Prayer Revolution
"Yahweh looks down from heaven upon
the children of men to see if there are any who understand, who seek God." Psa
14:2
Prayer
is a powerful and precious form of communication with God. It is a tangible
force that we exert through faith. We must P.U.S.H. into the Kingdom of GOD P.U.S.H Pray
Until Something Happens either God shows His glory or the devil is defeated.
Continually press into the kingdom of God and receive or obtain what you came to
get, Matt 9:18-26. Make it a habit of simply taking from the devil what you
need. He has it and it belongs to us. Don't wait for your finances to come in
take it them in Jesus name. IN prayer and the faith you get in prayer walk in it
in the natural. Take hold of the the Kingdom and promises of Christ by force,
violently, passionately. Matt 12:29; 11:12. Win the battle on your knees. Eph
6:10-18; 2 Cor 10:4; Matt 16:15-19; 18:18; 11:13. Believe God answers your
faintest cry, Heb 1:6. Have faith in God and His mighty power, Romans 1:17. Act
upon your faith in prayer and providing for the needs you have prayed for. Pray
compassionately with intense spirit filled prayer, John 11:33-36; 12:27; Luke
19:41-44. It is important to praise and worship and thank God every time you
talk to Him He is God, Psalms 72:20; 100:2,4; 149:3; 150:4. Sincere prayer and extravagant
heart felt praise is what God longs to hear and see. There is power
in praise, Psalms 22:3. God reveals you sin in praise and brings healing, Isaiah
6:1-8. You heart will be changed if you praise God in prayer and worship, 1 Sam
10:5-15. You can hear God clearly and will receive direction in praise, Rev
19:10; 1 Sam 10:5-15. God will give you power to witness in a dark world and he
will make it clear were you fit in the kingdom of God, namely in worship and
adoration at His feet as you tell the lost of His love that you are experiencing
on a continually basis not just on Monday and Sunday but everyday and all the
time. Isaiah 6:8; Eph 6:18; Romans 8:14. God has more for you seek it and press
into it, take it by force do not let the devil dupe you.
"He saw that there was no man and
wondered that there was no intercessor." Isa
59:16
Real men
pray! You can say real men love Jesus, real men wear black but unless you act
upon the word of God and stand in the gap for others you are not a real. Man
notice that the scripture says. He saw there was NO MAN and WONDERED that there
was NO INTERCESSOR. Are you and intercessor, will you be an intercessor? You
duty as the man of the house is to be the spiritual head and leader. You can not
leave spiritual things up to your wife you must lead by example. You can say you
love Jesus. However Peter one of the disciples that walked with Jesus said in
essence you can talk the talk but can you walk the walk. He said, "Faith
without action is dead... (and) I will show you my faith through my deeds."
You must act upon the word and seek His face for your life, your job, your
family and your future.
"The Spirit Is Indeed Willing, But
The Flesh Is Weak!" Mark 14:38
Jonathan Edwards said that "Prayer is the hardest
yet most essential discipline of the Christian faith" and Jonathan Edwards
spent some serious time in prayer daily. He was either praying, traveling, or
preaching. Prayer moves the hand of God. You may not be able to be a missionary
to another country but you can travel there on your knees and be a prayer
missionary.
Sacrifice – the bible tells us to daily pick up our
cross and follow Jesus. Picking up our cross daily means to literally sacrifice
all our wants and give them to Jesus and allow Him to take all the time of our
day as we serve Him in our job or were ever else we may go. Sacrifice is praying
when you do not feel like praying. Sacrifice is committing to something and
being faithful to do it. You must determine that communion with God is your soul
desire, will, determination and life. 1 Thes
5:17; Eph 6:18.
"Far be it for me to sin against
The LORD in ceasing to pray for you" 1
Sam 12:23
The bible
says that it is a sin not to seek Gods face through prayer. You must determine in your heart that you will unashamedly seek
Gods fullness. Do not settle for any less than giving God your best. Don’t
give Him a dilapidated cow that did not please God in the Old Testament and it still will
not please God today. Give Him your all and do not take it back. "Desire
that is worked into discipline becomes a delight." Until you have truly
fought for freedom you will not understand the joy that those spiritual
victories bring and complacency will dominate your Christian walk. Sin will
hinder your prayer make sure you confess all known sins to God and He is
faithful and just to forgive and cleanse you from all unrighteousness you have
committed. 1 Sam 2:25; Lev 10:7; Isa 53:12; 2 Cor 1:20; 10:4:3-6; Gal 5:7-10;
Eph 1:22-23; 4:20; 6:10-18; Phil 1:6; 4:6; Col 3:2; 1 Thes 4:3; Heb 2:5-9;
3:12-13; 4:14-16; 6:1-3; 12:14; 13:18; 1 John 3:6-9. Invite the Holy Spirit
into your prayer time ask Him to help you pray, Romans 8:23-28. Do not feel like
you have to pray like this every time you pray but it will help you to pray
longer and more fruitfully if you try some of these principles.
"Could You Not Tarry With Me for
One Hour?" Matt 26:40
Could you watch and pray with The LORD for one hour?
That is the challenge Larry Lea put out in His book, "Could you not tarry
an hour." That book is the premise upon which this theme is developed along
with the Lord prayer and the content of scripture. Could you tithe you time a
day with the Lord, spend two hours and forty minutes much less and hour a day.
Hopefully this outline can and will give you things that you can pray for an
hour. I would like to challenge you to pray two hours and forty minutes a day if
that is to much I would like you to at least commit an hour a day in true
communion with God not just in lip service. Get to know Jesus heart for you and
for this lost world.
How can you pray an hour a day you may ask? Number one
you must set aside a regular time and a specific place every day were you will
go pray. You need a secret place, an upper room were you meet with God and God
only. You need to have an accountability partner or two to keep you accountable
to your prayer commitment not to boast but to keep you from sleeping in or doing
something other that praying. What if I do not have enough time? If you have
time to watch the news, a movie, TV, or your favorite football game you have
time to sacrifice to spend with Jesus. It takes discipline. Why should I pray?
Number one the bible says to not pray for yourself and people other than
yourself is a sin against God, 1 Sam 12:23. Number two the bible tells us all
men are destined to hell therefore we must pray for them. We must pray for
laborers to be sent, that the angels will minister to them, that Gods spirit
will prepare and draw them to salvation, that they see vision and have dreams of
Jesus and that God give us the boldness to go witness to them ourselves. (Rom
3:10,23; 6:23; Matt 25:46; Rev 21:8; James 1:21-27; 2:14-26). The harvest is
ripe, their souls are in need of salvation. They are desperately seeking for an
answer to all there troubles and worries. Jesus did not say pray for lost souls
He said that they know they are in need of help, "The harvest is
ripe." Instead Jesus commanded us to pray for laborers to go witness, Matt
9:37-38. We are to pray that the angels will go forth and minister to those who
are to inherit salvation, Heb 1:12. We are to pray that creation itself will
reveal God to fallen mankind but that in and of its self is not saving
revelation, Rom 1:20. They need saving revelation, which only comes through the
preaching of Gods infallible word, Rom 10:9-17. We are to pray for God to send
people to plant, water, and reap God giving the increase, 1 Cor 3:7-8. Pray that
God will give the lost visions and dreams of a saving, healing, and redeeming
Jesus, Joel 2:28; Acts 10: 1-4. What if I don’t feel like praying? We do not
rely on feelings we walk by faith, Rom 1:17. I’ve never prayed that long
before? The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, Matt 26:37-45; Mark 14:38.
Do not commit to prayer for someone else commit to prayer to come to know your
savior more personally and to obey His commands, Matt 7:21-22; 24:45-46;
25:14-30; Eph 6:18; 1 Thess 5:17.
Praying The Bible
One
thing I have asked from the Lord, That I may dwell in the House of the Lord all
the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His
temple
Praying the scriptures is a powerful method of communicating with God. For
Centuries men and women have prayed scripture in devotion to God, Monastic Monks
have prayed the entire Psalms, all one hundred of them weekly – 21 Psalms a
day. Through the years the priests of God had developed a daily habit of praying
Gods and Singing Gods word back to Him. They took God at His word when He said
that He watches over His word to perform it and would actually pray the
prophetic promises of scripture, pray the prayers of the bible and sing the
psalms as prayers to God. The New Testament Apostolic church meet in the Jewish
synagogue at the time of prayer and followed the same pattern they prayed for
centuries even as our Lord Jesus did. Wouldn’t be wise for us to follow their
godly example. The Psalmist said that he would praise God morning, noon, and
night. The Jews were very devout and followed his godly example, as did the New
Testament church. We would find a lot of discipline and devotion bringing forth
spiritual power in our lives if we would do likewise. The Jews use the actual biblical text as their prayer text. The
Jews would pray the Bible as it is written, while also being able to launch out
into spontaneous and personalized application of the biblical prayer. The
original Psalms were prayers set in a context of musical arrangements and
accompaniment that magnified the prayers as worship and devotion to God. For
centuries praying the bible has been the practice of ancient holy men and women.
The pattern of monks and nuns, was to pray through the entire book of Psalms
weekly.
More info on Prayer
Gods Promises Regarding Prayer
The Hour Of Power
The Lords Prayer
The Tabernacle
Prayer Pattern
The Jewish Prayer Pattern
Apostolic Prayers of the
Bible
The Four Weapons In A Chritians Arsenal
Worship Hymns
In Revelations
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