PRAYING WITH THE LORD TODAY--FOR GRACE AND MERCY --- Intercessions with Starla

From: Rabbitale@aol.com

November 7th

(I awoke early this morning to the movement of a strong wind outdoors.)

This morning I am really feeling moved to pray for an outpouring of GRACE upon men and women. I am feeling it for the nation in general. It is an intercessory cry for mercy. The following Scriptural phrase is come to me: "For the Grace of God has been made apparent to all people." I don’t know where it is from...the call to prayer is that the grace of God will be made apparent to all.

I am also sensing a need to pray for grace in families. For children to understand grace. And, too, for grace to replace shame: to uproot it, supplant it in the lives of individuals.

This is a general call but very strong. I have felt it for maybe 20 or more minutes now, but it has not let up .I want to go into the Word and look up the verses about grace….

There needs to be a grace awakening within the Body of Christ. We have not yet tapped the depths of grace. We know so little about applying grace. We understand so little of its power, its ways. I am crying now. I want to know this!

Early this morning, before 6 a.m., when I first awoke, I was thinking on the Personality of God that He could do such awesome things in the hearts of hard men and women. I had a flash vision of the nature of humankind (unregenerate) and with it came a horrible smell of something rotting. I wondered that God would even find something to restore in us. I began to marvel at such GRACE that could restore us!… Who is this Divine Person, that He could do such a thing? Surely the power does not lie in the value or properties of the thing restored!…

I am weeping now. Weeping because our hearts have been so hard that we have declared the hardest hearts reprobate and unrenewable. We have not prayed for those hard cases with believing hearts and the Lord is displeased with us! It is not for their sins that their hearts are unrenewable—it has been for the hardness of our own hearts, for the dimness of our own eyes, for the limitations of our own minds. …

I’m in travail now…. The Lord would have us pray now for grace to pray for those hardened judges and magistrates and persons in places of authority as if their hearts were baby-soft and easily permeable to the matchless graces of Jesus Christ!!

And I say, Yes, Lord! Yes, you may have Your way with them and with us. I confess, Lord, that I, that we, YOUR BODY, have not taken seriously our work to pray for them. We have not prayed for the unregenerate masses that line our streets, flank our neighborhoods, wait in line with us at the local grocers. I have prayed for Africa, I have prayed for Asia, but have I prayed for America?

…We have not yet begun to release the grace of Christ! There are unreleased vials, aqueducts full, of the grace of Christ which have yet to be delivered, but I see these as on the conveyer belt of time. They are passing us by, unused, because they remain yet stoppered, unopened by the Church of God! …Seasons and eras when the grace of Christ would have changed the course of history had they been released. I am weeping now as I write.

UNLEASH! UNSTOP! THE WALLS OF GRACE, THE DAM OF GRACE—LET IT FLOW!

I feel the Lord’s tender mercy and His Hand upon me. I will, Starla, I will. You have but to ask. Ask and it shall be given you. (There is no describing the way this marvelous promise hits me.) A series of continuous cries has gone out from me like a human shofar.

AS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH...

The Lord wants to do something for us IN GRACE as he did in the days of the Flood. He is asking me to release the FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP and the STOREHOUSES OF HEAVEN. Singing in the Spirit, the sound of a shofar—clear and high. I am turned to the North, the East, the South, and the West. I hear in the ears of my spirit the crash of the walls as in the walls of Jericho, the walls of the DAM OF SALVATION! So tiny, so small, so seemingly useless to the whole of this great plan—why am I allowed to witness this?

It is a symbol (I am yet weeping!) of the whole way of God’s grace to all of mankind. That we should experience any of all that He ALONE has done, is itself great, disproportionate GRACE!!!

I just got down on my knees and had to sing, "How Great That Thou Art!" at the top of my lungs.

WOW! I am so humbled, but so, so grateful. LORD GOD, Almighty Creator, create in my heart place for the bigness of Your love! Make me an instrument of Your grace to this languishing planet. Consume me with this new baptism of GRACE and set Your Body aflame with the Truth of it! Purge from us the forms and doctrines and personal opinions/dogmas that war against it. Make us new wineskins for I sense so much that in answer to our prayers You have released something magnificent onto this earth. Give us wineskins that will hold the wine! For Jesus’ sake! AMEN.