For those of you that actually choose the Cup and the baptism.
Ask and keep asking for the cup till you know in your heart that you’ve been heard and if you’ve been heard you will receive. You might even do a fast, consisting of ‘bread and grape juice.’ Whatever you do, do it with all your heart.
No one can tell you the exact timeline of events, it is not necessary.
When the travail comes, you’ll probably want to be alone.
These things begin with an abandoned intercession. The travail may begin quite subtly, but as you yield to it, it will grow and become more and more intense. You might be totally worn out before you ‘break through.’ You may have to stop for awhile, but it will return.
Let me somewhat define abandonment, this a yielding of spirit, soul and body simultaneously. Worshippers and intercessors should be quite familiar with the term. You do it with all your heart, all your soul and all your might.
In the travail itself is created what experiences will follow. You will know beyond any shadow of a doubt that ‘the effectual fervent prayers of the righteous avail much.’
I know this may be difficult to understand at this time, but when this travail occurs you might be utterly blind in your understanding of what is happening.
What is described above is the first travail. This is not the actual ‘full blown’ experience. It is the creation of it. No man can ‘work it up’ it is either given from above or it is not given. There probably won’t be too many words. Those of you who are fathers try to think of what your wife went through during the birth of your children.
The other travails (intercessions) will follow. Some, maybe all, I don’t know, will at some time actually be via the Spirit stretched out on the cross, feeling the piercing. There’s no pain, just a knowing what is happening, like you’ve been transported back in time and you’ve become one with Yahshua in the passion of His agony.
There are times when you will say ‘the fountains of the great deep have broken forth within me.’ This is kind of like the baptism of Noah, if you will. Think of it as the first couple of verses in Zec 13. This is where you will feel the blood of your spirit pouring through every pore in your body and your eyes become flooded with a river of tears.
This is still just the beginning, afterwards and during you will have your own term for describing it, such as ‘The Agony and the Ecstasy.’
I know these things sound incredibly difficult and who would want go through such things? Who would not if possible bypass this Cup and this Baptism.
I have said many times that I would not wish this experience on my worst enemy, because I don’t know if he would survive it. However I would gladly share it my friends, if I could in some way help them through it.
I will give a warning though, after you have been through this part, don’t go off half-cocked thinking you’ve become some kind of spiritual powerhouse, death, burial and resurrection are still to follow.
