Today's Proclamation 06-12-2024

  • Jun 12, 2024
  • Michael Blank
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, how is your Prayer LIFE? How often do you PRAY? Do you PRAY in generalities, or do you PRAY in specifics? Are your Prayers filled with THANKS & PRAISE or are they more like a Christmas list of what you want GOD to do for you? Just like His Disciples, we should ask – LORD TEACH US TO PRAY!

AS IT IS WRITTEN IN   1Timothy2:1-8

First of all, then, I urge that petitions (specific requests), Prayers, intercessions (Prayers for others) and THANKSGIVINGS be offered on behalf of ALL People, for kings and ALL who are in [positions of] high authority, so that we may live a Peaceful and Quiet life in ALL Godliness and Dignity.

This [kind of Praying] is good and acceptable and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires ALL People to be Saved and to come to the Knowledge and Recognition of the [Divine] TRUTH.

For there is [only] ONE God, and [only] ONE Mediator between God and mankind, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom [a substitutionary sacrifice to atone] for ALL, the testimony given at the right and proper time.

And for this matter I was appointed a preacher and an apostle—I am telling the TRUTH; I am not lying [when I say this]—a teacher of the Gentiles in Faith and Truth.

Therefore, I want the men in every place to PRAY, lifting up Holy hands, WITHOUT anger and disputing or quarreling or doubt [in their mind].

Dear ones, whenever we have a dialogue with our Heavenly Father, we must humble ourselves and NOT DEMAND that GOD take any action!

Who am I to ARGUE with GOD?

There is no “magic formula” that causes the LORD TO DO anything. 

OUR FAITH is what Almighty GOD responds to with His Word.  When our requests of God match up with His Word, His Purpose, His Kingdom Principles, and what His Son has already DONE for us, THEN we witness the MIRACLES of Almighty God-Jehovah in our lives!

Here is the concept that needs to be perfectly clear. In the Prayer outline that Jesus gave us ‘when YOU PRAY say’ – Our Father – give US this day OUR daily bread – forgive US OUR debts as WE forgive OUR debtors – lead US not into temptations – deliver US from the evil one! 

There are 9 plural pronouns!  Consider the fact that Christ died ONCE for ALL and by His Blood Sacrifice WE have ALL become BLOOD Brothers and BLOOD Sisters with Jesus – JOINT HEIRS to Salvation!

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are Sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are Children of God, and if Children, then heirs & Heirs of God and Joint Heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be Glorified together.

For the earnest expectation of the ALL of Creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the Sons of God.  LINK = Romans 8:14-17

The Bible is also very clear about:

Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ASK, it will be done for them by My Father in Heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My Name, I AM there in the midst of them.   LINK = Matthew 18:19-20

It is difficult for some people to believe God needs our cooperation, that He works on earth through humans, not independently of them. Their concept of God’s Sovereignty simply cannot allow them to believe He would limit Himself in any way to the actions of people. But He has. Regarding the need for Prayer, the great E. M. Bounds said:

God shapes the world by PRAYER. The more Praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil . . . The Prayers of God’s saints are the capital stock of Heaven by which God carries on His great Work upon the earth. God conditions the very life and prosperity of His cause on PRAYER!

The belief that God does not need our involvement to accomplish His will is a great hindrance to Heaven’s cause. I once heard the late great pastor/teacher, Jack Hayford, say,

The quest of Jesus Christ on the earth is greatly crippled by our wrong notions of the Sovereignty of God.

The Scriptures are filled with examples of God needing the obedience, Faith, Prayers, Decrees, and Actions of people in order to accomplish His Will-Divine Purpose!

The Father’s Desire and Plan from the beginning was to Partner with His Family to establish His Kingdom Principles on earth - as they are in Heaven.

Jesus restored us to the Family and Redeemed the Plan, giving to the Church the Keys or Authority of His Kingdom!

We are told to ASK and COMMAND. We are NOT commanding God, of course, but we ARE commanding FOR Him - as His Representatives (Ambassadors), and as He leads. We ASK or petition FROM our Father; we command FOR Him in order to release His Kingdom Divine Purposes!

We appeal TO Heaven; we command FOR Heaven in the Authority of Jesus’ Name!

We PRAY – IT IS YOUR KINGDOM, and we serve an AWESOME GOD!

IT IS YOUR POWER that same Power that raised Christ from the dead is IN ME and Greater is He that is in me, than any demon in this world!

IT IS YOUR GLORY LORD, We do ALL of this to bring You Honor & GLORY & POWER BE to Him who sits on the THRONE! Revelation 5:13

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Thanks BE to GOD who gives us The VICTORY through our LORD & Savior – Christ Jesus!

HALLELUJAH!!!

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