Posts Tagged ‘close relationship with God’
PRAY FOR….RIGHT ALIGNMENT WITH GOD
Thursday, July 14th, 2016
“Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you– unless indeed you fail the test?” (2 Corinthians 13:5)
The most important relationship any human will ever have in this life is the one with God. I am not talking about the gods of your choosing, but the One True God of Heaven – Yahweh. Our heavenly Father has made this journey with Him even simpler and more intense, when He – Abba Father (Daddy) – sent His Son Jesus Christ to earth some 2000 years ago.
This same Jesus, in the most important discourse in History on the Christian Life – the Sermon on the Mount said the following (Matthew 6:33) “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble”. To get the full context of this verse, click here for the entire chapter of Matthew 6.
What the Lord is teaching us is this – our Faith is an intentional daily walk with Him which has to be recharged daily. We know from experience that several things occur during one 24 hour period which can alter the course of a life, change circumstances and even affect our worldview. In life, we have more valley experiences than mountain top ones. Bad things are more apt to happen to a person, and especially a Christian, than good ones. Sometimes a good day is when things are status quo.
So God is calling for us to wake up each day with a certain mindset of overcoming those not so good days, when our vehicle of life is out of alignment. At those times we must fall back into zone coverage. That is, our relationship with God through Christ and its strength must be such that it can withstand incoming. This is the testing called for and it comes from recharging with Spiritual Food – a Holy Breakfast, if you will, when we wake up recharged physically.
But more than this, God is calling here in 2 Corinthians 13:5 for a testing the tensile strength of our relationship. This is why the Lord does not mind you and I asking Him questions, even in doubt. Because then, we can say to Him “Lord, I believe, help my unbelief”. If more and more and us, search our hearts as Psalm 139:23-24 says “23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting”.
PRAYERS OF THE BIBLE SERIES – THE BOOK OF JAMES, #11
Friday, February 19th, 2016METHODOLOGY CONCERNING: INTERCESSION
Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much (James 5:16a).
There is no greater gift you can give a friend than to pray for them, after you have told them about Jesus and what He has done for you. This makes you and each Christian who follows the teaching of the Scriptures (through James here) – an intercessor.
An intercessor is one who stands in the gap for someone else in prayer and supplication to the Father in Heaven.
An intercessor is one who has such an intimate relationship with God that when this Christian man or woman approaches the Throne Room of heaven – day or night – our Heavenly Father listens.
An intercessor is one who is prayed up, stayed up and weighed up in the Scales of Heaven and found wanted by the LORD as one of His dearest saints.
An intercessor is a prayer warrior who lays a hold of the need of another or many others and does not let go, even after the result has been achieved because that desired result only leads to more and more praise to the Most High God….READ MORE HERE