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Something powerful is about to start happening when Believers get together. Something that's never happened before. Something so supernatural and so real that it will change how the world sees us and how we see ourselves forever.

If you knew what is ahead, you would understand why the writer of Hebrews said, forsake "not the assembling of yourselves together so much the more, as ye see the day approaching" (Heb. 11:25).

I'm just beginning to understand it myself. I'm beginning to realize that in these last days, God is going to change us corporately. He is going to do things to us and through us as we gather together that He could not do with us individually.

Actually, He's already started to do it.

Recently, I've traveled to different churches and taken part in corporate meetings, I've sensed a change in the atmosphere. In one meeting where people had gathered from all over the nation to pray together, we experienced a spirit of prayer that was absolutely amazing.

There was a power and a flow to it that enabled us to pray and pray and pray. What's more, we prayed with a greater sense of authority. We began to pray not as a little group of Believers on earth entreating the God of heaven, but as a delegation of heaven representing God and enforcing His will on the earth.

Granted, I've known that's how we should pray for years. But knowing that and experiencing the spirit of it in a group where hundreds are praying together are two very different things. And I don't mind telling you, I didn't want that meeting to end.

I've also noticed a spiritual hunger in people that I haven't seen in 20 years.

When Mac and I first started learning about the things of God in the early 70's, we would go to meetings sometimes two or three hours early just so we could get a front or second row seat. We weren't the only ones like that either.

There was a whole group of people who were that hungry. We'd go from one meeting where the Word was being preached to the next. We'd sit on the edge of our seats, desperate to grasp everything God was saying to us. There weren't any spiritual couch potatoes in that group!

I Don't Call This Home Anymore
When the Spirit and the Word come together, here's what often happens. The Spirit will quicken something from the Bible, something you thought you knew inside and out.

A scripture so familiar that you've underlined it, put stars by it and nearly worn it off the page, will suddenly stand up in a new light and come alive in you again. Instead of being simply information, it becomes revelation and it changes you.

That's always happened to us in some degree but it's about to happen in a greater way than we've ever seen before. I know that as well as I know my name. I can even tell you the kinds of scriptures that are going to catch our attention.

The ones that talk about who we are in Christ Jesus. Verses like 2 Corinthians 5:
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new, and all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ.
(2 Cor. 5:17,18,20)
I've read that verse thousands of times but lately it's become more real to me that I actually am an ambassador from heaven. I'm a citizen of heaven. I carry the power of heaven and operate with the authority of heaven. I'm sent to bring heaven to the earth!

I've stopped calling Minneapolis, Minnesota my home. Heaven is my home. Just heaven. No place else. That may sound peculiar to you but if you'll think about it, that's how Jesus lived. Naturally speaking, He was from the town of Nazareth yet He never referred to Himself as a Nazarene.

He was raised as a carpenter's son yet when He said, "I must be about my Father's business," everyone knew He wasn't talking about building furniture. He was talking about doing the work of God. Jesus didn't operate on the basis of His natural heritage, He operated from the platform of His spiritual heritage.

Bless God, we need to think the same way. We must think that way to walk in the fullness of the power of God.

Why? Because there are things that will just cause your flesh to jump and run if you don't know who you are. But if you walk in there with a living consciousness that you are an ambassador of heaven with the power of almighty God in you and on you, you'll be able to change that situation.

That's what men like John G. Lake and Smith Wigglesworth did. They could take hold of someone at death's door and sometimes, beyond jerk them out of the bed and say, "Rise up and be healed, in the name of Jesus!" And they'd get results.

They weren't over-awed by the work of the devil. They didn't draw back in critical situations because they knew who they were. They knew they were ambassadors on a mission. They were on a mission to take heaven everywhere they went.

Trained to Reign
Over the years we've marveled at men like that. We've seen them as unusual and exceptional. But before Jesus comes back, that's going to be the norm! Believers everywhere are going to live and walk just like those men did.

Romans 5:17 says that those who receive the grace of God and the free gift of righteousness will surely "reign as kings in life " Up to this time, the Church hasn't known much about reigning like kings but we're about to learn. God is going to teach us how to walk and talk and act like royalty.

The truth is we are a royal priesthood. We are a holy nation. God has called us to show forth His own power and perfection. (See 1 Peter 2:9.) We are going to reign as kings but we're not going to do it just any, sloppy old way.

We are going to do it according to divine protocol. We are going to do it exactly right. And we are going to be healthy while doing it. We'll have provision and prosperity like no one has ever known or heard of before. We'll have power and authority that will shake the world.

What Can You Receive?
Somebody might read this and say, "Well, I just don't know about that. I don't think I could ever have that kind of prosperity. I don't think I'll ever be very kingly."

I can tell you right now, that person probably won't get in on this. These things can only come to people who will receive them. They can only come to people who will say, "Yes, Lord. I'll take that! I believe I receive it in Jesus name!"

At times, there's been a lot of emphasis on what we have to do to obtain things in God. But that emphasis is about to change. Now the emphasis is going to be on receiving. You can have whatever you can receive from God. So for you to reign in life as a king, you have to receive who you are.

If you'll do that, there will be no limit to what God can do in you, through you and for you.

There has never before been a time like this. So get ready. How? First of all, get yourself to church every time you can. Don't forsake the assembling of yourselves together because the day of the Lord is approaching. Get into meetings where you know the Spirit of God is moving and you will be changed.

Second, start expanding your capacity to receive by meditating on what the Word of God says about who you are. Look up all the verses in the New Testament that say "in him" or "in whom." Put them in your heart and put them in your mouth.

Hallelujah, God is going to change us! We are going to look like Him. We are going to walk with the consciousness of God like more than conquerors.

As my friend, Brother Halverson used to say, "We are marching into God." We are on a divine stairway and step by step we are ascending into the glory. And by the power of God, we are going to make it all the way home.


Mac Hammond Ministries
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Lynne Hammond
Web site: Lynne Hammond Ministries
 
A teacher and an author, Lynne publishes a newsletter called Prayer Notes, has written numerous books, and currently serves as the national prayer director for Daughters for Zion. Her passion for inspiring and leading others into the life of Spirit-led prayer continues to take her around the world to minister to believers whose heart cry, like hers, is “Lord, teach me to pray!”
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