Understanding the Court of Supplications and Acquisitions – Part 6

Accessing Ease for Your Soul

(Continued from Part 1 and Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5)

As we were in this engagement, our souls were freaking out a little. You may be experiencing this as well. We knew about expanding our soul and requesting the oil of ease for our soul, so we paused to do that.

Gloria said, “Instruct your soul to embrace the ease from Heaven.

Instruct your soul to embrace the ease from Heaven.

“Embrace the revelation that’s flowing because you’re going to get to help a lot of people.”

Tell your soul, “Soul, you will do great.”

David’s soul, which can be funny, said to him, “I was just getting used to the other stuff. Now you are making me go somewhere else!”

David then asked his soul, “Don’t you prefer this over the stuffy religious stuff?”

To which his soul replied, “Well, now that you mention it, yes.”

Speaking to his soul, David said, “You’re made for this, soul. You can do this.”

David had been thinking to himself that he was just helping because Stephanie was busy. He realized that this was a heavenly setup. What he was experiencing, how he was seeing scriptures—all that was going on.

He said, “I will never look at the scriptures the same way again. It is like the covers have been pulled off. I am sensing the weight, the necessity, and the reality of the Word of God all in one. Even though I look at Isaiah 46:10 often, when I read it earlier, it sounded different to me. It has a resonance or a different frequency than it seemed to have before.”

Entering the Father’s Heart

In Hebrews 4 we read of a place of rest. As I looked at that passage recently, I saw that he was possibly speaking of this place in His heart that was made for us. I will share the verses and interchange the word “rest” for “His heart.” See how that explains some things as you read this:

Hebrews 4:1-13:

Therefore, since a promise remains of entering His rest [heart], let us fear lest any of you seem to have come short of it. ² For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. ³ For we who have believed do enter that rest [place in the Father’s heart], as He has said: “SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, ‘THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST [heart],’ “although the works [chambers] were finished from the foundation of the world. ⁴ For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “AND GOD RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS”; ⁵ and again in this place: “THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST [chamber of My heart].”

 ⁶ Since therefore it remains that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter [the chamber of His heart] because of disobedience, ⁷ again He designates a certain day, saying in David, “TODAY,” after such a long time, as it has been said: “TODAY, IF YOU WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS.” ⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest [a place in the Father’s heart], then He would not afterward have spoken of another day. ⁹ There remains therefore a rest [place in the Father’s heart] for the people of God. ¹⁰ For he who has entered His rest [heart] has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His.

¹¹ Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest [place in the Father’s heart], lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience. ¹² For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the (human) heart. ¹³ And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account. (Emphasis added)

Do you see the richness of what the Father has provided in the chamber of His heart for us? Looking at this passage in this way helps unravel some aspects of it. It is through intimacy. As T.D. Jakes preached, the word “intimacy” is really “in-to-me-see.” We must allow the Father access to ALL our heart–not just limited portions. It is in becoming vulnerable to Him in that manner that we become His friend.

Another passage that seems to clarify this is in Matthew 11:25-30:

At that time, Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes. ²⁶ Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

 ²⁷ All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father. Nor does anyone know the Father except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him. ²⁸ Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest [a place in the Father’s heart]. ²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest [a place in the Father’s heart] for your souls. ³⁰ For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.”

Applying this pattern to Isaiah 66:1-2, we see who qualifies for this place within the Father’s heart:

 Thus says the LORD: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. Where is the house that you will build Me? And where is the place of My rest? [Where is that place in My heart?] ² For all those things My hand has made, and all those things exist [this place in My heart for you],” says the LORD. “But on this one will I look: on him who is poor (humble) and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at My word. (Emphasis added)

And Isaiah 28:9-12:

“Whom will he teach knowledge? And whom will he make to understand the message?

Those just weaned from milk? Those just drawn from the breasts? ¹⁰ For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”

¹¹ For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people, ¹² to whom He said, “This is the rest [the place within the Father’s heart] with which You may cause the weary to rest [find a place in His heart],” and, “This is the refreshing.”

This secret place has rich promises for us. In Isaiah 45:3, we read:

I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places [within the Father’s heart], that you may know that I, the LORD, who call you by your name, am the God of Israel.

Within this place of intimacy, Father will share secrets and truths that will propel us to new places in our walk with Him. When He calls us by our name, that is an expression of intimacy.

Much of our prayer life has been exercised in the arena of our soul and not our spirit. With the concept of entering into our personal chamber of the Father’s heart, take a look at these verses in Matthew 6:5-15:

And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.

⁶ But you, when you pray, go into your [personal court] room [within the Father’s heart], and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret [your intimacy with Him in this chamber] will reward you openly (acquisitions).

 ⁷ And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do [do not pray from your soul]. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. ⁸ “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

 ⁹ In this manner, therefore, pray [spirit forward and from within the Court of Supplications and Acquisitions]:

Our Father in Heaven, hallowed be Your name. ¹⁰ Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.

¹² And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

¹³ And do not lead us into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the Kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

¹⁴ “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. ¹⁵ But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. (Emphasis added)

Do you see how this is a description of what we have learned about the Court of Supplications and Acquisitions? It is so much richer than we have previously imagined.

When people are in close relationship with one another, they learn one another’s nuances and idiosyncrasies. They often eventually learn to anticipate the other person’s actions and even what they might say. It is natural in friendship for that to occur. Verse 8 tells us,

For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.

The Father can do more than simply anticipate. He even writes our petitions in our Ledger of Supplication for us to complete in due time. It is from this friendship that governing will arise.

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