Rock International Tribe

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory
to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
John 14:14

Daniel Fast 2012: Day Fourteen

A Secret to Unhindered Prayers….

Dear Family of God,

Mt 18:19 (ESV)
Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it
will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

1 Peter 3: 1-7 (ESV)
Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do
not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their
wives, 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 3 Do not let your
adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold
jewelry, or the clothing you wear—4 but let your adorning be the hidden
person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet
spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious. 5 For this is how the holy
women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own
husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her
children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is
frightening. 7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding
way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs
with you of the grace of life, so that prayers may not be hindered.

Both long ago and recently the Lord has visited us in several vivid
spiritual encounters to reinforce to us his zeal for wives and husbands to
experience a unity of spirit that results in a sense of “shalom” in the very
soul of their marriage. As a naturally/supernatural by-product, there is a
mysterious power in prayer that will flow out from this level of unity that
will touch the heart of the Father and thereby move his hand to do things
that only he can do for us and others.

What we have found in our journey is that this has required us to humble
ourselves before God and cry out for the real help we need from him by: 1)
committing to him the pains of any disconnect between us 2) giving and
receiving forgiveness from the heart for ways we have failed to love one
another well in the past 3) regain the grace of being vulnerable before one
another and our heavenly Father.

Getting to this point of honesty and vulnerability is no small challenge for
two fully-human and opposite gender partners! One of the secrets of
attaining to higher levels of spiritual authority and the accomplishment of
Christ’s will and ministry in and through us as a team is to discern the
ceiling of limitation we seem to hit and then “back up” to set an
environment around our souls and our relationship that sets the stage for a
future breakthrough.

We have experienced some breakthroughs over the last year in this arena of
agreement in spirit and harmony in prayer. We have also seen the results in
the circumstances of our lives that witness to the intervention of God’s
power to do some things “above and beyond what we could ask or think” (Eph
3:20). A simple daily practice that we believe has helped set the spiritual
atmosphere for these things to occur has been to get up early and listen to
the Word of God together by accessing [3]www.youversion.com and really
tuning in. A reader even reads to us. (Don’t you just love some of the new
technology that is at our fingertips. We drink our morning joe as we
listen!) We signed up for a daily reading…it’s really user-friendly and
you can get a free phone app too. Sometimes we discuss what we have just
heard and sometimes we simply pray together in response. Even though we
still have had areas of life and marriage that are not fully settled, we
have witnessed how the Lord has gone into action on our behalf to help us in
our weaknesses. We all know that it is impossible to please God without
faith…but “faith happens”…as we hear and assimilate the Word of God (Rom
10:17). This is a profoundly simple thing that God has invited and
challenged us to do. With this kind of rich environment of Jesus’ words
increasing both within and about us, God himself will provide for us all
that we need to please him from the inside out.
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Heb 13:20-21 (ESV)
Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the
great shepherd of the sheep, by blood of the eternal covenant, equip you
with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is
pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and
ever. Amen.

Through Christ,

Michael & Terri Sullivant with grandson Jonah
(Leawood, KS)

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