The Lord has gone before us


Father we come to you by the blood of Christ
and through the Holy Spirit in our hearts. By faith
we see the Throne Room. By Faith we feel your love,
Father; by faith we see Jesus seated at your right
hand making intercession for us. By the Holy Spirit
is made manifest God's goodness and mercy in our
lives.

Father we pray for reconciliation, unity, and
oneness and love to come upon the church around the
world, upon the city church in every city and upon
all believers in Christ.

Father we believe and have faith in the
prophecy and prayer of John 17, we believe and have
faith in the unity of the faith; we believe and have
faith in the promise of unity.

"And the glory which thou gavest me I have given
them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in
them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect
in one; and that the world may know that thou hast
sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved
me." (Joh 17:22-23 AV)

"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of
the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of
Christ:" (Eph 4:13 AV)

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love:" (Eph 1:4 AV)
"Having made known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath
purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the
fulness of times he might gather together in one all
things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and
which are on earth; [even] in him:" (Eph 1:9-10 AV)


Now faith is, we see faith, and we see the hope
of unity and we are prisoners of hope, we pray with
faith, we have hope of unity, we pray by faith and
receive the promise of unity, and by hope we follow
and have patience, have endurance, and run the race
with endurance for the hope that is set before us,
knowing that the time approaches when love comes
among all believers in Christ as the sign of
fullness and fulfillment of unity, and the coming to
pass of unity.

We need the revelation of faith, we need the
revelation of hope, and we need the revelation of
peace to come for the day of fullness and
fulfillment of prayers for unity, the time when
unity will come to pass, above all it is you, Lord,
in your grace that bring all things to pass, and
you alone fulfill the prayers for unity, therefore
we enter into rest and let ourselves be filled with
peace, and we trust in the Lord in His faithfulness
and He is faithful.

"Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for
new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
righteousness. Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye
look for such things, be diligent that ye may be
found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless."
(2Pe 3:13-14 AV)

"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to
the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye
thankful." (Col 3:15 AV)


Father we pray for unity, through faith and
patience, not faith alone, but through faith and
patience we will inherit the promise of unity.

"That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who
through faith and patience inherit the promises."
(Heb 6:12 AV)


Father we will not cast away our confidence in
you, for you will fulfill the promise of unity, our
confidence will have a great reward, and those who
have faith in unity and pray faithfully for unity
will have a great reward.

"Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath
great recompence of reward." (Heb 10:35 AV)


We have faith for unity and we pray for unity,
however we have need of endurance, and after we have
done the will of God, we ask what is your will,
Lord? Love fulfills the law, and the just shall
live by faith. After we love and live by faith we
shall receive the promise of unity.

"Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for
he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." (Ro
13:8 AV)

"But that no man is justified by the law in the
sight of God, [it is] evident: for, The just shall
live by faith." (Ga 3:11 AV)


Father we set aside every weight and sin which
so easily ensnares us, we run with endurance the
race that is set before us, the hope of unity. We
run and walk the vision of unity, we write down in
our hearts and in prayer the vision of unity, the
vision of faith and hope for unity, the vision of
unity has been made plain on tablets, that others
may run who witness and read of it, we are living
epistles of unity, written in our hearts and read by
all people. The vision of unity at the end it will
speak, and it will not lie, through it tarries, wait
for it, because it will surely come, it will not
tarry. The vision of unity will not tarry! The
just shall live by faith.

"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with
so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside
every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset
[us], and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us," (Heb 12:1 AV)


The righteousness of God is revealed from faith
to faith, as it is written the just shall live by
faith. The unity of John17, the unity of the Faith,
and unity of the city church and the unity of all
believers in "salvation to every one that
believeth", which is the one church, is revealed
from faith to faith!

"For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for
it is the power of God unto salvation to every one
that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the
Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God
revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The
just shall live by faith." (Ro 1:16-17 AV)


Father send your angels before us to prepare
the way, send your angels before us to prepare the
way for unity, send your prophets before us to
prepare the way, send your prophets before us to
prepare the way for unity, send your apostles before
us to prepare the way, send you apostles before us
to prepare the way for unity, and Lord send your
fire before you to prepare the way, send your fire
before you to prepare the way for unity.

"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world." (Joh 17:16 AV)

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I
came not to send peace, but a sword." (Mt 10:34 AV)

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye
might have peace. In the world ye shall have
tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome
the world." (Joh 16:33 AV)

"I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will
I, if it be already kindled?" (Lu 12:49 AV)

"For every one shall be salted with fire, and every
sacrifice shall be salted with salt. Salt [is]
good: but if the salt have lost his saltness,
wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in
yourselves, and have peace one with another." (Mr
9:49-50 AV)

"They are not of the world, even as I am not of the
world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is
truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so
have I also sent them into the world. And for their
sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be
sanctified through the truth. Neither pray I for
these alone, but for them also which shall believe
on me through their word; That they all may be one;
as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that
they also may be one in us: that the world may
believe that thou hast sent me." (Joh 17:16-21 AV)


Father, the Lord Jesus has gone before us to
prepare the way, to prepare the way for unity. Lord
go before us to prepare the way before us, sanctify
us from the world in service to the unity of the
body of Christ, Lord go before us to prepare the way
for unity.

Father lead us by the Holy Spirit in the steps
to unity and to the way of unity that Christ has
prepared for us.

"But the Comforter, [which is] the Holy Ghost, whom
the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you
all things, and bring all things to your
remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. Peace
I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as
the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your
heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (Joh
14:26-27 AV)


We pray in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

Elvis Iverson