50 Days of Consecration

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1 Voice of Destiny Ministries Preparing for the atmosphere of the New Year 50 Days of Consecration Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3 50 Days of Consecration The men of Issachar understood the times and the seasons and knew what Israel should do (1 Chronicles 12:32) Welcome to the 50 days of consecration if you are reading this consecration epistle lets us know that you really want to know God and seek His Kingdom alignment for the New Year. This 50 day encounter with God will trigger an unprecedented hunger for Him in your life, amplify your communication with Jesus our high priest and open up a widow of prophetic and

2 mental clarity about what God wants you to be do and have in the new year for you and your family. Consecration is a solemn dedication to a special purpose or service. The word consecration literally means to associate with the sacred or God. During Voice of Destiny s 50 days of consecration we are dedicated to preparing for the atmosphere of the New Year by associating with God through worship, prayer and fasting, and incubating in the presence of God individually and corporately in an amplified fashion. There are many biblical models of individuals and groups called to associate and consecrate for important reasons. Daniel associated with God at least three times a day praying in the direction of Jerusalem in Daniel 6:10. This was his secret to tapping into the power of God for revelation that defined his success. In 2 Chronicles 20 the King Jehoshaphat, when facing extermination, collectively brought his nation to associate with God with prayer and fasting and he revealed himself as their defender, declaring the battle was not theirs but the Lords. The impact of their associating with God in their crisis yielded the fruit of the enemy being defeated and the collecting of spoils from battle that took three days. Ezra associated and consecrated with God for protection because he was aware of known dangers in the path that God called him to accomplish (Ezra 8:21-23). Consecrating and associating with God opens what the Old and New Testament shows to be gateways or egresses that transfer heavenly products, information, breakthrough and provisions (Revelation 8:2-5, Daniel chapter 10 [emphasis on 1:1-3, 12-14]). In Genesis 28:10-17 Jacob landed and slept in a spot that was consecrated and associated with God. In this place a window of communication opened up and showed him God s provision technicians (angels) ascending and descending so Jacob would understand, that what we do in the natural affects the supernatural. Jesus associated with God in Luke 4:1-15 for 40 days with fasting and prayer and defeated the enemy. It released favor, the charisma of God, which made him likeable and activated power to serve those he was called to impact. In Daniel 10, the prophet Daniel consecrated or associated with God 21 days and discovered that the prayers he prayed were answered the first day he prayed, but angels were unable to deliver it because a spiritual force was hindering the delivery. His prayer and fasting association with God aided in the breakthrough of the travel route for his deliverance (Daniel 10:15). This 50 days of consecration is a calling and mandate by invitation of God. Know that if God called you to it, he will impart the ability to accomplish it. So how do I start? It is simple. Why have we fasted, they say, and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed? Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers. 5 Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, Copyright Dr. Daniel Haupt, Voice of Destiny Ministries

3 only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the LORD? (Isaiah 58:3&5) Step One-Pray & Commit Pray and commit to the journey. It will establish the power of agreement between you and God. Write out your written commitment to God concerning the consecration. Include your start and finish date for the consecration. State the reason you are consecrating and fasting. Write how you will consecrate and fast and what is your primary goal or result that you want from the consecration and fasting. Step Two- Determine Your Goal Discern and determine what is the life defining Goal of the 50 day association or consecration individual and corporately. If you discover your Why God will show you your How. Ask yourself : What do I have to gain if I obey and answer the call to associate with God? What do I have to lose if I comprise my association with God? Is there something God wants to talk to me about? Is there a constraint or delay God wants to release from my life. Step Three - Schedule Literally schedule on your calendar when and where you will consecrate and associate for this divine date. When and how during the 50 days of consecration will you steal away time to have extra time with God. How will my days and nights need to change to accommodate association with God. When will I have consistent devotional to worship, pray and read God s word during this time of special association? For example, on my knees three times a day or during the scheduled time of my favorite sitcom or every day at lunch time. Step Four - Prepare & Organize (Proverbs 24:3&4) Prepare and organize your schedule and things that affect consecration such as meal arrangements for spouse and children and consecration resources (such as bibles, CD s,etc.). How will I consecrate or associate in my devotional time. How many days during the consecration will I fast? Will it be one meal (digestive cycle) every day of consecration, one day week? Will I listen to scripture of old and New Copyright Dr. Daniel Haupt, Voice of Destiny Ministries

4 Testament? Will I read the New Testament in thirty days? Is there a teaching series I will listen to during this time? Is there a list of books I want to read during this time? Organize a prayer hit list for people places and things that you should pray for. Such as your loved ones, co-workers, friends, unsaved, un-churched etc. Step Five - Be Accountable & Practice Agreement (Matthew 18:19) Be accountable and collaborate with the corporate prayer and fasting strategy of church Is there a prayer partner God would have me to be in prayer with during this special time of consecration? Is there someone who I can pray with every day or rotate fasting dayscovering and interceding for one another? Is the church holding consecration gatherings during this time for corporate connection with God? How often will you attend or can attend early Morning Prayer or evening prayer? How will our household associate or consecrate with God during this time? Will my children fast? How will they fast? Will my spouse and I fast together? Will we abstain from physical intimacy during this time or a portion of this time? Step Six-Seek Alignment and Repentance (Isaiah 58:1-2, Haggai 1:5) Seek vertical and horizontal alignment Is there an area I that I need to repent of dead works and destructive habits that can derail my destiny? Is there anything God is showing me to make right at this time in my relationship with him and with others (Vertical and Horizontal?) Step Seven-Pay it Forward (Isaiah 58:7) Hide not yourself from those who are in need and pay it forward-make things happen for others that you want God to make happen for you. Is there someone in my family, neighborhood or church that has needs that I have power to meet or assist? Is there someone who I can be a miracle for: Pay the groceries for someone in front or behind you in the grocery line? Leave grocery at someone s door. Give away some of the extras you have been hording to someone who needs it: extra shoes, extras dresses, extra car etc. Pay someone s registration for life a changing event. Save your money from the food you would have eaten and give it as an offering to the house of the Lord or do a kindness to someone who is in need. Copyright Dr. Daniel Haupt, Voice of Destiny Ministries

5 are some of the Secrets to Consecration? I will give you hidden treasures, riches stored in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who summons you by name. (Isaiah 45:3) Secret 1 Just do it. Be a doer of the word not just hear- It s a key to accessing the power-just Do it Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1:22) Secret 2 Understand that prayer is not just saying a bunch of words and making request (read Luke chapter 11- especially verses 5, 9 & 11). Prayer, like the internet, is a medium of communication that allows you to send and receive information, conduct commerce from earth to heaven and heaven to earth. In the prayer environment, you can create, bind and loose, legislate heaven and arrest illegal operations against your inheritance. Most importantly, you can build a more intimate relationship with God. Dr. Myles Munroe often says prayer gives God license to interfere with earth s affairs i. So pray frequently and gather regularly for this process. Secret 3 Consecration enhances our conversation and communication with God and makes Him talkative (2 Chronicle 7:14, Isaiah 58:7, Jeremiah 29:12-14). Be sensitive and position yourself to hear by journaling (Habakkuk 2:2) in a notebook or use a recording device to capture God s communications to you through prophecy, dreams, visions and intuitive sense of direction (i.e. I got a feeling). Be sensitive to capture God s communication through His three most common channels of communication to man: o mental images or pictures (dreams or visions) o physical sensations or heartfelt impressions o hearing words or words in thought form - audible or inaudible A grievous vision is declared unto me therefore are my loins filled with pain; pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth; I was bowed down at the hearing of it: I was dismayed at the seeing of it (Isaiah 21:2-3). Moods of compassion or repentance are often God talking to you. Copyright Dr. Daniel Haupt, Voice of Destiny Ministries

6 Secret 4 Let fasting, the Siamese twin to prayer, be a thread to hold together all the other devotional disciplines you will use to draw close to God: reading and listening to scripture, worship, supplications, evangelizing etc. When you fast remember it is not the length of the fast but the leading in scripture. In the Bible there are those who fasted 40 days or 21 days but most fasted partial fasts for a series of days or 1 to three digestive cycles based on the leading of the Lord (Daniel 1:11-17). I personally believe that God s leading for how to fast is influenced by His personal knowledge of the individual s health, vocational and domestic concerns and circumstances. Fasting subjects the body to the submission of the spirit. The technical goal of fasting is to subject the body and the willfulness of the soul to the leadership of the born again spirit, who is joined to the Holy Spirit who connects us to God. After personally fasting for decades 40 days, 21 days or 10 days the most frequent leading of the Lord for me has been 1 to 2 digestive cycles at a time, often in a series of days. A digestive cycle is measured as 8 hours of awake time. We do not count the sleep hours. That is why the first meal of the day is called break fast; we are breaking our fast from the hours during sleep that we did not eat. Be wise and consult your doctor about how to fast if you are going to fast for an extended period of time, and especially if you are having health challenges. Secret 5 Consecrate your time. Design a devotional cadence like Daniel who prayed on his knees three times a day to keep himself spiritually amplified to connect with God. Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day he got down on his knees and prayed, giving thanks to his God, just as he had done before. (Daniel 6:10). Sample prophetic Cadence 60 minutes a day in prayer 2.40 hours a day (20 or 55 minutes on your knees before work, at lunch and after arriving home from work). Memorize one scripture a day for fifty days. Fast one digestive cycle a day for fifty days. One act of kindness everyday day. Attend Sunday night prayer every week, 4:30-6:30 or tithe your day (2.40 hours a day) in worship and prayer daily ( example: 45 min before work, at lunch time and after work). Read the New Testament in thirty days. Memorize two verses a day for fifty days. Copyright Dr. Daniel Haupt, Voice of Destiny Ministries

7 Secret 6 Three days a week with only liquids. Share my faith once a week with an unbeliever. Do not give up if you slip or fall during the fasting -get up, the power is in doing it- for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again, but the wicked stumble when calamity strikes (Proverbs 24:16). 1 John 1:9 says, If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. Consecration is a process not an event. Take it day by day Secret 7 Expect a miracle. Use your imagination. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us. (Ephesians 3:20) Pray from a position of covenant, not a position of defeat. 2 Peter 1:3-4 His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. We enter in to consecration with an expectation that God will show us His plans and purposes and impart to us understanding about the times and seasons of the New Year by communicating with us, his children, that we may act and pursue the vision He has for us. (1 Chronicles 12:32) That we may live our lives out of God s purposes and not out of circumstances that man, the devil or our weaknesses have designed for us. For with man it may be impossible but with God, all things are possible. Expect the greatest reward from the Consecration not during it but after it. Secret 8 Remember to fast with discretion, not to be seen by men. Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance. For they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward (Matthew 6:16). But do communicate with those affected by your fasting such as your spouse, children or whoever plans your meals. Establish a certain place and time where you associate with God. Prophetically it gives you a date spot with God. For practical purposes it informs those around you that you are meeting with God and not to disturb you. Very early in the morning, while it was still Copyright Dr. Daniel Haupt, Voice of Destiny Ministries

8 Secret 9 dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed (Mark 1:35). Saturate your days and the whole consecration period with worship from the heart and listening to worship CD s. Give unto the LORD, O you mighty ones, Give unto the LORD glory and strength. Give unto the LORD the glory due to His name; Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. Psalms 29:1-2. Speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord (Ephesians 5:19). Secret 10 Consecration is not flag football, whoever is running the ball becomes the object of contention. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil s schemes. 12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:11-12) Be intentional, employ the weapons of your warfare, they are mighty through God to the pulling down of the strongholds of the wicked one (2 Corinthians 10:4). Weapons of warfare such as the fruit of the spirit (Galatians 5), gifts of the spirit (1 Corinthians 12) and prophetic war strategies (Psalms 144). us at prayer@voiceofdestiny.org to let us know you have joined the consecration. Visit our website regularly for encouragement, tips for preparing the body and the house for your fast and recipes for your liquid or fruit only fast. Scripture used in this publication came from either the New International Version or the New King James Version Bible. i Munroe, Myles (2002) Understanding The Purpose And Power Of Prayer Copyright Dr. Daniel Haupt, Voice of Destiny Ministries