Opening the Book of Life

Right now we ask that you open up the Book of Life. We know we are all being weighed in the balance of prophetic understanding — the constellation of Libra, this month, weighed in the balance. The prophetic scriptures of confirmation: Joseph, Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian Empire, Yeshua, Moses. This is where it happens in the courts of Heaven. This is where the Judge opens the books, and they are sealed on Yom Kippur — just as Yeshua came down on Yom Kippur in Luke 4, just as Moses came down on Yom Kippur with the two tablets. This is where it happens.

Father, we thank you. We ask that you open up the book — open up every one of our books — as we come before you humbly but boldly, covered by the blood of the Lamb and the power of the Holy Spirit. We come before you just as it is written in Psalm 139:15–16, and we claim: "My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in your book they were all written — the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them."

Lord, we thank you for knowing us before the foundation of the world. Just as the book of Ephesians says, we were in you, Christ — we were in you, Yeshua — before the foundation of the world. We thank you for writing our books before the foundation of the world. We thank you for allowing us to come before you to petition our cases in the book that was written before the foundation of the world, as we enter into these beautiful times you have set for all of us living on this earth to do our part in your kingdom. We thank you, Lord, for knowing us before our substance was formed — just as the prophet Jeremiah heard: "Before you were in the womb, I knew you."

Just as Messiah Yeshua fulfilled his book perfectly, Lord, we want to fulfill our books accordingly. Because of the blood of the Lamb and the power of the Holy Spirit — we cannot do it without those. We cannot fulfill our books without the blood of the Lamb and without the power of the Holy Spirit. So we come before you to petition the psalm that speaks of Messiah's book, Psalm 40. It is written in Psalm 40:6–8, and we claim: "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire; my ears you have opened. Burnt offering and sin offering you did not require. Then I said, 'Behold, I come; in the scroll of the book it is written of me. I delight to do your will, O my God, and your Torah is within my heart.'" That is what Messiah's book says in Psalm 40, and we ask for that same favor through the blood of the Lamb and through his righteously rendered verdicts.

As we enter into these petitions, friends, let us think about the courts of Heaven. Let us think about the scriptures. Let us think about Daniel 7 and the Book of Revelation — they saw the same throne in heaven. Thousands upon thousands, ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The books were opened, and the court was in session. Lord, we come before you right now to petition our cases, to petition our concerns, to petition the gates that need to be closed, the things that need to be severed.

Friends, let us come before the Lord right now without our fig leaves. Come before him and ask him to show you what you need to repent for, what you need to cleanse, what you need to purify, what you need to refine. Remember to have two or three scriptures to establish the matter. Ask for your spiritual gifts and anointings to be opened. Break off any bondage and strongholds by the written Word of God. Intercede for others — open your book, close your book, open a friend's book, close their book. You can do them all in sequence. Take this time, get intimate with the Lord, and we will return shortly.

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