 Well good afternoon everybody we're gonna go ahead and get started and we'll just let everybody else from the food trucks stumble in a little bit later. My name is Tammy and today the workshop that we're talking about is beauty, the fuel for our intercession just to make sure everybody's in the right place. Let's go ahead and open in prayer. So Jesus we love you and we thank you for your heart for the intercessors that you were appointing on the wall in the cities of the earth. In Holy Spirit we invite your ministry now. We just say Lord would you reveal your tender heart as the great intercessor to us? Would you strengthen your praying people God? Lord as I open my mouth would you just let me stand before you and be an oracle of your heart this morning? We ask for your anointing and grace to say yes to that place of prayer Lord in our own cities to that place of intimate partnership with your heart. We welcome you here. Find your pleasure in Jesus name amen. Okay well today we're talking about a very crucial and sustaining dynamic for the prayer movement that God is raising up in the earth today and that sustaining dynamic is beauty and it's not often something that we associate with intercession. When we talk about intercession we tend to think about you know spiritual warfare and contending and persevering and all of those things are definitely crucial parts of intercession but beauty possesses a power specifically beauty of the Lord has expressed in his cherishing love for us in the fullness of our human package. You're going to hear me say that phrase today numerous times and if you walk away with anything today walk away with that prepositional phrase as it pertains to the beauty of God's cherishing love in the fullness of our human package. What that implies is that we are still on this side in the wrestle. Paul said it this way he said the things I long to do or want to do I don't do the things I do want to do I don't do ah that's the wrestle and God's cherishing love breaks in to the fullness of that context. It's it's still the mixture when we say it's the fullness of our humanity or the fullness of our human package there's an implication that yes the light of Christ is dawning in us like the break of day but there's still some mixtures of shadow on this side of eternity right we still see with eyes of faith that are dim often through the mystery of sovereignty and it's into that context I'm speaking today concerning the beauty of the Lord the sustaining power it has for us as watchmen on the walls of our city. Scripture teaches us about this power of the beauty of God's cherishing love because it says in the scriptures that it's the loving kindness of the Lord that leads to what? Repentance it's not fear it's not shame it's not coercion it's not persuasion it's loving kindness that will realign us with the heart of God over and over again and give us those course corrections in our pilgrimage it's the loving kindness of God breaking in that unlocks the gate inside of us for gratitude to just flow no matter what the external context is in our life it's the loving kindness of God that makes us confident in the affections of God in the fullness of our human package I'm gonna pound that drum today I like to say it this way it's the tender hearted great intercessor drawing near to the broken hearted weak human intercessor that revelation right there is what keeps us steady in our pilgrimage and steady on the wall as watchmen now I'm gonna take a sip of tea I have a little dry throat I'm not sick but I have a little dry throat and I don't want to go into a coughing fit in front of you I'm gonna give a parenthetical insertion here on steadiness because we're talking about the sustaining power of beauty in intercession and that sustaining power is unto a steadiness or a steadfastness the where we would stick the landing on the wall of our city right all right so let me just give a little comment on steadiness in the natural steadiness is defined by mr webster as the lack of faltering the lack of wavering there is an implied immovability in the natural definition of steadiness you're not going anywhere right we can liken it to an olympic gymnast that athlete that's leaping and flipping and sticking the landings on the balance beam we say whoa that's a steady performance whereas someone whose toes are curled around the balance beam and they're flapping and waving and you know or worse yet toppling off we go wow that was a really unsteady performance wasn't it there's something uniquely beautiful about the sustaining and cherishing love of god for us because it bypasses the external performance or appearance stay with me here okay and it's that cherishing love of god that bypasses the external that defines us or the steadiness of our pilgrimage i'm gonna develop that a little bit in other words externally someone in ministry could be sticking the landing doing the leaps doing the flips and all of that with a charisma and a pool of talent like none other but their heart could be far from the lord or indifferent think of like king sol right he looked good externally but inwardly his heart was not aligned with the lord and then you have david david with his toes curled around the balance beam flapping and weaving and faltering and tragically toppling off not once but multiple times and what did the lord say of david he's a man after my own heart why because god bypasses the cherishing love of god bypasses the external performance and defines us by the cry that's in our heart and david's cry though he failed miserably was lord i want to want to love you lord i want to want to be steady you see and the lord says i hear that and i define you by that how do i know that the lord defines steadiness differently than mr webster is if you're a note taker in first samuel 16 7 the lord says the lord does not look at the things people look at people look at the outward appearance but the lord looks at the heart let me give you three quick examples in judges chapter 6 verse 12 we have gideon hiding in a wine press threshing his grain the wine press is not where you thresh your grain you're supposed to be up outside on a hill so you can toss it up and the wind will carry the chaff away but he was hiding because the bad guys one of the ights i can't remember at the moment kept coming across the border and raiding and terrorizing the people of israel the farms and he was afraid so he was hiding doing his normal task in a chicken liver posture of heart right the lord himself appears to him in that wine press and he says the lord is with you oh valiant warrior and i can imagine gideon going i'm chicken liver in the wine press you know but the lord saw something bypasses the external appearance of cowardice to the warrior cry in gideon's heart for justice in the land you see in matthew chapter 16 verse 18 jesus is talking to peter and it's where he changes his name and he says now i say to you that you are peter which means rock and upon this rock i will build my church and all the powers of hell will not prevail against it if you just turn over just a couple chapters after that peter is anything but a rock he does not stick the landing he caves in the fear of men he lies three times and denies the lord three times why did jesus call him a rock because he saw past the external of what was coming defines him by the inward cry i'm not talking about a sincere wish i'm talking about this cry that says i'm gonna stay in the wrestle this is who i want to be i want to be immovable and unshakable in my love and loyalty to jesus and the lord says peter you're a rock and i've already given this example but in ax chapter 13 verse 22 it's a reiteration of what the lord said of david and he said i have found david the son of jesse a man after my own heart who will fulfill all of my will if you know the story of david did he fulfill all of the will of the lord no he crashed off that beam like humpty dumpty he shattered into a million pieces he broke numerous commandments on those sacred tablets and yet the lord said his definition over david's life he's a man after my own heart why because he defined him by the inward cry and beloved the good news today is that that cherishing love of god that beauty of the lord is the same yesterday today and forever for us the weak intercessors who are often flapping our arms on the beam going ah or falling off what is the cry of your heart the lord sees it this morning it's not only beautiful it has sustaining power in the place of prayer and we're going to talk about that now i'm going to lay that aside we've talked about we've addressed the beauty of the lord being defined as his cherishing love for us in our weakness and how he defines the steadiness of our pilgrimage i want to shift now and talk about another foundational thing then i'm going to talk about one more and i'm going to tie them all together okay so we're leaping now and we're going to talk about the protocol of heaven the protocol of heaven god chose his kingdom operations and by that i mean how his kingdom would be advanced how his government would be advanced in and through my son is waving in and through the intimate partnership with human beings i'm gonna say that again because jojo interrupted us god chose his kingdom operations to take place in and through intimate partnership with us even us in the fullness of our human package implying we're still in the wrestle implying there's still some mixture implying we still see dimly with eyes of faith through the mystery of sovereignty he still chose it that way he could have done it any way he wanted he could have done it a lot less messy of a way couldn't he the omnipotent omniscient omnipresent uncreated god does not need our inclusion he wanted it he wanted our intimate participation and that want of god is a glimpse into the beauty that possesses power to keep us on the wall come what may every season of the soul every mile of the journey if you have your bibles turn with me to john chapter 17 in john chapter 17 we find jesus the great intercessor in the garden of gesemini interceding he's given to prayer first he's praying for himself as he's going to the cross secondly he's praying for the disciples because they're about to face the most intense hour of pressure that they had ever known up until that time and thirdly he's praying for us all of those who would come to believe in his name through their witness throughout the nations he's praying for his bride and we're going to pick up in john 1724 this is the great intercessor praying for us father i desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where i am so that they may see my glory which you have given me for you loved me before the foundation of the world father i desire you see it's want it's want that brings us into that intimate participation in the place of prayer we see the desiring yearning longing heart of jesus to what to be with him i call this just the with me heart of god in the fullness of our human package i'm going to drive that home y'all if you walk away with anything walk away with that god wants us even us in the now moments with him the now moments of what he's doing what he's doing his activities in the earth in the now emotions of god in the now prayers of god in the now tears of god yes there is a future application to this verse that they would be with me where i am in glory seated at the right hand for all the ages of eternity with jesus yes but also with me where i am not just where i'm going and where i will be but where i am in the present tense with him this is the beautiful heart of god he orchestrated his kingdom to operate in partnership with us god and man together it was always supposed to be that way adam you name the animals he said you do it always together like co-signers on a mortgage co-signers on the account but here's the deal the account is the lords all the resources are the lords all the power are it's his all the glory all the strategies all the breakthroughs all the wisdom it's his and he goes but see i put your name on the account and from my power to be released in awakening in the nations i need your co-signature i want your co-signature for the prodigal sons and daughters to return you see your name darlin is on the account you've got a co-sign with me i'll say it differently you get to co-sign with me we get to be with him where he is in the now moments how do we do that how do we co-sign day and night prayer there it is day and night prayer it is the protocol of heaven it's how we co-sign with god in agreement that releases his kingdom his righteousness his peace his joy his justice his salvation his deliverance his healings it happens through our co-signing and our agreeing in day and night prayer and ultimately it will be the thing that ushers in his return let's look at matthew chapter six you have your bibles matthew chapter six verse nine it's the familiar our father prayer but the context here is the disciples have said lord teach us to pray like you're doing this all the time we see you praying we hear you praying teach us how to pray and so the lord says in verse nine of chapter six this is how you should pray our father in heaven so he just stops for a minute and he says boys this is how we do it this is an intimate partnership we're coming to dad our name is on his account and we're just co-signing dad we agree with you dad the things that you're longing to do do them our father in heaven hallowed be your name your kingdom come your will be done on earth as it is in heaven let's stop right there jesus walking the earth is fully god right he never ever stopped being fully god so that means the account is fully his the resources of heaven fully his all the power fully his all the wisdom all the strategy but as fully man which he was right he had to follow the protocol of heaven co-signing with father as a man our father in heaven i'm co-signing your will be done father he's co-signing he's showing us this is the protocol of heaven this is what we do as weak broken intercessors in the fullness of our humanity we just agree with god and co-sign in day and night prayer y'all the governmental centers of the earth are not the white houses and they're not the parliaments and they're not the palaces in the nations the governmental centers of the earth are where god and man meet in agreeing co-signing prayer at the altars of the earth the altars in the rural places the altars in the islands the altars in the in the cities where god and man come together and say your kingdom come day and night night and day on earth as it is in heaven if you have your bible turned to isaia chapter 30 i want to look at another blueprint for kingdom operations we're just seeing it in scripture isaia chapter 30 verse 18 it says yet the lord longs to be gracious to you it's the posture of god's heart therefore he will rise up to show you compassion for the lord is a god of justice a working definition of justice is just god making wrong things right god saving lost people god healing sick people god raising dead people god delivering oppressed people that's justice blessed are all who wait for him people of zion who live in jerusalem you will weep no more how gracious he will be when you cry for help as soon as he hears he will answer you so in verse 18 we see the john 1724 heart of the longing god he longs what to be gracious he longs to rise up and show compassion not to say well that was a really unsteady performance stick your landings and then we'll talk he longs to be gracious to us in the fullness of our humanity that means when we're going whoa waving and wavering and maybe toppling off and we cry out to him he goes i'm gracious i'm rising up to show compassion to you are you seeing his beauty hang in there we will in verse 19 we see the protocol of heaven so 18 establishes the longing heart of god that heart that jesus the great intercessor modeled or gave us a peek into in the garden of gesemini we see it in verse 18 here in verse 19 we see how the protocol of heaven operates again it says how gracious he will be when what you cry out you cry out at the sound of your cry he hears and he answers it's our co-signature he's waiting he's waiting he's waiting i'm longing i want to release this i'm longing to do this agree with me you cry out and sometimes that cry in the fullness of our humanity sounds like this help just help and the lord goes there it is there it is there's the co-signature i release my power i release my peace i release my deliverance are you with me can you dare to believe he's this beautiful beloved if there is no cry there is no answer not because god is cruel and withholding but because he said i long to be gracious i want you with me it's that with me cry of god's heart he says i'm waiting i'm waiting i'm waiting at the sound of your cry help there it is james tutu says you have not because you ask not it's the protocol of heaven we get to do this one more example luke chapter 18 in luke chapter 18 we have the story of the unrelenting widow you're familiar with that she just comes and she just keeps coming to this unrighteous judge asking for justice and he just keeps blowing her off and she just keeps coming like a bird dog on a quail she is just not giving up and finally he goes okay and he gives her justice not because he longs to be gracious like the heart of god but because she was driving him nuts and the lord's in the wake of that says in verse seven of chapter 18 now given that context that it just a bulldog tenacity of some woman can turn an unrighteous judge's heart now will god not bring about justice for his elect who cry out to him day and night everybody say day and night it's the protocol of heaven day and night and will he delay long over them i tell you that he will bring about justice for them speedily however when the son of man comes will he find faith in the earth there it is again god goes i long to make the wrong things right that is not the posture of my heart i am rising up bending over the balustrade of heaven to be gracious just co-sign with me be with me where i am according to what scriptures tell us and what jesus modeled for us concerning the expansion of his kingdom and the release of his spirit and his power and his glory and justice god has a part to play and we have a part to play god's part is that he gives the initial grace because it just takes god to want god i don't want god apart from grace in my heart i don't want to pray day and night apart from god releasing a just a whisper of grace that tenderizes my cold heart and then i can say i want to want the lord goes i can work with that i can work with that so he gives the grace and out of that grace we cry out to him with his heart and with his promises in agreement he hears according to his faithfulness because he cannot lie in his word and he answers in power and glory we cannot do god's part it is the heavy lifting he will not do our part which is to cry out with faith the size of a mustard seed that's it and he doesn't even demand that we come up with things to cry out he gave us the prayer manual right here just open the word read what i've promised and agree with me so i i open it up and i read father you said you would pour out your spirit on your sons and your daughters father pour out your spirit on your sons and your daughters he goes there it is there's the co-signature you're with me in the longing of my heart you're agreeing with me and he pours out his spirit and the prodigal son comes home and the lost daughter gets saved children can do this children can walk in the protocol of heaven because he's beautiful he is not put off by weakness and humanity he made this so simple so that we can do it until his return which leads us into the global prayer movement the praying church it's into this astounding simple privileged partnership that we are invited today god is pouring out a spirit and a grace for prayer across the nations it's not led by a man it's not led by a ministry it is a holy spirit initiative of worship and prayer that's crossing the cultures it's crossing denominations it's crossing generations ethnicities all walks of life he's doing it and it's not going away it's not a fad it's not a trend it will look differently and sound differently in different places of the earth there'll be different models followed and systems followed but it's the praying church that god is raising up it's the co-signers in the fullness of our humanity that means sometimes we're doing this this is only going to crescendo to where at the end of the age jesus is going to return to a church where watchmen are on the wall and it says day and night they're never silent the islands never silent the large metropolis cities of the earth never silent watchmen crying out day and night co-signing day and night night and day on earth as it is in heaven and running parallel with that is the worship movement watchmen who are never silent but prophetic singers and musicians where it says from the ends of the earth a song will arise glory to the righteous one that's the context jesus is stepping into and that prophetic sound that song it will be in the spirit of psalm 149 let the high praises of god be in their mouth and a sharp two-edged sword in their hand to execute god's vengeance and judgments on his enemies this is an honor for his godly ones the honor is that our name is on the account and we co-sign and we sing the songs of deliverance and we agree with him in prayer telling him what he told us to tell him and he pours out his spirit and prepares the earth for the return of his son beloved the fact that you're here today at a praying church conference not a building your church conference how to build your church what the newest trend is or whatever the fact that you some of you trekked miles and time zones to attend a praying church conference and that you're even in a little workshop on the sustaining fuel of our intercession should be just a prophetic whisper of confirmation to the grace that god is pouring out in the earth for prayer right now can we disagree on that like lord you're doing something and the glory of this all is that god chose weak broken human vessels through which and with which to partner it's the glory the problem with it is that god chose weak broken human vessels through which and with which to partner right it's the glory and it's the bane it's the wrestle like ah you could have done this so less messy because I want you with me where I am now in the fullness of all your you-ness now so if the kingdom of god the protocol operates in that co-signature day and night prayer the sustained perpetual fires burning on altars then our role as intercessors in our cities is crucial can you feel that it's crucial you have not because you ask not if we look at the spheres of society and the depravity and the the decline of it all just pick any sphere you know the family the church entertainment any sphere of society could it be because the church at large has been prayerless for so long our prayers matter our role matters being on the wall day and night co-signing in agreement for our families for our cities for our nation it matters so then we have to answer this question what keeps weak broken us watchmen so prone to boredom so prone to discouragement so prone to a fence with god and with one another susceptible to failure falling off the beam paralyzed with shame fractured in unity with one another what keeps us even us on the wall in sustained co-signing agreement in every season of the soul in every mile of the journey i've been at this for a while a couple decades and i can tell you from experience my own i can tell you from experience it's not willpower it's not our willpower willpower no matter how well intentioned we are it gives out it just gives out it's not our zeal because that's gonna wane as soon as we get in those mundane grindy miles like uh it's not our zeal it's not our victories we fail it's not our focus our laser beam focus eyes like the dove because sometimes our lens fogs it gets fogged up with disillusionment god delays in his answers we pray and we pray and the person still dies we pray and we pray and and there's no breakthrough and bankruptcy follows we pray and we pray and there's still a prodigal son out there it's it can't be our laser beam focus on answers and it's not even our enjoyment because sometimes it's just boring and sometimes you don't want to be with the people on the wall that are next to you i want to be next to you you know we're living stones and we knock heads sometimes so none of those things have sustaining power so either the lord is delusional or he's cruel in setting out a criteria that is unattainable for the weak broken intercessors of the earth or he has a secret superpower for us behind door number three and it's that it's that turn with me to isaia chapter 62 it's got a couple more scriptures isaia chapter 62 this is an end time passage when we get into the isaia 60s we are into the end times and yet the beauty of this passage is that we can find ourselves in this chapter it's happening now look at verse six on your walls oh jerusalem i have a pointed watchman that's intercessors all day and all night everybody say it again all day and all night they will never keep silent this is ongoing ceaseless co-signing six a.m two a.m 11 p.m there are co-signers in the cities of the earth agreeing with the promises of god and with the heart of god jesus is saying this and you know what it's happening it's not everywhere yet but god is raising up a church where day and night worship and prayer is not stopping cancass city is coming into 23 years there's other cities that are that are getting close to that two decade mark of day and night worship and prayer you who remind the lord take no rest for yourselves verse seven and give him no rest until he establishes and makes jerusalem a praise in the earth it's a now picture and it's a coming picture of where this is going that unceasing co-signing partnership with the lord and his praying church at the end of the age these watchmen that jesus is speaking of they won't be silent because he's not silent hebrews tells us he ever lives to make intercession jesus the great intercessor doesn't stop and in verse one of this same chapter jesus says i'm not going to be quiet for jerusalem's sake i'm not going to be silent so we do what he does because he wants us with him where he is in the now moments in the now activities of god let me ask you this how long does it go this day and night worship and prayer he said here until jerusalem becomes a praise in the earth does anybody watch the news is jerusalem a praise in the earth no in fact it's trending the opposite direction anti-semitism is rising across the nations of the earth right now in fact the bible says that before it's all said and done every nation every nation will turn against israel so when does jerusalem become a praise in the earth it's when the sky splits and there's a shout unlike we've never heard before and the man with fire in his eyes steps down out of heaven and establishes his throne in jerusalem then she will be a praise in the earth until then there will be watchmen day and night who are never silent agreeing with the purposes of god in the fullness of our human package i'm bored i'm offended i'm disillusioned lord goes it's okay cry out to me i'll help you i see i hear i know i know i know he's the tenderhearted great intercessor who draws near to the brokenhearted weak intercessor and he goes just cry out help there it is there it is it's his beauty the beauty of his cherishing love that keeps us steady on the wall i can cry out for help all the days of my life i can open this prayer manual and cry it whether i'm strong in heart or weak in heart whether my toes are clinging to the beam or not or whether i've completely toppled off and you know what i have i have i have splintered my heart like Humpty Dumpty in a million pieces but i'm back on the wall as a weak broken intercessor because of his beauty it has sustaining power to it and if me then you and if you then our children and if them then our grandchildren until the lord returns i had these two um verses verses six and seven about the watchman on the wall underlined in my bible since i was a freshman in high school for whatever reason the lord captured my young heart as a teenager in the place of prayer i wanted to grow in prayer i wanted to be with him in prayer and um i can remember uh our high school had a career day i don't know if they still do that but they would bring in people from different occupations to talk to the students just to show them what's out there what you might want to study in college or whatever and i i was sitting in choir class and a classmate said so what do you want to be i don't know what possessed me i just it just came right out i said i'm gonna be an intercessor and then you have that moment like i mean i'm gonna be a first grade teacher i'm gonna be a teacher and i was a teacher but i was an intercessor and it just came right out i declared it over my young heart at 14 i'm gonna be an intercessor didn't even fully know what that meant but i was going to be one of them and so i attended the prayer meetings i prayed for revival in my high school i met at the flag and prayed for you know just breakthrough and all of that but i never connected the beauty of the lord in the preceding verses that we're going to read and the appointing of god on the watchman beauty and sustained prayer go hand and glove or like peas and carrots as forest would say so let's look at those preceding verses isaia chapter 62 verse one this is setting the stage for the appointing of the watchman in the cities of the earth in verses six and seven this is jesus for zion's sake i will not keep silent and for jerusalem's sake i will not keep quiet until her righteousness goes forth like brightness and her salvation like a torch that is burning he's prophesying his return the nations will see your righteousness and all kings your glory and you will be called by a new name which the mouth of the lord will designate and you will also be a crown of beauty in the hand of the lord and a royal diadem in the hand of your god it will no longer be said to you forsaken nor to your land will it any longer be said desolate but you will be called hefsaba which means my delight is in you present tense my delight is in you and your land married for the lord delights in you present tense and to him your land will be married for as a young man marries a virgin so your sons will marry you and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride so your god will rejoice over you on your walls oh jerusalem boom boom boom preceding the day and night prayer movement at the end of the age and the reality of ceaseless prayer on earth as it is in heaven is the beautiful revelation of the bridegroom heart of jesus that cherishing love my daughter is here today and she's cringing big time um she's here from st louis with a team she's getting married in 24 days yeah and her precious fiance jake is here i want to embarrass them uh jake is not stoic when it comes to my daughter jake is not indifferent in fact he sends me text messages just random text messages just telling me how proud he is of olivia when she's leading worship or leading something at church how beautiful she is how much he loves her and i watch him serve her tender heartedly even when she's a little grumpy you know he's he's tending to her he is not stoic and it's as if the lord said okay i'm gonna appoint these watchmen they need to stay because i put their name on the account and in order for this to work they've got to be with me where i am in every season of the soul in the fullness of their humanity what's gonna sustain them the beauty the cherishing love that i possess for them that will hold them steady on the wall how can i convey that to them i've got it i'm gonna use jake and olivia i'm gonna use the most intimate of human relationships that i can think of or that i've created to try and give a whisper it's just a whisper natural marriage is just a whisper of the heart of god for his bride he goes i'm gonna say jake and olivia right there and they're gonna go whoa you feel that for me he goes it's a whisper yes i have never seen a stoic bridegroom on his wedding day never we have this tradition in weddings where the door is open and the bride starts coming down the aisle right and what do we do we all stand and we turn and we're riveted on her and the beauty and her dress and her flowers and you know what i like to do i like to turn around and look at the groom's face because it's a whisper of jesus's heart for his bride for us in the fullness of our human package and some grooms just have a smile the size of texas you know just acres and acres of stupid grin and others just cry like babies you know they're just pouring down into their head lowers and their shoulders are shaking because they are so overcome but there was one groom i will never forget and his bride is coming down the aisle and he just kind of has this shock like wow and he starts just kind of bouncing in the knees and just sort of rocking back and forth olivia was there remember joe and he and he just starts rocking back and forth and pretty soon he's doing this and his feet start leaving the ground there was air under his feet he was jumping up and down as his bride is walking down the aisle and i will never forget that scene because you know what we take that heart and we go this is how you feel about me as i'm doing this in the wrestle oh right wavering i'm not sticking the landing crashing failing the lord's going get up get up get up hit delete get up i love you i love you some of you are not believing this but this is life changing this is life changing it shatters the power of shame and condemnation we will jump right back on that beam like those olympic gymnasts to finish that routine if we believe that he's not holding a zero in the judges box but he's doing this get up get up come on get up i see i'm helping you i will help you if that's how you feel about me jesus i can stay on the wall in every season of the soul i'll be there you will hear my voice sometimes it's just a weak help and sometimes it's a strong prophetic declaration as the seasons of life change and calm and ebb and flow he gets it y'all he gets it he chose us this way this is not our idea trying to twist god's arm into letting us into partnership he goes i picked you messy you in the fullness of your human package i know and i wanted you just like this if we truly believe this and we let this revelation hit us right here in the chest cavity and not just in the gray matter it changes everything y'all if we believe he receives our weak love is authentic and not hypocritical and not fake do you see the sustaining power of beauty there's a power to it and this is how he defines steadiness steadfastness just getting back on standing back up get your balance again staying with him and this is when prayer and the ministry of intercession become enjoyable we don't take it blibly please don't walk out and just think oh well she just takes sin so lightly i'm talking about a real wrestle of the soul i'm talking about where there's mixture we're declaring war where there's wrestle we're always declaring war we're renouncing and turning to him renouncing and turning to him he defines us by that cry the things i don't want to do but all the things i don't want to do but Jesus i want you he goes that i see that and when we enter into this revelation of the beauty of the Lord his cherishing love for us prayer becomes enjoyable and anything that is enjoyable becomes sustainable right the Lord is so smart he's like i'm going to reveal my cherishing love to you my beauty because you're going to enjoy being with me you're going to enjoy being on the wall with me and then you're going to sustain it and the sustaining day and night prayer fulfills the protocol of heaven and now things change God's justice his righteousness his peace his joy his power his spirit get released so in conclusion if you're building a prayer ministry how many of you are like actually in the process of raising up a prayer room in your church or a house of prayer or prayer ministry anybody on campuses or whatever okay some of you may just be like i just want to expand an enlarge prayer in my own home or in my own heart it's great i just want to urge you with all of my heart wherever you are in that lay this foundation of the beauty of the Lord first and foremost hit it hard take those that prepositional phrase in the fullness of our humanity and i mean use it as a weapon against the enemy when shame and accusation and condemnation come at you just go you know what he feels about me like jake feels about olivia in the fullness of my human package there he's jumping up and down for me now models and methodologies models and methodologies and systems for prayer prayer rooms prayer ministries they are super helpful because they bring unity with teams super helpful but they do not have the sustaining power they help with clarity they help with unity they will not sustain watchmen on the wall no matter how good the model is the seasons of life will ebb and flow in ease and challenge i'm not even talking about the enemy attacks that's an altogether different thing i'm just talking about life under the sun as salomon would say we have you know education and we have marriage and we have babies coming and mortgages and bills and sickness and you know whatever we just have these careers and all of those things sometimes they're hard sometimes they're challenged or they're easy or enjoyable right the beauty of the Lord will carry us with steadiness through all of that it has the sustaining power i've like i said i've been um around prayer ministries and leading prayer ministries or whatever for quite a while now and i have seen people come and go just come and go commit i'm on the wall i'm going to be here until the Lord's return and all of that and then they hop off the wall for whatever reason satans rage consequences of their own sin disillusionment discouragement offense i mean all of those things busyness a challenging season in their life and i've heard people say you know um the grace to be on the wall you know has lifted that was just for a season and i want to propose to you that prayer is not a season in our life intercessory prayer co-signing with god is not a season in our life prayer is a lifestyle in every season because in every season whether we're strong or weak it's hard it's easy jesus is jumping up and down jesus is enjoying us wanting us and the way he set up his kingdom is for our signature and agreement in prayer we're going to close with this scripture Psalm 27 verse 4 you might be familiar with it this is the fuel for our intercession the beauty this is david talking david the one who didn't stick a couple of landings and david said one thing i desire and that will i seek that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the lord and to inquire in his temple david the man whom god himself said he's a man after my own heart he failed big time on numerous fronts but he had that revelation of the lord's cherishing love in the fullness of his human package david knew where the delete button was david knew it's beauty that course corrects me it's beauty that realigns me again with the heart of god and he knew how to draw near to the lord in intimacy and here's the thing it's not a coincidence then that god birthed the prayer movement of that day in and through david god birth day and night worship and prayer in the earth through that man the unsteady one according to mr. webster and for 33 years while david was king there was night and day worship and prayer in the earth it never stopped and david which is go in there and cosine with god and the psalms are filled with it filled with his agreement with god and god's heart and while that was happening the nation of israel was expanding in the earth they were whipping on the enemy they were gaining ground and inheritance for 33 years because when there's cosigning going on day and night fulfilling the protocol of heaven god is faithful to do what he said he would do that whole account gets released all the resources get released the spirit the power the the wisdom the revelation it all gets released when we just put our weak little co-signature of agreement with his beauty and inquiry that i may gaze at the beauty of the lord and inquire inquire just means asking knocking seeking asking agreeing cosigning they go together beauty sustains our inquiry and our inquiry meets heaven's protocol amen let's pray let's just close in prayer jesus we love you we thank you for your tender heart towards us in the fullness of our human package we thank you that your ways are not our ways that your thoughts are higher we thank you that you are filled with graciousness towards us in our humanity we thank you for your beauty of your cherishing love and lord right now i just asked holy spirit that you would just search us to search the room right now anywhere that there is shame condemnation keeping us off the wall keeping us a step or two outside of the circle of intimacy with you anywhere where the enemy is hurling accusation right now i ask you holy spirit to just silence the accuser right now i pray that you would shatter the shackles of shame that you would lift the bricks of condemnation off of our heart i pray for just that revelation of the cherishing bridegroom heart that you possess to break in to every heart right now thank you lord that you are overcome that you are leaping up and down that you enjoy us and you want us you keep us you cherish us you catch us in the fullness of our humanity and you set us back on the wall with you in intimate partnership so lord we just say do it do it across this room do it in every church represented in this room every city represented in this room appoint your watchman god young and old alike on the walls of the cities represented in this place god lead us into the protocol of heaven that we would be with you where you are beholding your glory in these now moments we love you lord and we just say yes to you today yes yes to be with you where you are yes to be those who cry out day and night in our cities and in our families and in our own personal prayer closets we say yes to you holy spirit teach us to pray teach us to stay steady we love you lord in Jesus name amen and amen well god bless you all