11-29-2018, 10:21 PM
LIVING WATER DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
Thursday, November 29, 2018
PREVAILING PRAYER
READ: James 5:13-18
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? 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:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
MEMORISE: And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit (James 5:18)
EXPOSITION
Prayer is talking to God, and God also talking back to us. It goes beyond closing eyes, kneeling down, mountaineering and other spiritual rituals we put in prayer. It is an art and act. Though it is a noun, yet it is more of a verb (an action word) than a naming word. Somebody says: “While our preaching affects the pew; our prayers affects God,” How? Our prayers move God, if they are rightly channeled by right persons (Jas. 5:16b).
Prayer should be part and parcel of every Christian. This is because it builds and cements or reinforces our relationship with God.
Let us see 7 things that prayer does:
1. Prayer moves mountains Lk. 6?:12; Mk 11:24;
2. Prayer changes situations Acts 12:1-7;
3. Prayer moves the hand of God James 5:17;
4. Prayer solves problems James 5:15;
5. Prayer makes the impossible possible Mt. 17:21;
6. Prayer gives rest to the mind Mt 26:41
7. Prayer breaks iron bars Acts 12:1-7.
It is because prayer is answered that makes people to pray (1 Jhn 5:14).
Prayer, when said with godly motive and by the right person, is answered timely. You must persist to prevail in prayers. Jacob is a classic example. He wrestled in prayer and prevailed. The spiritual battle of life is won or lost in our prayers.
Some play while they should pray. Why won’t such turn prey for devil? Elijah was said to be a man of like passion, but are you like him in prayer? When answers seem not forthcoming, don’t stop praying, because when you stop praying you start sinning. You can only stop sinning when you start praying the way Christ wants it. May your prayer life be energized.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord, teach me how to pray prevailing prayers.
2. Practical: Pray to God regarding something
specific, and exercise true faith to receive it.
3. Ask God to restore the spirit of right praying in our churches, so that the godly legacies we have received would not become history.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Ezekiel 32-33
Thursday, November 29, 2018
PREVAILING PRAYER
READ: James 5:13-18
13 Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 Is any sick among you? 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:
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
MEMORISE: And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit (James 5:18)
EXPOSITION
Prayer is talking to God, and God also talking back to us. It goes beyond closing eyes, kneeling down, mountaineering and other spiritual rituals we put in prayer. It is an art and act. Though it is a noun, yet it is more of a verb (an action word) than a naming word. Somebody says: “While our preaching affects the pew; our prayers affects God,” How? Our prayers move God, if they are rightly channeled by right persons (Jas. 5:16b).
Prayer should be part and parcel of every Christian. This is because it builds and cements or reinforces our relationship with God.
Let us see 7 things that prayer does:
1. Prayer moves mountains Lk. 6?:12; Mk 11:24;
2. Prayer changes situations Acts 12:1-7;
3. Prayer moves the hand of God James 5:17;
4. Prayer solves problems James 5:15;
5. Prayer makes the impossible possible Mt. 17:21;
6. Prayer gives rest to the mind Mt 26:41
7. Prayer breaks iron bars Acts 12:1-7.
It is because prayer is answered that makes people to pray (1 Jhn 5:14).
Prayer, when said with godly motive and by the right person, is answered timely. You must persist to prevail in prayers. Jacob is a classic example. He wrestled in prayer and prevailed. The spiritual battle of life is won or lost in our prayers.
Some play while they should pray. Why won’t such turn prey for devil? Elijah was said to be a man of like passion, but are you like him in prayer? When answers seem not forthcoming, don’t stop praying, because when you stop praying you start sinning. You can only stop sinning when you start praying the way Christ wants it. May your prayer life be energized.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Lord, teach me how to pray prevailing prayers.
2. Practical: Pray to God regarding something
specific, and exercise true faith to receive it.
3. Ask God to restore the spirit of right praying in our churches, so that the godly legacies we have received would not become history.
EXTRA READING FOR TODAY: Ezekiel 32-33