Bringing Heaven on Earth

The most powerful weapon in the Christian's arsenal is prayer. The most unused weapon in the Christian's arsenal is prayer. God mentioned many times in Scripture, "If my people..." God has been seeking praying people for thousands of years. Sadly though he has not found that many. But the ones who have heard the heart of God to seek His face have seen miracles sings and wonders and have been able to make history in their generations.

Why Don't people pray??? They don't understand prayer. They don't really believe that prayer really works. They don't find the time to pray. Many are the excuses, but they all boil down to one real reason. If you really believed that prayer was effective and life changing you would just do it. (Nike)

Prayer 101: When I was a young kid I learned to pray using the following model:

A - Adoration: spend 5 minutes Worshipping God, through song and declaring who He is.

C - Confession: Spend some time confessing your sins to Him (I John 1:9)

T - Thanksgiving: Spend some time thanking Him for all the things you have and thank Him for Jesus and His sacrifice on the cross

S - Supplication: Make your needs known to Him. Pray for your family, loved ones, your neighborhood, your region, state, nations and world.

Use this model to get you started. Spend about 5 minutes on each section and earnestly seek out after God's heart on these matters.

3 things:

Real Belief is the motivation of prayer: If you really believe that God can do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or think then you WILL pray. You won;t have to be forced to do it. You will want to do it because you really believe that the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Passion is the fire of prayer: Your passion for answered prayer will push you to pray determined, desperate prayers. You will press in until you feel a release or breakthrough in your prayers. In Mathew 7:7 Jesus tells us to SEEK, KNOCK, and ASK. The original Greek used in that scripture literally states" seek and keep on seeking, ask and keep on asking, knock and keep on knocking. It speaks of a cry to God and a determination to get what you are praying for.

Desire is the fuel of prayer: Look at I Samuel 1 (Hannah's prayer) Hannah serves as an example of a desperate prayer that moves the Hand of God.

I promise you If you pray and seek God you will get hooked. God is waiting for you to pray!!! The people in your school, job, neighborhood, city, state, nation, and world are waiting for your prayers!!!

" If My people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and will heal their land." II Chronicles 7:14

Until ALL have heard,

Pastor Oliver