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Monday, March 07, 2011

Steps to Powerful Prayer

1. Worship. Praise brings us into God's presence and forces Satan to flee. "Enter Into His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks and Praise to His name." Psalm 100:4

2. Be still and know that He is God. Psalm 46:10 Take time to clear your mind of Everything and focus on God.

3. Confess your sins and cover them with the blood of Jesus. 1 John 1:9

4. Submit to God with your whole being.
Search your heart for areas that you are still holding on to. Have you given Him everything, including your choice of career, spouse, friends, school lifestyle? Tell Him that you are holding nothing back. "Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time." 1 Peter 5:6

5. Believe that God will hear and answer.
"Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him." Hebrews 11:6

6. Do battle in the spiritual world. Pray on the spiritual armor from Ephesians 6. Take back the victory, joy and power Satan has tried to steal from you. "For Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the Authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." Ephesians 6:12

7. Listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit.
We often talk to God and don't wait for a response. Let your Father talk to you today. "No eye has seen, no ear has Heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him- But God has revealed it to us by His Spirit." 1 Corinthians 2:9, 10.

8. Ask God to tell you what to pray about.
Be willing to put your desires aside and Pray about what God brings to your mind. "I will do whatever you ask in My Name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask Me for Anything in My name, and I will do it." John 14:13, 14.

9. Join together in agreement with other believers. Pray with a prayer partner, Meeting regularly to pray and share what God is doing in your life. Commit to Pray for one another. "If two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, It will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three come Together in My name, there am I with them." Matthew 18:19, 20.

10. Keep on asking until the answer comes!
He will answer our prayers, but He works on His timetable, not ours. "Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep On seeking and you will find; keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. Matthew 7:7.

11. Praise the Lord that He has heard you and He will answer you according to His Will. "This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask According to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us-whatever We ask-we know that we have what we asked of Him. 1 John 5:14,15.

12. Act on what God has revealed to you in prayer. God will entrust you with big Things only after you have been responsible and obedient with the little things. "Do whatever He tells you." John 2:5. Call unto Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things that you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3
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I'm just a nobody, trying to tell everybody about Somebody who can save anybody. I give all honor to the Father for the privilege of being His instrument, through whom He lives and works for His glory alone. I served in the U.S. Navy for 21 years, retiring in September 2003. In my final three years, I was co-pastor at Greater New Refuge COGIC in Fallon, Nevada, under Pastor Gregory L. Brown. I supported my pastor and church by helping with a new sanctuary's construction and caring for all ministry needs while staying true to my mandate to preach the Word of God without compromise. In November 2002, I was licensed to preach and ordained in June 2003. While stationed in Virginia Beach, I served at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church for 17 years under Bishop-Elect W.D. Scott, Sr., and now I serve at Calvary Revival Church in Norfolk, VA, under Bishop B. Courtney McBath. I also earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Religion from Saint Leo University, deepening my foundation and commitment to this path of faith.

MY THEOLOGICAL TRAINING:

It brings to my face a unadulterated smile each and every occasion I am asked, “Elder Dre, What Theological Training do you have?”

My heart beams with joy at the opportunity to humbly give full glory to God as I reflect on on how the prophets, patriarchs and apostles of old would have respond: Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joshua, Gideon, King David, Elijah, Elisha, Jeremiah, John the Baptist, Matthew, Mark, Peter, James, John and the other disciples, not forgetting the Saviour Himself.

How would they have answered the question: “What theological training do you have?”

The words of the prophet Amos also came to mind: “Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:” Amos 7:14

I surely am not impliedly decrying theological preparation, education or training: I consider it essential, but not as much as some think. For the fact is, the Almighty raises up believers according to His own standards.

Educational qualifications, wealth, fame, talent, social standing, outward appearance etc. are useful; but they are secondary in His sight. Qualities like faith, obedience, holiness, humility, honesty, absolute loyalty to one’s spouse, the ability to raise one’s family to fear God and keep His commandments etc.; these are the things the Most High values.

“Man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.”

Only on the Day of Judgment will it be known how truly educated, weighty and effective I have been. That is why I have to smile when the question arise.

The vanity of the question is only matched by the foolishness of my answer.

As the wise man wrote: “Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.” Ecclesiastes 1: 2 or as the apostle Paul commented in 2 Corinthians 11:16-30 when rattling off a long list of impressive qualifications “... I speak as a fool.”

Furthermore, we have seen with our own eyes and now testify that the Father sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. All who proclaim that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God. 1 John 4:14-15 (NLT)

I am a preacher, but most of all, I proclaim that Jesus is the Savior with various applications of that truth in my everyday life. My dear friend, if you are a Christian, you are a preacher also. Whether you have been ordained or not, hired by a church or not, or ever been recognized as a preacher or not is beside the point. All who have God living in them are called to proclaim the Savior to the world. It is a Holy calling, and a demanding one. It will pull you out of your comfort zone, challenge your commitment, and help to develop you into the person God has created you to be.

John spoke as an eyewitness to Jesus' saving power. We speak as heart-witnesses; ones who have not seen Jesus with our eyes, but have experienced Him through personal transformation. I speak, and you speak, as a representative of Christ on earth. The message that we bring is simple, yet profound; that God the Father sent God the Son into the world to save those who are lost to bring them into relationship with Him. As you tell the story, and I tell the story, some will listen and receive the grace that God has sent us into the world to proclaim.

PRAYER THOUGHT: Father, what a privilege to be a spokesperson for You.

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