Be Specific In Prayer

Recently I have really been studying prayer and faith. Luke 11:1-13 talks about prayer and how to pray. Verse 9-10 says: 

⁹ And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

¹⁰ For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

This verse tells me that God is willing and able to answer prayers when we ask. Then Jesus goes on to say: 

¹¹ If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

¹² Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

¹³ If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

This passage is assurance that God is more than willing to meet our spiritual and material needs. One thing that the God has been challenging me with recently is to be specific with my prayers. He give you what you ask for if it is according to His will and if you are not asking to consume it upon your own lusts (James 4:1-4). When one prays a general prayer it is mostly because of unbelief. We don’t want to ask God for specifics because in the back of our minds we think “Well I might not get what I pray for.”. 

I love Luke 11:11-12 because Jesus is telling us that whatever we ask He WILL give it to us. If we ask to have an opportunity to witness to 5 people tomorrow He will give us those 5 opportunities, not 1 or 3 but what we ask for! James 5:16 tells us that the fervent, EFFECTIVE prayers of a righteous man avails much. 

So I encourage you to study prayer out for yourself, it’s a much larger topic than what I am covering, but here are some points that you can apply in your prayer life today.

• Have faith in God to provide your needs
• Don’t be general about your prayer, be specific and watch God provide
• Believe ONLY don’t let doubt tell you God doesn't hear or answer.
• Meditate on God’s Word to build your faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God (Romans 10:17)

 

Inquire in His Temple

Luke Mosier is speaking - Discipleship
Why do we go in the presence of the Lord?


Inquire in His temple.....

Everyday You Are Faced With Choices

Who Are You Gonna Call (Upon)?

          Everyday you are faced with choices that you have to make. They can be as simple as - what am I going to wear, eat, or do today or as complex as - should I marry this person, take this job or that one, etc. But did you realize that you make a lot of choices you seem unaware of? You will make choices that determine your day, your week or even the rest of your life, as well as choices that determine how you handle situations and crisis in your life.

          Everyday you make a choice to submit to either God or the devil. I bet you didn't see that one coming! J More times than not, without even realizing it, you submit to the devil and his works of darkness.

“What”?!! you say, “But I’m a Christian and I go to church every time the doors are open! I work at the church, I volunteer, for heaven’s sake I teach Children’s church! How can you say such a thing”?!!

Very easily…do you want to know how? By listening to what comes out of your mouth between the “Praise the Lord!” and “Hallelujah’s!”.

You see…if what comes out of your mouth is contrary to the Word of God and what He says about your situation, then you are bringing yourself into submission to satan and allowing the works of darkness to operate in your life.

What you need to do is keep your mouth SHUT until you have heard from God about anything - from how your day should be ordered to what He wants you to speak over your body when symptoms of sickness try to come against you, to what you should say to the person that is right in front of you yelling at you for whatever reason, etc.

Every night you need to seek the Lord and inquire in His temple for the next day. Ask Him to show you how He wants you to handle what may come the next day or in the weeks to come. Ask Him to let you hear what He would have you to speak over people or situations that would arise. Ask Him to prepare you and equip you so that you will not fall prey to the tactics the enemy of your soul will present to you that day. 

Read in John 5:19, 30 about what Jesus did. Something a dear friend once said to us has impacted us greatly. He said “Jesus prayed and sought the Father at night and commanded (or carried out what He saw and heard) during the day”.

God wants you to be prepared as a good soldier to fight the good fight of faith. Declare with your mouth that which brings life to your body, to your family – those you love, to your finances, to your job, to those around you.

How can you prosper in ALL things if you are constantly speaking death to those you love, speaking that you feel sick and agreeing with the symptoms, complaining about work and the people there, etc.

James 3:3-18 talks about the tongue and how it affects your life and the lives of those around us.

Bring your tongue and every part of your being into submission to God. Resist agreeing with satan on ANY level and he must flee. Draw near to God every day and He will draw near to you so that you can be a BLESSING everywhere you go and to whomever you meet!         

(James 4:7-8)

So Who are YOU gonna call upon today?

   

                                         

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