Day 3, evening session
- Making prayers that are not word-based, is like shooting a gun without bullets. Prayer in itself is not powerful. The word is the bullet, the power is in the word.
- In the spiritual dimension, the only recognized algorithms are word-based.
*What increases the power of prayer is not volume, what increases the power of prayer is the potency of the word-component.
Let us take this prayer. Say, my Father, my Father, give me a testimony that will ridicule financial hardship. When you buy a house, they say, ‘But things are very tough in Nigeria, you will reply, ‘That’s why He gave me a testimony that ridicules financial hardship’.
Most Christians pray with a sin-based consciousness. They are like, ‘God, pity me, what have I not done?’. Nobody is worth answered prayers and you need to know if, the reason why anybody can expect answered prayers is based on the finished work of Christ on the cross, it’s a work that cannot be improved upon, that is why He told us to pray in the name of Jesus, it means that based upon the finished work of Christ,that if you cannot reject Christ, you cannot reject me. You know why I’m saying this, one of the early morning prayers that Pastor Yemi spoke about, as I finished ministering, I saw a vision and said, ‘There’s a lady, you are trying to have a child, for many years, you’ve not had a child, but the Spirit of God tells me that the reason you’ve not had a child is because you think that God is working against you having a child, because you did an abortion’. This was what God told me at the moment, God does not punish forgiven sin. ChurchGist. Ifthe sin is punished, it can’t be forgiven. If it’s forgiven, it can’t be punished. I told the lady that, the lady chatted me and said thank you so much. 3 months she sent a message back, she said, ‘I’m pregnant’. All she had to change was praying from a sin-consciousness to praying as a son, to praying as a child of God.
Listen, we are not beggars in this kingdom, the Bible says, He has made us kings and princes in Christ Jesus. He says, anywhere the word of a king is, there is power. God will punish the devil and his grandmother. Have faith in your prayer.
Guides to Effective Prayer
Mark 11: 24
Effective prayer is specific about the outcome: This is the most difficult thing I’ve seen among Christians, Christians don’t pray about outcome, when you say ‘Pray, they say ‘Father look at me?’. Is that the outcome you want? He says, whatsoever thing you desire, is it ‘Look at me’ you desire? A lady came to me, we were having a conversation, she said ‘I’ve been trying to get pregant, I’ve lost pregnancy 3 times’. I said, maybe the problem is that you are praying to get pregnant and because God is faithful, He has been getting you pregnant, but after the pregnancy, what else? I said, maybe change the prayer, ‘Lord, I want to have a baby. Be that specific. ChurchGist. Someone is saying ‘Father, Father, bless me in this real estate business’. You were making 100 million a year, the year you were praying for blessing, you moved from 100 to 105, you now say, ‘God, what did you do?’. Did you specify what you wanted? You moved from 100 to 105, were you not blessed? You better be careful with what you are accusing God of.
This Sister says, ‘Father, just give me a man to marry, then that guy showed up’. You say, ‘Father, what is this?’, but you said give me a man, was it a woman that showed upstairs? He says whatsoever you desire. I want my church to grow. By how much? The reason people are not specific in prayers is that they are praying out of fear, they are afraid if they get specific, there will be disappointment. And any prayer predicated on fear itself has failed because in the Kindom, everything works by faith. so? The problem with not being specific is this, when God answers you, because you were not specific, you will not even recognise it. So,, be specific about your desire. I want to have a 5-bedroom house in this part of town, that’s what I desire.
Angels and demons work by your words so when you say, Father bless me, the angel moves and he has to use his discretion to know what kind of blessing you are talking about, because you didn’t specify. Spiritual agents, whether angelic or demonic, are governed by words. What do you desire in this conference? That God will bless me. What do you desire? ChurchGist. God will recharge me. Recharge What? If you are not careful, He will give you recharge card, are you not recharged.
Believe: Your prayer will never work, if it walks against your belief. It’s belief system. There are many people praying but they are believing God for something else. How do I know? James 1: 5-7. Did you notice it didn’t say God will not give him? It says, he will not receive, because everytime you pray, God is always giving but when you are unbelieving, you will not be positioned to receive. You receive by believing. Kenneth Hagin said ‘Believing is receiving, receiving is believing’.
One of the things I told my members was this, when I was praying for those that were single, I said, I want to challenge you, go and look for a wedding gown, go to a store and test it out, put it on. And one lady said, ‘Nobody has gotten married in my family, as I went to the store to obey the prophetic instruction, as I tried to put it on, I began to cry. It occurred to me that mentally, I hadn’t seen a marriage before’, yet, she had been praying. You are the one believing God for Prosperity, yet you don’t have a bank account. Your believe shows in what you have.
Many are saying, ‘Father, Father, I receive my wife’s. After the service, don’t receive alone, move to the choir side, look at them, anyone that has no ring, ‘Sister, can I speak to you’. The reason you don’t move is because you think, nobody is interested in me, though you are praying. How is your thinking, limiting your prayer? ChurchGist. Itis your thinking that magnifies or reduces the size of the issue, and your thinking puts a cap on your prayers.
Your Prayers should be Word-Based: There’s a lot of emotional prayers but true prayers that work are word-based. I’m going to say something now that can shake religion and shake traditions. I am a prayer guide, but I don’t belive prayer is the master key. There is nowhere in the entire Bible that says prayer is powerful. In fact, in the weapons of our Warfare, there is no weapon called prayer. Heresy, I’m moving you from religion to christianity. So what does prayer do? James 5:6, Prayer makes power available. The power is in the word, what prayer does is to extract the power from the word and makes it available.
So, prayer is like you take a gun, the word is the bullet. The reason people pray and not see result is this, they take ordinary gun without bullet. They say, ‘Nobody is dying’ It’s because you are spraying emptily, you need to load the gun? How do you load the gun? You load it with the word of God. What is powerful? The Bible says the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword… This is the reason you have so many people pray and have no result, because it is empty gun they are shooting. I’m believing for a child. What scripture are you standing on?. I’m just believing o.
Do you know that Hannah went to the temple every year praying for a child, the year her prayers got answered was the year the prophet released a word, that was what was different. The prophet said to Hannah,’May the Lord grant you your petition’. As he said so, Hannah took the bullet, put it inside the gun, as she shot it, Samuel came out. It is time to start praying very intentional word-based prayers. Prayer is asking God to do what He has said He will do. I can’t just go and meet Pastor Bimbo and say ‘The one million?’ She would say ‘Which one million?’ but if she had promised to give me one million, I can go to her and ask for it, then she would give it to me.
Look at what the Bible says in Ephesians 6, when he listed all the armours and then said ‘with prayer’. It means all these armours are deployed through prayers. It breaks my heart because most of the people that pray are genuine and honest but to get them to sit down and get revelation concerning their prayers, many of them are not willing, so they jump from one ministry to another ministry. They are looking for a manof God meanwhile all the power you need is in the word. That’s why 1John 5 says, if we ask according to His will, we know He hears us. In the spiritual dimension, the only recognized algorithm are word-based, emotions are algorithms, but they are not recognised in the spirit realm, because God is a spirit, He only relates to spiritual elements.
When I pray and pray and nothing happens, I stop praying, I don’t even start fasting, I stop praying, I go back to the word, I go and load up first. In fact, that’s when I fast, I fast so that I can see in the word then I come word-drunk. ChurchGist. What increases the power of prayer is not volume, what increases the power of prayer is the potency of the word-component. If the salt is not salty, its not salt, if the prayer is not word-based, it’s not prayer.
The will is a document anybody that died, left. Didn’t your father leave a will? You don’t pray that, ‘Father, who shoulf take this house?” You look for the book. When He died, he gave us a book called New Testament, look at it. They told one of our leaders, they said he had low sperms count. I said, ‘You cannot! You are complete in Christ. God does not manufacture things that have defects’.
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