Building Prayer Strategies for Your Life, Family, Church and City

•As apostolic people, we must be committed to our mandate to build

•One of the structures that we’ve been commanded to build is a house of prayer

•God has a blueprint for how he wants to build

•Exodus 30:1 gives us a pattern for prayer in the church

•The Lord gives Moses a pattern for prayer

•God tells Moses to mix a specific compound of oil to be burned on the altar

•This oil represented the prayers of the saints (Revelation 8)

•This fire was to never go out

•Let’s go to vs. 34 to look at the ingredients of the oil

•Stacte: this also is the word for nataph which means to drop down; ooze down or to flow with inspiration

This word is also connected to the prophetic

Our prayers should have a prophetic flow

•Onycha: a finely grounded powder that comes from the mollox shell

In order to obtain this substance the children of Isreal had to dive to the bottom of the water to retrieve the mollox shell on a daily basis

They had to get low = humility

We should approach prayer with humility

•Galbanum: a fatty gummy substance used to hold things together Hebrews 1:3 says, “He upholds all things by the power of his word”

Isaiah 5:16 “I have put my word in your mouth”

•The word of God is in our mouth

•When we release it in prayer it becomes the substance that holds our prayers together

•The Hebrew word for Intercession is “paga” which means

1. To meet with

2. To push against

3. To strike against

4. To fall upon

5. To lay on

•As we’ve been discussing – blueprints are patterns that we can continually follow and we will get the desired result

Exodus 30:36 says that if we follow the pattern that God will meet us and it will be “most holy”

•Strategies are divine instructions that have been given to us by God to link us with blessing, breakthrough, healing, deliverance, etc. that God desires to give us

•God may give you a pattern in scripture to use in His strategic timing

•Prayer watches are an example of a pattern that can be given by God as a strategy

•Let’s look at the pattern of each the 8 prayer watches

•Psalms 55:7 says, “Morning, noon and night I cry out in my distress , and the Lord hears my voice.”

• We can pray morning, noon and night and the Lord will hear us and give us various results

•6-9 (Evening Gate)

•9-12 (Deliverance from Egypt)

•12-3 (Midnight Watch Hour)

•3-6 (Morning Commanders, Jesus walks on the sea)

•6-9 (Morning)

•9-12 (Christ was crucified)

•12-3 (6-9th hour)

•3-6 (Hour of Prayer, Leaping, Beautiful Gate)

•For the kingdom of Darkness, night time is meeting time. The wicked also renew curses, yokes, etc.

•Destinies of believers are altered at this time

• Psalms 104:20

•The Devil Doesn’t Own the Night!!! God Owns the Night!!!

• Psalms 74:16

• Psalms 16:7

• Psalms 63:6 (good for when you can’t sleep)

•Midnight was the time Boaz awoke to find Ruth at his feet. So, if you need a husband pray at midnight.

•11-1 is considered the midnight hour

•The midnight hour is a good time to extend your faith to believe God for the uncommon.

•After the midnight hour we can begin to command the morning (Job 38:12-13)

•The morning is a good time to praise God

Psalms 59:16

Psalms 92:2

Lamentations 3:22-24

•Noon is a time that witches and warlocks go to work Psalms 91:6

•Depending on what you need to see come to pass in your life – you will pick up one watch or the other

•Be Found Faithful Where ever the Lord sets you and gifts you to serve. That will be the place of breakthrough