40 Days of Faith and Blessing. Day 9, 1/21/12
Day 9 – (21st of January)
Prayers for your 10+ men (Psalm 51):
- According to Your great compassion, blot out their transgressions.
- Teach them wisdom in the inmost place
- Let them hear joy and gladness
Prayer for yourself:
"And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit." (2 Corinthians 3:18)
Yesterday my friend Debi Tengler in Houston said, “It is time for the [your] UNVELING!” It just so happens that I am going to Vail, CO this weekend, and this morning we have the scripture above to pray over ourselves. I love God-incidences!
My purpose in starting this blog was to repost emails I sent out last summer called 40 Days of Declarations, so I am including one of our Days of Declarations for you to add to your prayers if you choose.
Barbara unveiled in Vail
From the 40 Days of Declarations:
My good friend Meg was married for the first time at the age of 43. On New Years Eve a few months before Meg met her husband, we were in VAIL together, and we decided with my silly-fun hat with a veil, we declared that we were being UN-VEILED, for our future husbands. Later that year, and a few months prior to meeting her husband, Meg was praying for the man she had not yet met from a document she shared with me called “Scriptures for Husbands.” I just now opened it up after several years, and I was amazed at what I saw, “For such a time as this!” I did not realize until now that it speaks of the un-veiling. It was Meg’s time.
Unveiled Meg
This year, 2012, is our time!
One other note of confirmation, before I opened the document, I had an image of a man coming out of a cave that he had been in for a long time. He was adjusting to the brightness of the light, and his skin was soft and pale. The picture spoke to me of the many men who have been in life’s “prisons” for various reasons, and our prayers and declarations are breaking them free! With that in mind, see the opening scripture in the following introduction to “Scriptures for Husbands”! I will send you the document in its entirety if you would like to have one too.
There is a declaration for today at the end, so feel free to skip ahead since this is a bit lengthy. (Emphasis is the author’s)
Scriptures for Husbands
Ann Kramer, Founder and President Intercessors For A Righteous Nation
“This is what the LORD says: ‘At just the right time, I will respond to you.’...
I will say to the prisoners, “Come out in freedom,”
and to those in darkness, “Come into the light.”’” [come into the light of the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS]. (Isaiah 49:8-9 NLT)
In every human relationship, marriage being the most intimate, there are three stages of love. The FIRST stage is SUPERFICIAL. When we are first getting to know someone, we usually only relate on a very shallow level. As time progresses, we begin to let our guard down, revealing sides of ourselves that we would have been afraid to UNVEIL until we were more secure in one another’s love.
This brings us to the SECOND stage of love, which is DISILLUSIONMENT. It doesn’t take us too long to realize that this is NOT the person that we THOUGHT we married! Actually, this is a very healthy and important stage of development. We cannot be DISILLUSIONED unless we FIRST have some ILLUSIONS. An illusion is simply a FALSE EXPECTATION—and false expectations ALWAYS bring DISAPPOINTMENT.
When we come to the stage of DISILLUSIONMENT—and ALL of us will sooner or later—we have three choices with which to respond. First, we can say, “I must have made a mistake—I’m out of here!” Then we are off to find someone else who will fit our illusion—only to be disappointed again—because, unfortunately, illusions are NEVER based on reality.
Secondly, we can try to squeeze our spouse into the mold of our illusion through manipulation, intimidation or domination, and make life miserable for both of us—not to mention that those kind of tactics are nothing short of witchcraft!
Thirdly, we can cry out to the Lord and say, “DIS-illusion me!” It is interesting to note that the material used in bridal veils is called, “SILK ILLUSION”. Illusions always shroud or VEIL REALITY. They are mirages that will always mislead us. So, when we ask the Lord to DIS-illusion us, we are asking for Him to strip away every VEIL—every false expectation that keeps us from loving the REAL person unconditionally.
If we choose the last response, we will step into the THIRD stage of love, which is the SUPERNATURAL phase. Here, we begin to ask the Lord to help us to see our husband with HIS eyes and LOVE him with HIS love—and He will overwhelmingly meet us there with HIS ability to love.
May we be like the woman in Proverbs 31:26 who, “…opens her mouth in skillful and godly Wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness giving counsel and instruction.” May we see the Word of God which we declare in prayer transform our [future] marriages into exactly the same image that we are creating with our words—into HIS very own image—into the glory of the Lord Himself!
“And all of us, as with UNVEILED FACE, because we continued to behold in the WORD OF GOD as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are constantly being transfigured into His very own image in ever increasing splendor and from one degree of glory to another; for this comes from the Lord Who is the Spirit.” (II Corinthians 3:18).
Declarations:
Thank you Father for confirming your purpose in calling us to declare the Word over Kingdom marriages. Thank You for giving us all “eyes to see, and ears to hear” what You are saying to us, for such a time as this.
- Father God, DIS-illusion all of us!
- We declare that every VEIL—every false expectation that keeps us from being free to love the REAL person you are bringing into our lives, unconditionally, is stripped away.
- We declare that today we are divorced from false expectations!
- and we declare a divorce for the men from their false expectations; Lord lead them to divorce their false expectations about the woman they are seeking for marriage.
- We declare that we are UNVEILED - and we will be seen by the person You have chosen to be our marriage partner.
- We declare that all of us with the veil removed can see and reflect the glory of the Lord. And the Lord—who is the Spirit—makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into his glorious image. (2 Corinthians 3:18 NLV)
- We declare that we are transformed by the Word, and we are the Proverbs 31 woman who, “…opens her mouth in skillful and godly Wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness giving counsel and instruction.” (Proverbs 31:26)
- We speak with the authority of our agreement to those who are bound or in prison, “Come out in Freedom!” and to those who are in [spiritual] darkness, “Come into the light!” [of the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS]. (Isaiah 49:9 Amplified)
- We declare that the Sun of Righteousness has risen with healing in His wings and His beams, and you (those who have been held captive) shall go forth and gambol like calves [released] from the stall and leap for joy. (Malachi 4:2 Amplified)
AMEN!
Expecting to be amazed ~
Barbara
© Barbara Nelson – 2012
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