Friday, 15 February 2013

THE MYSTRY BEHIND "INTERCESSORY PRAYER"

Why is prayer important? / Why do we pray?

 HAVE FAITH

James 5:13-18
Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

"PRAYER" is very important, prayer is a means of communicating with God.
'A PRAYERLESS PERSON IS A POWERLESS PERSON'
Jesus christ urged us to pray always and to pray for one another
why is it important to intercede for the brethren? 
When you pray for one another, you are thinking good of them and good will folow them not evil,
Do you know that when you think evil of a person, evil is likely to follow them.. ("stay wit me") 
When god created the first man and the first woman (Adam n eve) there was no sin, all there was was good and not evil. but after the enemy corrupted man, evil now sets in.
 At the time of adam and eve, God could come fellowship with man freely in the cool of the day (Gen 3:8) without even prayer, or calling on him,
as well as there was no evil therefore Adam couldnt think evil of Eve or vise versa.
But it all changed after Lucifer came in the picture...
all sorts of evil and evil deeds came in to the picture aswel.
Now prayer became important because people stopped loving and started doing the opposite
people started to think evil of their neighbors and people no longer had interest for their creator.
Therefore intercessory prayer became important because when you intercede for the brethren, you'r somewhat thinking good of that person and good will follow that person. 
So i Urge you to Always think Good of your fellow brethren or neighbor. 
Dont think evil of Anyone, It is God that Judges.


(Zechariah 7:8-10) And the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah, saying,
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:
And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

(Zechariah 8:17) And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.
   
(Mark 11:25) And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.


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