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James 5.16-18
James 5.16-18 A man can do Our daily more in 4 hours, prayers, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
James 5.16-18 A man can do Our daily more in 4 hours, prayers, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
James 5.16-18 A man can do Our daily more in 4 hours, prayers, lessen after investing 1 our daily in prayer, than 5 worries hours without praying. Dr Cyril J Barber Jorge Muller pray without ceasing (I Thes
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“Our daily prayers, lessen
- ur daily
worries” Dr Cyril J Barber
✓ “…pray without ceasing” (I Thes 5.17) ✓ “…our Father…”(Mathew 6.9-13)
“A man can do more in 4 hours, after investing 1 in prayer, than 5 hours without praying”. Jorge Muller
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“When we act, we reap the fruit
- f our work.
When we pray, we reap the fruits of God’s work” Max Lucado “Prayer is a powerful tool, not to have men’s will done in heaven, but to have the will of God done on earth”. Robert Law
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41 Now Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat
and drink; for there is the sound of the roar of a heavy shower.” 42 So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he crouched down
- n the earth and put his face between his
- knees. 43 He said to his servant, “Go up
now, look toward the sea.” So he went up and looked and said, “There is nothing.” And he said, “Go back” seven times. 44 It came about at the seventh time, that he said, “Behold, a cloud as small as a man’s hand is coming up from the sea.”
I Kings 18.41-44
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“…after many days, the Word
- f Lord came to
Elijah saying: go, show yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the face of the earth ” I Kings 18.1 “Now Elijah said to Ahab: As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand …”. I Kings 17.1
Intimacy (v.41)
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“So faith comes form hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ ” Romans 10.17 “…does not return to me empty, without accomplishing what I desire…”. Isaiah 55.11
Trust (v.41)
FAITH = BELIEVE + TRUST
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22 And Jesus *answered saying to them,
“Have faith in God. 23 Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him. 24 Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you”.
Mark 11.22-24
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“Blessed be the God and Father
- f our Lord Jesus
Christ, who has blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Christ ” Ephesians 1.3 “So we fasted and sought our God concerning this matter, and He listened to
- ur entreaty”.
Ezra 8.23 Objectivity (v. 42) Vague prayers – vague answers Specific prayers– specific answers
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Expectancy (v.42)
“The great tragedy is not prayers that have not been answered, but prayers that have not been made”. F .B.Meyer
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Insistence (v.43,44)
We should always pray, not until God hears us, but until we can hear
- God. Nothing is beyond
the reach of prayer, except that which is
- utside the will of God.
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“Whatever you ask the Father in my name, I will do it ” John 14.13 “…but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words ”. Romans 8.26
Dependency (v.43)
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“God spoke once
- r twice, but no
- ne notices it ”