Welcoming Travailing Prayer - Travailing Christ to be Formed in Us
Channel: Restoration Life Church & Ministry Center
Date: 2016-06-26

June 26, 2016 - Restoration Life Church
Welcoming Travailing Prayer
Travailing for Christ to Be Formed In Us
Galatians 4:19

I. The Goal of Travailing Prayer

1. People can travail for many issues.

2. At RLC and Lifeschool, we sense the Lord calling us specifically to welcome travail for two essential and related purposes: 1) the eternal purposes of God to be realized on the earth and 2) the birth of the man-child of Revelation 12.

3. The scriptures tell us of a journey that the church and the world must take to arrive at the eternal city. 

4. Believers must take on the nature and character of Christ in fullness to be prepared for every aspect of the journey to the eternal city.

II. The Preparation of the Man-Child

1. The man-child of Revelation 12 is a general description for a remnant within the body of Christ who have taken on the nature of Christ in fullness and are used in awesome ways in the church age and throughout eternity.

2. The man-child company will be a people who have embraced the cross life so as to allow the Holy Spirit to produce in us a life sanctified in body, soul and spirit.

3. Christlikeness in fullness is the goal for those desiring to be a part of the man-child company and overcoming is the process to that goal.

III. Travailing for Christ in Us

1. Like Paul, we are to travail until Christ is formed in the church of Jesus Christ.

For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, . . . . . who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God…And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8:19-29).

2. As an end-time church and a forerunner ministry, we must take on the attitude of Hannah to birth a present day man-child.

Because I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore My sword will go forth from its sheath against all flesh from south to north. Thus all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have drawn My sword out of its sheath. It will not return to its sheath again. As for you, son of man, groan with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan in their sight. And when they say to you, “Why do you groan?” you shall say, “Because of the news that is coming; and every heart will melt, all hands will be feeble, every spirit will faint and all knees will be weak as water. Behold, it comes and it will happen,” declares the Lord GOD…Cry out and wail, son of man; for it is against My people, it is against all the officials of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with My people, therefore strike your thigh (Ezek. 21:4-7, 12).

3. We can pray things like the following.

Let’s pray with a real burden released by the Lord for the separation of soul and spirit in the lives of the people of RLC and Lifeschool and the church in general.

Pray that God would separate soul from spirit in the lives of believers.

Pray that people do not resist the work that God is doing in us in this season.  

Pray in accordance with what wrote in Galatians 4:19 to labor that Christ be formed in us that the deeds of the flesh (Gal. 5:16-21) would be taken to the cross so as to be crucified in us and delivered from us.

Pray along these same lines that the fruit of the spirit of Gal. 5:22-23 would come forth in the places where the flesh once ruled.

Travail for our adoption as mature sons who would inherit first born status. 

There are many other similar types of prayer topics that can be prayed; in fact, anything that is related to the theme of laboring or travailing until Christ is formed in us in fullness.

As we strengthen golden altar prayer travailing for Christ to be formed in His church is a major component of what we are be about in this season. Let’s do it with fervency.

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Session 1 of a 1 part series
Taught by Ken Kessler at Restoration Life Chuch & Ministry Center in Marietta, Georgia