Watch Focus Aug 15, 2025,  Be still, and know…

The watch approach is one of radical, active, prophetic, intercession advancing the kingdom and dealing with spiritual powers according to scripture. We stand in the broken-down places to intervene in worship and proclamation. While we are burdened with many local, national, international, and personal issues, we settle in to Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! This week the Watch gathers to listen before we speak. To wait communally and hear the Voice of the Holy Spirit.

The nations, even in the West, are being invaded by old and new idols. These are days like the prophet Habakkuk: “Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life!’ Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up!’ Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it.” The Lord is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him!” He stood his ground as Babylon was rising to roll over Jerusalem and send her people into exile. He was a Levitical temple musician. His words are addressed “to the choir director” indicating temple music was a means of intercession.

Habakkuk means ‘embrace.’ He takes his place as a watchman. “I will stand at my watch and station myself on the rampart; I will look to see what He will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint. Then the Lord replied: “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.””  God announces five woes indicting the city and nation. Extortion, injustice, bloodshed, perversion, and idol worship. We live in an hour of reformation. God is calling the earth and His church to come to attention before her creator whom she has abandoned. Tonight, we position ourselves to embrace His call. We begin the watch in silent meditation, settling in together. Let us breathe Him in, cease from our own labors, and allow Him to beckon and position our thoughts and priorities in prayer and worship.
 
Isaiah 6:1, “In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.”

John 15:5, “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.”

Isaiah 40:31, “ He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.”