Good Morning Sunshine! You Need To Weep Now Between The Porch & The Altar! 

Joel 2:17a ~ “Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD…”

It’s time to make haste, you don’t have time to waste or lose or procrastinate! It’s time to call for prayer and fasting, between the porch and the altar! For the last two days I have been talking about the porch and then I saw this scripture and I just wanted to cry for the people! Have you pressed into His Presence on the porch? For when you press in, God will press in and the two of you will be alignment in the present moment! 

So, what does this mean, to be between the porch and altar? I asked God, where is this porch? And what is the space between the porch and the altar called? 

In this scripture, the porch represents the flesh and the outer court of worship, (your place of cleansing and setting yourself apart for God and Him only.) Whereas the altar represents the spirit, the place of sacrifice, the place of giving up and of consecration, it’s your place of surrendering your life to God! As you have gathered on the porch with others and or by yourself during these last couple of days, did you have a one-on-one encounter with God? Did you cry out for anyone else besides yourself? 

You see after reading and studying this scripture, I realized that you and I must find ourselves weeping in the space between the porch and the altar. It’s the place where we want all to come into the knowledge of who Jesus Christ truly is. As a matter of fact, it’s a mandate for you to assemble God’s people together for a time of prayer, fasting and consecration. It’s time to start living for Jesus for real and not in word only. 

Leaders, you have been given a mandated assignment to gather God’s people for a time of prayer and fasting. It is time to move from milk to meat, you can’t remain a baby forever, for even the toddler grows up and moves from crawling to walking, Hebrews 5:13-14. It’s your turn! It’s time to eat the solid meat of God’s Word and experience the Power of His Holy Spirit. 

It’s time to stop watering down the Word of God to please others, it’s time to stop tipping around them because you don’t want anyone mad with you and all the time, they are going straight to hell because you are failing to speak up and out what thus says the Lord! When you water down the Word, you are causing a drought and dryness in the House of God! 

God is urging you to encourage the people to cry out and turn back to Him with their whole heart. I know that you see a lot of things going on in this world but understand this, God knows! God is speaking His Word to your heart, and He is doing it from His Holy Porch! The Word’s that you are hearing is from God’s heart to yours, and His Word is spoken to you at just the right time, “like apples of gold in settings of silver, is a word spoken in right circumstances.” Proverbs 25:11! God will set you in the right place and give you the right word to speak to the right place!

The time is now, you say that you are ready, but are you really? If God came to get you right now, would you be found worthy? Stop playing church and be about your Father’s business. For nobody knows the day or the hour, and if you are not ready when He gets here, you won’t be able to fix it on the other side; Matthew 24:36! 

In this season on the porch there is a place between it and the altar and God is sending out a Clarion Call to you; compelling you to weep between the porch and the altar where mankind has set up false gods and turned away from the One True and Living God. Today, open your eyes and see the similarities between the situation in Jeremiah’s day and the things that you are facing today; Jeremiah 9:17-21. 

It is time to join our hearts together and cry out in prayer! It’s time to cry out between the porch and the altar, to teach our children how to cry out and pray behalf of their neighbors, and their world, Lamentations 2:19. We must teach them how to know that at the heart of God is forgiveness, lovingkindness, justice, and righteousness, on earth! 

Let’s be confident of this one thing, God will hear you and heed to your cry, for His promises and sure and He cannot and will not lie, His Word is sure and true, it will come to pass! Keep the Word of God forever around you and tell yourself every day of His Presence, Power and Promises for, “Weeping may endure for the night, but a shout of Joy comes in the morning.” Psalm 30:5! 

It’s time to gird yourself up! It’s time to sanctify yourself! It’s time to turn your heart back to God! It’s time to blow the trumpet of Zion and sound the alarm! It’s time to stand on His Holy Ground and tell everyone that you know that the day of the Lord is at hand, Joel 2:1!

Let’s Pray: 

Father, Thank You! Father today I choose to speak the answer and not the problem today as I come to You, the Author and Finisher of my faith. Father I lift up every minister, pastor, and leader right now in the Name of Jesus Christ. Father I lift up each disciple that is praying this prayer. I decree according to Your word that You gave us pastors after Your own heart, and I pray for the spirit of conviction and repentance to fall upon every leader that You have called. Father thank You for calling us back to the altar that we may repent and release everything that is not like You from our lives. Father may a spirit of weeping be upon us for the unsaved, the hurting, the broken-hearted, the sick and the lost everywhere in Jesus Name.  Father, I decree and declare that the leaders shall cry out loud and spare not. Father, I decree and declare that we shall proclaim a solemn fast for Your people and lead them back You, their first love. Father, I decree and declare that Your leaders’ lips are touched with the live coals from heaven as they cry unto You, saying Lord send me. Father, I decree and declare that wisdom, knowledge, skill and understanding is my portion, and that the fivefold ministry operates in gifts that You have given, may we be clothed in sanctification and covered with the sweet perfume of holiness. Father anoint my head with the oil of Your Anointing and may it flow down my garments and fall on Your people. Father, I ask You to send the warring angels to assist with the warfare that is certain to come as I make my commitment to You. Father, I say yes to Your Will and Your Way. In the Name of Jesus Christ. Amen! 

Blessings…

Minister Jean