Praying for Your Family

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Blessings to each of you in the Holiday Season!  During this time of year there are special family gatherings. What a blessing to gather with family and friends and celebrate the Savior’s birth.

With this mind, I wanted to direct our global PrayerStorm efforts into a practical approach of praying for our families. Just think, this week in 74 nations of the earth we will each be praying for a a movement of reconciliation, restoration and revival in our families!  Now that is significant.  I am excited about our prayer assignment this week.

I hope to see some of you at the upcoming Women on the Frontlines Extreme Conference in the Phoenix area in January. The list of speakers and worship leaders is amazing. We will gather at the one year anniversary of the graduation to heaven of our dear friend and prophetic fire mom, Jill Austin. We will honor the lineage and legacy of both Michal Ann Goll and Jill Austin at this strategic gathering.

Also note that there are several strategic prophetic conferences around the nation at the end of the year being used as a tool to start the year off right.  I will be sharing my New Year’s message here in Nashville at Belmont Church at Sandy Powell’s Prophetic Conference. 

Remember, it is not too late to get your free copy of Angelic Encounters as well. Our EN Resource Center will be glad to assist you at 1-877-200-1604.

Blessings to You and Your Family!

James W. Goll  

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Praying for Your Family

As we pray for crisis intervention, for a youth awakening, for Israel, and for revival, we will keep coming back to the subject of family (also friends, who can often be like family to us). On a personal basis, our crisis intercession very often concerns family-and-friend matters. And when it comes to revival—youth revival or any age revival—it really isn’t revival unless it practically touches our homes and families. We want to see revival in our families and homes, in our sphere of relationships. We share the Father’s heart to reach our family members.

Our Priestly Family Role

Praying for our families is just part of our priestly role as part of the priesthood of all believers (see 1 Pet. 2:9). We are called to carry the responsibility and the privilege, along with the authority, to bring others into the presence of the Lord. We’re like the priest Aaron in the Book of Exodus, who wore over his heart a breastpiece in which four rows of twelve beautiful stones had been set. Each of the stones symbolized one of the twelve tribes of Israel:

You shall make a breastpiece of judgment, the work of a skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet material and fine twisted linen you shall make it. It shall be square and folded double, a span in length and a span in width. You shall mount on it four rows of stones; the first row shall be a row of ruby, topaz and emerald; and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire and a diamond; and the third row a jacinth, an agate and an amethyst; and the fourth row a beryl and an onyx and a jasper; they shall be set in gold filigree. The stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, according to their names; they shall be like the engravings of a seal, each according to his name for the twelve tribes.....

Aaron shall carry the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment over his heart when he enters the holy place, for a memorial before the Lord continually. You shall put in the breastpiece of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord; and Aaron shall carry the judgment of the sons of Israel over his heart before the Lord continually. Exodus 28:15–21, 29–30, NAS

The priest wore the breastpiece of judgment when he entered the holy place to represent the interests of the tribes before the Lord. The priest didn’t go to represent himself only. He didn’t go into the holy place in a devotional capacity, and neither do you when you bring people before God in prayer. He went in a ministry capacity. He was an ambassador for the tribes whose stones he carried on his chest. So are you when you have someone on your heart, perhaps an entire family, and you carry them with you into the place where you meet with God.

Ambassadorial Intercession

Whom are you carrying on your heart? One of your greatest places of authority will always be within your own family and one of your greatest privileges will be to carry your family members before God. I call this Ambassadorial Intercession. We are ambassadors for Christ. You go before the throne of God as a believer in Jesus and you do not represent yourself only. You represent your whole family line.

I represent the nation of Germany, because my Goll heritage is German. I represent the English and the Scots because of my mother’s Burns heritage. I represent the two states of the United States where I have been a citizen, Missouri and Tennessee. I carry my current city, Franklin, Tennessee, before the Lord. I carry the families of my church and my neighborhood before the throne. And, of course, I carry to God not only my children, but my spouse and the members of my extended family. They are all like precious stones and I am expecting them to become living stones. I have a specialized authority for prayer concerning my heritage.

It will be the same for you. A different set of names and places, but the same privilege and the same awesome, ambassadorial responsibility. “Household salvation” is on God’s heart. You shall be saved—you and your household. (See Acts 16:31.) But it’s not automatic. You have do cooperate with the Spirit of God and you have to discover what He wants you do pray and do.

Then you can wear your breastpiece with stones on it, when you stand before Him in prayer. You can represent your brothers and sisters, your parents, your children, your spouse. You can bring the whole clan to the throne room.

Now I realize that many of you have come from very difficult family situations, and your current home may be full of strife—or you may be all alone in the world because your family is far away or gone. This does not present an insurmountable obstacle to the exercise of your priestly privilege. You can overcome a hardened heart and an understandable bitterness. You can repent for your own rebellion and judgments. By God’s grace, you can pray for those who have hurt you. You can also stand in the gap for others who may not be blood relatives but who have nobody else to pray for them. It’s part of your priestly responsibility and privilege. Your prayers can make the difference!

Let’s intercede this Holiday season for our families and see the Holy Spirit move in a mighty way!

Blessings to You in the Holiday Season!

James W. Goll and Family

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