I released the Wordless Prayer Five Day Devotional in September 2024. I'm adding it here to encourage you as we enter 2025.
Watch the video for Day Two and let us ascend the hill of the Lord together.
I also have a transcript of the video below. It isn't perfect, but I hope it blesses you.
0:00:17 - Tammie Southerland
Hello, hello, welcome today to. I hope you had a powerful encounter with the Lord yesterday. I hope that that really was a blessing to you. Today we're going to jump into Psalm 24, ascending the hill of the Lord, one of my favorite portions of scripture. I mean all this is my favorite, obviously because I read a book on it. But ascending the hill of the Lord, so powerful, understanding how to go beyond just permission to burn, permission to love the Lord, permission to do the things that he's so caused our hearts to do, but to ascend, to go higher, to cause ourselves to be purified, cleansed and walk in the fullness of what he's called us to. Psalm 24 is a psalm of David, of what he's called us to.
Psalm 24 is a Psalm of David. David wrote this Psalm specifically after he had tried to take the Ark of the Covenant and place it back in the center of the nation of Israel, but he didn't do it the right way, and so he'd experienced the death of his friend, uzzah. Because Uzzah touched the Ark and the Ark shook and Uzzah, the power of God, hit Uzzah. Because Uzzah touched the ark and the ark shook and Uzzah, the power of God, hit Uzzah, and Uzzah passed away. The Ark of the Covenant had been sitting in Obed-Edom's house for a certain amount of time while David inquired the Lord in his frustration of what is the right way to take your presence and to assimilate it into the people. How do I do this? David gets a revelation from the Lord of a blueprint in heaven that included night and day worship and prayer that took place around the throne on the mountain of the Lord. So he's writing Psalm 24 out of this place, so we're going to read it together. You're going to have there in your devotional. You're going to see Psalm 24, verses 3 to 6.
I want you to understand the context of this scripture. And so verse 3 says hands and a pure heart. Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, who has not sworn deceitfully, he shall receive a blessing from the Lord and righteousness from God of his salvation. This is the generation who seeks him, who seek the face of God, even Jacob. And then we go on into verses seven, eight and nine and 10. And it talks about the heads being lifted up and the king of glory coming in.
When you read the book, I talk about an entire encounter that the Lord took me into as I began to see a people ascending the hill of the Lord and entering in through the gates, the portals, the open doorways in heaven as we begin to look up at him in this pure hearted place where we just want to be with him. You'll have to get wordless prayer to read that encounter, but I literally saw the heads of the people lifted up and the gates open wide for the king of glory, Jesus, to enter in to our land, into our life, into our churches, into our realities, as we begin to lift him up. And so you are invited to ascend the hill of the Lord. So what does that mean? To ascend the hill of the Lord means that A you need to understand that, by the blood of the Lamb, the power of the gospel is that you have been renewed, you have been cleansed, you have been sanctified by his blood and now you have permission to walk holy, not listen. The grace of God is to empower you to walk in the consecration, the sanctification, the justification that God has given you through his son shedding his blood on a cross, defeating death, hell and the grave for three days, and ascending into heaven and pouring out his spirit. And so you enter his presence with clean hands and a pure heart. Your hands are clean, your heart is clean as you go in into repentance. You repent, you receive his cleansing, you ren renounce. That means you break agreement with anything that is ungodly that he brings into your heart.
As you begin to enter in this place of prayer, it's the you go from adoration to confession, into the place of getting your heart clean before him, but also knowing this is not a physical journey. It's not about you figuring out all the things you've done right and all the things you've done wrong. It's receiving the power of the blood of the lamb coming boldly to his throne of grace, where you shall receive mercy and know that this is a spiritual journey. You're going deeper into communion with god. As you ascend the hill of the lord, you get out of the place of praying, from the dirt of worry, fear and anxiousness, into believing fully that what he has said, what he has done through the power of his blood, who he has given you in his spirit, that causes you to know your identity as sons and daughters, is enough. And so you get to go deeper into communion, and so I want to encourage you to open your Bible, to meditate on this passage to chew on it.
When I say meditate on a passage, I'm telling you to read it and pray it, and reread it. Begin to take this passage and say I want to stand in your holy place. I want to come into you, into the mountain of the Lord. Listen, he is the mountain. I want to come into the place of your dwelling. I want you to reveal to me how my heart and my hands look right now. Cleanse my heart by the power of your blood. Meditate on the scriptures, pray the scriptures, and then I want you to enter. Prepare yourself to enter into his presence fully, come fully into his presence. You don't take too much time to dwell on what you've done right, what you've done wrong. You come boldly. It's not by might nor by power, but by spirit.
David took a time to come before the Lord, to figure out what he'd done wrong. He began to realize that it required blood, it required sacrifice, to take the presence of God up a mountain and to establish God as the ruler, as the Lord, as the king of the nation of Israel, and that he required clean hands, pure hearts, worship and prayer to be the center of everything that they did as a nation. It's the same thing for you and I, so I want you to meditate on that, think about that, ask God how you can come into his presence more fully and then enter in. Ask God to reveal any areas of your life that need cleansing. Listen, this is how we live. We live this lifestyle of repentance and we'll live a lifestyle of glory and fullness into him as we begin to love, to come to him. Burning for the fire, burning for the ascent. Sorry, we got cut off.
It's the second part of that prayer, lord, that we would come to you in wholeness. We would come to you not holding back anything In our minds, in our emotions. That we wouldn't hold back anything from you. That you would search us and know us and that you would take us closer and more intimate with you. That we would come higher and we would come through that open door of heaven that you have invited us into. That we would lift up our heads, we would gaze on you. That you would use us as a gateway, as a doorway for you to enter in to the world that we live in as we learn how to come into your intercession. In Jesus' name, amen.
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About the author:
Tammie Southerland is the founder and leader of Frontline Ministries International, a mobile prayer and equipping ministry dedicated to igniting passion for Jesus and equipping believers to fulfill their God-given destinies. As the apostolic leader of The Firehouse Prayer Furnaces and host of the Burning Messengers podcast, Tammie inspires a generation to burn with zeal for Christ. She is the author of Wordless Prayer and Permission to Burn and has been featured on programs like Sid Roth's It's Supernatural and CTN's Come Home with Jen Mallan. Based in Atlanta, GA, Tammie, her husband, Daymon, and their three daughters travel the globe, leading revival movements and calling people to live boldly for God. Visit her at burningmessengers.com
