Prayer....
One of the things we need to learn to be 'ok' with, as prayer people is that we won't necessarily get a burden for everything that comes along. We need to learn to stick to the sphere of our anointing.
We won't always share the same burden -passion with different intercessors. Remember, they are passionate about their prayer assignment. YOU will be passionate about yours! We cannot let the enemy cause us to fall into judging one another, or feeling judged. That will bring in a spirit of disunity and competition...and once we come into agreement with those two spirits, the results will be devastating for prayer!
Have you ever been in a prayer meeting, where they focus or burden is different than yours? Suddenly there is a call to pray ..and that particular group gets activated and begins to passionately pray. You, on the other hand, don't have a clue what they are praying about...and to be honest, you don't really care. You don't have burden for it. THAT very feeling/thought, now makes you feel guilty. 'What's wrong with me? Don't I care?!!"
The reality is, it's the Lord who gives us a burden to pray. If He wants you to carry a burden, He'll give you the passion to do so. We can't try and make ourselves pick up a burden that isn't ours.
I have a friend who absolutely gets passionate about praying for Israel. When she and her friends get together, they can pray for hours! God reveals and shows them things in their prayer time that fuels their fervor and devotion to pray for that nation. I used to sit in those meetings and feel guilty that I wasn't really being stirred, until I heard the Lord say, ' That's not your burden." Wow! That was so freeing... I simply needed to know where God is calling me to pray..and I found it! He has given me a passion and a burden to pray for our city.
You might not be an person who can prayer over a daily list for leaders in your church, your schools or your city or government. You might be a crisis intercessor who is called in respond to governmental kinds of emergencies . On the other hand, maybe you don't hear heaven's SOS's for leaders. That's okay!! You just need to know what place He is calling you to in prayer!
For me, it's been praying for the pastors and leaders in our city. I stopped trying to get every other intercessor to have my burden. I also stopped feeling guilty that I didn't have the same burden as other intercessors or guilty that I didn't feel called to their assignments. I need to rejoice that they are praying..and manning their part on 'the wall' I need to realise that He's given me the anointing to stand with His prayer power, on behalf of the city He has set me in!
The important thing is to find your place and stick with it until the Lord gives you new orders!
One of the things we need to learn to be 'ok' with, as prayer people is that we won't necessarily get a burden for everything that comes along. We need to learn to stick to the sphere of our anointing.
We won't always share the same burden -passion with different intercessors. Remember, they are passionate about their prayer assignment. YOU will be passionate about yours! We cannot let the enemy cause us to fall into judging one another, or feeling judged. That will bring in a spirit of disunity and competition...and once we come into agreement with those two spirits, the results will be devastating for prayer!
Have you ever been in a prayer meeting, where they focus or burden is different than yours? Suddenly there is a call to pray ..and that particular group gets activated and begins to passionately pray. You, on the other hand, don't have a clue what they are praying about...and to be honest, you don't really care. You don't have burden for it. THAT very feeling/thought, now makes you feel guilty. 'What's wrong with me? Don't I care?!!"
The reality is, it's the Lord who gives us a burden to pray. If He wants you to carry a burden, He'll give you the passion to do so. We can't try and make ourselves pick up a burden that isn't ours.
I have a friend who absolutely gets passionate about praying for Israel. When she and her friends get together, they can pray for hours! God reveals and shows them things in their prayer time that fuels their fervor and devotion to pray for that nation. I used to sit in those meetings and feel guilty that I wasn't really being stirred, until I heard the Lord say, ' That's not your burden." Wow! That was so freeing... I simply needed to know where God is calling me to pray..and I found it! He has given me a passion and a burden to pray for our city.
You might not be an person who can prayer over a daily list for leaders in your church, your schools or your city or government. You might be a crisis intercessor who is called in respond to governmental kinds of emergencies . On the other hand, maybe you don't hear heaven's SOS's for leaders. That's okay!! You just need to know what place He is calling you to in prayer!
For me, it's been praying for the pastors and leaders in our city. I stopped trying to get every other intercessor to have my burden. I also stopped feeling guilty that I didn't have the same burden as other intercessors or guilty that I didn't feel called to their assignments. I need to rejoice that they are praying..and manning their part on 'the wall' I need to realise that He's given me the anointing to stand with His prayer power, on behalf of the city He has set me in!
The important thing is to find your place and stick with it until the Lord gives you new orders!
