Praying in Jesus’ name is not just saying the words “in Jesus’ name” or “in Christ’s name” in our prayers, nor closing our prayers with these words. But He has risen and there is answer to prayer. At the historic General Conference of all party leaders, first in 47 years, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made a series of statements concerning coming changes. ---------------------------------------------------------, Intercession is the Noblest Work of God Entrusts to us Humans, T.W. That may be said to be done without ceasing, which is done constantly, and at set times and seasons. "My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times" (Psa 119:20). Most blessed Comforter, exert Thy mighty power within us, helping our infirmities in prayer. But as fast as they died, others came forth to take their places. To confess our sins is to acknowledge the Sovereignly of God. START BY PRAYING. The following is from Ole Hallesby’s book on Prayer, 161f. Having the Holy Spirit is the real answer to the question “How to Pray?” The ultimate object for and answer to prayer is the Holy Spirit who is the author and sustainer of prayer. The prayer-meeting has this fifth use, that it is the means of suggesting missionary operations. But it also comes in a million shapes and forms. The sermons' 20-25 million words are equivalent to the 27 volumes of the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. If we can’t pray for someone who hates us, then we haven’t really learned to pray. Jn 6:68 “Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? The Kneeling Christian. Our experiences are not that much different from David’s, remember, "These things happened to them as examples and were written for our instruction, on whom the ends of the ages have come." We have found that a normal dedicated college student can easily commit to a 1 or 2 hour prayer meeting. Did God make this world and all things in it and does He not continue to sustain and govern it? For the anointing of the Holy Spirit on the preaching of the Word. B. Johnston. Then he said to his disciples, ‘The harvest is he plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”. The Bible is abundant with texts and testimonies to encourage us in prayer. “Forgive us as we forgive others…” Jesus taught.2. We were willing and eager student to learn sin. Theodorus, speaking of Luther, once said, “I overheard him in prayer, but, good God, with what life and spirit did he pray! 33:3, Jesus Christ, the second person of the Triune God, who has made it possible for us to pray John 14:6; Heb. What is the attitude of the heart of one that is truly praying? And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.” also 5:14 “And this is the confidence (parrhesia) that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:” Jesus laid the foundation for this in Jn 15:7 “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.” This is always the secret to answered prayer, even in the case of Jesus Himself. Very often, I do not doubt, in a Christian enterprise, the first foothold that a cause gets is the prayer-meeting. May we see your beauty, feel your love, know your wisdom and experience your power. "And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge, and in all judgment; that ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere, and without offence, till the day of Christ. “But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.” Mat 6:6. Recognize our dependence upon him. Intercession is the unselfish and altruistic aspect of prayer…in intercessions the believer is acting as an intermediary between God and other people. Our prayer must be addressed to God alone Who is our Father in creation, election, and sanctifying grace. In Mark 11:15-25 our Lord gives some teaching on prayer: “Then they came to Jerusalem. . For individual missionaries. And then when our prayers are not answered in the way we want we are told that it is because we don’t have sufficient faith. Further, we suggest that the subject matter be “prayer” not a miscellaneous topic or text from the Bible. The potential is that we can do greater works that our Lord Jesus did. Inconsistency, too, in not practically carrying out your desires will also spoil the prayer-meeting. Pray that the crown-royal may be set upon that dear head, that once was girt with thorns. Where else in the world at that time might that occur? If we are in God’s will, our enemies and God’s enemies are the same. But, the well rounded prayer life (individually and corporately) will go beyond the pressing problems of the moment and carry us into the future with an eye for God’s glory. I cannot say ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN unless I am truly ready to give myself to His service here and now. Jam 4:17 “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”. If you don't know whether you have a personal relationship with God, this outline helps you understand where to begin. 4. 3. The Prayer Meeting and Its History, J. Not just the reading of it but the explaining and applying of it to our lives. 9 May he show the humble what is right! When diamonds are displayed it is done on a black background under bright lights. 22 Let them present thank offerings, and loudly proclaim what he has done! “The most remarkable work of all was in Sussex and Brunswick circuits, where the meetings would frequently continue five or six hours together, and sometimes all night. We know not what prayer cannot do! ” Jn 17:15,16 Jesus knew that Satan would try to destroy us so He prayed before the fact that we would be safe. What is the manifest presence of God? Matthew Henry reminds us “All God's people are praying people. It would seem as if, God’s people can be gathered together for anything--but prayer. To pray this we must be in submission to God, lest we be hypocrites. Note that the context here is public or corporate praying. The soul, I say, feels, and from feeling sighs, groans, and breaks at the heart. Why just pray for lost family members when we could be praying for the lost around the world. It is none other than Almighty God who invites us to pray Jer. We need to join with Him in His intercessory work. And they bare it.” Obedience is consistently required. His work is entirely subjective, bringing the intercession of our Lord above into the desires and petitions of the Christian below; whereby they become the intercessions of the Spirit, who thus blends his Advocacy with that of Christ himself.” Theology of Prayer, B.M. “How say” say you. There are great needs today, will you be one that will pray. When He reveled Himself to us in our initial salvation experience it was His sovereign prerogative to do so and likewise with His manifest presence. For everyone who asks, receives; and he who seeks, finds; and to him who knocks, it will be opened.” Luk 11:5-10, When did the interceding man stop asking—when he received what he needed. 6. Topical Prayer: Revival; 7. The first answer to the question of what should we supplicate and ask for in pray is, “We should pray for ourselves to have the ability to pray.” Once this skill is achieved it’s exercise will supply all the other needs we have. The church is to administer God's Kingdom through prayer. It might sound obvious, but prayer is the best way to prepare. Praying in the Holy Ghost is praying in fervency. Paul must have had some idea of the possible problems facing him. We need to pray that God would wean us from the world and make us hungry for Him. At the same time he is to maintain corporate or partner praying with his fellow believers. If the Spirit prays in us, shall we not share His “groanings” in prayer? We only hear of him once in Scripture 1 Chr 4:10 “And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! “And they filled them up to the brim.” They obeyed as much as possible, “to the brim.” In 2 Ki 13:18,19 the prophet told the king to smite the ground, he smote only three time and the prophet rebuked him. Prayer girds the loins of God's warriors, and sends them forth to combat with their sinews braced and their muscles firm. And this we may and ought to do, when we hear or read the word, or in whatever duty of religion we are engaged: yea, this we may and ought to do, in our worldly employments. 1 Thess 5:17 “pray without ceasing;” This is given in a context of exhortation to the corporate church body. And therefore, secondly he, as a member of Christ, comes to God; I say, as a member of him, so that God looks on that man as a part of Christ, part of his body, flesh, and bones, united to him by election, conversion, illumination, the Spirit being conveyed into the heart of that poor man by God (Eph 5:30). For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.”. “Our brethren will excuse our offering them advice, and must take it only for what it is worth; but having to superintend a large church and to conduct a prayer-meeting which scarcely numbers less than from a thousand to twelve hundred attendants, we will simply give our own notions as to the most efficient method of promoting and sustaining these holy gatherings. Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the heart, or soul, to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for Such Things as God Hath Promised, &c., (Matt 6:6-8). Or where can I flee from Thy presence?”, The Power of God Ps 62:11 “…power belongs to God”, The Solitariness of God Ex 15:11 “Who is like Thee among the gods, O Lord? Not the confession of sin, for Jesus never sinned and could not sin. Then if we have something that we desire, as we abide in Christ, we ask or “supplicate” our loving and generous God for those things in the will of God. And God granted him that which he requested.” Jabez wanted more land, more responsibility, more opportunity but not just of the temporal type but spiritual blessings, covenant blessings, the sure mercies of David, which are the real as opposed to the unreal physical things. 32:11-13, 31,32; 33:12-16, Daniel prayed intensely Dan. Jn 5:30. 8. Beloved, let every church learn the value of its prayer-meetings in its dark hour. ” 2. When we come to God united and agreeing in what we ask, we gain a special presence of and power with God.The great day of Pentecost was realized in an atmosphere of unity in prayer. Sometimes we are too blind to see and too dull to understand how Jesus is revealed to His gathered people through the preaching of the Word and prayer. . Prevenient praying precludes presumption by ‘covering all the bases.’ ...Prevenient prayer in the corporate setting assumes a special significance. God’s power reaches to all things: past, present, and future; good and bad; in His will or out of His will; directly from Him or through deligated powers. Some are so active that they are almost dangerous during an after-meeting. Yet Jesus prayed like this all the time.” The God Who Hears, W. Bingham Hunter, p 97. He is born confessing his sin and calling on the Lord for salvation. The source could be traced with absolute accuracy to the Soviet Ukraine. Involvement, adopt a mission field to learn about and pray for. We are to pray for God’s will to be realized. The Kneeling Christian. God is making darkness for His light to shine into, so that, we will better appreciate it and He will be more glorified. The more time we spend in prayer the more we show our dependence upon God; the less time we devote to pleading with God the more conscious we are of our own ability. For the Son of God, Christ Jesus, who was preached among you by us—by me and Silvanus and Timothy—was not yes and no, but is yes in Him. He excites, encourages, and assists us to call God our Father. When we pray with a sense of our wants, we become the more violent in prayer. Jn 15:7,8 “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong. So also, if it be not in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, it is but like the sons of Aaron, offering with strange fire (Lev 10:1,2). Makes demons tremble, breaks the darkest cloud. Many in a wording way speak of God; but right prayer makes God his hope, stay, and all. So, here, “Pray without ceasing” that is, observe a constant course of prayer, at fixed and appointed times; still keeping yourselves from any superstitious observations. Ps 55:1--“Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.”, Ph 4:6-- “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”, John 15:7 “If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”, (Each of the above could be the subject making four sessions of prayer), Sometimes we use the acrostic “A.C.T.S.” as an outline to help us in prayer. May we find the comfort we desire in you and the strength we need in your name. 3. Let us look at the third lesson in our Lord’s teaching on praying, The praying for the Holy Spirit. We may learn how to demean ourselves in this case towards God, by beggars who betimes come to your doors and bring their work along with them: they beg importunately, and yet they work betwixt whiles: so also should we do: we should beg as importunately of God, as if we depended merely upon his charity; and yet, betwixt whiles, we should work as industriously as if we were ourselves to get our livings with our own hands. He was to be approached with reverence and awe. Sometimes we long for our churches to have the zeal and power that the church in Acts had. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? I cannot say OUR if my religion has no room for others and their needs. Encourage the attendants to send in special request for prayer as often as they feel constrained to do so. If the prayer meeting be not what it ought to be, if it does not elevate the state of religion, he should go seriously to work and see what is the matter, and get the spirit of prayer, and prepare himself to make such remarks as are calculated to do good and set things right. More than this, it teaches a lesson for all times, that if Paul was so dependent on the prayers of God's saints to give his ministry success, how much greater the necessity that the prayers of God's saints be centered on the ministry of today!” E. M. Bounds, “If some Christians that have been complaining of their ministers had said and acted less before men and had applied themselves with all their might to cry to God for their ministers -- had, as it were, risen and stormed heaven with their humble, fervent and incessant prayers for them -- they would have been much more in the way of success.” Jonathan Edwards, Spurgeon said much about others praying. We need to recognize that we are guilty and that it separates us from God and His blessings. “The word of Lord,” the incarnate Christ Jesus speaks to us with a similar message. For example, It may be difficult to get people to come to an early morning or Friday night meeting. 10 They sat in utter darkness, bound in painful iron chains, 11 because they had rebelled against God’s commands, and rejected the instructions of the sovereign king. When all the world around us goes dark, can our voice be heard crying out to God? “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend it in your pleasures.” Jas 4:3 Our motive in all things should be solely to “do all to the glory of God.” 1 Co 10:31 If we knew the truth about ourselves it might shock us to know that we are really worshiping ourselves in much of our praying. We seek the coming of His kingdom in all its power and sovereignty. II. Few commentators will entertain the thought that Paul’s directions are intended only for individuals and not for congregations. The Holy Spirit was sent to be our helper, one who strengthens us. The above prayer request could be an outline for our praying, personally of corporately. Confession means “speaking together”-- relating to sin, it means that we agree with God about our sin. Worship Together Prayer Everlasting Father, we give thanks to you today, we bless your name together. So Peter was kept in prison...” Ac 12:1-5. The exercise of abiding in Him, i.e. Voltaire said that Christianity would be forgotten in 30 years time. A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting. Poor defenseless creatures as they were, they yet loved to come together, and would die together if need be. (Matt 26:53,54). Lord, I have shut the door, Here do I bow; Speak, for my soul attend Turns to Thee now. We thank you that we can enter your presence today. We go to church a little bit, we read our Bibles sometimes, we pray at our meals and when we have a crisis and we call that normal Christianity. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” Mat 6:10 Implicit in this prayer is the request for everything that is needed in the administration of the Kingdom of God. We have no greater enemy than our depraved nature that so often snares us; but the Lord will deliver us as we commune with Him. What did he want them to do? “The power of the Church truly to bless rests on intercession–asking and receiving heavenly gifts to carry to men.” (Ministry of Intercession, Andrew Murray, p 5) Advancing the Kingdom of God is hard labor and it has eternal consequences. There are three ways to fulfill the great commission “go and make disciples of all nations,” Ma 28:19: 1. “I immediately got out the letter Mark sent me listing the places God told him to visit. So deep are our necessities, that until we are in heaven we must not cease to pray. Jesus identifies the object of the Father’s giving as “the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?” Just as Abraham had the person of God as His reward, which is infinitely better that all material and family blessings, so we can have the person of the Holy Spirit as our very own, which is infinitely better than all other things combined. mine hour is not yet come.” Mary is rebuffed. And when the Church increased, and the place was scarce large enough, it was the prayer meeting that did it all. A = adore, C = confession, T = thanksgiving, S = supplication. Not a rehearsing of a list of wants. What we need more than anything else today in our own land and in all lands, is a real, mighty outpouring of the Spirit of God. It is not just to pray for the kingdom but pray for the kingdom first. The church can not do anything except through its individual members, the fulfilling of the great commission can only be done as a team effort. Jesus said nothing like this. That kind of persistence and importunity did and still can have world wide impact. I cannot say WHO ART IN HEAVEN if all my interests and pursuits are in earthly things. Then that soul is not forgiven, shall we say Oh, the fearful spiritual disaster following in the wake of the neglect of prayer by the Church! God can so strongly anoint the one who leads in prayer that all present are brought into consciousness of God's presence until the one praying is forgotten and the people as one in heart and soul unite and agree in the prayer." It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity. The Holy Spirit is the author of faith, and strengthens it, so that we pray believing God's promise. Our Lord Jesus teaches us about agreeing together, “Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven. We give God extra glory when we thank Him in circumstance that are not convent, in times of adversity, desertion, temptation, affliction, and persecution, as well as in prosperity. He imparts a sense of sonship and acceptance that creates freedom and confidence in the presence of God. We get our English word “agonize” from this Greek word. "The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow." 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