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TENACITY TO HIS THRONE
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Posted by: Elijah
TENACITY TO HIS THRONE
A teaching from Sandy Warner
email: SWauthor****.com
Website: www.thequickenedword.com
7/11/00
Spiritually speaking, we are living in exciting and
volatile times and truly the righteous of the past yearned to see and
hear the things we see and hear from the Lord. (Luke 10:24) These
generations before us planted their seeds via intercession and
warfare, and WE are the living fruit of their harvest. Their prayers
and overcomings are planted in the foundations of our own lives and
now we are able to travel greater distances in the Lord, because of
their faithfulness. I am deeply grateful for all those who bore the
heat of the day and paved a way for us. People are now hearing Him,
seeing visions, being taught through dreams, and experiencing His
power and Presence in awesome ways.
PRAYER, THE OPEN DOOR
One door that is now wide open is prayer. This year in particular,
God is calling and rallying the hearts of His people to pray. We have
been given ACCESS. The Lord is so desperate for our prayers that He
hears even the fleeting thoughts of our desires and hopes and turns them
into
prayers. He so loves us and wants to give us good gifts!
It is interesting that my husband, without knowing the subject of this
post, just commented that several times lately the Lord has asked him
a question. Wayne had been pondering this and considering why the
Lord would ask this. The Lord asked him, "What do you want?"
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
The quickened question gave me Holy Spirit goose-bumps. I could think
of no greater honor than for the Lord to ask this. The Lord brought
to memory the scriptures where Esther was given audience before the
King's throne. The King asked her THREE different times, "What is
your petition?"
Est 5:6 "And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is
thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request?
even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.
Est 7:2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the
banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be
granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed,
even to the half of the kingdom.
Est 9:12 Now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or
what is thy request further? and it shall be done.
The Lord asked this same question to Solomon: 2 Chron 1:7 In that
night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I
shall give thee.
ACCESS TO THE KING
Both Solomon and his dad, David, were acquainted with what it meant to
have access to a king's throne, and to be granted requests. This
was part of their own duties as king. When David wrote the following
Psalm, he spoke the Word of the Lord, understanding the love of a
Father for His successor Son:
Ps 2:7-8 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou
art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. ASK OF ME, AND I SHALL
GIVE THEE the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts
of the earth for thy possession.
WAITING FOR OUR ATTENDANCE
And so I pass on this encouragement to us all, that our Heavenly
Father waits for our attendance before His throne. He waits for us to
come to Him. He waits for us to pour out our hearts so that He can
answer! He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. He
promised: "Keep on asking, and you will be given what you ask for.
Keep on looking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door
will be opened. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks,
finds. And the door is opened to everyone who knocks.
You parents--if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you
give them a stone instead? Or if they ask for a fish, do you give
them a snake? Of course not! If you sinful people know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father
give good gifts to those who ask him." (Matt 7:7-11 NLT)
Two more interesting tid-bits to writing this post. I started it on
7/11, which is personally special because my family has a long line of
wonderful stories connecting to the above Matt 7:11. Now today as I
am finishing, my husband just put today's mail on my desk. On the
outside of an envelope it says, "Find the answers in answered
prayers!" The Lord is very serious, He wants us to pray and to seek
Him. He has given us ACCESS!
The following is a vision from Annie Schisler. I believe that the
fulfillment of this vision is now. She is one of our intercessors who
bore a great battle to pave a way for us. She was given this vision
in the 70's.
THE DIFFERENT ENTRANCES
(from Annie's Visions, Book 2)
"Today again there was a time of great opposition and I fought and
fought in prayer but still could not get through or find the way in.
It seemed that all hell was allied against me. Everything was in
vain. Praise, prayer, rebuking the enemy, singing the songs of
victory. Nothing that had worked before seemed to help at all. I
thought that I would never be able to get through this swarm of evil
hosts that surrounded me whose shadowy forms I could even see as they
hurled their thoughts of fear and doubt at me ceaselessly.
I would throw them out and they would crowd in again. I wondered if I
would ever be able to press through that horde of evil beings that
seemed so determined to hold me out. Yet I knew that He had promised
me entrance and had put it entirely into my will: that if I was
determined enough I could get through. So I pressed on. Finally
after several hours of battle He came in great mercies.
AFTER PRESSING IN
Again before me I saw that most wonderful and welcome sight. Oh, how
beautiful it was! I was drawn closer and it seemed even larger in all
that shadowy darkness that surrounded it. It made all the false
shadows show up even more clearly and I could see their intense
activity of hindrance. At last it was there - the glorious cross of
light. My soul leaped with joy within me and I relaxed within, for
I knew now that I was very near unto Him whom my soul loves!
As I passed through that shining cross of purest light, His voice came
to me rebuking all my fears. Oh, what a relief! Then He took me unto
Himself in the wondrous splendor of that mighty Cloud of glory. I
felt so fully rewarded. Nothing of the battle seemed to matter any
longer. As I rested there in the silken cocoon of divine love that
flowed out from Him in ever continuing waves, I felt it had all been
so worth while.
MY WOUNDS WASHED AWAY
As the cloud-river of tangible love flowed over me enclosing me and
enfolding me in itself, it washed away all my wounds in its shining
flow. He told me of His love and continued watch care over me, saying
everything just the opposite of all that the enemy had been saying to
me as I had tried to reach Him. When He spoke away all the doubts the
enemy had tried to sow, faith, real and strong, flooded my being again
and I was no more afraid.
He showed me Himself in a great building as it were, only no building
was there. Into that great place where He dwells there were many,
many entrances which were all different. Each one was like a
different door with a different pathway leading up to it. All the
doors of light were guarded by His great angels; yet they were not
doors and they were not closed. All around were regions of light
filled with the glory of the Lord.
ENTRANCES TO HIS PRESENCE
He explained to me that all of these were entrances into His presence
and each one was different. "There are a very great number of them
and I am teaching you the various entrances. That is why you are
having to go through such a variety of experiences and why it is
sometimes easy and sometimes difficult to find your way through unto
Me.
But it is very necessary that I teach you the many entrances, for the day
will come when you must bring many others through these entrances with you.
Therefore it is necessary that I teach you at this time the many different
entrances into My presence."
His words brought me great comfort and release for I understood the
reasons for the strange battles; before they had seemed so senseless
and without any reason at all." [end of vision]
LOOK BACK AT THE 70'S
For those of you interested, Bob Jones said in 10/98, "The Lord has
been instructing me to go back and look at the bread that had been stored
back in the 70's. As I checked that old bread, or revelation, I
discovered that this bread was as fresh today as it was the day it was
"placed upon the shelf." The Lord is saying that He has stored bread
(hidden manna) that He is about to release in this day and that bread
is as fresh today as when it was first put away."
In the 1970's I was given a set of 4 books which were Annie's
Visions. She was given a series of experiences where she was taken to
the 3rd heaven numerous times. The books are a rare treasure of her
throne room visitations and have been proven many times over as I
study them, and as the Lord brings me confirmations via scripture as
well as testimonies of others who have =
visited His awesome throne. All four books have been merged into two
books, reprinted and are now available at my site. I highly recommend
them for anyone wanting to understand more about the heavenlies and how
they relate to what the Lord is doing in our personal lives on earth.
May He give us the tenacity to pray, to seek Him, and the joy of His
answers! Lovingly, Sandy
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Books by Sandy Warner include (but are not limited to)
101+ Ways God Speaks ~ Words to Ponder 1 & 2 ~ ~ Intercessors Arise/
Finding Your Authority ~ Joel 2 Rain & The Children's Anointing
Email: SWauthor****.com or visit website: www.thequickenedword.com ~