The Power of Prayer has a Three Fold Potential (3)

Prayer will personally awaken you spiritually

 

 Jude 1:20-21 “But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life.”

 

Charles Spurgeon wrote; “in the ark of salvation we find a lower, second, and third story; all are in the ark but all are not on the same story. Most Christians, as to the river of experience, are only up to the ankles; some others have waded until the stream is up to the knees; a few find it breast high; but only a few! How few find it a river to swim in, the bottom of which they cannot touch. Wise is a person who learns to pray with this prevailing power. Such a one will not only participate in changing the world, but will watch a continual change in his or her personal life.”

Spiritual growth comes through prayer as you learn to love Jesus.

Prayer has the capacity to change you, and Who of us doesn't desire a closer relationship with Christ.

 

Paul told the Philippians in 3:10 “I want to know Christ—I want to know Him.” “To know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death”

When I was young believer I didn’t get what Paul was saying in PHP 3. It seemed like way to much work. My question was, God you want me to know Christ? Your relationship with Christ has to be more than a surface relationship. When I was stalking my wife, I wanted to know her, be with her, love her, and die old with her. That is what Paul is saying here. I tell her that all the time. We need to tell Christ that all the time.

Finally, The bible tells us that you have the power and…
Capacity to change the church through prayer because of your relationship with Christ.

Circumstances change because we pray. A joyful, loving, and caring church is one which keeps each other in prayer. The opposite is an unjoyful, unloving, uncaring Christian community. When we fail to remember and support each other in prayer there are missed opportunities because we are not listening to God with an open mind and heart.

Christian community without prayer is not possible. It’s like trying to cook a good meal without the necessary equipment; or fix a car without the necessary tools and repairs—it is not possible. Prayer not only gives us the necessary resources to be the community God wants us to be and accomplish the tasks he wants us to do; prayer also changes our impossible situations into possible ones.

The bible tells us we have the Capacity to change the World through prayer

More importantly, prayer changes us to change our world! Prayer transforms our harmful attitudes and behaviors. So as Paul would say, never underestimate the power of your prayers—God works miracles through them.

When we take on the task of prayer amazing stuff happens.

Prayer: we [express our hearts to God in Prayer] by believing God for an expanding multitude of growing Christians that are learning to walk in intimacy with Him; Believing God for the impossible.

 

You are Loved!