Paul understood the power of standing in the gap. • I remember spending hours in prayer over those who were making foolish decisions with their lives and they turned around toward the good path. Alice then gets an immediate knowing and prompting from the Holy Spirit that she is to immediately stand in the gap for her husband since he has no idea that this attack is getting ready to come his way. I heard that you were hurting. • If you do nothing after this message, you are just adding to the breach in the wall! It causes us to completely and totally depend upon Him to make it through this life in one piece. God and His supernatural power is the only answer to all of our life’s problems that can come our way. When you have to pray for something more than one time when using this type of prayer with God – it will come in waves. Ask God to help you identify why the wall is broken. • Any fool can take a sledge hammer and destroy a building, but only a few have to skill to design and build a beautiful structure. Learning how to be a real eagle, a real warrior for God to set the captives free like Scripture tells us to do – all seems to be too much of a hassle, too much of a responsibility, and too much of a burden in our fast paced, self-centered world. Thank you again and I solicit the prayers of the saints to pray for our marriage, my husband’s deliverance, my resolve and strength in Christ as well as our family. SKU: MN0050217 My heart is aching too. Error: Please enter a valid email address, Error: Password and password confirmation do not match. Used by permission. Greetings I come into agreement with what you have lifted up concerning your husband. Thank You!!!!!!! He had to find a separate place for them to meet, and later became the most powerful evangelist of the latter part of the eighteenth century and the founder of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She has recently written a book titled, “Beyond the Veil: God’s Call to Intimate Intercession.” In this book, she talks about how each of us can get beyond the veil with God to draw much closer to Him to establish a much more closer and intimate personal relationship with Him. The Bible says that God is no respecter of persons, which means what He will do for one, He will do for another. You then end the intercessory prayer at that point with God. This woman was shopping by herself in Home Depot when all of a sudden God gives her a vision in her mind’s eye of a man walking into her husband’s office with a gun and getting ready to kill her husband. • If you live by your feelings and emotions and do not get continually filled with the Holy Ghost, you are a breach maker! ©Niki Lott, 3/10/15. It could easily happen on the way to work or on the way home from work. Not something you do. Scripture taken from New King James I pray to help save people that I know and do not know as I embark of this journey of standing in the gap…in God. He implored his friends to pray for him: “I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me” (Romans 15:30). Sheet music arranged for Piano/Vocal/Chords in Ab Major. In this particular testimony, this woman only had to pray one time for God to move in and save her husband’s life. Abba Father, You are truly an amazing God. This woman had to immediately “stand in the gap” for her husband, go into prayer warfare and engage with the demons who were influencing this man to kill her husband. Other times, you may have to pray several times before a final release is given to you by the Holy Spirit that your prayer assignment has now been fully completed. 16:9; Job 2:2-3; Acts 13:22; John 4:23-24). How many Christians are in severe depressions because demons are playing mind games with them and tearing them up on the inside – all because they do not know that it is demons and if they did, they would not know how to get rid of them. From that time on, when I was only 19, I made up my mind that all of my time, gifts, talents, and abilities would be used to bring people to the Lord Jesus Christ. Then you can see in Luke 5:12-16, Jesus praying for another leper who got healed instantly. I recall the first time a dear friend stated, “I’m standing in the gap for you.” I had no idea what she meant. She had also prevented herself from becoming a widow had her husband been killed that day. Alice made one more comment after giving the above testimony on TV. I have over 95 of the best battle verses from the Bible collected on index cards. • Do you always serve the Lord with all your heart? To subscribe for a weekly teaching click here. She didn’t say how long the entire prayer lasted, but if I were to take a rough guess by the way she was talking, I would say it lasted anywhere from 15-45 minutes. • God is looking for people to stand between the living and the dead to stop the plague. God has been using me to intercede on others behalf and I love it. Read Numbers 16:41-49, when Aaron stood between the dead and the living to stop the plague God sent because of His wrath. You can believe for someone else. However, one year later the doctor died of natural causes. This book c… This woman’s name was Alice Smith. • If you get provoked to action but die out in a few days, you are adding to the breach in the wall! I believe i am an intercessor and will be grateful to be coached and nurtured on what exactly God expect of an intercessor. Calling out your name. It could be that you are that someone who could stand in the gap for another person. We believe in the Covenant of Marriage and stand on God's word concerning your family. I’m at a point in my life where I feel I need to seriously stand in the gap for my husband, entrusting him to God daily and interceding for him fervently. Loved the article. Warning God’s people to repent of their sins. This is exactly what I need right now and I am so glad that you are teaching about spiritual warfare. Paul understood the power of standing in the gap. However, I desire to do these with a heart of faith that God hears me, pushing out every form of fear and doubt. • God is searching the whole world for a person with a heart after Him (2 Chron. However, as the man got ready to leave the motel to do all of this, he all of a sudden “forgot” to bring the gun with him! Had Alice not known how to spiritually defend herself with the storm cloud that was getting ready to come her husband’s way – her husband could have lost his life that day. This sacrificial love by Moses is called for among His people today. Not only can we learn from our own stories and those of our friends, but we can also learn from other people’s testimonies that we do not know. • I remember spending hours singing in tongues and playing my guitar over a person backsliding until I got a breakthrough in the Spirit. She said she felt the burden of the Holy Spirit lift from her and that was how she knew she was done praying. It meant a shopping trip to find some bare necessities. Look at Luke 5:17-39. God’s people are getting killed and beat up because they lack the real working knowledge about God and how He operates. Missions that support our Vision: E. Enhance CAPABILITY. Alice said she actually started praying right there in the middle of Home Depot. I encourage you Mona, to shift gears in your prayers and begin to speak the things you believe has already happened in the spirit realm. For when your heart is aching. And look the other way. Last but not the least, even with Jesus on the cross of Calvary, you can see Him stand in the gap for the other robber being hung with Him in Luke 23:42-43. We prayed until we received a breakthrough. • If you get provoked to action but die out in a few days, you are adding to the breach in the wall! A Hole. Alice gets an immediate knowing from the Holy Spirit that the man with the gun is going to attempt to kill her husband. Moody was a shoe salesmen with a third grade education who once heard a Sunday school teacher say that the world has yet to see what God can do with a man who is fully devoted to Him. God will be more than happy to work with each and everyone of you if you want to tread into these types of deeper waters with Him. That you were suffering pain. This will help me as I am praying for friends and family in these areas. She said she was just going about her normal shopping when all of a sudden she receives a closed vision from God the Father. • God told William (Daddy) Seymour to pray 5 hours per day for years before God led him to start the meetings on Azusa Street in California. Thank you and God bless you all who stand in the gap, it is a truly priceless calling. III. He is seeking a man to stand in the gap for the sake of the land, so that he doesn’t have to destroy it. 2. Sometimes you only have to pray one time for something and you will be done with it. This burden is a manifestation that comes directly from the Holy Spirit. I was devastated, yet I now know that this was an attack and the Lord was waking me up to go higher in Him. When you go into intercessory prayer for someone else under the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, the actual amount of time you spend in each round may vary. I heard that you were hurting. As a result, there are some in the Christian Body who could not pray themselves out of a paper sack if they ever got caught in one as they have no real personal relationship established with God, no real working knowledge of His Word – no real knowledge of the enemy, his tactics, and how he likes to operate – and no real knowledge on how to pray or stand in the gap for anyone else to get God to move in with His supernatural power to bring freedom, healing, or deliverance. To date, thousands of Oklahomans have become empowered through Stand in the Gap. The above story is a perfect example of a woman doing all of this. This kind of deeper and heavier activity with the Lord is not very appealing to many Christians today. The destiny of a city or nation depends on your response, Ezekiel 22:30-31: “I found none. After praying to God on all of the above, she said she waited awhile before calling her husband. • Do you only serve the Lord with all your heart when times are hard? I am just stating the facts. You hear many pastors, teachers, intercessors, etc. Put these two verses together and the message is that God will not allow or bring into manifestation things we may really need unless we first ask and pray to Him for those specific needs. Per all of the articles I have done on Pleading the Blood of Jesus, warfare type praying, standing in the gap to pray for someone else’s need, and forming out battle prayers to God the Father – the above story is just another dramatic example of those principles actually being put into action in a real live “combat situation.”. You will receive an immediate burden from the Holy Spirit to start praying. I believe God has it set up this way in an effort to draw us closer to Him in the personal relationship that He wants to establish with each and every one of us. • The prophets took the treasures from the people (prophesied for money) and prophesied lies to the people (they spoke peace and prosperity when judgment was coming). Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Pray with authority. She said this event occurred about 8 years ago. • God’s response: He sought for one man to stand in the gap. Let me help you bear your burdens. I am so happy I found this website. • D.L. There is a Scripture verse that says “deep calling unto deep.” God is deep and He is calling all of us to come into these deeper waters with Him. Think about this! Lord, today I thought of some old friends and others who are lost. How many Christians are dying before their allotted times are really up with God the Father? I am really going through a great trial in my life and truly understand what God has called me to do as an intercessor. Other times He will not. During Ezekiel’s day, there were many things going on in society that were similar to our day (read Ezekiel 22:23-31): • The priests made no difference between the holy and the profane. Is it biblical to stand in someone else’s place and get hands laid on you and prayer for that persons problem or sickness? However, since the man got saved one year earlier in his office, both Alice and her husband feel that this man is definitely in heaven right now. It was obviously God Himself who did the actual rescuing and delivering of both her husband and doctor that day. In these types of emergency situations, God will prompt you to stand in the gap to start praying for someone else. 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