60 Days Prayer & Fasting: Supernatural Intelligence (Day 1)
Exodus 14:15
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Welcome to this season of special Consecration to the lord.
This season of waiting, of brooding and of birthing. Welcome to this season of divine alignment, and I hope you are ready.
Just in case you are not, this devotional is to prepare you. It’s to help you understand why we are doing this and why you should take it seriously.
I learned a very big secret about the things of God many years ago, and it has changed my life, and I believe that it can change yours as well.
There is something called Spiritual Intelligence. As unplanned and unprecedented as the things of the spirit can be sometimes, there is still an intelligence to it. This means that whilst the things of the spirit can happen spontaneously, there are things you can do that would surely yield certain results in your life.
And so, Elijah can ask them to put water on the sacrifice, and yet at his call to God, fire came from heaven. How can Elijah call down fire, and does it answer?
Moses was to deliver the Israelites, and he did not know how to go about it, but God gave him a method. His staff.
With his staff, he brought the plagues.
By the time you get to Exodus chapter 14, they are at the Red Sea.
Exodus 14:15-16
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15 And the LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.
16 But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.”
God seems to be rebuking Moses here. “Why cry to me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward.” And this is how God is. If he has given you a method, he is not expecting you to cry to him again.
Listen to me, there is spiritual intelligence when you want to birth new seasons.
There is spiritual intelligence when you want to see results.
There is spiritual intelligence when you want to see fire.
There is spiritual intelligence when you want to align yourself with God.
There is spiritual intelligence when you want to rejuvenate your devotion.
There is spiritual intelligence when you want to do ministry.
Jesus was about to begin his ministry, and he fasted for 40 days and 40 nights.
Why do you think you would do nothing and see great results in ministry?
There are protocols for supernatural experiences.
Judges 13:3-5
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3 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
4 Now therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
5 For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.”
An angel of the lord appeared and told Manoah’s wife that their child was to come.
Judges 13:8
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8 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, and said, “O my Lord, please let the Man of God whom You sent come to us again and teach us what we shall do for the child who will be born.”
Judges 13:12
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12 Manoah said, “Now let Your words come to pass! What will be the boy’s rule of life, and his work?”
What shall be the boy’s rule of life?
This is what many of us are not sensitive to. That is, when you have a supernatural baby, you can ask for the protocol of the child’s life.
I am speaking metaphorically that when you have any great assignment, any great calling, any supernatural experience, you need to ask God for the protocol to sustain it.
This is why we are fasting, because prayer and fasting for long periods of time are the protocol for sustaining the supernatural leadership we have experienced as a church. It’s how God tells us things to come. What we should do, what we should expect and how to be in his will.
By extension, you can put this to effect to know the rule of life for your family, for your supernatural favour; how to sustain it.
I am telling you, times of prayers like this are a simple rule to birth new seasons.
For everything the lord gives, there are consecrations for it, and we would talk about that tomorrow.
But today, I want to focus on what to expect from this season of prayer and fasting.
1. Expect this to bear supernatural results.
The bible tells us in the book of Joshua 6:
Joshua 6:2-5
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2 And the LORD said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor.
3 You shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go all around the city once. This you shall do six days.
4 And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
5 It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.”
Notice, God could have brought the walls down in one moment. But He gave them six days of obedience, and on the seventh day, a climax of consecration and obedience brought the breakthrough.
Joshua 6:20
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20 So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
This is the power of instruction. Anything less than the full seven days would not have cut it. Anything short of the obedience God required would have left the walls standing. This is not just endurance, this is consecration. It is not just exercise; it is alignment. And at the end, walls must fall.
Many things would not happen just at once.
On some miracles and results, God can give a time and an instruction to see the obedience of our heart or to create a devotional emphasis or consecration that can birth that result. And in those times, anything less would not cut it.
So, if you show up for the 60 days, expect the walls to fall.
2. Expect Devotional Shift.
There is a story about King Jehoshaphat.
2 Chronicles 20:2-4
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2 Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, “A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar” (which is En Gedi).
3 And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
4 So Judah gathered together to ask help from the LORD; and from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
There was a great battle ahead of them and they turned to the lord and sked for help and here is what the lord said:
2 Chronicles 20:14-24
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14 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, in the midst of the assembly.
15 And he said, “Listen, all you of Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you, King Jehoshaphat! Thus says the LORD to you: ‘Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God’s.
16 Tomorrow go down against them. They will surely come up by the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the brook before the Wilderness of Jeruel.
17 You will not need to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the LORD, who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem!’ Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the LORD is with you.”
18 And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem bowed before the LORD, worshiping the LORD.
19 Then the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with voices loud and high.
20 So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”
21 And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the LORD, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: “Praise the LORD, For His mercy endures forever.”
22 Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated.
23 For the people of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir to utterly kill and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, they helped to destroy one another.
24 So when Judah came to a place overlooking the wilderness, they looked toward the multitude; and there were their dead bodies, fallen on the earth. No one had escaped.
Listen, you might have other expectations, but this is how we fight our battles. We increase our devotion to God.
And so in these 60 days, shift your focus to God. God wants you to sing and worship him.
Have an atmosphere of worship and prayer every day. Commit to God and see him act on your behalf and on behalf of your family.
God didn’t ask them to fight first, but to sing and worship. Their obedience birthed a devotional emphasis.
These 60 days would birth a devotional emphasis in you.
Their commitment to this instruction produced a devotional shift: instead of fear, they chose worship. Instead of anxiety, they chose alignment. This is what fasting and prayer do — it reorders your heart, it tunes your devotion back to God, and in that place of devotion, victory is guaranteed.
3. Expect Alignment and clarity of Instructions
Acts 13:2-3
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2 As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, “Now separate to Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
3 Then, having fasted and prayed, and laid hands on them, they sent them away.
Clarity of instructions is one of the major results of such obedience in prayer and fasting. As you wait on the lord, he gives answers. He shows you what is to come. Note, they were already devoted to God, and were not even necessarily about instructions, but it came.
So, imagine when you are already expecting instructions.
4. Expect Angelic Ministrations.
Sacrifice and consecration are a protocol for Angelic ministrations.
Luke 1:8-11
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8 So it was, that while he was serving as priest before God in the order of his division,
9 according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot fell to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. [
10 And the whole multitude of the people was praying outside at the hour of incense.
11 Then an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right side of the altar of incense.
Judges 6:20-21
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20 The Angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And he did so.
21 Then the Angel of the LORD put out the end of the staff that was in His hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire rose out of the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. And the Angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.
Genesis 22:10-12
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10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” So he said, “Here I am.”
12 And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
It seems to be that sacrifice is a protocol for angelic visitations, usually.
The sacrifice of the New Testament is what?
Acts 10:1-4
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1 There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of what was called the Italian Regiment,
2 a devout man and one who feared God with all his household, who gave alms generously to the people, and prayed to God always.
3 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God coming in and saying to him, “Cornelius!”
4 And when he observed him, he was afraid, and said, “What is it, lord?” So he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have come up for a memorial before God.
Prayer is a sacrifice in the New Testament. Times like this are an altar of prayer, an altar of sacrifice to God.
5. Expect Joy in the Holy Ghost…
Pray this way:
Father, as I step into this season of consecration, be it unto me according to your will. Let this season bear the results in the spirit you have ordained for it to bear. Give me the strength to make the sacrifices and consecration for the results that need to be birthed in me.
With love,
The Catalyst,
Pastor Michael Ipaye.