Personal Revival: The Sanctification Process - Prayer 2

[Angelina]

Personal Revival; Prayer 2.

Spending Time With God In Prayer:
I have always been a person of prayer, but this is a little different. Spending time with him is not a repetitive or ritualistic type of prayer, nor is it speaking in tongues or warfare or intercessory prayer, but rather a daily two-sided conversation with the Lord, sometimes with the Father and other times with the Holy Spirit, depending on the circumstances.

Yes, there is a time when you would go into your prayer closet, but I am not referring to that kind of prayer. It’s about having a conversation with your best friend in the same room. So I wake up early every morning, repenting and asking for forgiveness for any sinful way in me, particularly any unforgiveness that I may harbour in my heart toward anyone. I am an open book before the Lord.

The bible says, Hebrews 4:13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Unforgiveness can fester in our hearts over time or within a day, so I spend some time dealing with my heart and crucifying my flesh in prayer. I then pray for my family and friends. Some of those friends are here on this forum.

Sometimes God gets me to pray for other people, and other times he wakes me up and gives me a vision so I can pray into a situation. Sometimes it's a quickening of the spirit, and I will ask someone near me if they would like prayer. There have been situations where I have met people while shopping, and I can see that they have problems walking, they do not look well, or the Holy Spirit gives me a nudge or prompts me, so I will ask if I could pray for them, and most of the time people agree, so I will pray for them right there. I am not ashamed to do things that will bless others, particularly through prayer. So I try to take every opportunity in the Lord to pray when situations arise.

Prayer opens the channels of communication between you and God in the heavenly realms. It enables you to have clear direction each day. It is not about you telling the Lord what plans you have in a day and asking him to bless it; it’s about the Lord giving you instructions for each day as you listen and obey his will. Things can change rapidly, as:"Man plans his way, but God directs his steps." (Prov 16-9) Blessings!

Angelina
written 15/06/2024

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Personal Revival: Praise And Worship 3

In the O/T, Jehoshaphat placed the singers in the front of the armies, and as they praised the God of Israel, the Lord God went out before them, confused their enemies, and they destroyed themselves. (2 Chronicles 20:21)

In the N/T, Jesus, the Son of God, triumphantly entered the city of Jerusalem riding on a colt; the Bible says,

“and the whole multitude of his disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the...

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Jesus is our mediator to the Father and just wants us to sit and talk with him like we would sit and talk with our best friend. Our prayer language needs to be in this same way. When you have a need just talk to him and speak from your heart. We do not have to be repetitious in our prayers as Jesus already heard you the first time. Pray once and then stand strong in faith to know God has heard your prayer and then just keep praising him and thanking him for his answer to your prayer even though you might not see an answer yet, but know that God in his timing will answer you. Gods answer may not be what we want to hear at times and his answer can be no at times, but God knows what is better for us then we do and we need to trust in this.

Prayers consist of faith, consecration and commitment. There are prayers of worship and prayers of agreement that unite the whole body of Christ together as one in unison in Gods Spirit. Let’s start with the prayer of faith and then work through all the other types.

Faith is to know Gods will in what you are praying for. A good example of this is to take the subject of what you are praying for and find scripture for that to see what God has already declared. Example: You are praying for a health issue. You might want to look up scriptures for what God says about our health and then claim those scriptures in your prayers for healing.

There are also conditions in a prayer of faith that could stop God from answering your prayer and that is the condition of our heart. The biggest thing that can shut down the power of God in our prayers is lack of faith, doubt and unforgiveness. Faith is believing in something even though you can not see it, but knowing the evidence exist. Take wind for instance, you can not see it, but you can see the evidence of it as trees sway in its breeze. This is the same with God as we can not see him for he is spirit, but we know the evidence of him through his power and action in our lives.

Doubt is nothing more than sin of unbelief. If you are doubting that God can move in your life and change what needs changing then nothing will change. Many of us doubted those things of God that could change our lives, but when you give faith that is the size of a mustard seed a chance to germinate in your life through the watering of his word that seed will grow to maturity in knowing that God is always in control and will give you those desires of your heart as he sees fit to do as only God knows what is best for us and his timing is always perfect.

Mark 11:22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
Mark 11:23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mark 11:24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believes that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
Mark 11:25 and when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Mark 11:26 but if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.