1. I Samuel 1:8-18 From the period of the Judges into the book of Samuel, there is a transitional period in Israel, and Hannah receives the spirit of prayer.

2. Daniel 9 Daniel sees the nation of Israel is in transition. The 70 years of captivity is nearing its end. The spirit of fasting and prayer comes upon Daniel. He gives himself to prayer and intercession.

3. Luke 1 There is a transitional time from the 400 years of silence between the Old and New Testaments. The Lord releases a spirit of prayer in the book of Luke that is called "the hour of incense." We also see Anna and Simeon on the wall night and day waiting for the Consolation of Israel.

4. Acts 2:25-38 The birth of the Church in the book of Acts starts with a prayer movement with 120 people in the upper room.

1. In Luke 18, when the Lord is talking about persistent prayer (night and day prayer), He makes a quantum leap from talking about persistent prayer to 2000 years later, and asks the question, "Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?" (Luke 18:8)

2. When He releases grace for global night and day intercession, it’s a prophetic indicator or a global transition. The Lord is releasing the grace and the call to night and day prayer worldwide. It’s an indicator that we are living in a transitional time in history.

1. I believe the glory of the Lord, the beauty of God rising on His people, will manifest itself in many ways.

1. There will be a tremendous increase of the power of evil, where the rage of Satan in the fullness of his accusation against humanity and against the Bride of Christ will be released.

2. It will be the darkest hour in human history. I believe it will be darker than the days of Noah.

1. Sorcery, Murder, Immorality, and Theft (Revelation 9:21)

1. John sees the LORD in Revelation 4. John is a man who is gripped by the beauty and the majesty of God. He is seeing beauty like he’s never seen before.

2. John sees the whore of Babylon in Revelation 17, and when he sees her, he marvels at her. He is fascinated.

3. The angel of the Lord has to come and intervene. He says to John "Why did you marvel?" (Revelation 17:7)

4. The word "marvel" appears three or four times within four verses.

5. The ones whose names are not written in the Book of Life are the ones who are fascinated by the power of seduction, the spirit of this age.

6. There’s no amount of self-determination that can keep us from yielding to the power of seduction unless our hearts are empowered by a superior pleasure, beauty, and desire. Having our hearts gripped and arrested by a superior level of beauty, glory and majesty is the only thing that will cause us to withstand the power of seduction.

1. Genesis 2:8-9 says, "The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden …and out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil."

2. The tree of life was made for pleasure. God, in the very beginning, provided humanity with sources of pleasure. He created in our hearts the desire to experience pleasure.

3. God is a God of pleasure.

4. The Garden of Eden is referred to as a garden of Paradise. The word "paradise" means the garden of pleasure.

1. Eternity can only be satisfied by eternal beauty. Eternity can only be satisfied by eternal pleasure, and that eternal pleasure comes from God and God alone. When our hearts are not touched by this eternal pleasure, we turn to other things, either evil pleasures or secondary pleasures.

2. We need to understand that God has made us with desires in our hearts. God has created us with the desire for pleasure. I love what Thomas Dubay says, "human beings are incarnate thirsts." The answer is in encountering the God of superior pleasure, the One in whom there are pleasures forevermore.