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Religions > Bible |
| User: |
"ToMountZion" |
| Date: |
15 Jul 2007 08:49:43 PM |
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Prayer : Part II - Solid Food (part 1) |
I attached below the second teaching on Prayer. This teaching goes a
step further and explains even what happens in the background.
I pray you understand and keep continuation of the parts
Prayer : Part II - Solid Food (part 1)
Like I said in Spiritual Milk; Prayer is communicating with the Lord
(Father, Son and the Holy Spirit) from your heart. When man
communicates there is a format he follows. When he picks up the phone
the first thing he will say is 'Hello' and when he finishes he says
'bye'. When he writes a letter there is a format he follows which
includes a reference no., date, to, address, reference topic, matter,
signature etc.
So also do prayer and this format has been given to us by Lord Jesus
in 'Our Father'. A perfect prayer should have the following:
a) Acknowledging God,
b) Acknowledging His authority,
c) Thanking Him,
d) Praising Him,
e) Humbling ourselves before Him,
f) Asking Him for our needs according to His will for He knows
best and lastly
g) Believing that we have already received it, thank Him.
Prayers are always answered by God only if the communication is clear.
The communication gets disrupted when we do not keep His Word.
James 5:16
13Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy?
Let him sing songs of praise. 14Is any one of you sick? He should call
the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in
the name of the Lord. 15And the prayer offered in faith will make the
sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he
will be forgiven. 16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray
for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous
man is powerful and effective.
Psalm 34
15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous
and his ears are attentive to their cry;
16 the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
he delivers them from all their troubles.
18 The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
19 A righteous man may have many troubles,
but the LORD delivers him from them all;
20 he protects all his bones,
not one of them will be broken.
21 Evil will slay the wicked;
the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
22 The LORD redeems his servants;
no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him.
Like the Lord showed me since I am in the computer industry, prayer is
like a TCP/IP communication. You need to be in the same subnet mask to
communicate. (You have to be in righteous with God for God is
righteous. Psalm 118:19, 20 'Open for me the gates of righteousness; I
will enter and give thanks to the LORD. This is the gate of the LORD
through which the righteous may enter'.) The subnet mask is a narrow
subnet mask. (Matthew 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is
the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many
enter through it.") TCP/IP is not just one protocol but a bundle of
protocols that work together and they have a format too.
The communication happens like this. When a Server Host (God) is to be
accessed for data (blessings) first its record (God's will) from the
DNS Server (Word of God - Bible) is confirmed. Then the client host
(human) searches for the presences of the Server Host. Once the
presence is acknowledged it sends a request, the Server Host answers
the request and sends the data. The protocol to find the presence in
TCP/IP is the icmp (thanksgiving) protocol then comes the udp (praise)
a broadcast protocol. (Psalm 100:4 'Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name').
Even when the data is continually being sent in between the client
host keeps sending an acknowledgement request to make sure the Server
Host is present or still connected (daily prayer) and after the data
is send again the icmp protocol confirms the delivery. In case the IP
of the client host (human's spirit) is not in the same subnet mask as
the Server Host then it requires a Gateway IP to route (Christ - for
He said in John 10:9 'I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be
saved. He will come in and go out, and find pasture.' The Lord Jesus
is our eternal intercessor. He intercedes for us directly or through
His Spirit; the Holy Spirit. Since man is in sin and has not over come
it totally. It is only in the Day of the Lord that death will be
defeated and man will be totally free from sin. On the cross Jesus has
already won it for us in Spirit, we will only bring it into the
natural.) Therefore we will always need the Gateway (Christ and His
Spirit) to communicate to the Server Host.
Hebrews 7
23Now there have been many of those priests, since death prevented
them from continuing in office; 24but because Jesus lives forever, he
has a permanent priesthood. 25Therefore he is able to save completely
those who come to God through him, because he always lives to
intercede for them.
Romans 8
32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all-how
will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
34Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died-more than that, who
was raised to life-is at the right hand of God and is also interceding
for us.
Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall
divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul
unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare
the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors
Romans 8
26In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not
know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for
us with groans that words cannot express. 27And he who searches our
hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for
the saints in accordance with God's will.
We can also go via another gateway (human), which will in turn
connect, to the main Host via the main Gateway (Christ). For this the
intermediate gateway should be alive. A dead gateway will not route
the request. Even when a man or woman of God is asked to prayer or
intercede for another person he should do so along with the Lord. Do
not say 'I will prayer' but 'I will intercede with the Lord'.
1 Samuel 7:5
Then Samuel said, "Assemble all Israel at Mizpah and I will intercede
with the LORD for you."
1 Kings 13:6
Then the king said to the man of God, "Intercede with the LORD your
God and pray for me that my hand may be restored." So the man of God
interceded with the LORD, and the king's hand was restored and became
as it was before.
to be continued....................
The full teaching can be got at www.tomountzion.com
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