Oh To Hear Jesus Pray

Mark 1:35 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
Oh to hear the marvelous words our Savior would use to speak to His Father. We only get a glimpse of this in the bible. It is as a son should speak to his father, with reverence, adoration and respect.
Lord, we come to You as Your children and all that entails. We are spoiled and hold back nothing. You teach us from Your word and sometimes we miss the lesson. Forgive us and teach us for we long for an everlasting relationship with Jesus and His Father God. Amen
John 17 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.
"I have manifested your name to the people whom you gave me out of the world. Yours they were, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you. For I have given them the words that you gave me, and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one even as we are one.  While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.  I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.  Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.  As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.  The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them."

Prayer

1 Sam.1:27 For this child I prayed, and the LORD has granted me my petition that I made to him.
Jam.5:15 And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
Today God showed His mercy to a precious five year old child. The body of Christ, in one voice, called on our most high God for courage, safety, mercy, steady hands for a surgeon, alert caring staff , healing and peace.
Lord, we praise You for Your mercy and grace. Amen

Week 8 Charles Stanley's Intercession for America/Increasing Taxation

Ps. 66:10-12 For you, O God, have tested us; you have tried us as silver is tried.You brought us into the net; you laid a crushing burden on our backs; you let men ride over our heads;we went through fire and through water; yet you have brought us out to a place of abundance.




Lord, we bow to You and You alone. Our government is out of control and we are waiting for You to lead us in what will glorify Your name. Amen



This nation's foundation is based on freedom of religion not freedom from religion.



Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Perfect in Weakness

2 Cor.12:8-10 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me,  "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
We don't want to admit to being weak but we are! Only by God's power are we strong.
Romans 8:26-27 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.

Unity in the Body of Christ

The Holy Spirit of our God inspires Paul to write:
Eph.4:1-8 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men."
Eph.4:11-16 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather,speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
To this we are called, in one body His bride, to be betrothed to our coming bridegroom. Be careful where you put your heart, for our God is a jealous God. We are to love people but not spare the lost from the healing that comes from God's word, where they will find the way of repentance and therefore glorify God's name.
Lord, I pray for You to lead us in the right way to love with the knowledge of Your word. Let us give Your words to glorify Your name in all the world. For Your words lead to conviction and repentance, of which the whole world needs. Amen

Week 7 Charles Stanley's Intercession for America/The Finanacial Crisis

Deut.8:18 You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
I am afraid that this verse may be our sinner's way of thinking. Deut.8 :17 Beware lest you say in your heart, 'My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.'
Lord, protect us from this evil way of thinking. All things come from You, the Creator, let us always bow before Your majesty. Amen

Returning to God

The book of Joel: Joel means the Lord is God. This book is about sin, judgment, fasting, prayer and repentance.
The final "day of the Lord" will be when He comes in all His glory and holiness to judge both the repentant sinner as well as the unrepentant sinner. The consequence of sin is separation from God.
Joel 1:14 Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.
God wants His people to turn from sin and follow Him. He does not want to bring disaster on His people.
Joel 2:12-13 Yet even now," declares the LORD, "return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments." Return to the LORD your God,
for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster.
We need God's mercy.
Joel 2:26 "You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God,
Romans 10:11-13 For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame." For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him. For "everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved."
who has dealt wondrously with you. And my people shall never again be put to shame.
Joel 2:30-32 And I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke. The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the LORD comes. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved. For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there shall be those who escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors shall be those whom the LORD calls.
Acts 2:16-21 But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel: "'And in the last days it shall be, God declares, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh,and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; even on my male servants and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit, and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke;  the sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.
And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.'
We must not take sin lightly.Sin will destroy you! Flee from it!
1 Cor.6:9-11 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Cor.6:19-20 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price.So glorify God in your body.