Intercession for the “ streams of water” (the hearts of the rulers) ...

There are unseen forces beyond the tangible bureaucracies of the governments or politics on earth. King Solomon said in Proverbs 21 verse 1 “the king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.” St. Paul who was endowed with the spirit of wisdom and understanding instructed his pupil, Timothy, concerning prayers in 1 Timothy 2 verse 1:  Paul wrote “First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men,2 for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way.” 

Paul mentioned “for kings and all who are in high positions,” so that they may have a quiet and peaceful life.  St. Paul understood the wondrous hand of the Lord in guiding “a stream of water” which is referring to a ruler or a king in a particular geopolitical region.   In Isaiah Chapter 9 verse 7, Prophet Isaiah delivered the prophecy concerning a ruler who would run off and conquered the Promised Land, and that ruler was purposely allowed to rule over them as the manifestations of divine punishment upon his stiff-necked “woman” (the chosen people of God).  That ruler was prophesied in an allegorical phrase called “a stream of water.” Verse 7 of Isaiah Chapter 8 revealed “7 therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory.”  King Solomon who was gifted with the spirit of wisdom knew that the rulers on earth were in the hands of the Lord, thus he disclosed the meaning of “a stream of water” which referred to the heart of a ruler or a king.

The fate of failing in interceding for “a stream of water” in one’s nation 

Every “a stream of water” must be interceded especially during the time of the approaching day of the Lord, and also during the period of Judgment.  In our anticipation of the  coming Day of the Lord, or simply “a time,”  it would be important to continue in waiting for his Spirit to descent at our wicks of our spirit at all times, so that every prayer would be equipped with the wings of dialogos.  The descending Presence of the Holy Spirit would accompany every believer in staying in the Spirit, so that ones might be empowered by “Spirit of prayer.”  It is through the “Spirit of prayer” that every believer is strengthened.  

The Lord Jesus perspired droplets of blood, and was weakened by the realities of the power of death brought forth by total sins of humanity since the beginning of time till to the end of time which simultaneously transpired in his human-divine Consciousness.  These simultaneous realities in Jesus’ consciousness during his prayer had caused him to be consciously transpired the inconceivable agonies of the past, the present and the future realities of sins: transpiring altogether at once in his Spirit. That consciousness drained the energy of Jesus’ flesh.  Those droplets of blood were his human-physical reaction. St. Luke recorded that Jesus was strengthened by the presence of angel sent by His Father.

Prayer is the source of strength for every believer. His Spirit is the source of strength.  Unless you are inside your own chamber, then you are reduced into your own intellectual capacities, and your spirit is alone without any helper. The strength of the flesh won’t promise you any triumph, unless you are empowered by the presence of the tongue of fire or else the presence of divine messenger.  Jesus Christ was empowered by the presence of the angel during his wrestling praying in the garden of Gethsemane, embracing all the pains of the whole gamut of sins of the wounded mankind.  

Every ruler or king is like a stream of water in the hand of the Lord.  We know that when God ceases to hold on the stream of water in His hand, then who else would hold their hearts? ; It would be only by themselves, or else be inspired by the subtlest deceptions from the Old Serpent.  Sometimes, God allowed the Old Serpent to hold the “streams of waters” of the rulers and the kings, so that God would complete His handiworks of Judgments. 

God allowed the Old Serpent to strike every sign of blessing in Job’s life. Then, Job’s miserable friends came to comfort him. After seven days and seven nights of silence with Job, they broke their silence and began judging him harshly.  In Job’s enigma of justice, God explained later to them that Job’s friends were wrong, and Job’s words concerning God were right. Job’s faith was strengthened, and his traumas were subsided when he saw God’s face.  God’s revelation-knowledge somehow inspired Job to rise from his ashes of mourning; Job gained refined precepts from his sufferings. His miserable friends were confronted by God because of their foolish understanding concerning the Word, and they were demanded to reconcile themselves to God through the rite of expiation; they had to give seven bulls and seven rams as burnt offerings unto Job’s expiatory.   So, the enigma of divine justice was solved.  

Did God purposely allow Bildad, Zophar and Eliphaz, as if their “stream of waters” were appointed by God to become the judges of Job’s righteousness? I don’t know! But, to the end of Job’s miseries, God proved to be the only Judge who judged in equity! If we were Job, God’s silence would surely cause us to stagger in our walk of faith! But, God answered Job out of the storm.  Job was deeply acquainted with the Divine Creator.  His relationship with the Divine Spirit manifested by Job’s words in Job 28: 28 “The fear of the Lord―that is Wisdom,.” Job’s understanding was far beyond the precepts of his older and experienced friends who kept babbling with their human wisdom. Job spoke the things of the Spirit of God; he spoke about the gift of the Sevenfold Spirit. His older friends were not astonished at all by Job’s spiritual wisdom because their precepts were tied up with the traditional wisdom which says “we reap what we have sown.” Thus, their judgmental predispositions were somehow validated by the absence of the signs of divine blessings in Job’s life. Their spiritual eyes were unable to see the truth of Job’s words concerning “the fear of Lord.” 

The rulers in campaigning for the popular ideology of relativism may emulate the same reasoning in demoralizing and conquering the saints. How could the “wheat” prove to the “tares” that they would be the problem solvers of all the conflicts on earth, when they (saints) are lacking the signs of divine blessings in their lives?  AntiWord ideology like “Communism” says that religion is poison.  Scientific minded men say “the hand of God does not necessarily be in the big bang,” and the economists say “God never rain down money from heaven.”   God allowed the hearts of the Assyrian, Babylonian and Mede Persian Emperors to run off the Promised Land in fulfilling their ambitions in conquering the people of God, and yet they received punishments from God as well. Therefore, as long as the Lord endows us mercy and enduring loving-kindness, those “streams of water” all over the earth would be streaming down to you, bringing forth blessings or at worst, they are coming as plagues, deaths, scarcities and various forms of injustices. 

And the blessing of the Lord brings forth wealth.  And he adds no sorrow to it.  But, if the “streams of waters” of the leaders were left without divine interventions then, the worst possibility would mean that their hearts were in the hand of the Old Serpent. When the woman and her offspring enter into the “desert,” the Old Serpent would spew out the hearts of the rulers as the “streams of waters,” so that the diabolic agendas could be fulfilled through their hands.  Beware! The ruling beasts of the earth might turn out to be the “mouths” of the Old Serpent on earth.  God allowed it to take place, so that the Word would be fulfilled.  The beasts as the “mouths” of Lucifer on earth were prophesied in Revelation 13: 5 & 6.

5 And the beast was given “a mouth" uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and it was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months; 6  it opened its “mouth” to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling, that is, those who dwell in heaven. 7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them.8 And authority was given it over every tribe and people and tongue and nation,8 and all who dwell on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.9 If anyone has an ear, let him hear. (Revelations 13: 5-9)

Therefore, it is very important to pray and intercede for the rulers of the nations, so that we may understand His “name.”  It would not be necessary that God would lift up the sufferings because we know from his past “names” concerning Judgment that God purposely allowed the hearts of the emissaries of the Dragon to rule over His own people.  So, we intercede for the rulers, so that we may understand what is going on as according to God’s eyes.  Unless, we enter into the Spirit of intercession, then we won’t know the reason why have the “fires” wrapped up God’s own peoples.  Anticipating for positive answer is very normal.  Do not be troubled! Because we were already foretold that during the "without daytime and without nighttime" period, Judgment, the hearts of the rulers were allowed to execute their desires for a certain period of time! The phrase “It was allowed” was twice revealed from verse 5 to verse 9 in Revelation 13. It was God’s consent. Whereas, the phrase “it was given” was the Adversary’s power.

We know that it was no longer concerning the battlefields between God, and the Adversary in the hearts of the rulers. It was clearly revealed that God allowed as disclosed by “it was allowed,” and “it was given” refers to the Old Serpent’s power in empowering the rulers. But, God allowed it for forty two months only or 3.5 years.  It was foretold that the rulers who have received the ‘mark” would become the “mouths” of the dragon.  They fulfill the wills and desires of Lucifer on earth, manifesting not only in the form of 'AntiWord-enforced Laws,' but also in various forms of anti-Word manifestations.  It won’t be astonishing to see 'wind of teachings' sweeping across the globe which was already sped up by the inventions of electronic-networks. They (the rulers) would teach antiWord’s doctrines through amendments of Laws with endless deceptions; St. John revealed that “to worship the beasts” mean to be tied up with their Laws and antiWord-precepts.

Pray for the rulers of the nations. Intercessory prayers for the rulers are not necessarily intended in converting the hearts of rulers, but merely the expressions of our faith in God that he is in control of everything. It means we do believe that “every stream of water” is in the hand of the Lord. King Solomon said “the king’s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.” Unless, we enter into the Spirit of prayer, then we never know how the Lord is working out his handiworks through them. Nehemiah wrote that he “prayed unto God,” when he disclosed his desires to Artaxerxes I who was in his 20th year of reign. We don’t know whether God answered our desires, unless we have disclosed them to the rulers.  Unless we are told in the Spirit of prophecy, then we won’t know whether God has given the heart of man unto the ruler or vice versa.  Prophet Daniel knew that Nebuchadnezzar would be given “the heart of man” after the completion of seven-year insanity of Nebuchadnezzar which led him into abandonment in a remote place called Tema.  The prophets knew the secrets and the things to come because they enter into that Spirit of intercessions for the beasts (rulers). In the same way, we enter into the spirit of intercessions for the beasts of the earth, so that we may understand the meanings of the surroundings events of our times.

Your prayers may change “the watercourses or the the streams of water” as according to the Divine revelation-knowledge or the Spirit of prophecy.  Or, at worst, we may know the reasons behind the “fires” that are engulfing us.

Political analysts vs. Spirit of prophecy/Spirit of Wisdom/Spirit of understanding. 

Political analyst is a secular political expert who synthesizes the digests of the whole gamut of politics as related to the ideologies, religions, the mechanism of bureaucracies and societal institutions on earth.  They could provide any conceivable details of every event.  But, their assessments might be deprived of the wholeness of the truth due to their inability to access into the Sovereign Spirit of understanding, and the spirit of wisdom who knows everything:  the Word of the Lord. God does not leave his people clueless concerning what is to come. He blessed his people with prophecies and revelations concerning the future, so that we may believe in Him more.  Though prophecies may not be as details as reported by the expertise of the secular journalism, prolific columnist-historians, futuristic scientists or as details as what were video-taped by any modern technology such as the advanced cameras of a high tech-satellites, but they are sufficient and undeniably accurate in predicting the things to come in the future. So that, when you see stupefying fires engulf the world, you may not be troubled because you were already foretold about them.. 

He is creatively omnipresent in every event of human history of the wounded men; he touched those whose names written in the book of life.  Not even a single blade of grass was left withered without the traces of the Spirit of the living God. The sovereign transcending creative power of God defies all rulers, powers and authorities in the history of mankind.  Men only see what they understood through their five senses, and perhaps with extra-occult-information from beyond, but God fills every elect with spirit of understanding.  For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;7 but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another. Each accession of a ruler is known by God.  He may allow it to take place, or else he may disclose one’s downfall.  God even allowed an evil ruler to rule for certain period of time.  Men were in sorrow and sufferings when ruled by evil rulers, but God may allow them to rule for an appointed time.