- Your News of answered prayers will arrive, they will start coming one after the other in the name of Jesus Christ.
- God does not respond to ambiguities in prayers but to specifics.
- Be specific (on personal or Kingdom issues) in the remaining days of this fast.
The prayer of faith is the prayer that works. The essence of prayer is to get results (James 1:5-7). Every response to our prayer delivers on Faith.
No Faith: No Answer.
One can cry from now till tomorrow; it’s to everyone not according to his cry, but according to his faith (Matthew 9:29).
The prayer of faith is the prayer that works!
You believe first before you have (Mark 11:24).
You don’t believe, you can’t have.
FAITH IS ENGAGING THE INTEGRITY OF THE WORD ON THE ALTAR OF PRAYER
Our faith must be built on the integrity of His Word before our prayers can be effectual.
Why? Prayer is putting God in remembrance of His Word. Even you don’t believe in the validity of His Word, then what are you reminding Him of? So faith in the integrity of the Word is what makes prayer work. You don’t believe in the integrity of the Word, your prayer is going nowhere (Isaiah 43:26).
We talk about faith in the integrity of God, but now we are talking about faith in the integrity of the Word: our resource in prayer (Titus 1:2). That’s what we engage, to secure Heaven’s attention which will result in His intervention (1 John 5:14-15). Our faith in the integrity of the Word is critical to receiving answers to our prayers. That’s God putting a seal on the integrity of His Word (Isaiah 55:10, Psalm 89:34, Psalm 119:89). God does not respond to our feelings, emotions; He responds to His will, the content of His will in our prayers. If we don’t believe in the validity of that will, then our prayer holds no water (Matthew 24:35).
How do we access the will of God which is our principal resource in prayers? The will of God is our principal resource in prayers; that’s what gives meaning to our communication on the altar of prayers.
When you say, “it is written”, the telephone on God’s table rings: someone is calling me there (John 1:1).
It is written: You are calling God; that’s His hotline.
Among others, prayers and fasting is a platform for accessing outbreak of revelation. I have no doubt that many of us are just swimming in some realms of revelation right now since this fast began. Am I talking? Is somebody experiencing some outpouring of revelation, some outbreak of revelation? That’s what happens (Isaiah 58:6, 😎. There is always an outbreak of revelation in the time of prayers and fasting, particularly when you have clearly defined objectives for Prayer Sessions: it is clear, it is clean and you are all out for it.
The cheapest way to appreciate any truth is to identify examples.
Paul was a man of abundance of revelations (2 Corinthians 12:7). Then Peter talks of the depth of revelation that was given to Paul (2 Peter 3:15). But Paul was a man given to prayers and fasting (2 Corinthians 6:5, 2 Corinthians 11:27). We flow in realms of revelations through the altar of prayers and fasting.
It’s very clean: there are many people here that have encountered light during our various fasting episodes including the Spiritual Week of Emphasis and much more abundantly during the 21 days of Prayers and Fasting.
Do I have a witness in the house? Somethings just come your way like and you know this is light from Heaven. That is one of the great offers from the altar of prayer and fasting. When your light comes, it shows: Arise, shine because your light is come (Isaiah 60:1).
“And the glory”: it always shows when your light comes.
- From now, only the glory of the Lord will be seen upon your life.
- You will never see shame anymore forever and forever.
We access revelation on the altar of prayer and that’s further accelerated by fasting (Psalm 119:18).
Show me Lord why this is not the way it should be. What is going on? Something must be wrong but never with you; with me of course, for lack of adequate insight or lack of insight at all to what I need to do.
We saw a mystery in Jude verse 20: how does that happen? You pray in the Spirit in your search for light. He said, “I speak in tongues more than ye all”, but he would rather speak in tongues in prayers than come to speak in tongues in the Church because they can’t understand him (1 Corinthians 14:14-15, 1 Corinthians 14:18). He (Paul) was a man addicted to ministering to the Lord, praying in tongues. We saw him being flooded by revelation. We engage our spirit in our search for light on issues of concern.
Isaiah 26:9
“Why is this Church not growing?” (speaking in tongues) I can’t tell, I don’t know but you know.
God: Okay, stand up and follow Me.
Diverse encounters in prayers are stirred most of the times by praying in the Spirit. You are searching, you are not just trying to find what to say, you are in search of light in that area of concern.
You carry a project on your heart and you are communicating in the Spirit on your confidential, private line with your Heavenly Father and then He shows up. When I return with the light, my mockers will know where I am coming from (Isaiah 26:9, Psalm 23:5). That’s how praying in the Spirit builds our faith. It gives you and me access to light which stirs faith in us to experience the hand of God.
Church growth answers to faith-filled demands on the altar of prayer. We are making faith-filled demands on the altar of prayer.
What is in it for me?
- It wipes away shame and reproach from your life because you are honouring your Father with your addiction to praying for the advancement of His Kingdom: you’ll run into favour and you’ll never run favour dry in life.
- You’ll enjoy health and vitality because you are serving the Lord.
- All kinds of benefits.
Ask God for grace to keep engaging faith in the integrity of the Word in our prayers, knowing that prayer is our principal resource on the Prayer Altar. That’s the one that secures for us His attention. He can’t hear us until we pray according to His will. There must be faith in the integrity of His Word for our prayer to make meaning, for our prayers to command results.
You have just prayed for fire on your prayer altar, you should demonstrate it my friend: This is the 1st day of the 4th segment of our 3-day segment in this fast.
“Lord, ignite my prayer life to another level, let this 4th segment be worth much more than the 1st 3 segments. Help me to engage faith in the integrity of who You are, in the integrity of Your Word.”
This must not be a religious rite; it must be a Mountain of Transfiguration for you.
“Lord make the next 3 days a Mountain of Transfiguration for me. Lord, grant me access to new realms of revelations, grant me access to new realms of encounters with you.”
One can cry from now till tomorrow and God says, “I can’t tell what you are saying, what exactly do you want?”
Your prayer targets must be well defined. When I told the Lord that I desire in terms of people into the Kingdom this year and I saw, “as you don’t know how bones develop in the womb of a woman with child, so you don’t know the ways of the Lord who does all things”: so He knows how to do it.
One month, last year, my team had 17,000 people into the Kingdom, in a month.
Define your target:
“Oh Lord, give me souls” – that’s nonsense prayers, it doesn’t make any sense. 2 is souls.
“I am leading a cell, Jesus, I’ve been hearing replication, what’s wrong with me? I want this Cell to replicate in the next 3 month.”
What do you need? 10 adults. Carry your hunter’s bag and go after them on the streets, tell them:
“Hello, I came to see you this morning. I’ve been seeing you passing up and down, here in this neighbourhood and I owe you this responsibility. I just love you (if you truly do).”
NOT
“Oh Lord, grow this cell” – what is the meaning of that? When He (God) adds one too, it is also growth, can you replicate with one?
“Oh Lord, help me!”
God: to do what? To wear your cloth for you or prepare food for you.
God does not respond to ambiguities, but to specifics. Let’s make the next 3 days, whether on personal issues or Kingdom issues, let’s define our objectives in clearest terms.
I just there one day and I said, “Jesus, give me a thousand souls”: it was too big when compared with where I am coming from but I trusted God for it and He did it. it now became a natural way of doing things. Last year alone, we had 17,000 in one week. Out of that, we could not locate only 170 of them i.e. instead of 11 digits, we put 10 digits or 8 digits (phone numbers), we put women and all that stuff.
God will surprise you this year. The good news is, your good land will not leave without evidence.
- You will have full scale evidence of having entered your promised Land this year.
- Let’s go specific.
- 1st Day: what you make with the first matters a lot.
- Receive grace to maximise this season in the name of Jesus. The way is clear, no issues, no concerns, your going out is safe, your coming back is safe.
- No distractions whatsoever. No distractions in your home, no distractions on your job.
- Peace all around you.
- I hope you are still on with the Ministration of the Blood of Sprinkling. Put your faith on it and then expect God to keep your area safe from any demonic intrusion, in the name of Jesus.
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