Prayer Family/team |
| Posted by Bill Orf (billorf) on Oct 19 2007 at 9:53 AM |
Prayer Family/team. Before the World Finals begin, I want us to reconsider the importance of prayer and why I depend so much on your faithful service. We are heading into what I perceive as the most fruitful time of harvesting for the Kingdom. We have a lot of activities planned but without the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit we are just a bunch of do-gooders. The world has a lot of religious people doing their religious duties. Some are doing great things for the kingdom; some are doing nothing but staying busy and looking religious. Our desire is to see the people we encounter to experience the same saving power of Jesus Christ that we have. This will not happen just because we do good things in the name of Jesus. So this leaves us desperate. We only desire to do and say those things that we see the Father doing. If we do, these people can gain a new nature. They will become sons and daughters of God and receive the power of the Spirit to learn to love at a supernatural capacity. This is our cry. Help us Father!
Please consider this devotional from Oswald Chambers
"And greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father." John 14:12
Prayer does not fit us for the greater works; prayer is the greater work. We think of prayer as a common-sense exercise of our higher powers in order to prepare us for God's work. In the teaching of Jesus Christ prayer is the working of the miracle of Redemption in me which produces the miracle of Redemption in others by the power of God. The way fruit remains is by prayer, but remember it is prayer based on the agony of Redemption, not on my agony. Only a child gets prayer answered; a wise man does not.
Prayer is the battle; it is a matter of indifference where you are. Whichever way God engineers circumstances, the duty is to pray. Never allow the thought - "I am of no use where I am;" because you certainly can be of no use where you are not. Wherever God has dumped you down in circumstances pray, ejaculate to Him all the time. "Whatsoever ye ask in My name, that will I do." We won't pray unless we get thrills, that is the intensest form of spiritual selfishness. We have to labour along the line of God's direction, and He says pray. "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that He will send forth labourers into His harvest."
There is nothing thrilling about a labouring man's work, but it is the labouring man who makes the conceptions of the genius possible; and it is the labouring saint who makes the conceptions of his Master possible. You labour at prayer and results happen all the time from His standpoint. What an astonishment it will be to find, when the veil is lifted, the souls that have been reaped by you, simply because you had been in the habit of taking your orders from Jesus Christ.
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