We are in the month of July and we are conscious that 6 months have passed
since this year started. As much as there are things we wished we had achieved
by now, there is so much more to be thankful for. As we will be thanking God
for the months that have passed, I encourage each one of us to thank Him more for
the months to come. The Man of God Dr. Shawn Smith has been teaching us on prayer
lately, he said, 'prayer is not trying to get God's attention nor is it trying
to get him to do something on your behalf...New Testament prayer is a fruit of
the believer's union with Christ; it is fellowship with the Heavenly Father,
that is, communion with Him. It is an intimate participation of believing and
receiving what God has already given to the believer in Christ Jesus as
specifically revealed in His Word'. There is a common saying that 'a prayerless Christian
is a powerless Christian', i believe it's true because when i take prayer for
granted i become desensitized, afraid and more. Praying is communion and as you
pray you become more conscious of your position in Christ, what you've been
made in Him, you're conscious that He is your strength no matter the situation
you face. In prayer, you become more conscious of God's might and not your
limitations, His love for you and not your love for Him. It's awesome because the Holy Spirit prays the will of the Father
in and through you.
You cannot say you don't have
what to pray for; you have a family, friends, ministers of the Gospel and more.
But if you want to limit it to yourself only, you have your life, job,
relationship and more to pray for. There is so much God wants to reveal to us
but we don’t take time to pray. We need to commune with God daily presenting to Him in a manner of total dependence our desires through prayer and thanksgiving. Even Jesus, when He walked the earth he prayed;
He taught prayer, not as a slavish duty but as a glorious privilege. Now are we the sons of God; Glory to God! Same for
the Apostle Paul, He prayed always for the saints as He mentioned in all of his
epistles.
As we have stepped into this
second part of this year I want to encourage each one of us (I’m part of it) to be
intentional about pursuing this intimacy with God in prayer; spending time
daily as often as we can to communicate our desires in tongues and in our
understanding to God the Father as His sons in Christ. Minister to God with an
open heart, forget about any situation you may be facing and believe me when I say
we will experience things only God can do. We will be enlightened in the
Gospel, we will meet people only God can bring our way. We will live in joy;
our days will be filled with celebration because we have seen God’s goodness.
We will minister with ease because Christ in us will desire and do the will the
will of God through us. Don't forget that Jesus Christ has gone ahead of us to make every crooked path straight; he has subjected every oppression under His authority. We are victorious in Him. E.W. Kenyon said “For you to disobey the prayer call is
for you to disobey the call of your Father.” Pray in Tongues at the least
chance you have and if you think you can sing better in tongues, go because no
word spoken inn Tongues is void of meaning. Dr. Shawn Smith said “One of the
greatest secrets of the Apostle Paul was that he prayed in tongues. It was the
reason why he knew the Gospel.” Now we got the secret of the Archetype Apostle
and we can thus follow his example by making speaking in Tongues our secret and I can
assure you, we’ll be an unstoppable generation.
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