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OCTOBER 6- 2013: Becoming a Prayer Warrior
An Overview:
- Learning to Pray alone with God
- Pray for the Church
- Pray for the Nation
Learning to Pray:
1. Jesus gave his first hour of the day to pray and
spend time with his heavenly father, take time; it’s like a tithe you give. A
tithe of time. Withholding tithe is like robbing from the father who gave it to
you.
2. So how should you pray?
Ezekiel 3:24
Then the Spirit of the Lord came
into me. He raised me to my feet. He said to me, “Go, son of man. Shut
yourself inside your house.
Matthew 6:6 when you pray, go into your room.
Close the door and pray to your Father, who can’t be seen. He will
reward you. Your Father sees what is done secretly
Close the door; don't let anything or anyone
disturb you when you are with your father.
3. What happens when you pray like that?
Ezekiel 3:22 the strong hand of the Lord was on me. He said, “Get up. Go
out to the flatlands. I will speak to you there.”
Ezekiel 8:1 It was the sixth year since King
Jehoiachin had been brought to Babylon as a prisoner. On the fifth day of the
sixth month, I was sitting in my house. The elders of Judah were sitting there
with me. The Lord and King put his
powerful hand on me there.
Don't expect some great pastor or preacher to place
their hand on you for a miracle, God touches you with his powerful hand when
you pray to him earnestly. Expect God's hand not a human's hand.
Ezekiel 3:23 So I got up and went out to the
flatlands. The glory of the Lord
was standing there. It was just like the glory I had seen by the Kebar River.
So I fell with my face toward the ground.
Ezekiel 3:26- I will make your tongue
stick to the roof of your mouth. Then you will be silent. You will not be
able to correct them. They always refuse to obey me.
Don't keep talking to God about all your problems
when you pray, Jesus says do not pray like how ungodly people does, they
pretend. Be quiet allow God to talk too.
Ezekiel 3:27 But later I will speak to you.
I will open your mouth. Then you will tell them, ‘Here is what the Lord and King says.’ Those who listen
will listen. And those who refuse to listen will refuse. They always refuse to
obey me.
A sum up of how you should learn to pray:
1. Wait upon the Lord. Close door concentrate
on heavenly things, forget the world and wait.
2. You must be quiet before God
3. Be patient before God until he speaks to
you
4. Listen to god's when he speaks to you
Spend at least one hour every day to your heavenly
father. That one hour of your day will be the most useful and peaceful moment.
Praying for the Church and as a Church
Here
Jerusalem is the Church.
Here God says how he wants the church to be, Pray
for everything God points out, since you are a church, clean yourself and pray
for a transformation. Read to know what happens when Church transforms.
Isaiah
62
1. The
Lord says, “For the good of
Zion I will not keep silent. For Jerusalem’s benefit I will not remain
quiet. I will not keep silent until its people’s godliness shines like
the sunrise, I will not remain quiet until they are saved and shine like a
blazing torch.
2 Jerusalem,
the nations will see that I have made everything right for you. All of their
kings will see your glory. You will be called by a new name. I myself will
give it to you.
3 You will be like a glorious crown in my strong hand.
You will be like a royal crown in my powerful hand.
4 People will not call you Deserted anymore. They will no
longer name your land Empty. Instead, you will be called The One the Lord Delights In. Your land will be
named The Married One. I will take delight in you. And your land will be like a
bride.
5 As a young man gets married to a young woman, your people
will marry you. As a groom
is happy with his bride, I will be full of joy
over you.”
How should you pray for the Church?
6 Jerusalem,
I have stationed guards on your walls. They must never be silent day or
night. You who call out to the Lord
must not give yourselves any rest.
7 And don’t give him any rest until he makes Jerusalem
secure. Don’t give him any peace until people all over the earth praise
that city.
Praying for the Nation:
God wants to destroy the Nations because he wants
to cleanse it. His wrath has fallen on every evil nation. Doesn't this city
which Ezekiel talks about sounds more like our country?
Ezekiel 22:3 Tell them, ‘The Lord and King says, “Your city brings
death on itself. You spill blood inside its walls. You pollute yourselves by
making statues of gods.
Ezekiel 22:24 Son of man, speak to the land. Tell
it, ‘You have not had any rain or showers. That is because I am angry with
you.’
Since God is angry, he is going to destroy it
anyway, then why should we pray? Because God also says,
Ezekiel 22:30 I looked for a man among them who
would stand up for Jerusalem. I tried to find someone who would pray to
me for the land. Then I would not have to destroy it. But I could not find
anyone who would pray for it.
Now
that you have learned a lot from the word of God, learn to put it into
action,
James 1:22-25
Don’t just listen to the word. You fool yourselves
if you do that. You must do what it says. Suppose you listen to the word but
don’t do what it says. Then you are like a man who looks at his face in a
mirror. After looking at himself, he leaves. Right away he forgets what he
looks like. But suppose you take a good look at the perfect law that
gives freedom. You keep looking at it. You don’t forget what you’ve heard, but
you do what the law says. Then you will be blessed in what you do.
Sermon given by Pastor.D.Mohan
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