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WATCH FOCUS - Our Watch Focus this week is THE ARK OF HIS PRESENCE:


For days now our intercession is interwoven in a sound of SINGING! When King David returned the ark to its place, they sang as they brought it home on their shoulders!

“They brought the ark of God and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it, He appointed some of the Levites to minister before the ark of the Lord, to extol, thank, and praise the Lord, the God of Israel: Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done. Sing to him, sing praise to him; tell of all his wonderful acts. Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness. Tremble before him, all the earth! The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved. Let the heavens rejoice, let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, ‘The Lord reigns!’ Let the sea resound, and all that is in it; let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them! Let the trees of the forest sing, let them sing for joy before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth,” 1 Chronicles 16.

Manifold major crises and a surge in the spirit of antichrist at home and abroad threatens the peace and security of families and nations everywhere. As watchmen surveying the landscape, we recognize God is up to something. If you listen, you will discern that heaven is not silent. We take our place on the ramparts of prayer as the church and people of God. Amos’ 9-11 prophecy fulfilled in Acts 16 says, “‘After this I will return and rebuild David’s fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it, that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things’—things known from long ago.” Jesus is the ark in our midst full of provision and miracles. It’s time to bathe our prayer and our world in heaven’s atmosphere. There is a beautiful analogy in CS Lewis’ Narnia classic, The Magician’s Nephew, written in the era of the last great world wars. Here is an excerpt:

In the darkness, something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing...There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it. Then two wonders happened at the same moment. One was that the voice was suddenly joined by other voices; more voices than you could possibly count...The second wonder was that the blackness overhead, all at once, was blazing with stars...If you had seen and heard it, you would have felt quite certain that it was the First Voice, the deep one, which had made the stars appear and made them sing. The Voice rose and rose, till all the air was shaking with it. And just as it swelled to the mightiest and most glorious sound it had yet produced, the sun arose...That made you feel excited; until you saw the Singer himself, and then you forgot everything else. It was a Lion. Huge, shaggy, and bright it stood facing the risen sun. Its mouth was wide open in song... All this time the Lion’s song, and his stately prowl, to and fro, backward and forward, was going on…at each turn he came a little nearer.
 
The Lion opened his mouth… breathing out, a long, warm breath— Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: “Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, AWAKE!”

“The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Zeph. 3:17.
We pray for your family and ours! Let the voice of the Lord rise like a mist over the land to make up a wall. We pray truth and justice be restored to our national legal system! He is coming to judge the earth. We pray revival rivers to flow from His Presence! There is a river that makes His house glad.
 
The “tune” the Levites played as they brought back the ark, alamoth, is only mentioned one other time, in Psalm 46. Alamoth means something hidden about to burst forth.
 
Psalm 46  For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. According to alamoth. A song.

1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.
4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
5 God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
7 The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
8 Come and see what the Lord has done, the desolations he has brought on the earth.
9 He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; he burns the shields with fire.
10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
11 The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
 
We pray rescue for the hostages! We pray every Hamas leader, and those who support and shelter them be eliminated! We pray all Palestinian people seek and find the Lord as God!
 
Psalm 83: “Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb (Judges 7:25), all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna (Judges 8:12), who said, ‘Let us take possession of the pasturelands of God.’ As fire consumes the forest or a flame sets the mountains ablaze, so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm. Cover their faces with shame, Lord, so that they will seek your name. Let them know that you, whose name is the Lord— that you alone are the Most High over all the earth.”

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