• Posted by Marcella on February 2, 2010 at 9:41am in God's Living Word Prayer Group
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Beloved are you hungry for true manna and living waters to flow? Does your heart like mine burn with a passion for Jesus, do you want to see Jesus receive the rewards of His suffering and for more people to be saved from the clutches of the enemy of God? Do you long to have a relationship with Father God like our Savior and the prophets? Do you question if it can be so today?

Have you ever heard of Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf or the Moravian's movement? As his name decrees he was a man born into nobelity and his heart was intrrduced and beat to the Lord Jesus at an early age. He wanted to preach but his family opposed this ideal and had already planned his career and it was politics and the family's estate needed managing to. As a plotical leader Count Zinzendorf begin to allow the piest to escape Christian persecution to live on his land. He was a strong Lutheran but he accepted any person who needed to escape religious persecution.

The community he founded in 1722 was called Herrnhut, meaning "the House of the Lord." By 1725 a small city was dwelling upon the Count's land. He left the political arena and focused all his attention on the growing community. This group was AKA "the Morvarian's". The beliefs and the life-style of this small Christian community transformed the Church.

You may be asking what were some of their beliefs and how did they live, I can tell you I have never seen another community of believers like this one, they believed in prayer and the unity of the Body of Christ. In Modern terminology they were a community of Inter-denomination, people from many faiths living side by side in unity. They believed and lived together as brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus. They were one of the only people I know who treated one another as a spiritual family in every concept of the meaning of family.

They prayed around the clock, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Have you ever though about such a concept? This begin with 24 men and 24 women willing to pray. Count Zinzendorf was a unique man himself, just think about it, he was born into nobility, he had no need financially, politically or socially. Yet this is not what made him so unique, it was His love for Christ Jesus and he wanted to live like Jesus.

He welcomed all who came to the community and began to disciple the community, giving them a vision for unity, prayer, revival and World Missions. The well renown John Wesley said, "I have finally found a people who live what they preach." The Moravian's were a radical people of obedience who understood the Cross and pursuing His presence. They were faithful to pray, just as Christ was faithful to pray and who makes intercession for His people even now.
They believed if you did not pray and work you did not eat. Each member of the community prayed one hour a day. The flow of prayer from his own personal life of prayer.

History notes that Zinzendorf was found praying by one of Charles XII soldiers at the age of 6. It is noted that he often engaged himself in the privacy of his room in prayer. In college he started 7 prayer societies. It was this man's example that prayer turned into prayer meetings and all night prayer. I was told about the Moravians when I was asked to teach prayer at Church, because I said we must keep the incense on the altar and the fire burning.

This burned in me from reading about prayer and how the Old Covenant was symbolic to how we have free access now to the Holy of Holies ( see Lev. 6 makes 3 ref to fire kept burning on the altar and Rev 5:8 talks about the incense of prayer). I wanted to know more about this man who said and lived by the principles burning in my heart. It is in this kind of daily living we will find the Father's presence, the anointing to pray, witness, evangelize, healing etc. Our Savior Christ Jesus lived this example and we are to come out of the world and follow Him. It is in relationship with Him and through prayer to Him that we will become world changers. It is through persistent prayer we will find the passion and compassion of Christ Jesus burning inside of us. Then we will have the zeal of Christ Jesus for the lost.

Our Father said:

Isaiah 56:7 (KJV)
Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

Isaiah 56:7 (NLT) I will bring them also to my holy mountain of Jerusalem and will fill them with joy in my house of prayer. I will accept their burnt offerings and sacrifices, because my Temple will be called a house of prayer for all nations.


Matthew 21:13 (KJV) And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Matthew 21:13 (NLT) He said, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a place of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves!"

Mark 11:17 (KJV) And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Mark 11:17 (NLT) He taught them, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be called a place of prayer for all nations,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves."

Luke 19:46 (KJV) Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Luke 19:46 (NLT) He told them, "The Scriptures declare, 'My Temple will be a place of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves."

This is a road less traveled, not many have taking the unpopular path of prayer. Prayer does not bring a spotlight to this type of ministry. It is here that it is between us and Father God. The work is hard, the people asking for prayer can be frustrated and demand much from an intercessor. This call demands that we love unselfishly and place others above our own feelings, wants and needs much of the time. It takes a person sold out to Christ Jesus who seeks Him in All things, you live what you preach, so to speak.

This road is not gender, age or color bias, Jesus accepts all who will come. Can you imagine if Christ Jesus folded His hands and said "No, Father I did my prat, I am not doing any more? Can you imagine the shape we would be in without His intercession in the heavenlies? Will you come to the fountain and let living waters flow into you, through you and out of you to others. We know not the hour of His coming, but we know He is comming. Please join us in God's Living Word Prayer Group and throughout the prayer groups you are already in, lets pray for these needs but let us also seek the heart of God so we can pray His purpose and will. I am sure like me you have love ones who are lost or astray, we must pray like never before. Let us become the prayiing priest we are called to be. We can pray silently, write a prayer out or speak our prayer out loud, it is between us and father. Prayer is often referred to the silent call, can you hear His call? Have a blessed evening in Jesus.

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