NO MATTER WHAT YOUR PAST LOOKS LIKE, GOD IS RE-WRITING YOUR STORY! -Pastor (Mrs) Faith Oyedepo at CHoP

• Use a journal to document your specific prayer requests
• God’s additions are superior to your intercession.
• Whatever God adds to you, makes you to be above all.
• This will be a year of supernatural additions for you.

ENGAGING THE WONDERS OF SPECIFIC DEMANDS ON OUR PRAYER ALTAR
Philippians 4:6
God’s Word is very clear and this has been made clearer to us, especially this week as we began to examine this subject.
Request: talking about specifics in prayers; make your requests known unto God. Tell God exactly what you want. We’ve been told over and again especially this week that if you want your prayer to be answered then you and I must be specific. We must be clear and precise in what exactly we want from the Lord. We must move from the realm of praying generalized prayer to praying specific prayer

WHY MUST I BE SPECIFIC IN MY PRAYER?

1. It strengthens our faith. When you are specific in your request, it strengthens your faith. We’ve heard God’s servant share this testimony over and again. The first time he stood here, according to him; prayed and asked God for a thousand souls in one week. He told us how the first time he prayed for it, it looked so big but God made it happen. Subsequently after that, it has become very easy for him to go beyond that.
   What is your request in these 21 days of prayers and fasting? This is the last week. We can’t afford to stay praying generalized prayer. Time is winding up, what do you want to see happen in your life by the time this 21-day prayers and fasting is over?
   Be Specific, Be Clear about it and your faith will be strengthened in Jesus name.
2. It makes us alert to answers. When you pray specifically for something, you have something you are looking forward to, you are watching out for the answer, you are watching out for the result because you already have a goal post. When you have a goal post, then it is easy for you to identify whether you have a goal actually or not.

• From this moment, grace to be alert as we pray especially as this week winds up, I see God release it unto each one of us in Jesus name.

1. Ezra: Ezra 8:21,23

• God will hear you!!!
  How did they know that God heard them? Because they were specific. Ezra demanded divine direction through prayer and fasting; God granted him.
• You are the next person to testify.
  Many of us would recall several times, God’s servant would stand on the altar, “if you do desire a miracle marriage, write your wedding date”
  Why? be specific, that’s the message.
• I don’t know the desire of your heart this morning especially this 3rd week and last week of this year’s prayers and fasting: you and I must be specific.
• It helps us a great deal, personally when I write down the specifics, because anybody can forget anything, When you document, when you write what you want God to do for you in this area, in that area: spiritual life, relationship, family, walk with God, prayer life. Write them down.
  That’s why we’ve been told over and again: use a journal.
• No matter what the desire of your heart might be, this week is somebody’s week.

1. David: David demanded direction from the Lord, for victory over the battles around him and God granted him.

• The God who did it for David, He will settle your case too
  1 Samuel 30:6-8,10,19
• There is someone here today, you will recover all.
• No matter what you might have lost and no matter what the situation in your life might look like, this week is your week.
  Will you be specific? As you do so, the God who did it in the life of David and did it for Ezra, He will settle your case also.

Remember the testimony we heard this morning about 20 years of addiction ended one day, just by obedience to God’s Word.

• No matter what your past looks like, God is re-writing someone’s story.

We must continue to engage our territory taking God towards the actualization of minimum double the highest annual average Sunday attendance in this Church since inception this year (Deuteronomy 2:24).
When we are giving instructions to pray, be specific!
How many souls are you targeting for God this year, be specific? Then break it down into smaller units. Per month, how many are you believing God for?
This is what I have done in my own prayer this month of the year.
Every month: Lord, I believe you for A,B,C number of souls. That way, it helps to look forward to what God is able to do.

• This year, God will surprise you and your story will change for the better.
• Say with me, “I believe it. This year, I shall not be barren.”

Receive grace for obedience to begin to pray in specifics beginning from now, more than ever before.

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