Today's Journal

Date: 02/07/08
Title: "Prayer for a God Invasion"


Scripture: Isa 64:1 Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!

Observation:
Hear the cry of the prophet's heart here. I hear a groaning cry. A cry that is tired of religion and form. Here is a prayer that invokes an invasion of God upon the earth.

Whoever heard of mountains trembling? Perhaps during a volcanic eruption - but mountains usually represent grandeur, strength, even pride and arrogance. The scripture speaks of mountains being made low before the coming of the Lord.

Only God can make the mountains tremble! That is why the cry of this prayer is not for anything except the mighty power of God's own presence.

Application: This is the cry that I feel welling within me. In fact I feel and believe that this is the kind of prayer that God is causing to well up within His church worldwide.

We must give ourselves to this prayer. A prayer that firstly groans then cries out... Oh that heaven would invade us!

This prayer came from looking upon the desolation of the temple...
Isa 64:10 Your sacred cities have become a desert; even Zion is a desert, Jerusalem a desolation. 11 Our holy and glorious temple, where our fathers praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.

Surely this depicts the state of the church in our day.

Prayer: Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains would tremble before you!