by admin | Jun 26, 2010 | Blog, Prayer: The Church's Spiritual Engine
“You will make your prayer to Him, and He will hear you, and you will pay your vows.” Job 22:27 (Amplified) Someone once said that nothing is beyond the remit of prayer except that which falls outside the will of God. This implies that so far as we know what the will...
by admin | Jun 24, 2010 | Blog, Prayer: The Church's Spiritual Engine
“And the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite for three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.” 2 Sam.6:11 (Amp) God had just come down hard in His wrath upon the Israelites. What was their crime? They had unwittingly...
by admin | Jun 21, 2010 | Blog, Prayer: The Church's Spiritual Engine
“David said to Ahimelech, Do you have at hand a sword or spear? The king’s business required haste and I brought neither my sword nor my weapon with me.” 1 Sam.21:8 (Amplified) If, God forbid, your house were to be on fire, what would your response be? Will you ignore...
by admin | Jun 20, 2010 | Blog, Prayer: The Church's Spiritual Engine
“Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly].” 1Thess.5:17 (Amplified) Whenever the bible enjoins us to pray steadfastly or earnestly, it simply means that our prayer should be primarily characterised by staying power, by which it means that we should continue in...
by admin | Jun 19, 2010 | Blog, Prayer: The Church's Spiritual Engine
“And of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs and all their kinsmen were under their command” 1 Chr.12:32 (Amp) Have you heard of the awfully true statement that “Yesterday’s revolutionaries more often than not...
by admin | Jun 18, 2010 | Blog, Prayer: The Church's Spiritual Engine
“And when He got up from prayer, He came to the disciples and found them sleeping from grief, and He said to them, Why do you sleep? Get up and pray that you may not enter [at all] into temptation.” Luke 22:45-46 (Amplified) This particular moment in Jesus’ life was...
