Nazarite Call

 There have been a few things washing around in my spirit lately. Five weeks as a Nazarite, and I am wondering what “intercession” really is. We’ve had a level of teaching, which is a privilege to receive. I’ve learned more about government than I have ever known. We have had so much fun – more than I could imagine.  Shrieked with laughter and been moved to tears by friendships.  We have become family – built up a spiritual house of living stones, a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 

And yet what are those ‘acceptable sacrifices?’  How do we ‘do’ intercession?  I’ve never liked the word – it always seemed slightly pompous to me. My construction upon it probably, but I think Jason Upton gives us a stream of truth through his songs.  For me, he catches it.  I don’t think its about  us talking to God about what we want to pray about.  Its not even God talking to us about what He wants to pray about, although, this is better than the first. I think its about being willing to come to Him empty and weak.  With nothing.  Unable.  Knowing, as Marc Dupont says, that God is the great I Am, and we are the great are nots.

 What if we approach, saying  ‘Lord, ‘we don’t have it, we don’t know, we can’t see, or hear, or do?’  Could it be that in our complete lack, THEN He will come? Bringing us everything? Filling us with His thoughts, His feelings and His heart?  It blows me away that the God of the whole universe would do this.  I believe this is truly what the scripture means when it says to seek His face.  I think He is calling for  the real us, warts and all.  And if we will give Him the real us, then we can cry out for our nation, because He will have bugged us, to bug Him, for what’s really bugging Him about what’s going on in our nation…….so to speak   

For we are that nation.  It starts with us. 

And we are crying for a nation broken down. Come and hear the prayer of a broken heart. And we gathered as a people crying out.  Come and heal us, like only you can do.  Only You know the real me, and only Your eyes can see, what hides behind the veil over my eyes.  Father open up my life, and bring the real thing.  Open up our families and bring the real thing.  Open up the  churches and bring the real thing. Open up this culture and bring the real thing. Come and heal us, like only you can do, on the inside.    Jason Upton. Between Earth and Sky. Haylie.

 I will stand my watch, And set myself on the rampart, And watch to see what He will say to me, And what I will answer when I am corrected. Habakkuk 2 vs 1

 I think that’s what intercession is.  And I find that very encouraging.  Because we really don’t do anything.  He does.

What would the world look like if it was filled with a holy generation of people, real with God and with themselves, all turning to seek His face?