 1980, she traveled to Soviet Russia in what proved to be ongoing ministry there. Since then she has literally ministered around the world several times over.
Kent and Billye Brim with Lee and Jan Morgans founded a local church in Collinsville, Oklahoma. A Glorious Church Fellowship is the foundation of Billye Brim Ministries and Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri, and the soon-to-be-built Migdal Arbel Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
When Kent passed away in 1986, Billye was led to "study Hebrew in the Land." Studying at Ulpan Akiva in Israel led to the unique Seminar Tours she has guided in the Land from 1986 to now. It also provided a pattern for the Prayer and Study Center in Israel.
"Helping Pray-ers" is a God-given directive in her life. One place this happens is at Prayer Mountain in the Ozarks near Branson, Missouri. On 200 plus acres log cabins provide places for individual prayer or small prayer groups. Corporate prayer meetings are held twice a week in the chapel.
On Wednesdays at 12 Noon Central Time, the meeting is streamed live. Pray-ers (who have named themselves World-Wide Pray-ers) join in united prayer via thousands of computers in more than 60 nations. This prayer is focused primarily on an Awakening to God. For in a corporate prayer meeting in June 2008, Billye Brim and the pray-ers were impressed with these words: One thing will save America…an Awakening to God. One thing will avail for Israel and the nations, An Awakening to God. Several thousand pray-ers from around the world gather in Branson for an Autumn Assembly of Prayer she hosts.
Billye Brim is blessed to work with others across the Body of Christ. She strongly believes in walking out what Scripture teaches that we are one Body, with one Head, one Spirit, one Lord.
First Corinthians 10:32 is foundational in Billye Brim's ministry. The "good works that He has ordained that she should walk in" involve activity among the Jews, the Nations, and the Church-all to the Glory of God.