Ezra - Persecution Arises

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Ezra 4

Prayer Focus: Men who are currently persecutors but potential Ezras

We have prayed thus far for them to:

• Be uprooted from their sinful/carnal nature into the divine nature and established inside Christ.
• Give utmost priority to their post Calvary de-cluttering and resetting of mind.
• Make a concerted decision to become like Jesus and follow on in discipleship.
• Hear and heed God’s call for their lives.
• Become an embodiment of the full and complete Gospel.

Who Are They?

• Men whose foundation is on a fragmented Gospel.
• Men who are religious – they talk the talk but JESUS does not know them as HIS.
• Men who may have touched something of Christ but their encounter was not finalised.
• Men whom the enemy has deceived to think they are of God because they offer their time, talents, resources but not their very lives. Men who think that supporting “ministers of God” or godly causes secures their salvation.
• Men who may have been sold on the error that participating in religious rites (we sacrifice just as you do) qualifies them to be called Christians.
• Men who claim to know/seek God but happily see no problem mixing light with darkness.

These potential Ezras are eager to build for God….

• Their primary focus is what will You have us do instead of “Who are You LORD?”.
• They are not interested in becoming Disciples of Christ or slaves of righteousness. They want Jesus and also their own liberties.
• They will not first settle with getting rid of sin, dead works and sinful habits as their primary fruit of service to the LORD.
• They claim to seek God but have no personal understanding or revelation of JESUS.
• They are mistaken to believe that their involvement in works qualifies them to touch the holy things of GOD.

Prayer Points

• Let there be a heavenly arranged collision so that this Saul’s become the Pauls of tomorrow.
• LORD, capture and captive their hearts and reveal Yourself (Truth) to them.
• Let these men have a revelation of Jesus and let the veil of religion/fragmented gospel/error and delusion be torn away.
• Expose their hearts to TRUTH, LIFE and LIGHT.
• Let these men be objects of God’s mercy.
• Open their eyes so they can see their wretchedness outside of Christ and their destination outside Christ.
• Let them cease to be the devils workmen; make them Your captives - slaves of righteousness.
• Divert their cause in exchange for a heavenly destiny.

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NOW is the Time to Respond to God!

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2 Corinthians 6:1-2(KJV)

We then, as workers together with Him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. For He saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Revelation 22: 12-13(KJV)

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

Following the first four chapters of Ezra in the Bible, God is now being deliberate and particular about where He is taking our men. He is now inviting them for a reassessment in their journey with Him – considering the deliverance (from captivity), promises (of re-gathering), instruction to get to work (mission of heaven), challenges (from all forms of oppositions) and His grace (help made available at every given time). God is demanding a level of commitment that is commensurable to His own commitment NOW.

• A call to pause and reflect on their journey so far – their present position in the plan of heaven for their lives.

•  A call to take stock of their obedience to the same vision, the same mission, the same unction and the same level of preparation for the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
•  A call to reflect on God's commitment through His promises, love, mercy and grace.

• A call to sit down and measure their lives with the demands of heaven.

•  A call to remember that they are SAVED BY GRACE (Ephesians 2:8-9), that they are NO LONGER SLAVES OF SINS and they are BAPTISED INTO CHRIST (Romans 6:3-6).

  *What will become of our men, if God decides to deal with them the way they are dealing with Him NOW?

                  NOW is the time to rededicate your ALL to God. REFLECT! RE-ASSESS! RESPOND!

  

PRAYER:

Reflect on the lives of all the men around you (if you are a man – reflect on your life) and pray following the outcome of your reflection.

• Lord, please help our men to deliberately begin to take the instructions of Heaven on-board wherever they are in every area of their lives. Let nothing matters to them until the vision of Heaven becomes established in their view of life, and also in their way of life. 

• Lord, grant them the GRACE THAT PREVAILS in all matters of their relationship with You. Let this Grace keep increasing the Love that will strengthen them in their daily walk with You, and also help them wherever they are weak in the knowledge of You.

• Lord, please help them to deliberately begin to drop anything they directly or indirectly value more than You. Let them see You in everything and in every way, open their lives to an irreversible encounter with You. 

• Lord, rid our men of all irrelevances to their walk with You. Please arise and step into all blockages to their swift response to You. Deliver them from all grips that are traceable to the systems of the world.

•  Lord, let them experience the joy that is in turning their worry lists to prayer lists. Being the head of the family, help them to be ahead in all things. LORD, GRANT OUR MEN THE BLESSED ASSURANCE OF HEAVEN IN A NEW WAY!

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Ezra - Build as Children of God, not as Children of Captivity!

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Ezra 4: 1- 2 (KJV)

Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity builded the temple unto the Lord God of Israel;

Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and said unto them, Let us build with you: for we seek your God, as ye do, and we do sacrifice unto him since the days of Esar-haddon king of Assur, which brought us up hither.

The people of God were given different names in the old times in the Bible, due to the maltreatments they received from the hands of the Assyrians, Romans and Babylonians. They were called the “scattered seed” or the “children of captivity”.

Some of them were made captives in the hands of their enemies because of their disobedience to God – sins of idolatry, ungodliness, corruptions of all sorts, etc. (Psalm 78:55-62)

Although they were scattered abroad based on their wicked acts, lawlessness and abominations; God still brought them back together according to His promises of love and mercy for them.

 (Psalm 106:44-46)

Daniel was named among the children of captivity (Daniel 5:13 and 6:13) but he still fulfilled his destiny even in the land where he was carried away captive. Despite all oppositions and stereotyping from the pit of hell, our men are rising up to build as the “children of God” and not as the “children of captivity”.

Our men are building as:

“Sons of the living God” - Hosea 1:7-11 / Romans 9:25-26

“Children of Resurrection” -Luke 20:27-36

(They now have better things to think about than worldly affairs).

“Spirit-led sons of God” - Romans 8:14

“Sons adopted by God” - Romans 8:15

“Sons born of the will of God” - John 1:12-13

“Glorified sons of God” - Romans 8:16-17

PRAYER

• Thank God for the power of the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ that brought eternal freedom to all our men (young and old...). Praise God for all the benefits, privileges and rights they receive in Christ always.

• Lord we repent of all the negative names we have called our men (husbands, sons, brothers-in-law, brothers, nephew, male colleagues, male pastors...). Deliver them from the power of these negative names, and the names they have called or call themselves; that are having negative impacts on their lives...*(mention nicknames, aliases, native names, etc.)*

• Lord, unseat anything that is controlling the mentality of our men; let the mentality of Heaven take root in them. Let them be still in their inner being so as to receive the mind of the Spirit concerning their lives and their ways.

• Lord, set our men free from all forms of captivity they have experienced till now. Grant them total freedom from the power of money (mammon), the control of material possessions and the power of worldly affairs.

•  Lord, deliver our men from every area where they are being scattered presently. Gather their scattered emotions, feelings, etc. that are not giving them REST in their spirit man.

• Lord, we declare our men as the sons of the living God; our men will be dead to all the motions of sins. Move our men by Your Holy Spirit to do Your Will at all times. Lord, make our men the specimen of Your glory.

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