Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Guardian's Creed

Psalm 68:11,12 is one of my favorite scriptures, and it demonstrates the power of women for their families, their clans and their nations.
'The Lord gives the command [the word, promise, utterance]; [then] the women who proclaim the good tidings are a great host [army]: [and they say] "Kings of armies flee, they flee, and she who remains at home will divide the spoil!"' [author's comments]
He has given us His Word, both written and in the person of His Son, Jesus, Who IS the Word...Acts 12:24 calls us the Word multiplied! We are one Spirit with the Lord, with the Word Himself! [1 Corinthians 6:17]
So it appears that women are called to be warriors in the Spirit! We proclaim the word as a GREAT HOST—an army—to drive away the enemy and enforce his defeat and our victory!
With that in mind, my cousin and I met to pray over our families and over our extended clan. As we prayed, many scriptures came forth and we would stop, read them out loud, then return to prayer.
It was a wonderful experience, full of faith and hope!
We decided to be a great host, watching over our families and extended clan! Watchmen on our walls! Here is the recap of what we decreed in prayer...
We call our walls salvation—deliverance, prosperity, victory—and our gates praise!
God our Father has set our foundations in sapphires and made our battlements—our shields—in rubies and our gates of crystal! Our entire wall—territory, region, border, boundary—is made of precious stones!
We say of the Lord "He is our refuge, our fortress, our God in Whom we trust!" and all of Psalm 91 comes to pass in our lives and in the lives of our children, spouses and clan!
We have been made the righteousness of God in Christ and are descendants of the righteous. We and all of our children are taught of the Lord and our well-being—completeness, soundness, welfare, peace, safety and contentment—is GREAT!
We and our households and our clan are established in righteousness. We are FAR FROM OPPRESSION for we DO NOT FEAR, and we're FAR FROM TERROR, for IT WILL NOT COME NEAR US!
NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US SHALL PROSPER, and every tongue that accuses us in judgement—rises up against us—WE CONDEMN RIGHT NOW.
We are seated NOW in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, at the right hand of God, FAR ABOVE all rule and authority and power and dominion, and EVERY NAME THAT IS NAMED, not only in this age but in the one to come. He has put all things in subjection under His feet—therefore they're all under our feet! We tread upon the lion and cobra, the young lion and serpent we trample down! We have authority over all the power of the enemy and nothing will injure us or ours. No evil befalls us and the evil one touches us not! Hallelujah! We overcome the accuser of the brethren by the Blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony—what we testify! And we testify glory, salvation and victory this day! Prosperity, health, protection...this day! Favor, love and revelation knowledge...this day!
We are redeemed from the curse of the Law, and every promise of God is yes for us and our household in Christ Jesus.
We are one Spirit with the Lord, strengthened with all power in our inner man, rooted and grounded in love and filled up to all the fullness of God. We decree a thing and it is established for us—we believe that what we say happens, and it is granted to us. All things for which we pray and ask, we believe we receive when we pray, and they are granted to us.
We take our place in the great host of women who proclaim the good tidings...we take our places as watchmen over our clan—like God posted watchmen over the walls of Jerusalem who never keep silent and take no rest for themselves, so we are watchmen over our walls to decree the blessings and protection of God over our people. "Kings of armies, you flee—flee right now—and we will divide the spoil!"
We are born of God—from Him—and have overcome evil spirits, because greater is He Who is in us than he who is in the world. As He is, so are we in this world. We are born of God and overcome the world...and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.
We expect the favor and blessing and protection of God on our households and on our clan each and every day! God is to us a God of deliverances, and to Him belong escapes from death! We are blessed with the blessing of Abraham!
Diligence
The key to success, I believe is diligence. Watchmen watch all the time, and they speak, as well.
'Listen! Your watchmen lift up their voices, they shout joyfully together; for they will see with their own eyes when the LORD restores Zion.' [Isaiah 52:8]
'On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who REMIND THE LORD, take no rest for yourselves; and GIVE HIM NO REST until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.' [Isaiah 62:6,7]
Hebrews 4:11 tells us to be diligent to enter His rest...'For we who have believed enter that rest, just as He has said, "As I swore in My wrath, they shall not enter my rest" although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.'
Watchmen always watch and pray...watch and decree!
In days past, sentries who fell asleep at their posts were executed. Don't fall asleep at your post! Be diligent watchmen on your walls—call your walls salvation and your gates praise! [Isaiah 60:18] Overcome the enemy with the Blood of the Lamb and the WORD of your testimony! [Revelation 12:11]
Scripture References
Isaiah 60:18
Isaiah 54
Psalm 91
1 John 1:18
Luke 10:19
Ephesians 1,2
Colossians 1,2
Isaiah 52:8; 62:6
Galatians 3:9, 13,14,29
2 Corinthians 1:20
Psalm 68:11-14,20
1 John 4,5