Thoughts for Life: Strike the Mark: Prayer Note #81

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Strike the Mark: Prayer Note #81

Dutch Sheets shares with us, "We are like a magnifying glass in one sense—"

   “One of the ways paga is translated is  "strike the mark.’"The reference is Job 36:32: “He covers His hands with the lightning, and commands it to strike the mark” (italics mine).

When God releases His light, causing it to flash forth from His presence like lightning, its striking the desired target is likened to intercession.

   Although the word paga is not used, Habakkuk 3:4 also speaks of light flashing forth from the hand of God: “His radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, and there is the hiding of His power.”

The Amplified translation is also very descriptive: “And His brightness was like the sunlight; rays streamed from His hand, and there [in the sunlike splendor] was the hiding place of His power."

   We are like a magnifying glass in one sense—no, we don’t add to or magnify God’s power—but we do let the “Son” shine forth through us, directing His light to desired situations, allowing it to ‘strike the mark.’”

   “For our God IS a consuming fire!” (Heb. 12:29)

Prayer Note #81- Strike the Mark, taken from Dutch Sheets’ book, Intercessory Prayer (pgs. 179-181)

   [On Thursday, the 18^th, my post will have Sheets giving us several Scriptures that associate God with light or lightning.]

The next Prayer Note on 10/18- God is Light

Today’s treasure truth #7: If you are “born again”, you are a new creature. 2 Cor. 5:17

Our thought for today: Not by power or might that we may have, but by the Spirit of God!

Tomorrow’s post: No Sleeping Allowed Wendy Dunham

"Be strong in the Lord,

and be of good courage;

your mighty Defender is always the same.

Mount up with wings,

as the eagle ascending;

victory is sure when you call on his name.

REFRAIN

Be strong, be strong, be strong in the Lord,

and be of good courage for he is your guide.