God specializes in things thought impossible - as a matter of fact, that is all He does.
     He does not do the possible, and that is why we are so often limited in prayer.
    Learn to pray in such a way that God is not limited, but you are still an effective prayer. This comes by request, and through pressing the Lord for a creative prayer life.
     If you pray only for the things you can think of, you have no relationship to His creativity and you will not be able to recognize Him.
     Believers must develop wisdom to know when they may pray for specifics and when they should not.
     There is a famous story about Watchman Nee, who was asked to pray at a public gathering at the time when Japan had just declared war on China.
     The others before him had all asked God to stop the war and spare China from the ravages it was about to go through. But he could not.
      Some were angry and some were only disappointed when he said "Lord, we see in your Word that there will be wars. We know you have always used battles to take the land. We know you are sovereign. We ask you at this time to take the things that are happening and use them to bring China to Christ".
     God used that particular time to establish, deepen and spread the Chinese Church.
     Without God's Word used by the Holy Spirit in prayer, we are weakened and withered and ineffective.
     God grant us the thirst for abandon so that we may be able to stand before Him someday and know that the ground under our feet was an altar of prayer.

     Soldier,  God's Word says that it is the  Now that lures us and it is the Then that calls us.

     The Now is by sight.  The Now screams to be resolved and demands the evidence of that resolution.  Christians who live in the Now are frustrated, negative and always worried about something.

     Christians who live in the Then are seeing the Lord and agreeing with all that He has said, in spite of the gravity of the Now.

     Being a Soldier of The Cross means choosing what He has said over sight.  Over fear.  Over the storm.

     Tell Him.  Agree with Him. 
     Alone and aloud.

    When a believer spends time with the Lord, he changes.  
    And just like the Glory that was reflected on Moses' face, the one who prays and prays privately, in his own language (not tongues) bears about him the Glory of the Lord.
    Over time, he becomes less interested in seeing things fixed and more interested in bringing the broken to Jesus. He becomes calm.
    He listens well. He is tender, but not squishy.
    He has a reordered sense of priorities.
    He has fallen in Love with the Lover of his Soul!

     Remember, the enemy loves to stir up dust clouds.
     Those who have experience with God know  that when human decisions are made
and the unthinkable is about to happen, prayer can easily avert the dark plan.
     Let us remember who we serve, and run to Him who can easily solve the
unsolvable.

     Soldier, what is the matter before you?

     Chances are it is simple but just feels complicated.  Right?

     Does God's Word dictate the next step or the restraint from any step?    Of course.  There is no question.  So, you must agree with God.

     There is simply nothing else.  When the storm hits and things blow apart, He is still the same.

      Oh Lord, as I stand before you tonight, I come to you because there is no other. 

     You touched me and I was never the same.  I know you love me with an Everlasting Love, and I also know my name is inscribed on the palms of your hands.

     Help me,  my Lord and my God.

     How does the Soldier of The Cross experience the Glory of The Lord?

     By agreeing with God.

     When He is free to reveal Himself and minister through His Own, there is a Presence that is undeniable.   That Presence is such that it penetrates through the thickest walls and melts the hardest heart.

     Prayer draws in His Presence.
     Obedience draws in His Presence.
     Wisdom draws in His Presence.
     Waiting on Him draws in His Presence.
 
     Soldier,  if you want Him, you will tell Him so.  He who gave Himself for you and has your name written on the palms of His hands, is waiting to reveal His own Life through yours.

     May He?
     Tell Him so.  Today.
     Alone and aloud.    

     What releases the Life of The Lord?

     Agreement with God.

     Soldier of The Cross,  consider what He has asked.  He wants you to agree with Him without explanation.  He wants to you go when sent.  He will put words in your mouth if you are willing to speak.

     What do you want?

     Time is short.

     Tell Him.
     Aloud.

     Soldier of The Cross,  you have made your decision.

     What does that mean?  Honesty. 
     Abandon. 
     Submission.  
     Obedience.

     Can you name anything more valuable?

     Tell Him alone and aloud.

     So Soldier, are you available?

     What is the cause?
     What is the cost?

     Tell Him.

     Aloud and alone. 
 

     The Cross is lighter than its weight.

     There is  no other way to put the burden down, than by the taking up of The Cross.  Otherwise, He would not have said:

             "And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me."
             Luke 9:23

     The Cross is the place of the death of the flesh.  The flesh wants its own way.  The flesh wants to control.  The flesh wants to have things all organized in this life.  The flesh resists all that He is.

     Soldier, there is no freedom apart from The Cross.

     He will reveal the beauty.  He will woo you.
     Tell Him and tell Him today.
     Aloud.