I love the Lord, because He has heard my voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.Psalm 116:1 - 2 - NKJV
It is such a joy to me to be able to say my relationship with the Lord is one that I have experienced for my self... not via some other persons story... you know what I mean?
Many times after I have prayed specific prayers I have seen specific changes.
Sometimes the changes are seeming insignificant things but these have given me a buzz. My experience of seeing things happen as a result of moments with the Lord keeps bringing me back to the Lord for more time with Him. Of course, we are always with the Lord and He is always with us but it is a joy and release to know the Lord specifically responds to our specific prayers.
David in his psalms sings of a "life-impacting relationship" with God that he has experienced. So much of his life was lived on the basis, of what God had spoken in the way of promises by the prophets and secondly, after having heard those promises, what he experienced as a result of calling on the Lord in prayer. With that background of experience, he kept coming back to the Lord in expectation as each new situation arose.
He revelled in his covenant relationship with God.
So, how is it with you?
Since you got born again, what specific things have happened to you with your relationship with Him?
Stop and remember for a moment the answers to prayer. Do you keep resorting to God now in prayer because you are ever remembering the time when prayer fundamentally changed things for you?
Those are the things to remember as you go to the Lord again.
Petition the Lord in prayer today in the hope your experienced relationship with Him gives you.
Revel in the relationship you live in with God
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A Prayer Summons to American Christians!
I just read this article on line... and was amased to see that this was not given recently! Ther person who gave it died in 1979! But when you read it you would think they are talking about today! So read it and consider its message.....
America stands at the crossroads! It is either revival or the dissolving of the church, the home and the government.
History records that in time of crisis in America in the past, God has moved to avert catastrophe overtaking His people. In such crises hours, He has found some who would work with Him in bringing new mercies to His people. In every national crisis in the past God has found some who would stand in the gap and make up the hedge against the adversary. Upon them God has moved by arousing them to a deep sense of need, which in turn has moved them to intercede for His intervention.
The world and the Church are in a mighty conflict. The spiritual warfare is intensifying. The powers of darkness are massing for the last awful struggle. The church has a powerful weapon with which to fight. If she will but take to her knees she will be victorious.
The need is for godly intercessors in every church and in every American home and community. More than any other need is that for men and women of prayer and faith who will stand in the gap and stay the frightful spirits of lawlessness, immorality, infidelity and corruption which are swarming over the land.
"I sought for a man among them, that should stand in the gap before Me, for the land, that I should not destroy it," declares the Lord to Ezekiel, "but I found none" (Ezekiel 22:30).
This was the pitiful condition in Israel. No one could be found to stand in the gap for the land, hence it was destroyed. Can it be in this hour of chaos and crisis more dire, that there is no man or woman in your community or in your church who will stand in the gap? Is there no man or women who, seeing the peril, will give himself or herself continually to wrestling by prayer against principalities, against the rulers of darkness, against spiritual wickedness in high places? (Ephesians 6:12).
The greatest need in every church, in every community, and in every home, is for a prayer leadership that will stir the people of God to prayer. Talking about the conditions, bewailing the need of America for a spiritual awakening is not enough. The most difficult thing to do is to get men and women to pray. This is not a day when people readily pray. Few men and women will actually pray. The greatest spiritual need in America is for a praying leadership who will bring the preachers and the Church back to prayer.
True prayer means the expenditures of serious devotion of time, heart, and soul that the flesh does not like. To get under the burden of prayer is too strenuous a labor for our present-day, pleasure-loving, ease-indulging membership and ministry. Too much hardship is involved. The children of Zion today do not like the "solemn feast garments" of weeping, mourning and fasting that enables Zion to bring forth.
"Woe," pronounced the prophet, "to them that are at ease in Zion" (Amos 6:1).
God help Zion to travail at this crisis end-of-the-age hour! God help us to see the need and necessity of prayer and God help us to meet conditions! The all-important need is for men and women whose hearts are right with God to make prayer a supreme passion of the hour--men and women whose supreme labor for God and country is to cry, "Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them" (Joel 2:17).
To pray is the greatest thing we can do to save America and avert national chaos and crisis. There are plenty of preachers and writers who deal eloquently with the need of revival, but not many there are who will at this catastrophic hour give themselves to the necessity of prayer. There is one chief battle ground in the nation today, and that is the battleground of prayer. The prayer forces must be summoned. The Church must mobilize on her knees. Christians everywhere must be put to praying.
Revival comes in answer to the heart cries of God's people. The most insistent and urgent pleas, the most fervent exhortations need be sounded forth at this hour to put the saints everywhere to praying.
"Sound an alarm in my holy mountain…for the day of the Lord cometh…Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders…Let the ministers of the Lord weep…then will the Lord pity His people…And He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former and the latter rain in the first month, and the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil, and I will restore…I will pour My Spirit on all flesh...whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved" (Joel 2:1-32).
--Sarah Foulkes Moore (1890-1973)
America stands at the crossroads! It is either revival or the dissolving of the church, the home and the government.
History records that in time of crisis in America in the past, God has moved to avert catastrophe overtaking His people. In such crises hours, He has found some who would work with Him in bringing new mercies to His people. In every national crisis in the past God has found some who would stand in the gap and make up the hedge against the adversary. Upon them God has moved by arousing them to a deep sense of need, which in turn has moved them to intercede for His intervention.
The world and the Church are in a mighty conflict. The spiritual warfare is intensifying. The powers of darkness are massing for the last awful struggle. The church has a powerful weapon with which to fight. If she will but take to her knees she will be victorious.
The need is for godly intercessors in every church and in every American home and community. More than any other need is that for men and women of prayer and faith who will stand in the gap and stay the frightful spirits of lawlessness, immorality, infidelity and corruption which are swarming over the land.
"I sought for a man among them, that should stand in the gap before Me, for the land, that I should not destroy it," declares the Lord to Ezekiel, "but I found none" (Ezekiel 22:30).
This was the pitiful condition in Israel. No one could be found to stand in the gap for the land, hence it was destroyed. Can it be in this hour of chaos and crisis more dire, that there is no man or woman in your community or in your church who will stand in the gap? Is there no man or women who, seeing the peril, will give himself or herself continually to wrestling by prayer against principalities, against the rulers of darkness, against spiritual wickedness in high places? (Ephesians 6:12).
The greatest need in every church, in every community, and in every home, is for a prayer leadership that will stir the people of God to prayer. Talking about the conditions, bewailing the need of America for a spiritual awakening is not enough. The most difficult thing to do is to get men and women to pray. This is not a day when people readily pray. Few men and women will actually pray. The greatest spiritual need in America is for a praying leadership who will bring the preachers and the Church back to prayer.
True prayer means the expenditures of serious devotion of time, heart, and soul that the flesh does not like. To get under the burden of prayer is too strenuous a labor for our present-day, pleasure-loving, ease-indulging membership and ministry. Too much hardship is involved. The children of Zion today do not like the "solemn feast garments" of weeping, mourning and fasting that enables Zion to bring forth.
"Woe," pronounced the prophet, "to them that are at ease in Zion" (Amos 6:1).
God help Zion to travail at this crisis end-of-the-age hour! God help us to see the need and necessity of prayer and God help us to meet conditions! The all-important need is for men and women whose hearts are right with God to make prayer a supreme passion of the hour--men and women whose supreme labor for God and country is to cry, "Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them" (Joel 2:17).
To pray is the greatest thing we can do to save America and avert national chaos and crisis. There are plenty of preachers and writers who deal eloquently with the need of revival, but not many there are who will at this catastrophic hour give themselves to the necessity of prayer. There is one chief battle ground in the nation today, and that is the battleground of prayer. The prayer forces must be summoned. The Church must mobilize on her knees. Christians everywhere must be put to praying.
Revival comes in answer to the heart cries of God's people. The most insistent and urgent pleas, the most fervent exhortations need be sounded forth at this hour to put the saints everywhere to praying.
"Sound an alarm in my holy mountain…for the day of the Lord cometh…Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders…Let the ministers of the Lord weep…then will the Lord pity His people…And He will cause to come down for you the rain, the former and the latter rain in the first month, and the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil, and I will restore…I will pour My Spirit on all flesh...whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be saved" (Joel 2:1-32).
--Sarah Foulkes Moore (1890-1973)
Friday, January 15, 2010
Earnest Prayer
It seems that when ever I have read the biographies of God's anointed men, they always came from spending time in prayer on their knees with the power of God resting upon them, and the fire of the Holy Spirit burning in their souls.
I am perfectly confident that when you don't spend time alone with God, will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. At lease not to the extent that you will when you are a person of prayer. Someone once said "The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision"!
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication...and suddenly...they were all filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:14; 2:2, 4).
And when they had prayed...they were all filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 4:31).
Peter and John...prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost...and they received the Holy Ghost (Acts 8:14-17).
Tarry in prayer, earnest, expectant, persevering, united. As someone has well said: "Tarry at the promise till God meets you there!" Wow that is so good and true!
God has promised to answer prayer!
It is not that He is unwilling; for the fact is He is more willing to give than we are to receive, more anxious to fill us with the Holy Spirit than we are to be filled. But the trouble is, we are not ready! And only as we wait before Him in prayer can He talk to us, prepare our hearts, and get us ready to receive His glorious power.
I am perfectly confident that when you don't spend time alone with God, will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit. At lease not to the extent that you will when you are a person of prayer. Someone once said "The world must be left outside until God alone fills the vision"!
These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication...and suddenly...they were all filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 1:14; 2:2, 4).
And when they had prayed...they were all filled with the Holy Ghost (Acts 4:31).
Peter and John...prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost...and they received the Holy Ghost (Acts 8:14-17).
Tarry in prayer, earnest, expectant, persevering, united. As someone has well said: "Tarry at the promise till God meets you there!" Wow that is so good and true!
God has promised to answer prayer!
It is not that He is unwilling; for the fact is He is more willing to give than we are to receive, more anxious to fill us with the Holy Spirit than we are to be filled. But the trouble is, we are not ready! And only as we wait before Him in prayer can He talk to us, prepare our hearts, and get us ready to receive His glorious power.
Monday, January 4, 2010
How is your prayer life?
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.—Ephesians 6:18
OK so it's a New Year and time to make resolutions and all that sort of stuff!
SO I ask you... Is prayer a major part of your life, or is it something you only do when you are in trouble or with others who are praying?
Is prayer really a daily way of life for you, or do you just pray when you get in trouble? Do you pray when you are home and no one else is around, or do you find that you only pray is when you come to church and are in the presence of others who are praying people?
Hay.. I don't knock that... but come on... you have to do this by yourself... you need to do it all during the day... it needs to become as common to you as breathing!
I have found that most people are "on-again, off-again" when it comes to prayer.
Oh yes they can do it for a while, but then they slowly peter out and stop praying because they are too tired to get up early, (by the way you can pray at any time not just early in the morning) or they are distracted by other things.
But how often are we supposed to pray? Ephesians 6:18 gives us the answer! It says, "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints."
The word "always" means at each and every occasion.
Pray anytime there's an opportunity — no matter where you are or what you're doing. Use every occasion, every season, every possible moment to pray.
Prayer is not optional for the Christian, we are to make prayer a top priority.
But, I find prayer is forgotten or avoided by the average Christian today.
If prayer isn't a priority in your life right now, why not make it a priority?
"But I don't have time to pray." You have time to do whatever you really want to do so no excuse there.
You can find the time. Grab any available time you can find, and make it your prayer time.
Why not do it right? Make a quality decision to make prayer a constant part of your daily routine!
What are you waiting for? Comme on and JUST DO IT!
OK so it's a New Year and time to make resolutions and all that sort of stuff!
SO I ask you... Is prayer a major part of your life, or is it something you only do when you are in trouble or with others who are praying?
Is prayer really a daily way of life for you, or do you just pray when you get in trouble? Do you pray when you are home and no one else is around, or do you find that you only pray is when you come to church and are in the presence of others who are praying people?
Hay.. I don't knock that... but come on... you have to do this by yourself... you need to do it all during the day... it needs to become as common to you as breathing!
I have found that most people are "on-again, off-again" when it comes to prayer.
Oh yes they can do it for a while, but then they slowly peter out and stop praying because they are too tired to get up early, (by the way you can pray at any time not just early in the morning) or they are distracted by other things.
But how often are we supposed to pray? Ephesians 6:18 gives us the answer! It says, "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints."
The word "always" means at each and every occasion.
Pray anytime there's an opportunity — no matter where you are or what you're doing. Use every occasion, every season, every possible moment to pray.
Prayer is not optional for the Christian, we are to make prayer a top priority.
But, I find prayer is forgotten or avoided by the average Christian today.
If prayer isn't a priority in your life right now, why not make it a priority?
"But I don't have time to pray." You have time to do whatever you really want to do so no excuse there.
You can find the time. Grab any available time you can find, and make it your prayer time.
Why not do it right? Make a quality decision to make prayer a constant part of your daily routine!
What are you waiting for? Comme on and JUST DO IT!
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