Men always ought to pray and
not lose heart - Luke 18:1. The queen
Victoria of Scotland said that she was more afraid of
the prayer of one man of God than a thousand armies. Prayer!
Prayer! Prayer! Start your day with prayer. Be in an attitude
of prayer all day. End your day with prayer! Prayer is
the most important thing a Christian can do. Why? Because
it is only in prayer that God reveals Himself to us and
transforms us into His image. In prayer we become like
Jesus!
Pray without ceasing - 1
Thessalonians 2:20. A good friend of mine once
told me that, the shortest distance between a man and
his problems, is the distance between his knees and ground.
Heaven and all its glory is opened to us in prayer. Jesus
Himself will show up and speak with us face to face. The
battle of the world is only won in our prayer closet!
Jesus said, "But
when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray
to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees
what is done in secret, will reward you" (Matthew
6:6). Spend time with God. Just God and you.
Just sit and speak to Him with honesty and simplicity
of heart and mind, and He will always speak back to you!
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and pray so that you will not fall into
temptation.
The spirit is willing, but the body is weak.
Matthew 26:41
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In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God - John
1:1. The bible is the infallible word of God.
Every word in the Bible is truth and the truth will set
you free. Reading and meditating on the word of God daily
will transform us to be like Him. The Bible is God's love
letter to us. Read it as if God wrote it directly to you,
because He did. Every promise if for us, every word of
caution is for us, every blessing is for us, every power
is for us to have!
The words I have spoken to
you are Spirit and they are life - John 6:63.
We have to stand on the word of God or we will not stand
at all. One + one is always true. If we are sad or happy
or angry, one + one is always two. We learnt that in a
math book and we believe it. Much more than that is the
word of God! It is always true. Understating this, the
psalmist says, "How sweet are your words to my taste,
sweeter than honey to my mouth!" (Psalm 119:103).
God told Joshua, "
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth;
meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful
to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous
and successful (Joshua 1:8). Understating the utmost importance
of that, the psalmist says, "I have hidden your word
in my heart that I might not sin against you (Psalm
119:11). Make it a habit to read the Bible every
day. Ask the Holy Spirit to teach you the Bible. And the
sovereign power of God work in your life!
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is the man (whose)… delight is in
the law of the Lord, and
on His law, He meditates day and night.
Psalm 1:1, 2
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God has combined the members of the
body - 1 Corinthians 12:24. Jesus Christ
Himself formed the church body. I will build my church,
and the gates of Hades will not overcome it - Matthew
16:18. I don't now about you, but I sure would
like to be a working part of the body that Jesus calls
His bride! For where two or three come together in my
name, there am I with them - Matthew 18:20
Gotta go to church! If you
are not excited about your church, then find a church
that you will be excited to go to. But go to church! You
ask why? Cuz Jesus said so! Cuz our walk in Christ cannot
be done alone. "The Lord… sent them two by
two" (Mark 10:1). When people get
together in the name of our lord Jesus Christ and worship
Him, and pray to Him, the anointing of the Holy Spirit
is astounding! In the upper room the Holy Spirit fell
upon the desicples only when "they were all with
one accord in one place" (Acts 2:1).
Let us then be like the
apostles and the believers were in the early days of the
church as "all who believed were together, and had
all things in common" (Acts 2:44).
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therefore, you are no longer strangers and
foreigners, but fellow citizens with the
saints and members of the household of God,
having been built on the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself
being the chief cornerstone, in whom the
whole building, being fitted together, grows
into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom
you also are being built together for a
dwelling place of God in the Spirit.
Ephesians 2:19-22
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I urge you to live a life worthy of the
calling you have received (Ephesians 4:1).
Live as people who have received a new life. There has
to been a drastic change in the life we led before Christ
and after Christ. The best witness is the life we lead.
The best indication of the baptism of the Holy Spirit
is the fruit of the Spirit manifested in our lives! Therefore
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things
are passed away; behold, all things are become new - 2
Corinthians 5:17. Make it a point to live a life
as Jesus Christ lived on earth. That is our standard.
Anything less in not worth living at all!
Any body who has a born
again experience with our loving Jesus Christ, will surely
find some one to tell about the extreme happiness in their
hearts. "For out of the overflow of his heart his
mouth speaks" (Matthew 6:45). You
just can't help it! It is so precious and wonderful. Your
heart just explodes with His joy and peace. But as the
days go on, our desire to speak His message decreases.
We start right, but seldom finish right. Lets start and
finish right! Jesus told each and every single one of
us, "Go into all the world and peach the Good News
to everyone, everywhere" (Mark 16:15).
Let's do it! Let's work for the King and take the saving
grace of Jesus, the message of His love to all the people
who are perishing.
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As you go, preach this message:
‘The kingdom of heaven is near.’ Heal the sick, raise the dead,
cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons.
Freely you have received, freely give.
Matthew 10:7, 8
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