The Power of Intercession

 

Hearing God for another is all about preparing your heart and spiritual ears to begin hearing the voice of God, who is Spirit. We are born of the Spirit and we hear His voice Spirit to spirit. Intercessory prayer is the training ground for birthing the prophetic gifts with whomever has a heart to hear God for others.

 

 

Faith and Prayer

 

Do you need a breakthrough in your life? Begin to get it by getting on your knees. You can see all that God will do for you if you’ll only pray. A lot of people become distraught in their walk because they don’t find the time to spend with the Lord. In your praying, you will receive what you ask for. But remember that God has the right to edit what you pray. He does this so we can learn how to pray in His name.

 

Many of us pray our will and not His. We don’t even take the time to find out what He would have us do. We need to find out what Holy Spirit says about our situation and walk in His will, because we know that if we are in the will of God, there will be perfect harmony in our life.

 

“And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.” (James 5:15)

 

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It is hard to believe that the war in Afghanistan has lasted longer than any war in America’s history. Yet we all seem to have lost touch with the fact that many men and women are serving and losing their lives. We must continue to keep them in our prayers along the way.

During the Bush administration the media posted the number of lives lost almost daily, seemingly with the intent of slamming the administration. However, the daily reminder of the horror our men and women faced kept most of us praying for them.

I have to admit I too had become lax in my prayers and thoughts of these courageous people until this past August, 2010. Many of you may remember Wes Arnold, my late wife’s older brother. Well, he and two of his other brothers are now in Afghanistan as contracted support for our troops. Not only have Wes, Lee and Steven signed up to serve in the cause there, Wes’s older son, Sterling, and Lee’s older son, Levi, are also serving our country’s war effort.

It has been reported that even though they are on a base that is considered to be a safe zone, they have come under mortar and rocket attack. Many troops and civilian contractors have lost their lives within the green zone. Needless to say we now PRAY daily for all who are serving in this war.

…we now PRAY daily for all who are serving in this war.

One of the CD’s we are including in our Partners’ gift is a CD of Prophetic Praise songs that Wes, Lee, Steven and Lee’s wife recorded some years back. Some of you may already have the CD. We are asking that you will keep them all, including the families state side, in your prayers.

If you already have a copy of the album, would you pass it on to someone and ask them to pray too? It is very hard on the wives and children they leave behind, as you can imagine. Wes and the boys have been instrumental in, not just physically, but spiritually helping many there, as this has become their season of ministering to all who are in harm’s way.

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What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.    James 4:1-3

When it comes to knowing or discerning people, Scripture gives us many different clues on how to read between the lines of their lives, so to speak. Just like knowing the ways of God helps us to know how He will react to certain things without being a prophet. “Thus, His ways are the same yesterday, today and forever” (Ref-Hebrews 13:8).

Just this past week, God taught me something I found very interesting. People are really more predictable than we may think, you can know what kind of person they are by the little things they say and do.

For example: you can know a lot of about a person just by the way they ask you if you want something. If a person constantly gets you something they think you need without asking, this indicates they have controlling spirit. On the other hand, if they ask you if they can get you what you say you need, it shows that they are very submissive. It also reveals that they have a compassionate heart. Someone who very seldom, if ever, asks if they can help is self-centered, caring more for themselves than others.

Someone who very seldom, if ever, asks if they can help is self-centered, caring more for themselves than others.

These are just a couple of elementary things you can find out very easily about a person. There is value in knowing your Bible and how to read between the lines before getting too involved with a potential friend or a partner in business or marriage. These are just a few things I have learned from the Holy Spirit and the Bible that I feel the need to share in this video “Because You Ask Amiss”. We would also like to ask you to please consider becoming a Family Partner with us.

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