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Tag: #prayer

  • On my knees

    On my knees is when(where) I’m found stronger
    On my knees
    I learn that the battle belongs to Jesus
    I learn that victory belongs to Jesus
    I learn that my Redeemer lives
    I learn I’m more than a conqueror
    I learn that joy comes in the morning

    I learn that He leads me through triumphal procession in Jesus

    I learn that I’m no longer salve to sin

    I learn that I’m a child of God

    I learn that no weapon formed against me shall prosper

    I learn that there is freedom in surrender

    On my knees I find myself in His embrace surrounded by love

    On my knees is my strongest position of defense & offense.

  • Prayers that move God

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    “It’s been said that faith may move mountains, but prayer moves God”- Joni Eareckson Tada

    Desperate prayers

    We live in desperate times and desperate times need desperate prayers. One classical example of heights defying desperation to see God move is seen in the gospels in the story of 4 friends who lower a crippled man from a hole-in-the-roof in front of Jesus in a room flooded with people that they couldn’t enter. Sure enough this desperate attempt to reach him moved Jesus who honored their faith. He still honors spiritual desperadoes. Matthew 5 says that blessed are we when we are at the end of our rope, with less of us there is more for God and His rule.

    Bold prayers

    Impossibility and scarcity don’t figure in God’s dictionary, abundance and omnipotence define Him. He specializes in the impossible, especially when we feel out of our league, that’s His league and the field is set for Him to move. Bold prayers honor God because they honor His omnipotence and highlight our dependence on Him.

    “When logic is screaming ‘no’, faith is silently whispering ‘yes’. Nothing honors God more than a big dream that is way beyond our ability to accomplish. Why? Because there’s no way we can take credit for it. And nothing is better for our spiritual development than a big dream because it keeps us on our knees in raw dependence on God.” – Mark Batterson The Circle Maker  

     United prayers

    Quoting Jesus in Matthew 18, “When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action.”

    Few things bring more joy to a father’s heart than to see his children play and grow together in harmony. Father in heaven is moved when His children pray together, couples kneel together, and unity in prayer is an image of the unity in the trinity. United, harmonized prayers make way for the supernatural move of God. When we are united in prayer, we are in essence fulfilling the prayer of Jesus in John 17, “I pray for them all to be joined together as one even as you and I, Father, are joined together as one. I pray for them to become one with us so that the world will recognize that you sent me.”

    Persistent prayers

    Jesus shared the story of a persistent widow in the gospel of Luke. This lady was fighting her battle for justice and because of her persistent knocking on the unjust judge’s doors; he relented and granted her justice. Her determination and relentlessness make her the epitome of persistence. Perseverance and persistence quotient (PQ) was what Paul meant when he encouraged us to pray without ceasing. Hallmark of a persistent pray-er is to refuse to be quite or to quit.

     

    Desperate, bold, united and persistent prayers move you to move the God who honors your prayers.