How to fill your war chest!

As a follow-up to last week’s video about building a war chest in prayer, our video this week reminds us that our war chest needs to be full to the tipping point. Full of adoration, worship, and supplication. So full, that it is overflowing into the dry and barren places of our lives, as well as our neighbourhoods and even...

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[Music] hi everybody it's Chris byri the director of the national House of Prayer coming to you today from Ottawa last week we spoke to you about building a war chest in prayer in anticipation of uh two provincial elections coming up this year and a possible Federal I'm not saying that's going to happen it's actually the federal election is is scheduled for October of 2025 but you just never know we should be out and getting ahead of these things so what exactly what do we put in the in war chest if we were talking about a electoral campaign the uh the war chess would consist of raising money having cash uh so for signs and advertising and all that other stuff you need volunteers copious

amounts of volunteers lots of volunteers probably about 200 if you're going to run a successful campaign um you're going to need a platform you know ideas and PLS and and and and what you're all about those are the things that they build and want to put in a war chest but for us building a war chest in prayer it's going to look a little bit differently of course the main thing we're going to put in is prayer but what else how much prayer an awful lot of prayer 1 Timothy 2 talks about pray all kinds of prayers especially for leaders and those in Authority all kinds supplications thanksgivings intercessions all every kind of prayer we're going to put it in in that war

chest what else do we put in the war chest this morning in our prayer life in our prayer on Zoom a Tuesday Morning Call we were focusing on on the Holiness of the Lord the bigness of the Lord the beauty of the Lord and uh we were drawn to the Book of Revelation where the 24 Elders are casting their crowns that's one of the things we put in our warchest we cast our crowns we lay them before him we put it in the warchest um of course adoration worship one thing I asked and that I would seek to gaze upon the the beauty of the Lord and to dwell in his house forever that's what David said those are the things that we put in our our war chest prayer adoration casting our

crowns so that we would have these Rivers I like in the war has actually to be like um harp and ball we read this in in Revelation those prayers of the saints that are in the bowls we got a bow right up here that are that is reflective of that those bowls fill up fill up with prayers and then when they get full they tip and this is what we want to see we want to keep our prayer our war chest our prayer bowls full to the point of tipping the Apostle Paul talks about being filled with the Holy Spirit but be being filled with the Holy Spirit we want that for our our our warchest as well be being filled War chest so that it overflows and it flows into areas um those broken areas those

Barren areas those dry areas this past week at at church uh Annie Elliot was speaking on uh I Isaiah 53 about behold I'm doing a new thing that that he will bring streams in the desert and that's what we want to fill we want to fill up our our our war chest our prayer bowls so that they flow out to become streams in the desert so that that those prayer those streams those prayer streams will flow into Parliament Hill into the desert of Parliament Hill we flow and maybe we have deserts in our family will flow into those bringing life to those places to those dry and Barren places maybe in our neighborhood maybe in our local church we want those kinds of things so this is what we put we put

prayer we put all kinds of prayer we put worship and adoration we cast our crowns down we have an undivided hard focused on him so that the bowls will fill and then tip and bring streams in the desert my name is Chris B I'm the director of the national House of Prayer and we will see you next time bye for [Music] now