Prayer the greatest outlet of Powers
There
is one inlet of power in this life-any- Body’s life-any kind of power; just one
inlet the Holy Spirit. He is power. He is in every one who opens his door to
God. He eagerly enters every open door
But with many of us while he is in, He
is not in control: in as guest; not as host. That is to say He is hindered in
His natural movement; tied up, so that He cannot do what he would.
There are Five outlets of Power
First:
Through the life, what we are
Second:
Through the lips, what we say
Third:
Through our service, what we do
Fourth:
Through our money, what we do not keep, but lose out for God.
Fifth:
Through our prayer, what we claim in Jesus Name
The greatest thing anyone can do for God
and for man is to pray, for if a man is to pray right, he must first be right
in his motives and life. The great people of the earth today are the people who
pray. I do not mean those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can
explain about prayer: but I mean those people who take time and pray. There are people that put prayer first, and other items in life’s schedule around and after
prayer.
There must be an open hand and heart and life
through which God can give what he longs to in touch with a planet.
Prayer
opens a whole planet to a man’s activities. I can as really be touching heart
for God in faraway India or china through praying than through your
personality. You can do more than pray, after you have prayed. But you cannot
do more than pray until you have prayed.
INTERCESSION IS SERVICE
It is unlike all other forms of service and
superior to them in this: that it has fewer limitations. Prayer is striking the
winning blow at the concealed enemy. Service is gathering up the results of
that blow among the men we see and touch.
The Spirit Switchboard
Just such a switch-room in the spirit realm
is one’s prayer room. Everyone who may have such a spirit switching-board in
his life. There he may go and in compliance with the law of the power used
loosen out the gracious persuasive irresistible power of God where he wills to.
Children are not allowed at the electrical switchboard, nor any unskilled hand,
for misuse means possibility of great damage to property and life. And the
spirit switchboard does not yield to the unskilled touch.
The Broad Inner Horizon
This suggest at once that the right rounded
Christian life has two sides. The outside and the inner side. To most of us the
out-side, seems greater. The living, the serving, the giving, the doing, the
absorption in life’s work, the contact with women. They seem to be the great
business of life even to those of us who thoroughly believe in the inner life
Prayer
the deciding factor in a spirit conflict
In its simplest meaning prayer has to do with
a conflict right understood it is the deciding factor in a spirit conflict. The
scene of the conflict is the earth. The purpose of the conflict is to decide
the control of the earth, and it inhabitants.
Prayer
is projecting one’s spirit personality
Now prayer is a spirit force. It has to do
wholly with spirit beings and forces. It is an insistent calming, by a man an
embodies spirit being, down on the contested earth, that the power of Jesus
victory over the great evil-spirit chieftain shall extend to particular lives
now under his control.
The
faith, the Battle- field in prayer
The greatest agency put into man’s hands is
prayer, To understand that at all fully one needs to define prayer. And to
define prayer adequately one must use the language of war. Peace language is
not equal to the situation. The earth is on a state of war. It is being hotly
besieged and so one must use war talk to grasp the fact with which prayer is
concerned, prayer from God’s side is communication between himself and his
allies in the enemy’s country.
Three form prayers
* Prayer
of communication
*Prayer
of petition
*Prayer
of intercession
The Victor’s Great plan
Now prayer is this; a man, one of the original
trustee class, who received the earth in trust from God, and who gave its
control over to Satan- stolen, sin –slimed, sin-cursed, contested earth; a man,
on the earth, with his life in full touch with the victor. Jesus is the victor,
Satan knows it, and fears him
Does prayer influence God?
This
leads to a very old question: Does prayer influence God? No question has been
discussed more, or more earnestly. Skeptical men of fine scientific training
have with great positiveness said “no”. And Christian men of scholarly training
and strong faith have with equal positiveness said “yes”. Prayer surely does
influence God; it does not influence its purpose. It does influence its action.
Why the result fail
There are three sorts of hindrance to prayer
1. The break off
connection
2. James speaks of it in
his letter,” ye have not because ye ask not”.
3. A third thing spoken
of as hindering prayers is an unforgiving spirit.
The “how” of relationship
This statement are
the most sweeping to be found anywhere in the scriptures regarding prayer.
There is no limitation as to who shall ask, nor the kind of thing to be asked
for. There are three limitations imposed: the prayer is to be through Jesus,
the person praying is to be in fullest sympathy with him; and this person is to
have faith.
The “how “of method
The first thing in
prayer is to find God’s purpose, the trend, the swing of it; the second thing
to make that purpose our prayer. We want to fine out what God is thinking, and
then to claim that shall be done.
The
trysting place
There are six
suggestion here in how to pray.
Frist- we need time for prayer, unhurried time, daily
time, time enough to forge about how much time it is
Second- we need a place for prayer.
Third- we need much emphasis to-day give the book of God
its place in prayer. Prayer is not talking to God-simply, it is listening
first, then talking.
Fourth – let the spirit teach you how to pray, the more
you pray the more you find yourself saying, “I don’t know how to pray”
Fifth - prayer must be in Jesus name.
Six- prayer must be in faith, but please note faith here
is not believing that God can, but that he will.
How to find
God’s will
We should make a
study of God’s will, we ought to seek to become skilled in knowing his will.
the more we know him the better shall we be able to read intelligently his
will.
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