So, we begin to look and experience, then, many of these different aspects of God.  So, we pray because we’ve been commanded to pray.  We pray always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, the Scripture says.  1 Thessalonians 5 says we “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thessalonians 5:17).  We pray without ceasing.  We know that we’re not always uttering things, but internally, the Holy Spirit all the time—we know that we’re indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and He’s praying for us, and we’re communing with Him in our hearts.  “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit” (Ephesians 6:18).  What a great gift!  And then the Scripture tells us in Proverbs, Chapter 16:9, “A man’s heart devises his own way: but the Lord directs his steps.”  See, this is an expression of the sovereignty of God.  We have self-will.  We make decisions and determinations, and God, because of His goodness and His grace and His mercy, will change that course for our lives by whatever means He chooses.

Sometimes it’s a donkey who refuses any longer to move.  Why?  Because God had sent the angel.  We all remember that story, right?  And as Balaam’s coming along, and there’s this angel standing before him with a sword raised, getting ready to kill him.  Sometimes donkeys are smarter than we are!  Sometimes the wisdom comes to us from the mouth of a child.  We dare not begin to think that we are the end of all truth and know everything.  It comes through brothers and sisters.  It comes through revelation of the Word of God.  It comes through visitations of God.

I was just in prayer—actually I think it was today, as I was out just in my prayer walk and fellowshipping with the Lord.  As I was walking along and just talking with the Lord, I said, “Lord, I know your Word, and it says, ‘Blessed are those that, have not seen, yet have believed’ (John 20:29).  But I wouldn’t mind a bright light right now, brighter than the noonday sun, to shine and to knock me to the ground.  I’d love to see You, Jesus.  I’d love to hear Your audible voice.  I’d love to see a burning bush.”  Amen?  “I’d love to see You transfigured.  All of these great men of God who had these revelations”—and I was just sharing this with Him as I was walking— “and all of these people.  I know You’ve said, ‘Blessed are those that have not seen,’ but I’d like to see.  Because all of these men went on to do great things for You.  And I may not be great, but You can make me great.”  Amen?  “One visitation.  I want to be used of You more.  I want to know You in a greater understanding of Your majesty and Your power.  I want supernatural unction to work within me, that we could speak like the prophet of old and our words break the rock in pieces!”  Now God, in His sovereignty, chooses those people.  Amen?  But we, having a more sure Word of prophecy, the Word of God, can enter in boldly, Hebrews says (amen?), and obtain mercy and help in the time of need (Hebrews 4:16).

Let’s avail ourselves of prayer.  Let’s take that time and boldly come into the presence of God.  Boldness means we come with assurance that what we’re asking for, God’s going to give to us.  That’s the boldness.  We don’t come in like “macho man”; we come in humbly before God.  Our boldness is that we’re going to leave mightily.  We’re going to leave in His power.  You can’t be in the presence of God and not be changed.  I would that the change in my life would be like Moses, and I’d have to put a veil over myself, because His glory would shine forth out of our face that men couldn’t even look upon us.