Prayer Meeting - Feb 13th - Man in the Gap

This week, we were blessed and inspired as Michael Tuazon shared with us and challenged us. His key verse...Ezek 22:30

"And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."

"Who will be the man in the Gap?" Mike challenged.

We then read from Isaiah 6:1-8, where we catch a glimpse of Isaiah's vision of the Lord on His throne, and Isaiah's realization of the Lord's holiness and his own uncleaness. As Vs 3-5 says:

"And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Then said I, Woe is me! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."

First, and foremorest, we need to see the Lord for being Holy! Next we have to see ourselves as an unclean thing. "Our righteounsess is only filthy rags." Isa 64. Next, we have to ask the Lord to change us and believe that He will change us.

Continuing with vs 6-8

"Then flew one of the seraphins unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the alter: And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, lo, this hath touched thy lips: and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me."

Now we must answer His call...and be willing to be used by God!

"To every one who becomes a partaker of His grace, the Lord appoints a work for others. Individually we are to stand in our lot and place, saying, "Here I am; send me." Upon the minister of the word, the missionary nurse, the Christian physician, the individual Christian, whether he be merchant or farmer, professional man or mechanic,-- the responsibility rests upon all. It is our work to reveal to men the gospel of their salvation. Every enterprise in which we engage should be a means to this end." Ministry of Healing, p. 148.

Isa 58:12 "And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in."

Michael concluded with the powerful story of the Centurion that sought for Christ to come and heal his servant. (Found in Matthew 8:5-10) He then brought out how that Centurion probably would not have known Christ, had faith in Him, or looked to Him, without the witness of his servant.

And so he ended with the challenge... "Are we being a faithful servant and witness for Christ? Are we willing to be the man or woman that stands in the gap for God and His people that still do not know?"

AS RESTORATION DRAWS NEAR, LET'S PRAY ESPECIALLY THAT GOD WOULD GIVE US STRENGTH TO STAND AND BE WITNESSES FOR HIM, AND TO STAND IN THE GAP!