THE LORD'S PRAYER :MATTHEW 6: 7-21 AND WHEN YOU PRAY.......

INTRODUCTION
IN THE LAST POST WE LOOKED AT THE SECRET PLACE AS JESUS SAID THAT'S WHERE THE FATHER IS..MATT 6:6. WE NOW CONTINUE TO EXAMINE THE LORDS PRAYER, PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT THE LORD WAS REALLY SAYING THERE, WHAT WAS HE TEACHING US THAT IS NOT OBVIOUS TO THE EYE? WE ALSO EXPLAINED THAT JESUS WAS NOT IMPRESSED WITH THE PRAYER RITUALS OF THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES AND SEEMS TO BE REBUKING THEM FOR THEIR HYPOCRITICAL PRACTISES.

MATTHEW 6 VS 7- WHEN U PRAY DO NOT USE VAIN REPETITIONS AS THE HEATHENS DO...
VAIN  MEANS--1- EXCESSIVELY PROUD OF OR CONCERNED ABOUT ONES OWN ----------------------APPEARANCE, QUALITIES.
--------------------2-PROCEEDING FROM OR SHOWING PERSONAL VANITY, VAIN -----------------REMARKS.
--------------3-IN EFFECTUAL OR UNSUCCESSFUL, FUTILE.
---------------4-WITHOUT REAL SIGNIFICANCE,VALUE, OR IMPORTANCE; BASELESS, OR ----------------WORTHLESS.
---------------5-SENSELESS OR FOOLISH.
REPETITIONS----REPEATED UTTERANCE;REITERATION.

YR FATHER KNOWS WHAT U NEED BEFORE U ASK HIM ....WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

WELL, AS A FATHER WHO KNOWS THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, HE WATCHES U ALL THE TIME. SO WHEN U GO TO HIM U NEED TO KNOW THAT HE IS NOT LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT YR LIFE. IN JOHN 14 :16-18, JESUS SAID I WILL NOT LEAVE U AS ORPHANS I WILL SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT TO U. ANOTHER HELP TO BE WITH U  HE DWELLS WITH U WILL BE IN U. SO IF GOD THE HOLY SPIRIT IS IN U AND DWELLS WITH U, DO U NEED VAIN REPETITIONS WHEN U COME TO GOD?.. THE MEANING OF VAIN EXPLAINED ABOVE INCLUDES BASELESS,WORTHLESS IN EFFECTUAL FUTILE REMARKS!
THAT MEANS DON'T COME TO GOD YR FATHER WHO LOOKS AFTER U IN THE PERSON OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND START ACCUSING HIM OF NEGLECT,eg I'M DYING, I'M FAILING, I'M SINKING WHERE R U, THIS IS GOING TO KILL ME, U DON'T CARE ABOUT ME, U DON'T LOVE ME,  ALL THOSE PRAYERS ARE BASELESS, WORTHLESS, INEFFECTUAL,AND REALLY VAIN. WHY BECAUSE IF U UNDERSTAND THE FATHER-SON/DAUGHTER, RELATIONSHIP THEN U REALISE NO LOVING FATHER WD NEGLECT HIS CHILD. IN FACT LONG BEFORE U WERE CREATED HE PUT MEASURES IN PLACE SO THAT U ARE COVERED AND PROTECTED EG SENT CHRIST TO COME AND DIE FOR U SO THAT U CAN BE RECONCILED TO HIM AND THEN U LIVE AS A SON IN THE KINGDOM. 2 HE GAVE U THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DWELL IN U AND HELP U. JESUS SAID I WILL SEND ANOTHER HELPER THE COMFORTER TO BE WITH U. 3.. GAVE U HIS ANGELS TO BE WITH U ALL THE TIME MINISTER TO U AND FOR U. HEBREWS 1:14. THAT MEANS THEY DO THINGS FOR U THAT U CANT DO FOR YR SELF. IF U NEED SOMETHING U CANT MANAGE THE HOLY SPIRIT SENDS THE ANGELS TO HELP U.  THANK GOD FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT.

IF U R NOT BAPTISED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH THE EVIDENCE OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES U R WAY BEHIND. U CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT THAT GIFT. SPEAKING IN TONGUES HELPS U AND THE HOLY SPIRIT TO PRAY FOR THOSE THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO YR LIFE AND WHICH AFFECT U AND U HAVE NO IDEA, ONE TESTIMONY OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT HELP IN PRAYER IS OF A WOMAN WHO HAD A SENSE OF URGENCY IN HER TO GO TO HER CLOSET TO PRAY. SINCE SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG SHE STARTED TO PRAY IN TONGUES. TWO HRS LATER HER SON PHONED AND SAID THANKS FOR YR PRAYERS MOM IVE BEEN INVOLVED IN A FATAL ACCIDENT I'M THE ONLY ONE WHO SURVIVED. SHE THEN REALISED THATS THE URGENCY IN HER SPIRIT THAT SHE PRESENTED TO THE FATHER IN TOUNGES WAS FOR PROTECTION AND THE LIFE FOR HER SON. WHEN U PRAY IN THE SPIRIT ITS THE HOLY SPIRIT PRAYING FOR U, WITH U, IN TONGUES. ROMANS 8:26 SAYS THE HOLY SPIRIT HELPS IN OUR WEAKNESSES FOR WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE OUGHT TO PRAY FOR BUT THE HOLY SPIRIT HIMSELF HELPS MAKES INTERCESSION FOR US WITH GROANING THAT CANNOT BE UTTERED. THANK GOD FOR THE HOLY GHOST. U CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT HIM. U NEED HIM MORE THAN U NEED YR LIFE, YR LIFE IS MEANINGLESS WITHOUT HIS BAPTISM. IF U HAVE BEEN SURVIVING WITHOUT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UP TO NOW THE TRUTH IS THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TASKED SOME ONE TO CARRY U IN PRAYER. SOMEONE IS BEARING U IN THE SECRET PLACE SPEAKING IN TONGUES, SINCE ITS GROANING THAT CANNOT BE UTTERED THEY MAY NOT EVEN KNOW LEST THEY BOAST , OR HOLD U RANSOM END UP MAKING THE WHOLE PRAYER VOID.
 NB.. ASK JESUS TO BAPTISE U WITH HIS HOLY SPIRIT, ITS JESUS WHO BAPTISES WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT NOT ANY PERSON. ITS JESUS'S SPIRIT SO HE DOES THE BAPTISM.


ASK AND SAY, LORD JESUS ,PLIZ CLEANSE ME WITH YR BLOOD AGAIN AND BAPTISE ME WITH YR HOLY SPIRIT. SEND THE HOLY SPIRIT TO DWELL IN ME AND BE MY HELPER AND MY COMFORTER IN MY LIFE AND IN EVERYTHING I DO. AMEN. THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL COME UPON U AND U WILL SPEAK IN TONGUES . THIS WORKS IF U PRAY SINCERELY EVEN IF U R ON YR OWN. IF U R IN A SITUATION WHERE NOBODY BELIEVES IT OR THERE IS NO ONE TO HELP U JESUS IS WITH U, HE WILL HELP U. U CAN BE BORN AGAIN TODAY AND BE BAPTISED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT TODAY. U DON'T HAVE TO TARRY FOR SOME TIME, RECEIVE YR BAPTISM TODAY U NEED HIM TODAY!.

NOW ALL THIS WAS SAID TO SHOW U THAT WHEN U APPROACH THE FATHER AS A CHILD U DONT NEED VAIN REPETITIONS BECAUSE JESUS HAS ALREADY. PRAYED FOR U, LUKE 22:31-32. BEFORE PETER EVER DENIED THE LORD JESUS HAD ALREADY PRAYED FOR HIM. THANK YOU JESUS! THANK GOD FOR GIVING US HIS SON THE LORD JESUS. WHERE WD WE BE WITHOUT HIM. PRAISE JEHOVAH HE IS AWESOME... BEFORE U MAKE THAT FATAL MISTAKE THAT COULD COST U MUCH, EVEN YR LIFE, MINISTRY, FAMILY JESUS HAS ALREADY PRESENTED THE CASE BEFORE THE FATHER. ROMANS (8:34) AND HEBREWS 7:25. 2-THE HOLY GHOST HAS ALSO PRAYED FOR U WITH GROANING THAT CANNOT BE UTTERED. THE ANGELS OF GOD ARE WITH U. SO IF U UNDERSTAND THIS THERE IS NO NEED FOR VAIN REPETITIONS, COMPLAINTS, ACCUSATIONS, DISPAIRE, DISCOURAGEMENT  WHEN U GO TO THE FATHER. BY THE TIME U GET THERE THE HOLY SPIRIT  AND JESUS ARE ALREADY ON THE CASE. AMEN.

IN THIS MANNER THEN PRAY...

OUR FATHER WHO ARTS IN HEAVEN..... START BY ACKNOWLEGING HIM AS YR FATHER, SHOW THAT U UNDERSTAND THAT U R CHILD. U R NOT COMING AS A STRANGER TO A STRANGER. U KNOW HE IS IN HEAVEN IN THE SECRET PLACE. U R TALKING TO A FATHER U KNOW ABOUT, AND WHERE HE IS GETTING THIS PRAYER FROM.. 

HALLOWED BE THY NAME... WORSHIP! - WORSHIP IS THE LANGUAGE OF GOD. IF U VISIT THE WEBSITE INSIGHTS OF GOD .COM. U READ ACCOUNTS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD VISIONS OF GOD. ALL OF THEM DESCRIBE HEAVEN AS A PLCE OF WORSHIP. AROUND THE THRONE  OF GOD WHERE YR PRAYER IS GOING WORSHIP IS GOING ON ALL THE TIME. REVELATION 4 :4-11 DESCRIBES THE SCENE AROUND THE THRONE AND JOHN THE WRITER OF REVELATION SAYS THEY DO NOT REST DAY AND NIGHT THEY CRY OUT TO THE LIVING GOD SINGING HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, LORD GOD ALMIGHTY...ACCORDING TO ANNA ROUNTREE IN A VERY ESSENTIAL BOOK WHICH U NEEDAS A CHILD OF GOD, CALLED HEAVEN AWAITS THE BRIDE   WOSHIP IN HEAVEN IS A SUBSTANCE WHICH CAN BE SEEN AND HANDLED. ITS PRESENTED TO THE FATHER AS A SUBSTANCE, BOOK2 PAGE 94. SO BE CAREFUL WHEN U WORSHIP THE FATHER. ANGELS CARRY YR WORSHIP TO THE FATHER AND PRESENT IT TO HIM AS A SACRIFICE OR GIFT FROM U. DO YR BEST TO PRESENT BEST WORSHIP TO YR FATHER THE KING OF KINGS. TH ATS WHY JESUS SAID DON'T USE VAIN REPETITIONS ALL THOSE EXPANATIONS MENTIONED ABOVE. WORSHIP IS ALSO A.PRAYER, WEAPON OF WARFARE. 2 CHRONICLES 20 VS 1-30 GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF THE PEOPLE OF AMMON MOAB AND OTHERS COMING TO ENCAMP AGAINST JUDAH (spiritually when an enemy camps against judah its an attack on yr worship. judah means praise. Anything that affects yr praise affects God because yr praise goes to HIM.) JEHOSHAPHAT SAYS IN VS12 THAT THEY ARE TOO BIG A GROUP AND JUDAH HAS NO POWER NOR THE MEANS TO FIGHT THIS BIG GROUP. BUT JEHOSHAPHAT SAYS THIER EYES ARE ON GOD. AFTER THE PROPHET HAD PROPHESIED AND TOLD THEM THAT THEY WILL NOT NEED TO FIGHT IN THIS BATTLE VS18 SAYS THE WHOLE NATION BOWED BEFORE THE LORD AND WORSHIPPED. IN THE MORNING THE KING ENCOURAGED JUDAH TO BELIEVE IN THE LORD AND HIS PROPHETS THEY WILL PROSPER. JEHOSHAPHAT SET UP A PRAISE TEAM. PROBABLY HE DIDN'T KNOW THAT WAS HIS BATTLE SRATERGY. THEY BEGAN TO SING...VS22-23  SAYS AS THEY BEGAN TO SING.. THE LORD SET UP AMBUSHES AGAINST THE PEOPLE WHO HAD COME TO FIGHT JUDAH. THEY BEGAN TO KILL EACH OTHER AND TOTALY DESTROYED EACH OTHER WHILE JUDAH WAS PRAISING AND WORSHIPPING GOD. VS24-30 RECORDS THAT JUDAH LOOTED FROM THE ENEMY SO MUCH SPOIL IT LASTED 3 DAYS, ON THE 4TH DAY THEY MET TO WORSHIP AGAIN, THE LORD WHO HAD USED THE STRATEGY OF WORSHIP TO DESTROY THE ENEMY. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT AFTER THAT ONE BATTLE WHICH WAS FOUGHT BY GOD THRU PRAISE AND WORSHIP..ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THOSE COUNTRIES THAT HEARD THAT GOD HAD FOUGHT FOR ISRAEL FEARED GREATLY. VS30 SAYS THEN THE REALM OF JEHOSHAPHAT WAS QUIET FOR HIS GOD GAVE HIM REST ALL AROUND. WORSHIP WILL CAUSE GOD TO FIGHT FOR U IN SUCH AWAY THAT U WILL BE AT REST FROM YR ENEMIES ALL AROUND. U WILL HAVE PEACE IN YR REALM. NOW U UNDERSTAND WHY IN THE MODEL PRAYER JESUS SAYS DON'T SAY ..... BUT START WITH WORSHIP! HE KNEW THAT WORSHIP IN THE RIGHT ATTITUDE CAN GIVE U REST AND PEACE FOR THE REST OF YR LIFE.

THY KINGDOM COME....HERE JESUS SAYS AFTER WORSHIP, TALK TO THE FATHER ABOUT THAT WHICH INTRESTS HIM ...THE KINGDOM! THE FATHER IS CONCERNED WITH THE KINGDOM AND THAT IS THE WELFARE OF HIS CHILDREN.

KINGDOM MEANS- GOD'S PRESENT AND ETERNAL SPHERE OF AUTHORITY. ITS MADE UP OF TWO WORDS; KING AND DOMAIN, ITS THE DOMAIN WHERE THE KING RULES.
IN THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW THE FIRST WORDS JESUS SPOKE AFTER THE BAPTISM AND TEMPTATION WERE:- REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. MATT4:17
SINCE THESE WERE HIS FIRST WORDS THIS SHOWS THAT WAS HIS MAIN MISSION AND PRIORITY. ALSO IN THE LORD'S PRAYER AFTER WORSHIP JESUS SAYS TALK ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. REPENT THERE MEANS RENEW YR MIND, CHANGE YR WAY OF THINKING, RELIGION IS NOT ABOUT RULES AND RACES ANYMORE, ITS CHANGING ITS FACE. THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS UNIVERSAL AND INCLUSIVE, ITS NOT ABOUT  JEWS ONLY, ITS NOT ABOUT MEAL RITUALS AND KEEPING DAYS ITS ABOUT THE ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN COMING DOWN ON EARTH. WHICH IS WORSHIP, RIGHTEOSNESS PEACE AND JOY IN THE HOLY GHOST. WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING FROM NOW ON THERE IS NO KINGDOM OF GOD WITHOUT THE HOLY GHOST.
WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTISED  THE HOLY GHOST CAME DOWN AND SAT ON HIM THEN THE FATHER SPOKE AND CONFIRMED THAT HE WAS THE SON OF GOD. NOW THE FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST WERE READY TO WORK TOGETHER TO BRING THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH. AFTER JESUS HAD ANOUNCED THAT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND HE WENT ON TO DEMOSTRATE WHAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS. MATT 4 VS 17-23 IS THE RECORD OF WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN WHEN THE GOSPELL HAS ARRIVED. 1- RECRUTING PEOPLE TO FOLLOW JESUS. 2-TEACHING AND PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM. 3- HEALING ALL KINDS OF SICKNESS AND DISEASES. ALL KINDS, NOT SOME... I BELIEVE IN DIVINE HEALING AND DELIVERANCE FROM ALL KINDS OF OPRESSIONS OF THE ENEMY. THE MINISTRY THAT JESUS PERFOMED IN THE BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY IF PERFORMED IN THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT SHOULD BRING RIGHTEOSNESS PEACE AND JOY ....IN THE HOLY GHOST. SO WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING IN THE LORD'S PRAYER AFTER WORHIP U SHOULD ASK FOR HIS KINGDOM TO COME TO EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN, WHICH IS SALVATION OF SOUL, TO FOLLOW JESUS, TEACHING,PREACHING THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD, HEALING AND DELIVERANCE FROM ALL KINDS OF SICKNESS, DISEASES, AND ALL OPRESSION OF THE ENERMY.
THIS IS WHAT JESUS MEANT BY THY KINGDOM COME ,THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN ALL THAT IS EXPLAINED ABOVE IS THE WILL OF GOD IN HEAVEN THAT JESUS DESIRED TO HAVE ON EARTH.

GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD WHAT IS THE DAILY BREAD? ITS THE WORD OF GOD. JESUS SAID IAM THE BREAD THAT CAME FROM HEAVEN JOHN 6VS 48-51. JESUS IS THE DAILY BREAD OF LIFE WHICH IS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR LIVES. U NEED A WORD OF GOD INTO YR SPIRIT EVERYDAY, SO U NEED TO READ THE WORD(BIBLE) EVERYDAY TO GET A WORD OF GOD. GOD SAID MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.  YR SPIRIT NEEDS FOOD AND WATER EVERYDAY. THE WATER IS GIVEN BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT THE RIVER OF LIFE SO THAT IS WHY U CAN NOT AFFORD TO LIVE WITHOUT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. YR SPIRIT NEEDS THE WORD OF GOD WHICH IS ITS FOOD. THAT BREAD IS FOUND IN THE BIBLE. AS U READ THE BIBLE U FEED YR SPIRIT WITH THE BREAD OF LIFE. IF YR SPIRIT DIES U DIE, THAT'S WHY JESUS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE. READING THE WORD IS SO ESSENTIAL TO YR SPIRIT. FEED YR SPIRIT DAILY WITH THE WORD OF GOD.ASK THE HLOY SPIRIT TO LEAD U WHERE TO READ THE WORD DAILY.  

AND FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AS WE FORGIVE THOSE THAT SIN AGAINST US.

FORGIVENESS IS SO CRUCIAL IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD. GOD IS FAIR AND JUST. BECAUSE HE WANTS U TO BE LIKE HIM. SO HE ASKS U TO FORGIVE OTHERS AS HE FORGIVE YOU. THE VERY ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS OF ENTERING THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS FORGIVENESS. WITHOUT FORGIVENESS U CANNOT ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD. U CAN NOT BE A CHILD IN THE KINGDOM IF U CANT FORGIVE OTHERS. YR SALVATION COST JESUS HIS LIFE THAT IS YR FORGIVENESS, SO U NEED TO FORGIVE OTHERS. NO MATTER WHAT THEY HAVE DONE. ONE OF THE SIGNS OF FALSE RELIGION IS THAT IT DOESNT ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO FORGIVE OTHERS. IF U SAY U ARE A CHILD OF GOD OR U FOLLOW GOD BUT CANT FORGIVE OTHERS, THEN WHOSE CHILD ARE U. U SEE FORGIVENESS IS PAINFUL FOR IT KILLS U INSIDE. U FEEL U HAVE A RIGHT TO HATE, KEEP GRUDGES AGAINST THOSE THAT HURT U BUT REALLY WHEN U DIE TO THAT PAIN U THEN LIVE IN THE INSIDE OF U. UNFORGIVENESS KILLS U INSIDE. IF U KEEP A GRUGDE LONG ENOUGH U END UP NEVER CARRING ABOUT THOSE PEOPLE THAT HURT U. SOME PEOPLE END UP WAITING FOR THE DEATH OF THAT PERSON WHO HURT THEM. WHEN U LIKE THAT U DEAD. UNFORGIVENESS HAS KILLED U. IF U DIE ONCE IN KILLING THAT PAIN WHEN U FORGIVE, THEN U LIVE INSIDE. THERE IS LIFE IN YOU. JESUS HAD TO DIE TOO BEFORE HE COULD FORGIVE OTHERS. WHEN GOD DIED ON THE CROSS THE PAIN OF MANS REBELLION ALSO DIED THERE. WHEN HE ROSE UP, HE WAS READY TO FORGIVE PEOPLE SINS NO MATTER WHAT THEY HAD DONE. WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS THE FIRST THING HE DID WAS TO GO AND GET THOSE PEOPLE THAT THE ENEMY  HAD BOUND. HE WENT AND FORGAVE ALL OF THEM, TOOK THEM BACK TO GOD AND RECONCILED THEM TO GOD. HE COULDNT DO IT BEFORE HE DIED. SO FORGIVENESS MAY BE PAINFUL LIKE DEATH, U MAY FEEL LIKE U R BEING CRUCIFIED WHILE FORGIVING BUT AFTERWARDS U GAIN YR LIFE BACK. U HAVE YR RIGHTEOUSNESS , PEACE AND JOY RESTORED BACK TO U. REMEMBER JESUS SAID FORGIVE US AS WE FORGIVE  THOSE THAT SIN AGAINST US. SO IF U NOT WILLING TO FORGIVE OTHERS U R NOT WILLING TO BE FORGIVEN. IT ALSO MEANS U CAN NOT DWELL IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH. PSALM 15 1-5..SAYS LORD WHO CAN ABIDE TABERNACLE.. WHO CAN DWELL IN YR HOLY HILL, HE WHO WALKS UPRIGHTLY AND WORKS RIGHTEOUSNESS.... SO IF U DON'T FORGIVE U NOT WORKING RIGHTEUOSNESS. REMEMBER WHAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS! FORGIVE SO U WILL BE FORGIVEN THEN U CAN ABIDE IN GOD.S HOLY HILL.

DO NOT LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM  THE EVIL ONE.
WHY WOULD GOD LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION? TO CONFIRM OUR FAITH AND IDENTITY! MATT 4 VS 1 SAYS THEN JESUS WAS LED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT INTO THE WILDERNESS TO BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. WHY HE HAD TO PROVE THAT HE PERSONALLY BELIEVED THE WORD OF GOD THAT HAD JUST TOLD HIM HE IS THE SON OF GOD. WHEN HE WAS BAPTISED THE HEAVENS OPENED, THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN, AND GOD SAID U ARE MY BELOVED SON IN WHOMIM WELL PLEASED. NEXT THE ENEMY ASKED HIM..  IF U R THE SON OF GOD COMMAND THAT THESE STONES BE TURNED INTO BREAD...IF U R THE SON OF GOD... THE DEVIL WAS USING THE SAME TRICK HE USED IN THE GARDEN TO TEMPT EVE---DOUBTING THE WORD OF GOD. JESUS COULD HAVE SAID BUT GOD JUST SAID.. BUT HE COUNTERED THE ENEYM USING THE WORD OF GOD....GIVE US OUR DAILY BREAD. U NEED THE WORD OF GOD DAILY TO FIGHT THE DEVIL. NOTE WHEN THE DEVIL TEMPTS U HE BRINGS SOMETHING THAT U NEED. JESUS AT THAT TIME WAS REALLY HUNGRY AND NEEDED BREAD. BUT THE ISSUE WITH THE ENEMY WAS NOT TO FEED JESUS... HE WANTED TO CONFIRM HIS SONSHIP BY PRODUCING A MIRACLE AT THE DEMAND OF THE ENEMY OR AT THE REQUEST OF THE ENEMY. HAD JESUS FOLLOWED THE ENEMY , HE WD HAVE DOUBTED WHAT GOD HAD SAID THAT HE IS HIS SON AND TRIED TO TASTE HIS POWERS OF SONSHIP THRU PERFORMING FOR THE ENEMY. NOTE THE ENEMY KNOWS THAT IF U R A SON OF GOD U HAVE POWER TO PERFORM MIRACLES. THE SAME DEVIL WILL COME TO TASTE U TO SEE IF U REALLY A SON AND WHEN U SAY OUR FATHER DO U REALLY MEAN IT. U SEE PEOPLE SAYB THAT THE DEVIL IS A LIER HE LIES WHEN HE ACCUSES PEOPLE TO GOD .... DO U REALLY THINK THAT THE DEVIL DOESNT KNOW THAT GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. WHY WD HE WASTE HIS TIME GOING TO LIE IF GOD SAY ACTUALLY U R LYING. THE BIBLE SAYS TWICE IN THE SCRIPTURE THAT SATAN WAS FULL OF WISDOM. EZEKIEL 28:12.. SO he IS MUCH MORE CLEVER THAN TO GO AND LIE TO U. WHAT HE DOES HE TWISTS THE WORD A LITTLE BIT SO THAT U DOUBT WHAT GOD SAID ABOUT U. DID GOD SAY.... IF U R THE SON OF GOD ..THEN.... BUT IF U R THE SON OF GOD SPEAK THE WORD. FIGHT HIM WITH THE WORD. RAISE THE STANDARD, WORSHIP. SHOW U KNOW HOW GREAT YR FATHER IS THRU THE WORD AND WORSHIP. SHOW HIM U HAVE HAD YR DAILY BREAD THAT DAY. NOT ONLY DID GOD LEAD JESUS TO BE TEMPTED , THE BIBLE RECORDS THAT HE LED ISRAEL ALSO TO TEMPT THEM.. IN EXODUS 15 AFTER ISRAEL HAD SEEN THE LORD OPEN THE RED SEA AND DROWN THE ARMY OF EGYPT, THE BIBLE SAYS MOSES LED THEM  3 DAYS IN THE WILDERNESS NO WATER. THEN THEY CAME TO MARAH BUT THE WATER WAS BITTER. SO THEY CRIED AND COMPLAINED TO GOD AND COMPLAINED AGAINST MOSES. .... GOD GAVE THEM WATER BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THERE GOD TESTED THEM. ....AFTER A VICTORY COMES TESTING TIME , ITS JUST A TIME TO TASTE YR FAITH AND TO CHECK IF U REALY BELIEVE IN YR IDENTITY. BUT JESUS ASKED THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE LED TO TEMPTATION, ITS BECAUSE HE KNOWS ITS A HARD TIME,. SO BE PREPARED TO TRIUMPH IN YR TEMPTATION BUT REMEMBER U CAN ONLY WIN IF U USED THE WORD OF GOD!.THE WORD OF GOD WILL BE USED BY GOD TO DELIVER U FROM THE EVIL ONE.

FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM, THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER AMEN

END YR PRAYER BY WORSHIP, AS U STARTED BY WORSHIP! TELL YR FATHER U UNDERSTAND THAT  HE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH THE KINGDOM, THE POWER AND THE GLORY....FOREVER  MEANS WITHOUT END.

HOW DO I KNOW MY PRAYER WILL BE ANSWERED?

WHEN JESUS WAS ASKED SUCH A QUESTION WHEN HE HAD CURSED A FIGTREE AND IT DIED TO ITS ROOTS, HIS ANSWER TO THEI PUZZLE WAS HAVE FAITH IN GOD

WHAT IS FAITH ITS BELIEF IN GOD! HEBREWS 11:1 SAYS NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT YET SEEN.....I SAID THAT IN HEAVEN THINGS HAVE SUBSTANCE... HEAVEN AWAITS THE BRIDE BY ANNA ROUNTREE PG 94. SO IF U NEED SOMETHING FROM GOD, U DONT WAIL, SCREAM,CRY MOAN,   GOD IS NOT MOVED BY TEARS, HE IS MOVED BY FAITH. IF GOD WAS MOVED BY TEARS WOMEN WD BE MILLIONAIRES WHILE MEN VERY POOR. BUT WHEN U COME TO GOD APPROACH HIM BY FAITH AND USE HIS WORD. GOD CAN NOT GO AGAINST HIS WORD NOR CAN HE DENY HIS WORD.  IF U BRING FAITH AND THE WORD U WILL GET RESULTS. THE BILBE SAYS IN HEBREWS 11 VS THAT BY FAITH WE UNDERSYAND THAT THE WORLDS WERE FRAMED BY THE WORD OF GOD, SO THAT THETHINGS THAT ARE SEEN WERE NOT MADE BY THE THINGS WHICH ARE VISIBLE. NOW WHAT SCRIPTURE IS SAYING IS THAT WHEN GOD CREATED THE WORLDS IN THE BEGINNING, HE HAD FAITH AND HIS WORD. NOW GOD HAS NOT CHANGED, HE STILL REQUIRES THE SAME IF U WANT THINGS FROM HIM. IN VS 6 OF HEBS11 HE DAYS WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSIBLE TO PLEASE HIM, FOR HE BWHO COMES TO GOD MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS.....(WHAT EVER U WANT HIM TO BE),  AND THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THOSE THAT DELIGENTLY SEEK HIM..... WITHOUT FAITH U CANNOT PLEASE GOD ENOUGH TO GET ANYTHING FROM HIM. U MUST ALSO HAVE FAITH THAT HE IS WHAT U NEED. HE SAID TO MOSES IAM...WHO IAM.  I CAN NOT DEFINE MYSELF ACCORDING TO YR NEEDS, IAM MUCH MORE THAN THAT. MOSES WAS LOOKING FOR A DELIVERER, BUT GOD KNEW THAT A DELIVERER WD HAVE GOTTEN THEM OUT OF EGYPT, BUT THEY ALSO NEEDED  A HEALER, A GUIDER, A WARRIOR, A BREAD MAKER, WATER MAKER , A PRESERVER OF THEIR CLOTHES AND SHOES, A CRAFTSMEN ....A MIRACLE WORKER, ALAW GIVER ETC. SO HAD GOD DEFINED HIMSELF ACCORDING TO WHAT MOSES NEEDED THEN MOSES WD HAVE STRUGGLED IN THE DESSERT. SO WHEN A NEED AROSE HE WENT BACK TO GOD KNOWING THAT HE IS..... HE IS WHAT I NEED AT THAT TIME. HE CAN BE MY DOCTOR, LAWYER, FRIEND, FATHER, COUNSELLOR, THE LIST IS ENDLESS. ALL I NEED IS FAITH. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID IN MARK 11 VS22-24... HAVE FAITH IN GOD IF U NEED A MIRACLE. ALSO BEFORE U ASK FOR ANYTHING FROM GOD FORGIVE IF ANYONE HAS TRESPASEED AGAINST U. SOUNDS LIKE WHAT HE SAID IN THE LORDS PRAYER!

SO IN ORDER TO GET MY PRAYERS ANSWERED I NEED TO .......1-  HAVE FAITH IN GOD, 2---COUPLE FAITH WITH THE WORD OF GOD....3 BELIEVE HE IS... WHAT I NEED AT THAT TIME AND IS A REWARDER OF THOSE THAT DELIGENTLY SEEK HIM. 4--- COME WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE OF WORSHIP PRAISE AND THANKS GIVING.5.FORGIVE THOSE THAT TRESPASS AGAINST ME. I HOPE THIS STUDY WILL HELP U IN YR CHRISTIAN WALK TO GET YR PRAYERS ANSWERED.AND ALSO TO DEVELOP A COMMUNICATION RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD YR FATHER! PRAISE THE LORD.

HAVE FAITH IN GOD, REMAIN ABIDING IN HIS HOLY HILL,
PASTOR NOMSA.

THE LORD'S PRAYER :MATTHEW 6: 5-6. AND WHEN YOU PRAY.......

BACKGROUND

THE LORD JESUS'S MINISTRY WAS CONDUCTED WITHIN THE SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM. AS U KNOW JESUS DID NOT HAVE A CHURCH, THE WORD SAYS, HE TAUGHT IN THEIR SYNAGOGUES AS WAS HIS CUSTOM. MATTHEW 4 : 23, THEREFORE WE FIND THAT DURING HIS TEACHING LESSONS, HE HAD  TO CONFRONT AND CORRECT IDEOLOGIES THAT WERE CONTRARY TO HIS MANDATE....(BRINGING SALVATION TO ALL MANKIND NOT JUST JEWS.) THIS CREATED A LOT OF TENSION WITH MOSTLY THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS OF THAT DAY. MATTHEW 23 RECORDS IN THAT WHOLE CHAPTER A SERIES OF WOES ATTACKING THE SCRIBES AND THE PHARISEES. IT APPEARS THE PHARISEES AND SCRIBES GOT THE WORST CRITICISM BECAUSE THEY WERE A HOLINESS MOVEMENT, THAT BY TRYING TO PLEASE GOD ENDED UP CREATING LAWS THAT LED TO HYPOCRITICAL BEHAVIOR THAT THEY THEMSELVES COULD NOT EVEN MANAGE. MATTHEW 23 :1-3,13, 27-28. BEFORE JESUS TAUGHT "THE LORD'S PRAYER" AS IT IS COMMONLY KNOWN TODAY, HE BEGAN BY ADDRESSING THE HABITS OF HYPOCRITES (PHARISEES AND SCRIBES MATT 23:13,14,15,23.).
IN MATT 5: 2O, JESUS SAID "FOR I SAY TO YOU, THAT UNLESS YOUR  RIGHTEOUSNESS EXCEEDS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES, YOU WILL BY NO MEANS ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN".

JESUS WENT ON TO TEACH ON WHAT TO DO WHEN PRAYING...VS ..5 WHEN YOU PRAY YOU SHALL NOT BE LIKE THE HYPOCRITES FOR......WHAT JESUS WAS TALKING ABOUT THERE IS PUBLIC DISPLAY OF PRAYER LIFE.."SHOW OFF" PRAYER SHOULD BE BETWEEN U AND YR FATHER. ITS PRIVATE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FATHER AND SON/DAUGHTER.

VS 6 ....BUT WHEN U PRAY, GO INTO YR ROOM....PRAY TO  YR FATHER  WHO IS IN THE SECRET PLACE...... I JUST WANT TO DISCUSS THE SECRET PLACE

WHAT IS THE SECRET PLACE?

PSALM 91 VS 1-16 GIVES US A LONG EXPLANATION OF THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH.


VS 1- HE WHO DWELLS IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH SHALL....

---DWELLS... THAT WORD MEANS TO, CONTINUE, TO PERSEVERE, TO TARRY, TO ABIDE, TO LIVE, TO TABERNACLE, TO LINGER,TO SETTLE. IT MEANS ....LONG STAY,

--SECRET PLACE.... THE TABERNACLES OF GOD... HIS DWELLING PLACE

--MOST HIGH...EL-YOHN..MEANS ,UPPER MOST, PERTAINING TO THE HIGHEST, IN THE HIGHEST HIGHNESS, SUPREME, LOFTY, ELEVATED, HIGH IN RANK, EXALTED!

--SHALL ABIDE UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE ALMIGHTY
   ABIDE   IS THE SAME AS DWELL EXPLAINED ABOVE
---SHADOW--- A PLACE OF REST, RELIEF, PEACE,PROTECTION.
---ALMIGHTY ---SHADDAY... PLIZ NOTE WHEN THESE WORDS ARE COMBINED WITH ---GOD'S TITLE, EL,   THEY PERTAIN TO GOD eg EL SHADDAY-GOD ALMIGHTY, ---EL-ELYON-. ELOHIM,-GOD MOST HIGH etc.
---ALMIGHTY MEANS...MIGHTY, UNCONQUERABLE, MOUNTAIN PERTAINING TO HIS ----GREAT STRENGTH,  EVERLASTING NATURE, ALL SUFFICIENT...SELF SUFFICIENT!

VS 2- I WILL SAY OF THE LORD, HE IS MY REFUGE AND MY FORTRESS: 
LORD....MEANS MASTER, (ADON), OWNER,CONTROLLER, (KURIOS) OWNER, MASTER, THE ONE WHO HAS ABSOLUTE DOMINION, SUPREME AUTHORITY, UNLIMITED POWER ARISING FROM OWNERSHIP (DESPOTES JUDE 4). 
REFUGE MEANS ...1- SHELTER OR PROTECTION FROM DANGER, TROUBLE, ie REFUGE FROM A STORM.
-------2 - A PLACE OF SHELTER, PROTECTION, OR SAFETY.
----3-ANYTHING TO WHICH ONE HAS RECOURSE FOR AID,RELIEF, OR ESCAPE.
FORTRESS MEAN  1-A LARGE FORTIFIED PLACE
-----2- A PLACE OF EXCEPTIONAL SECURITY; A STRONGHOLD.

 VS 2b- MY GOD IN HIM I WILL TRUST.....VS 3 SURELY HE SHALL DELIVER YOU....


GOD...MEANS ETERNAL CREATOR, STRONG, MIGHTY etc.
TRUST...(CHASAH) TO HOPE, TO MAKE SOMEONE A REFUGE....NESTLING UNDER GOD'S WINGS THE SAME MANNER A BABY BIRD HIDES IT SELF UNDER ITS ITS PARENTS FEATHERS.

THE ABOVE VERSES EXPLAIN A LOT ABOUT WHY JESUS IN MATTHEW 5 TOLD US ABOUT THE SECRET PLACE. NOTE THAT EVERY HUMAN BEING NEEDS A PLACE OF REFUGE , AND A FATHER WHO THE ALMIGHTY. IF U REALISE THAT THERE IS A PLACE LIKE THAT WHERE U AND YR FAMILY CAN BE PROTECTED THEN U SEEK IT. IN  THE FOLLOWING VERSES YR REWARDS OR BENEFITS ARE DETAILED...
VS-----3....DELIVERANCE FROM THE SNARE(ANYTHING SERVING TO ENTRAP OR ---------ENTANGLE UNAWARES, TRAP) OF THE  FOWLER (ONE WHO CATCHES BIRDS IN A ----------TRAP).
----------DELIVERANCE FROM PERILOUS (HAZARDOUS DANGEROUS) PESTILENCE (A ----------DEADLY OR VIRULENT DISEASE, SOMETHING CONSIDERED ----------HARMFUL,DESTRUCTIVE OR EVIL
VS-----4--REFUGE UNDER GOD'S WINGS, A PLACE OF SAFETY!
VS-----5--FREEDOM FROM TERROR BY NIGHT... ANYTHING THAT COMES TO U IN THE ------------DARK, WHEN U R ASLEEP, DEFENCELESS AND POWERLESS.
------------FREEDOM FROM INVISIBLE ARROWS(FIERY DARTS OF THE WICKED ONE ------------EPHESIANS6:16 ).
VS-----6--FREEDOM FROM FEAR OF PESTILENCE THAT COME IN DARKNESS (HIDDEN ------------DESTRUCTIVE PLANS FROM THE EVIL ONE).
------------DESTRUCTION THAT JUST HAPPENS TO PEOPLE EVEN WHEN THEY ARE ------------WATCHING BUT ARE POWERLESS TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.
VS------7--PROTECTION FROM ATTACKS THAT ARE DESTROYING OTHER PEOPLE -------------AROUND YOU.
VS------8--WATCH THE DESTRUCTION OF YR ENEMIES.
VS------9-- ITS ALL BECAUSE U HAVE MADE THE LORD A REFUGE AND A DWELLING --------------PLACE WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?.... U DWELL IN THE SECRET PLACE . PRAY
------------- U LINGER, U PERSEVERE , U CONTINUE,ALL THE EXPLANATIONS FOR -------------DWELLING EXPLAINED IN VERSE 1 APPLY!
-------------WHEN U DWELL IN THE SECRET PLACE OF THE MOST HIGH, U SPEND TIME IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE FATHER, U R A FRIEND, U DON'T SHOUT ONE MINUTE PRAYERS WHILE RUSHING TO SPEND TIME WITH FRIENDS, FAMILY, WORK, SPORT..ALL THOSE ARE GOOD FOR SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS BUT ARE FATAL TO HEAVENLY RELATIONSHIPS. U NEED TO SPEND TIME WITH THE FATHER IN HEAVEN TOO. THAT IS ALSO A RELATION SHIP THAT NEEDS CULTIVATING. ITS NOT FORCED ON ANYONE BUT THE BENEFITS ARE THOSE WILLING TO TARRY, TABERNACLE, LINGER, LIVE IN THE SECRET PLACE WITH DADDY. WHERE U DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER THAT HE CAN TRUST U WITH REVELATION, POWER, INFORMATION, ASSIGNMENTS. EVERY KINGDOM HAS GOT ITS MEMBERS THAT KNOW THINGS THAT EVERYBODY DOESN'T KNOW. THAT'S WHY ON EARTH WE HAVE PAPARAZZI TO GET THE NEWS. IN HEAVEN NO ONE SPILLS THE BEANS, U HAVE TO GO AND GET THE NEWS YR SELF. GOOD NEWS IS EVERYBODY WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF JESUS QUALIFIES. ITS UP TO U TO GO TO THE FATHER IN THE SECRET PLACE AND GET THE BENEFITS LISTED ABOVE AND MANY OTHERS THAT ARE NOT MENTIONED HERE.PSALM 68:19 SAYS "BLESSED BE THE LORD WHO DAILY LOADS US WITH BENEFITS. PRAISE THE LORD MY FATHER LOADS ME WITH BENEFITS... I'M ON HEAVENLY BENEFITS! ITS NOT JUST A FEW HE ACTUALLY LOADS US , MY FATHER IS LOADED... WOMEN..RISE UP! WE HAVE FOUND A LOADED MAN...PSALM 103:1-5 ALSO LISTS SOME MORE BENEFITS.
WELL I HAVE BEEN TRYING TO GET U TO UNDERSTAND THAT SPENDING TIME IN PRAYER IN THE SECRET PLACE, WHICH IS WHY JESUS IN MATT 5 SAYS GO TO YR ROOM CLOSE THE DOOR... IT ACTUALLY MEANS UBE THERE FOR SOME TIME.

VS -----10--FREEDOM FROM EVIL AND PLAGUES! EVIL MEANS...CHARACTERISED BY MISFORTUNE,SUFFERING UNFORTUNATE, DISASTROUS, WICKED...DISASTERS... THINGS THAT COME UPON U SUDDENLY WHILE UN AWARE etc. PLAGUES...AN EPIDEMIC DISEASE THAT CAUSES HIGH MORTALITY, OR ANY WIDESPREAD AFFLICTION, OR CALAMITY.

VS-----11--FOR HE SHALL GIVE HIS ANGELS CHARGE OVER YOU TO KEEP U IN ALL YR -------------WAYS
VS-----12 -- ANGELS SHALL BEAR UP LEST  U DASH YR FOOT AGAINST A STONE.. A HARD ----------------SITUATION.. ANGELS WILL MAKE SURE YR WALK ON EARTH IS SMOOTH -----------------NO HARD SITUATIONS THAT CAN AFFECT YR JOURNEY.
VS-----13----YOU SHALL TREAD UPON THE LION AND THE COBRA....SATAN AND HIS -------------DEVILS..THE WORD TELLS US THAT THE ENEMY IS ROAMING LIKE A LION ---------------SEEKING WHOM HE CAN DEVOUR (I PETER5:8)
VS--- 14---- BECAUSE HE HAS SET HIS LOVE UPON ME,,,,WE HAVE A RELATION SHIP
WE COMMUNICATE, WE SPEND TIME TOGETHER. HE COMES TO DWELL, HE DOESN'T SHOUT COMPLAINTS FROM AFAR, HE IS A SON /DAUGHTER HE KNOWS AM HIS/HER DADDY/FATHER THERE IS A RELATION SHIP OF LOVE HERE!  GOD SAYS I WILL SET HIM ON HIGH..PROMOTION, BECAUSE HE KNOWS MY NAME MEANS WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP. HE KNOWS ME INTIMATELY.... HE CAN CALL ME EL-SHADDAY, EL ELYON, SHALOM, SHAMMAR, EBERNEZER..TSIKEDNU..HE KNOWS ALL MY NAMES MOST IMPORTANT HE CALLS ME FATHER... THE ONE WHO CREATED.. OR BROUGHT FORTH.
VS ----15--I WILL ANSWER WHEN HE CALLS..THE FATHER SAYS WHOEVER DWELLS IN THE SECRET PLACE WITH ME I WILL, ITS MY WILL, TO ANSWER HIM. I WILL HONOUR HIM, I WILL DELIVER,SAVE, HELP HIM WHEN HE IS IN TROUBLE, I WILL GIVE HIM LONG LIFE AND SHOW HIM MY SALVATION! WOW..PHEW! WHAT AN HONOUR THAT COMES FROM JUST DWELLING IN THE SECRET PLACE ... PRAYING ALWAYS, PRAY WITHOUT CEASING. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID MEN OUGHT TO PRAY ALWAYS HE KNEW THAT BY PRAYING ALWAYS U DEVELOP A RELATION SHIP WITH THE FATHER AND END UP IN THE SECRET PLACE WITH ALL THESE BENEFITS... ALLELUIA KEEP PRAYING   LETS INVADE THE SECRET PLACE WITH OUR PRAISE, WORSHIP. ADORATION, THANKSGIVING... THEN IN TURN THE FATHER WILL GIVE US THE BENEFITS OF THE SECRET PLACE.

REMAIN IN THE SECRET PLACE
PASTOR NOMSA

PRAYER HOUSE: JESUS'S PRAYERS: A LIFE OF COMMUNICATION WITH GOD ...

PRAYER HOUSE: JESUS'S PRAYERS: A LIFE OF COMMUNICATION WITH GOD ...: "POLITE NOTICE THIS IS A DETAILED STUDY OF PRAYER. IT TOUCHES ON SOME TOPICS THAT HAVE COME UP AS I HAVE BEEN TEACHING ON PRAYER. EG IS JESU..."

JESUS'S PRAYERS: A LIFE OF COMMUNICATION WITH GOD !

POLITE NOTICE THIS IS A DETAILED STUDY OF PRAYER. IT TOUCHES ON SOME TOPICS THAT HAVE COME UP AS I HAVE BEEN TEACHING ON PRAYER. EG IS JESUS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD? IS THERE A HELL? ETC. THE REASON FOR THIS STUDY IS TO DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP OF COMMUNICATING WITH GOD. MOST IMPORTANT ITS TO ANSWER QUESTIONS WHICH THE TEENAGERS OF TODAY AND TOMORROW ARE ASKING. SO PLIZ BEAR WITH ME IF U FIND IT HEAVY. IF SOMEONE ASKS A QUESTION U GIVE THEM ALL THE KNOWLEDGE U KNOW BACKED BY SCRIPTURE. THAT'S MY POLICY! ALTHOUGH I CAN USE SCHOLAR SUPPORT IVE CHOSEN TO BACK SCRIPTURE BY SCRIPTURE LET GOD SPEAK FOR HIMSELF.

BACKGROUND OF PRAYER!

WHAT IS PRAYER?

PRAYER IN THE BIBLE IS BEST DESCRIBED AS COMMUNICATION WITH GOD. THE WORDS USED THERE INCLUDE ASKING FOR, INQUIRING ABOUT, REQUEST TOWARDS GOD, CALLING OUT, CRYING OUT,TO ADDRESS SOMEONE. PRAISE, WORSHIP, SINGING PSALMS AND ALSO LYING DOWN IN SILENCE OR POSTURE ,IS ALL CALLED PRAYER. THAT'S WHY ITS BEST DESCRIBED AS COMMUNICATION WITH GOD. 

WHO SHOULD PRAY?

EVERYONE,- ALL BORN OF THE WOMAN.( PSALMS 65:2) O YOU WHO HEAR PRAYER,TO YOU ALL FLESH WILL COME!.

EVERYONE HAS GOT TO PRAY! U NEED TO TALK TO YR FATHER SIMPLY BECAUSE U LEFT HEAVEN HOW EVER MANY YRS AGO DEPENDING ON HOW OLD U R, U NEED TO COMMUNICATE. TELL YR FATHER HOW U R DOING, WHATS BOTHERING U AND WHATS GOOD. 

PRAYER IS NOT FOR REPORTING PROBLEMS ONLY, ITS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATION. PEOPLE IN A RELATIONSHIP OR FAMILY COMMUNICATE. EVEN IF ITS JUST HELLO DADDY ITS A START, DADDY MISSES YR VOICE!

WHEN SHOULD PEOPLE PRAY?

----ALWAYS: (LUKE 18:1...MEN ALWAYS OUGHT TO PRAY AND NOT LOSE HEART.)

PRAYER POSTURE:

.....ANY....  THE WORDS ASSOCIATED WITH PRAYER ABOVE ALSO SUGGEST    .....DIFFERENT POSTURES. VARIOUS SCRIPTURES IN THE WORD ACTUALLY SHOW THAT PEOPLE PRAYED --LYING DOWN, WALKING, WHILE FIGHTING, STANDING, SITTING, OR BOWING. IF U NEED TO PRAY ALWAYS AS( JESUS SAID) IT DENOTES A LIFESTYLE. ITS LIKE BREATHING WHERE EVER U R. AT TIMES LIFE WILL THROW U INTO SITUATIONS WHERE U DON'T HAVE TIME TO FIND A PRAYER ROOM AND A HOLY POSTURE ALL U NEED TO DO IS DADDY! HELP! OR A WHISPER DADDY WHAT DO I SAY HERE? DADDY, HOW DO I GET OUT OF THIS ONE?

PRAYER CAN BE FUN IF U HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH YR DADDY. U SEE IF DADDY SEES US AS CHILDREN THEN IT MUST BE FUN  TO HELP US IN LIFE. HE IS SO ADVENTUROUS AND THE BIBLE SHOWS NUMEROUS ACCOUNTS OF ADVENTURES OF GOD WITH HIS CHILDREN.

WHY PRAY...

......GOD IS FUN...ITS NICE TO TALK TO SOMEBODY WHO IS FUN!  IMAGINE THE FACE OF THE ENEMY WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD? SAMSON CARRYING THE GATES OF GAZA  ON HIS SHOULDERS (JUDGES 16:3 AND SAMSON LAY LOW TILL MIDNIGHT THEN HE AROSE AT MIDNIGHT , TOOK HOLD OF THE DOORS OF THE GATE OF THE CITY AND THE TWO GATE POSTS, PULLED THEM UP, BAR AND ALL PUT THEM ON HIS SHOULDERS, AND CARRIED THEM TO THE TOP OF THE HILL THAT FACES HEBRON.).  THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD A LOT OF FUN WITH SAMSON, (JUDGES15:4-5) WHEN HE HELPED SAMSON TO TIE  TAILS OF 300 FOXES SET THEM ON FIRE AND PUT THEM ON ENEMY FIELDS. READ GOD'S STRATEGIES OF OUTWITTING THE ENEMY. GOD IS SO MUCH, FUN HE CREATED A WOMAN FOR THE MAN....TO GIVE MAN PLEASURE.... 

ALL IVE BEEN TRYING TO DO ABOVE IS TO HELP U RELAX IN PRAYER. COMMUNICATION IS BETTER WHEN PEOPLE ARE RELAXED. IF U LEARN TO TALK TO GOD OVER SIMPLE THINGS OF LIFE KNOWING THAT HE IS NOT AN ANGRY GOD WAITING TO THROW U INTO HELL,  BY THE WAY GOD DID NOT CREATE HELL FOR HUMAN BEINGS,,,,IT WAS MEANT TO BE FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS. HOW DO PEOPLE END UP THERE? GOD IS JUST AND RIGHTEOUS, HE CANNOT TURN AGAINST HIS WORD. SO IF GOD THREW  THE DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS WHO WERE DISOBEDIENT TO HELL, HOW THEN CAN HE SPARE MAN FROM HELL WHO DO THE SAME ACTS THAT CAUSED SATAN AND HIS ANGELS TO END UP IN HELL. GOD IS JUST IF HE SAID ALL WHO DO THIS WILL END UP IN HELL THEN HE CANNOT VIOLATE HIS WORD. THAT'S WHY HE HAD TO COME AND DIE A VIOLENT DEATH AT THE CROSS SO THAT U DON'T HAVE TO GO TO HELL.HE (JESUS) CAME TO PROVIDE A WAY OF WASHING U CLEAN WITH HIS BLOOD SO THAT IF U BELIEVE IN HIM U DON'T HAVE TO END UP IN HELL. HELL IS REAL READ TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TO HEAVEN AND HELL ON INSIGHTS OF GOD.COM. U WILL REALISE THAT THE AFTER LIFE IS REAL, WHETHER U BELIEVE IT OR NOT.

ANOTHER QUESTION PEOPLE CONSTANTLY ASK ME ...IS JESUS THE ONLY WAY TO GOD?  THE BEST WAY TO ANSWER THAT IS TO GO ON A JOURNEY. WELL IF U WERE A JUST, RIGHTEOUS FATHER WHO HAS HIGH STANDARDS OF HOLINESS AND REQUIREMENTS TO THOSE WHO SHOULD COME AND LIVE IN YR HOME KNOWING THAT U CAN NOT COMPROMISE ON HOLINESS AND RIGHTEOUSNESS....KNOWING ALSO THAT U HAVE AN ENEMY WHO IS RELENTLESSLY TRYING TO PULL YR CHILDREN TO HELL WITH HIM WHAT DO U DO. U PUT A STRATEGY THAT U KNOW THE ENEMY CANT MATCH. ONLY SINLESS BLOOD WAS ,IS STILL NEEDED TO SAVE AND WASH CHILDREN CLEAN SO THAT THEY CAN BE FIT TO GO AND LIVE WITH THE FATHER. THE STRATEGY WAS THE CROSS WHERE GOD CAME HIMSELF AND DIED A VIOLENT UGLY HORRIBLE DEATH. SO BAD THAT THE BIBLE SAYS HE WAS BEATEN TILL HIS FACE WAS MARRED AND U COULD NOT RECOGNISE HIM. (ISAIAH 52:14). HISTORY RECORDS THAT THEY USED A CAT OF NINE TAILS WHICH HAD SPIKES SO THAT WHEN IT LANDED ON HIS BACK IT TORE THE FLESH INTO THREADS.   SO IF U PUT SUCH A STRATEGY AS A FATHER SO THAT YR CHILDREN CAN COME HOME...... U STATE THAT JESUS IS THE WAY,... U R A GOD WHO DOES NOT VIOLATE HIS WORD OR WHO BOASTS IN THE INTEGRITY OF HIS WORD... WHY THEN WOULD U, IF U WERE GOD ACCEPT ANY OTHER WAY TO HIM? WHY DID JESUS SUFFER THAT MUCH IF THERE WAS ANOTHER WAY. WHY DID HE COME TO DIE? IS GOD CONFUSED? THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO GOD. ONLY FAITH IN JESUS. IF U HAD BEEN LED TO BELIEVE THERE IS ANOTHER WAY THEN THINK CAREFULLY AND INTELLIGENTLY WHY DID JESUS COME TO DIE A DREADFUL DEATH LIKE THAT TO RECONCILE MAN TO GOD 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17-19....NOW ALL THINGS ARE OF GOD, WHO HAS RECONCILED US TO HIMSELF THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND HAS GIVEN US THE MINISTRY OF RECONCILIATION, THAT IS GOD WAS IN CHRIST RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF, NOT IMPUTING THEIR TRESPASSES TO THEM AND HAS COMMITTED TO US THE WORD OF RECONCILIATION......BE RECONCILED TO GOD.

NOW THIS SCRIPTURE TELLS US THAT IT WAS GOD IN CHRIST RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF....(VS18-19) WHY WOULD GOD SAY IF U COME THRU CHRIST I WILL NOT IMPUTE ANY SIN OR TRESPASS ON YOU   THEN ALSO SAY ANY OTHER WAY WILL DO? JESUS TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD JOHN SAID BEHOLD THE LAMB WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD. (ST JOHN1:29)  NO OTHER RELIGIOUS OR SPIRITUAL LEADER WHETHER DEAD OR ALIVE CAN EVER TAKE AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD. ITS ONLY JESUS. ITS EITHER U BELIEVE THE WORD OF GOD OR NOT. ITS EITHER GOD IS CONFUSED OR THE ONLY WAY TO HIM IS THROUGH JESUS.

HOW CAN A LOVING GOD OR FATHER THROW PEOPLE TO HELL? A MERCIFUL GOD WITH ALL HIS ATTRIBUTES ? THAT'S ANOTHER QUESTION IVE BEEN ASKED. 

AS STATED ABOVE HELL WAS NOT DESIGNED FOR HUMAN BEINGS. ITS A PLACE THAT GOD CREATED FOR DISOBEDIENT ANGELS WHO REBELLED FROM HIM.

JUSTICE- IF THE DEVIL IS SO CUNNING AND EVIL DON'T U THINK he WOULD HAVE DEMANDED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE THAT WILL FOLLOW HIM, BEHAVE LIKE HIM REJECT CHRIST ETC. IF GOD IS JUST ,HOW COULD HE THEN LOWER HIS STANDARD OF HOLINESS TO ALLOW PEOPLE WHO BEHAVE LIKE THE DEVIL IN HEAVEN. THERE IS NO UN RIGHTEOUSNESS IN GOD HE DOES NOT TAKE BRIBES HABAKKUK 1:13 SAYS THAT YOU ARE OF A PURER EYES THAN TO BEHOLD  EVIL. THERE WAS NO WAY GOD COULD GET OUT OF THAT ONE. THE DEVIL IS DETERMINED THAT ALL THAT BEHAVE LIKE HIM ,DISOBEDIENCE,EVIL,REBELION, HATRED ETC ALL EVIL WILL SHARE HIS ETERNAL HOME WHILE ALL THAT BEHAVE LIKE JESUS WILL SHARE HIS ETERNAL HOME. THAT IS WHY JESUS HAD TO COME AND DIE SO THAT U DON'T END UP IN HELL.

GOD'S MERCY IS REVEALED IN COMING TO DIE FOR HIS CHILDREN IN JESUS SO THAT U CAN SPEND ETERNITY IN HEAVEN NOT HELL. THAT IS MERCY.! U AND I CAN NOW LIVE IN PEACE KNOWING THAT CHRIST HAS RECONCILED US TO GOD THROUGH THE CROSS. HE DID THE PART THAT WAS DIFFICULT SO THAT WE CAN DO THE EASY PART,, JUST BELIEVE AND ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST AS YR LORD AND PERSONAL SAVIOR.

IF U HAVE NOT GIVEN YR LIFE TO JESUS UP TO NOW FOR WHATEVER REASON PLIZ CONSIDER DOING SO RIGHT NOW BY SAYING THIS PRAYER... DEAR LORD JESUS I SURRENDER MY LIFE TO U NOW,  KNOWING U R THE ONLY WAY TO GOD. WASH ME CLEAN WITH YR PRECIOUS  BLOOD AND FORGIVE ALL MY SINS. BE MY LORD AND SAVIOUR AS FROM TODAY AND MAKE ME YR CHILD. AMEN.

BACK TO PRAYER

U WILL ENJOY YR PRAYER LIFE. STARTING WITH SIMPLE REPORT OF YR DAY, TO MORE COMPLEX ISSUES OF LIFE. BECAUSE GOD ANSWERS PRAYER. THE BIBLE IS FULL OF RECORDS OF PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS WHOSE PRAYERS GOD ANSWERED. SOME WERE GOOD SITUATIONS AND SOME WERE BAD. AS A FATHER GOD IS INVOLVED IN ALL. IN THE JEREMIAH BLOG WE READ THAT GOD ACTUALLY SAID TO JEREMIAH, WHILE HE WAS IN PRISON MINDING HIS OWN BUSINESS JER 33: (CALL UNTO ME, I WILL ANSWER YOU AND SHOW U GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS U KNOW NOTHING ABOUT). NOW IF GOD IS NOT INTERESTED IN TALKING TO HIS CHILDREN WHY WD HE MAKE SUCH A STATEMENT AND PROMISE TO ANSWER PRAYER. NOT ONLY ANSWER PRAYER BUT HE ALSO SAYS I WILL ALSO TELL U THINGS U DON'T KNOW. "HEAVENLY GOSSIP" THAT'S WHY I LOVE GOD HE IS SO RELATIONAL. HE SAYS HEY THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT I KNOW THAT U DON'T KNOW THAT I KNOW U WD LOVE TO KNOW SO ASK ME . I WONT VOLUNTEER INFORMATION ASK ME. LETS HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WHERE WE CAN DISCUSS THINGS. JEREMIAH HAD ASKED WHAT WAS WITHIN HIS KNOWLEDGE BUT GOD KNEW THE WERE SOME THINGS THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW. GOD DESIRED TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH HIS FRIEND SERVANT OR CHILD SO HE SAYS HEY JEREMIAH! ASK ME I HAVE GOT NEWS U DON'T EVEN KNOW I HAVE. IF U ASK I CAN TELL U. THAT'S DADDY -SON RELATIONSHIP. ALL BORN OUT OF A PRAYER RELATIONSHIP. ON CE U GET INTO A PRAYER RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD INITIATED BY U WHEN U SLOW DOWN IN COMMUNICATION HE MISSES U AND STARTS LOOKING FOR U. SAYING IVE GOT NEWS U DON'T KNOW. TO HABAKKUK, WHEN HE CALLED ON GOD CONCERNING PROBLEMS IN THE NATION,  GOD SAID WAIT I DO A WORK IN YR NATION THAT WHEN PEOPLE HEAR IT THEY WONT BELIEVE SOME SAY WHEN YR EARS HEAR IT THEY WILL TINGLE!. ITS FUN TO TALK TO GOD. HE IS VERY POETIC AND PERSONAL. HE COULD HAVE JUST SAID I WILL TELL U SOMETHING BUT NO HE SAYS I WILL DO SOMETHING THAT WHEN PEOPLE HEAR IT THEY WONT BELIEVE. GET THE RELATIONAL ASPECT OF GOD THAT CAN BE  CULTIVATED THRU PRAYER. LOOSEN UP  DON'T BE TOO TIGHT  GOD IS A FATHER WHO JUST WANTS U TO UNDERSTAND HE ANSWERS PRAYER...IS VERY RELATIONAL, CAN TALK YR LANGUAGE, IS FUN,  AND IS WAITING FOR U TO  INITIATE THE PRAYER RELATIONSHIP.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM JESUS PRAYER LIFE AS THE SON OF GOD?

1- JESUS AS THE SON OF GOD IS THE ONE WHO SAID MAN MUST PRAY ALWAYS AND NOT LOSE HEART...IE DON'T GIVE UP. ALWAYS PRAY NO MATTER THE OUTCOME. LUKE 18:1.

2-IN LUKE 11 :5-13 JESUS ALSO ENCOURAGES US TO PRAY AGAIN AND AGAIN HE SAYS KEEP ASKING AND KEEP KNOCKING EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO ANSWER AT FIRST U WILL END UP WITH THE ANSWER. IN VS 13 JESUS LITERARY SAYS " IF U BEING EVIL KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS TO YR CHILDREN, HOW MUCH MORE WILL YR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE THAT ASK HIM!' NOW JESUS STATES THERE THAT ALTHOUGH HE USED A PARABLE OF A FRIEND, THAT FRIEND IS YR FATHER IN HEAVEN. HE SAID EVERYONE WHO ASKS RECEIVES, HE WHO  SEEKS FINDS, AND TO HIM WHO KNOCKS IT WILL BE OPENED. EVERYONE... GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS HE IS A FATHER  A FRIEND. 

WHY DO PEOPLE NOT GET PRAYERS ANSWERED QUICKLY OR FAST ENOUGH? THE CATCH THERE IS YR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER. 

NB... WHICH OF U SHALL HAVE A FRIEND....GO TO HIM AT MIDNIGHT (BECAUSE HE IS A FRIEND, TIME DOESN'T MATTER WHEN I'M IN TROUBLE I CAN GO TO MY FRIEND ANYTIME!) AND SAY TO HIM FRIEND  LEND ME THREE LOAVES, FOR A FRIEND HAS COME TO ME AT THIS HOUR, MIDNIGHT,. WHILE ON HIS JOURNEY I HAVE NOTHING TO SET BEFORE HIM(FRIENDLY CONFESSION U WON'T TELL JUST ANYBODY U HAVE NO FOOD EVEN BREAD.).....VS 7 I SAY TO.... , YET BECAUSE OF HIS PERSISTENCE HE WILL RISE AND GIVE HIM.... VS 11 IF A SON ASKS FOR BREAD FROM ANY FATHER AMONG YOU.....VS 13 ......GOOD GIFTS TO YR  CHILDREN ....YR HEAVENLY FATHER GIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THOSE WHO ASK. ALL THIS PASSAGE IS ABOUT RELATIONSHIP... FATHER, SON,FRIEND ASKING. THE RE IS COMMUNICATION THERE.

IF U START COMMUNICATING WITH THE FATHER U BECOME FRIENDS. ALL THE RELATIONSHIPS MENTIONED ABOVE ARE NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT A PROPER COMMUNICATION LINE. A FATHER  WILL NOT GIVE ANYTHING TO A SON WHO DOESN'T COMMUNICATE AT ALL. SOME FATHERS HAVE TO ENDURE A PAINFUL RELATIONSHIP OF A SON WHO ONLY CALLS WHEN HE NEEDS HELP OR IS IN TROUBLE. WHEN WILL MY SON CALL JUST TO CHART OR TELL OF GOOD NEWS RATHER THAN A GIVE ME GIVE ME RELATIONSHIP. A FRIEND IS A FRIEND IF U SPEND TIME TOGETHER SHARE ISSUES OF LIFE WHETHER GOOD OR BAD. A FRIEND WHO DOESN'T CULTIVATE A RELATIONSHIP THRU COMMUNICATION IS NOT A FRIEND AT ALL. THEY CALL THEM BEGGARS ..HE ONLY COMES HERE TO BEG.

WHAT JESUS WAS TEACHING HERE WAS -1 A  COMMUNICATING RELATIONSHIP -2-PERSISTENCE -

3-FATHERS RESPONSE TO A COMMUNICATING SON.... HE GETS WHAT HE WANTS...  -4-HE BECOMES A FRIEND WHO CAN COME ANYTIME WHETHER MIDNIGHT OR FOR WHATEVER HE NEED,

5-- CAN DISCUSS INTIMATE ISSUES THAT CAN NOT BE TOLD TO ANY ONE...I HAVE NO BREAD IN MY HOUSE. I NEED 3LOAVES..( NOTE HE NEEDED FOR HIS FAMILY AS WELL A FRIEND WOULDN'T HAVE FINISHED 3 LOAVES BY HIMSELF.) (PARAPHRASE)

LESSONS IN PRAYER

 AS U HAVE REALISED ALL WHAT WAS SAID ABOVE WAS .......

1- DEVELOP A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER.

2- COME AS A SON, A PROPER SON WHO COMMUNICATES WITH HIS FATHER ANYTIME NOT ONLY WHEN THERE IS A PROBLEM. 

3- GOD IS FUN DON'T BE AFRAID OF HIM. YES THERE IS THE FEAR OF THE LORD BUT  THAT FEAR SHOULD LEAD U NOT TO SIN AGAINST HIM BUT NOT TO AVOID HIM ALL TOGETHER. 

4- DEVELOP A LIFESTYLE OF PRAYER AND PRAY EVERY WHERE. (1 TIMOTHY 2:8 ).."I DESIRE THEREFORE THAT THE MEN PRAY EVERYWHERE LIFTING UP HOLY HANDS WITHOUT WRATH OR DOUBTING."

5 -GOD ANSWERS PRAYER AND WILL EVEN VOLUNTEER TO TELL U GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS U KNOW NOTHING ABOUT. ( SOUNDS LIKE WHAT FRIENDS DO. ...I KNOW SOMETHING THAT MY FRIEND DOESN'T KNOW I BETTER TELL HIM. I KNOW BOTH HIS EARS WILL TINGLE WHEN THEY HEAR THIS. (2 KINGS 21:12)

WOULDN'T U LIKE GOD TO TELL U THINGS TO MAKE BOTH YR EARS TINGLE... WOMEN LIKE THAT... MY PRAYER....GOD TELL ME THINGS TO MAKE BOTH MY EARS TINGLE.

U HAVE TO INITIATE THE RELATIONSHIP GOD DID HIS INITIATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP AT CALVARY.

FINALLY MY BRETHREN...BE STRONG IN THE LORD AND IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOUR OF GOD SO THAT  U MAY BE ABLE TO  STAND  AGAINST THE WILES OF THE DEVIL.EPHESIANS6:12-13. HOW DO U PUT ON THE ARMOUR OF GOD U....PRAY! SO PRAYER IS PROTECTIVE WEAPON FOR THE CHILD OF GOD. PUT IT ON IN THE NIGHT, JUST BEFORE U GO TO BED, AND FIRST THING IN THE MORNING. PAUL EXPLAINS....VS 13 FOR WE WRESTLE NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD BUT.... SO PAUL IS TELLING US WE ARE IN WARFARE. PRAYING ON THE ARMOUR OF GOD WILL ACTUALLY PROTECT US FROM THE WILES OF THE DEVIL. THE DICTIONARY EXPLAINS WILES AS..1ATRICK, ARTIFICE,STRATAGEM MEANT TO FOOL, TRAP, OR ENTICE;DEVICE 2-ARTFUL OR BEGUILING BEHAVIOR 3-DECEITFUL CUNNING;TRICKERY 4 TO LURE DECEITFULLY.

 WE THANK GOD THEN FOR GIVING US A WEAPON THAT WE CAN PUT ON BY JUST PRAYING. PRAISE GOD. THE TOPIC OF SPIRITUAL WARFARE WILL BE DEALT WITH SOON.


REMAIN IN HIS LOVE COMMUNICATING WITH HIM,
PASTOR NOMSA JONAH.

JEREMIAH'S PRAYERS- LIFE'S CONFUSION. JEREMIAH 32-33!PLIZ READ IT BEFORE TO FULLY UNDESTAND!

 POLITE NOTICE.....  THIS IS A DETAILED STUDY OF JEREMIAH'S PRAYER. ITS QUITE HEAVY... ITS FOR THOSE THAT ARE MATURE OR SEEKING TO MATURE IN GOD. ALSO FOR WHOEVER IS SERIOUS ABOUT SORTING AND DIAGNOSING. PROBLEMS IN ONES LIFE THAT ARE OF GRAND CONCERN.

MOST IMPORTANT- ITS FOR OUR CHILDREN WHO MIGHT GROW UP IN A SOCIETY WHERE THEY DON'T TEACH ABOUT GOD'S RESPONSE TO SIN, AS IT HAS STARTED TODAY. FEW CHURCHES TEACH ABOUT SIN OR GOD'S REACTION TO SIN AND DISOBEDIENCE AND IDOLATRY.
WHAT IS IDOLATRY TODAY?.... ANYTHING THAT U SET YR AFFECTION ON, MORE THAN GOD. ANYTHING THAT CONSUMES U IN SUCH A WAY THAT U SPEND MOST OF YR TIME IN. ALMOST WORSHIP. EXAMPLES.... MONEY, BUSINESS, WORK, PEOPLE SOMETHING THAT U PASSIONATELY ADORE.... ASK THE HOLY GHOST TO SHOW U IDOLS IN YR LIFE. ASK SINCERELY HE WILL SHOW U. ITS HIS JOB TO GET THE BRIDE OF CHRIST READY !!

DEFILEMENT OF THE TEMPLE   -U SEE GOD IS HOLY...THERE IS A REASON WHY HE WANTS TO BE DEFINED AS A HOLY GOD. IN ORDER TO PROTECT HIS HOLINESS HE GIVES SPECIFIC  INSTRUCTION ON HOW HIS BUSINESS SHOULD BE CONDUCTED. SO MUCH DETAIL AND MEASUREMENTS COLOURS etc WHY? ITS BECAUSE HE WANTS U NOT TO GIVE HIM WHAT IS PROFANE- LAME, DIRTY, NOT UP TO STANDARD. HE SAYS SO MANY TIMES IN THE WORD I AM HOLY....THAT MEANS WHAT EVER U BRING TO ME MUST MEET THE STANDARDS OH A HOLY PERSON. THEN GOD GOES AHEAD AND PROVIDES THE MEANS OF SANCTIFICATION SO THAT U DON'T HAVE AN EXCUSE. THE BLOOD.... IT WAS READILY AVAILABLE WHETHER OF ANIMALS OR INDEED OF CHRIST GOD MADE SURE U CANT SAY "I DIDN'T HAVE THE SANCTIFYING  MEDIUM". TAKE SPECIFIC CARE FOR THAT WHICH U WANT TO PRESENT TO YR FATHER IN HEAVEN. WHETHER ITS A SONG YR SELF, PRAYER, ANY SERVICE. REMEMBER GOD HAS NEVER GIVEN MAN SECOND HAND ANYTHING. HE GAVE US CHRIST HIS BEST, HIMSELF, PAUL SAYS GOD WAS IN CHRIST RECONCILING THE WORLD TO HIMSELF. EVEN THE ANIMALS OFFERED TO GOD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT HAD TO BE PURE WITHOUT BLEMISH. GOD MADE SURE MAN KNOWS WHAT HE EXPECTS, SO THAT GOD WILL NEVER HAVE TO THROW WHAT MAN BRINGS TO HIM, BUT ALAS ISRAEL BECAME CARELESS, STARTED BRINGING LAME THINGS TO GOD,. MALACHI COMPLAINS OF THE GIFTS MAN BROUGHT TO GOD. AFTERWARDS GOD WAS SILENT FOR 400 YRS UNTIL THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST IN THE GOSPELS WHERE HE STARTED AGAIN WITH THE BIRTH OF JESUS, WHO HAD COME TO SANCTIFY US WITH HIS BLOOD SO THAT ONCE AGAIN WE CAN OFFER HOLY SACRIFICES. I AM TAKING THIS TIME TO HELP U UNDERSTAND WHY GOD REJECTED ISRAEL SO THAT WE DON'T FALL IN THE SAME TRAP.
THE WORD SAYS CHRIST HAS COME TO MAKE US  KINGS AND PRIESTS TO HIS GOD (REV 1VS 6). WHEN GOD MEETS ISRAEL AT MOUNT SINAI HE SAID HE WILL MAKE THEM A KINGDOM OF PRIESTS A HOLY NATION( EXODUS 19VS 6). NOW  WHEN THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING PRIESTLY GARMENTS CAME THEY WERE TO WEAR A TURBAN ON THEIR FOREHEADS WRITTEN HOLINESS TO THE LORD. WHY FOREHEAD?  IS IT BECAUSE ITS THE MOST CONSPICUOUS PLACE IN A PERSON? REMEMBER GOD WAS COMING TO DWELL WITH THEM AS HE IS DWELLING IN U TODAY, SO 2 CORINTHIANS 7 VS 1 SAYS THERE FOR HAVING THESE PROMISES....(.what promises if u go back to the end of chapter 6 He had just told them again that He will DWELL AMONG THEM. 2 CORINTH 6 VS 11-18.) SO PAUL SAYS ...BELOVED LET US CLEANSE OURSELVES FROM ALL FILTHINESS OF THE FLESH AND SPIRIT PERFECTING HOLINESS IN THE FEAR OF GOD. I HUMBLY ASK U TO REVISIT THE HOLINESS ISSUE IN YR LIFE SO THAT U DON'T END UP OFFERING WHAT IS PROFANE OR DEFILING GODS TEMPLE YR BODY AND U END UP LIKE ISRAEL CAST OUT OF GODS SIGHT. WE HAVE BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH THE MOST PRECIOUS POSSESSION OF GOD HIS SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT, A PERSON WHO IS DEFINED BY HOLINESS ... THIS HOLY PERSON HAS COME ALL THE WAY FROM HEAVEN TO COME AND LIVE IN U. HE IS HOLY.... THIS IS JUST TO HELP U BE A HOST TO A HOLY GOD.....WATCH OUT WHERE U TAKE HIM, WHAT U LET HIM SEE AND HEAR AND DO THRU U, HE LIVES IN U AND IS WITH U ALL THE TIME,. WOE IS ME... A MAN OF UNCLEAN LIPS I HAVE A HOLY GOD LIVING IN ME.!!!!!!!!!
IF U FIND IT TOO HEAVY OR DISTURBING GO TO THE HOLY GHOST WHO LED ME IN THIS STUDY I SPENT SO MANY HOURS ON IT. ASK HIM TO HELP U DIGEST IT BIT BY BIT.

BACKGROUND

JEREMIAH was a prophet from a priestly town of Anathoth. His name means "YAHWEH EXALTS". He prophesied during the reigns of different kings eg JOSIAH, JEHOAHAZ, JEHOIACHIN AND ZEDEKIAH. We are mainly concerned with his prayers during the reign of Zedekiah. Although Josiah had been a good king because of his reforms that didn't last long after his death. Israel went back to Idolatry which angered GOD GREATLY. Because of idolatry which God calls ADULTERY OR FORNICATION (simply because Israel was God's wife, Jer 31v32) HE had to give them a divorce, send them away to captivity, away from his Land, Remove HIS presence from them culminating in the destruction of the TEMPLE, which to them was a sign that GOD WAS WITH THEM. Also another reason for sending them away was because Israel had been disobedient in not giving the LAND its due 7 yr SABBATH REST. 2 CHRONICLES 36 VS 11-21. THE BIBLE RECORDS THERE, THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE REASONS WHY. QUITE FASCINATING IS THE FACT THAT - the reasons given there are what is prevalent in our lives today.


2-He rebelled from an oath Sworn by GOD .hmmmmm.
3-Stiffened his neck and hardened his heart towards turning to the GOD OF Israel. (REBELLION AND DISOBEDIENCE) REFUSING TO REPENT OF KNOWN SINS.
4-Idolatry, abominations of the nations, and defilement of GODS HOUSE. Today yr body is the temple of the Living God. (1 Corinthians 6v19).
5-despising warnings from GOD, Mocking his messengers, Scoffing at His prophets.
6- vs 21 issue of giving the land rest.
All these reasons are what the Bible EXPLAINS as GOD's reasons for sending ISRAEL AND JUDAH to captivity.

NB- DO THEY DEFINE OUR SOCIETY TODAY, INCLUDING THE CHURCH ,(BRIDE OF CHRIST). Being BRIDE OF CHRIST STILL MEANS U R GOD'S WIFE LIKE ISRAEL, JESUS IS GOD. 
DO CHECK, if yr life is clear of these sins that led God to throw away( HIS WIFE,) -( ISRAEL- HOSEA 2VS 14-23, )-LET THE ENEMY PLUNDER HIS TEMPLE,  LET GENTILES GET INTO THE HOLY OF HOLLIES WHERE ONLY THE HIGH PRIEST HAD ACCESS, BUT ONLY AFTER SUCH VIGOROUS CLEANSING RITUALS AND STILL IF HE MISSED A BIT HE COULD DIE. GENTILES WENT INTO THE HOLY OF HOLLIES AND DEFILED EVERYTHING THERE, TOOK THE VESSELS USED FOR WORSHIP WENT AND USED THEM IN THE WORSHIP OF THEIR gods. PHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!. U need to understand how these sins would have Angered God in such a way that the Bible says HIS WRATH WAS KINDLED AGAINST HIS PEOPLE UNTIL THERE WAS NO REMEDY! 2Chronicles 36vs 15 -21.
Its a record of God's action that every child of God, Bride of Christ, Serious Christian should know! why because The Bible says JESUS CHRIST (GOD) IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND FORE EVER!.(HEBREWS 13 VS 8,) THAT MAKES ME SO UNCOMFORTABLE, BECAUSE IF HE IS THE SAME GOD, WHO DELIVERED HIS PEOPLE TO CAPTIVITY BECAUSE OF SINS THAT ARE MORE PREVALENT TODAY THAN YESTERDAY ... WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME AND U. THE CHURCH?  

BACK TO JEREMIAH'S PRAYERS!


IN JER 32-33 The bible records that King Zedekiah had put The Prophet in Prison because He had warned him of the impending judgement and prophesied about the future of the king. 32vs 1-5. BUT while he was in prison, THE WORD OF GOD CAME TO HIM.!!! WOW. THIS EXCITES ME. JOHN SAYS JESUS IS THE WORD,  THAT WAS IN THE BEGINNING, And JESUS SAID ALL THAT THE FATHER GIVES HIM HE DOESN'T LOSE ANY!.SO ALTHOUGH THE KING HAD SHUT THE PROPHET AWAY IN PRISON, WHERE NO ONE KNEW WHERE HE WAS ..THE WORD KNEW. THE WORD FOUND HIM, FOR GOD HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PROPHET HE SPOKE THRU HIM.
What excites me is that HE located him in prison and didn't say lets get out of here He said LETS DO BUSINESS! LETS BUY HOUSES AND PROPERTIES FIELDS.. SO THE PROPHET WITH THE WORD STARTED TO WEIGH MONEY IN PRISON, SIGN DEEDS AND HE CONTINUED TO PROPHESY(.VS 14-15.. ) THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS HOUSES , FIELDS, AND VINEYARDS SHALL BE POSSESSED BOUGHT AGAIN IN THIS LAND...????? THE LAND WAS UNDER SIEGE!.



NOW AFTER ALL THIS EXCITEMENT, REALITY HIT HIM....HE WENT TO GOD TO PRESENT HIS PARADOX...32VS16-25. HE starts by saying AH LORD GOD BEHOLD.....see ... THEN HE WORSHIPS,VS17-20, REMINDS GOD HIS HISTORY WITH HIS PEOPLE 21-, ACKNOWLEDGES THEIR SINS VS-23 DISOBEDIENCE, THEN THE REALITY 24-25.

LOOK THE SIEGE MOUNDS THEY HAVE COME TO CAPTURE THE CITY, THERE IS SWORD, DEATH, HUNGER,FAMINE,AND PESTILENCE...U SEE IT...YET U SAY BUY THE FIELD FOR MONEY, TAKE WITNESSES....BUT THE CITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE ENEMY!!!. PROBABLY THERE WOULD BE NO CITY TOMORROW OR THE WITNESSES WD ALL BE DEAD!
ISN'T THIS WHERE WE FIND OURSELVES TODAY!?. WHAT DO U DO WHEN ON ONE HAND U HAVE GODS WONDERFUL PROMISES ( I know the plans i have for u plans of peace and not of evil, to give u a future and hope Jer 29 vs11-12, buy lands and houses and vineyards 32vs14-15,  A New Covenant..etc. AND WHEN U LOOK OUTSIDE YR DOOR TO REALITY, THERE IS DEATH. HUNGER, PESTILENCE, DISEASES CONFUSION, ITS A DESERT NO SIGN OF LIFE OR PROGRESS, ONLY FEAR,  THREATS OF DESTRUCTION DIVORCE, BILLS NO HOPE?

WHAT DO U DO WITH LIFE'S PARADOXES AND CONFUSIONS?

LETS INTERACT WITH JEREMIAH
1- We know GOD spoke thru him.
2- He had a relationship with GOD.
3-He could hear clearly from GOD for God told him about Hanamel his Uncle's son coming and indeed it happened as he had heard from GOD.
SO he is a man we can TRUST.


WHAT DID JEREMIAH DO?

1-He went back to GOD who had given him the word and the promises.
He knew how to approach GOD, not accusing of confusing BUT WORSHIPED.
-What does worship do?...Pleases GOD, makes HIM attentive, Brings HIM down,  HE inhabits the praises of HIS people. ITS the ATMOSPHERE OF HEAVEN AROUND THE THRONE, ITS THE LANGUAGE OF HEAVEN. WORSHIP TELLS GOD U HAVE FAITH IN HIM, U KNOW WHO HE IS, eg despite what u see u still boast of his Greatness, THAT confuses the enemy!. That pleases GOD.
2- He was realistic about the situation, He didn't deny that there were siege mounds, war, death, hunger,etc he didn't bind anything or loose, He took the situation to His GOD,  THE ONLY ONE WHO COULD MAKE SENSE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE LIKE A SON WHO SAYS DADDY WE HAVE A PROBLEM, ...
3- HE acknowledged their sin as Having brought about this situation, not blaming GOD for failing to Deliver.
He had Faith that GOD can fix the problem so he went to him.
4 Despite being in prison for GOD'S WORK he was not bitter towards GOD nor do we hear him say " WHY ARE U TALKING TO ME DON'T U REALISE I'M IN PRISON BECAUSE OF YR WORK? TAKE ME OUT ETC. HE still worshiped! wow! Talked of GOD'S GREAT POWER! OUTSTRETCHED ARM NOTHING TOO HARD FOR U.
GOD RESPONDED!

WHAT DID GOD DO?
GOD according to Jeremiah...(JER 32VS17-19,) u see GOD WILL RELATE WITH U AT A LEVEL THAT U UNDERSTAND, or yr level of knowledge. u need to move from baby stage, to a level where GOD can tell u Kingdom business. Where yr relationship with HIM is not defined by circumstances, what u see, what HE has done or what He hasn't done!. Where He is LORD whether ministry has got u into prison or into A palace. Married or unmarried where u worship in the valley or on the mountaintop. u see even if u r in the valley, THERE GROWS THE LILY OF THE VALLEY U NOT ALONE. AND ITS NOT FOUND ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP ITS FOR THOSE GOING THRU THE VALLEY...GOING THROUGH.
Jeremiah understood GOD AS THE-1 CREATOR OF HEAVEN AND EARTH...somebody who can create out of nothing., WHOSE power can bring about order out of a situation like GENESIS1 where there was no form,voidness, and only deep darkness  AS long as he understood God as the creator despite the situation He also realised the THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS HOVERING OVER THE SITUATION. HE also understood that God would soon speak!.
2-GOD HAS GREAT POWER  AND AN OUTSTRETCHED ARM....He can do anything and his arm IS ALWAYS READY TO ACT.
3- NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR HIM.... HE CAN DO WHATEVER HE LIKES WHENEVER HE LIKES.
4.SHOWS LOVING KINDNESS BUT DOES NOT IGNORE INIQUITY REPAYS..
5- MIGHTY,GREAT, THE LORD OF HOSTS.... meaning He also is a warrior, Has his own army HE could  use on those who had besieged the.
6- GREAT in counsel mighty in work..WHO SEES EVERYTHING THAT GOES ON, ON EARTH and rewards everyone according to their works... helps u reap what u sow....A JUST AND RIGHTEOUS GOD ..(JUSTICE AND RIGHTEOUSNESS ARE THE FOUNDATION OF HIS THRONE).

GOD RESPONDS.....BEHOLD!
I AM THE LORD THE GOD OF FLESH IS THERE ANYTHING TOO HARD FOR ME?  WOW! JEREMIAH WAS RIGHT NOTHING IS TOO HARD FOR HIM!.
But ALL HIS OTHER ATTRIBUTES STAND AS WELL... HOLINESS, JUSTICE, RIGHTEOUSNESS HATRED FOR IDOLATRY ETC JUST AS JEREMIAH HAD SAD. GOD AGREED WITH HIM BUT HE WOULD NOT DEFER HIS JUDGEMENT ANY LONGER THE TIME HAD COME!
NB... GOD STARTED TO EXPLAIN THAT HE COULD DO ANYTHING THERE IS NOTHING TOO HARD FOR HIM ie He could change the situation BUT ............LIKE a father talking to a mature Son , He starts to explain why the situation was like that.
GOD CONFIRMS THAT ITS HIS DOING! HE HAS GIVEN THE CITY OVER TO THEIR ENEMY THEY WILL BURN IT ON THE VERY HOUSES WHERE THEY OFFERED INCENSE TO BAAL TO PROVOKE ME TO ANGER. JER 32VS29-36. GOD EXPLAINS WHY?!.
IF U HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD U REALISE THAT MUST HAVE CAUSED HIM PAIN.
GOD POURS HIS HEART TO HIS SERVANT ON WHAT PROVOKED HIM TO ANGER AND ALLOW SUCH PAIN TO COME TO HIS INHERITANCE. VS 31 IS VERY SEVERE....FOR THIS CITY HAS BEEN TO ME A PROVOCATION OF MY ANGER AND MY FURY FROM THE DAY THAT THEY BUILT IT TO THIS DAY EVEN TO THIS DAY. SO I WILL REMOVE IT FROM BEFORE MY FACE....

AFTER GOD HAD EXPLAINED THE SITUATION HE UNVEILS THE RESTORATION PLAN....
JUST LIKE A LOVER WHO IS STILL IN LOVE WITH A CHEATING WIFE, HE SAYS HE WILL RESTORE... PRAISE GOD! HE THEN TALKS OF GATHERING THEM AGAIN AND SAFETY. THEY WILL BE MY PEOPLE AGAIN...VS 37-44 ARE VERY TOUCHING. DESPITE HIS PAIN GOD CAN NEVER KEEP HIS ANGER FOR EVER. HE SAYS HE WILL DO GOOD FOR THEM AND YES HOUSES AND VINEYARDS WILL BE BOUGHT AGAIN IN THIS PLACE. I LOVE GOD HE IS SO COMPASSIONATE. THE FORCE OF LOVE WITHIN HIM FAILED TO ALLOW HIM TO TURN HIS FACE FOREVER, EVEN THOUGH HE HAD BEEN PROVOKED. U GET SUCH A SENSE OF LOVE, COMPASSION, DEDICATION AND MERCY THAT IS BEYOND COMPREHENSION. HE IS WORTHY OF OUR PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING. HE IS FAITHFUL.
WELL after all this GOD must have left Jeremiah to DIGEST....BECAUSE JEREMIAH SAYS IN JEREMIAH 33 VS 1-3...THE WORD CAME TO ME AGAIN THE SECOND TIME, WHILE I WAS STILL SHUT UP IN PRISON... (NOTHING HAD CHANGED IN THE PROPHET'S LIFE STILL IN PRISON...) THE LORD STILL TELLS HIM, HE IS THE CREATOR AND HAS A MESSAGE FOR HIM..... ITS NOT I WILL GET U OUT OF PRISON... NO ITS... CALL UNTO ME AND I WILL ANSWER U AND SHOW U GREAT AND MIGHTY THINGS THAT U KNOW NOTHING ABOUT.... REVELATION... BUT U HAVE TO PER SUE IT DESPITE YR SITUATION. ITS NOT PERSONAL REVELATION, BUT ITS FOR YR PEOPLE.....
IN CHAPTER 33 GOD TALKS OF RESTORATION. GOODNESS, HEALTH, HEALING, PEACE TRUTH, MARRIAGES.... ALL THE THINGS THAT GOD HAD DESIRED AND ORDAINED FOR ISRAEL IN THE FIRST PLACE.
FROM VS 19-26 HE PROMISES A NEW COVENANT A PERMANENT ONE WHICH SHALL NEVER BE REMOVED.....PERMANENT RESTORATION.!.

WHAT CAN WE  LEARN FROM THIS PRAYER?

1-AS A CHILD OF GOD, BRIDE OF CHRIST ETC....
-WHEN u get into a confusing life paradox.... GO BACK TO GOD.
-CRITICALLY ASSESS YR LIFE.
IS THERE ANY SIN, DISOBEDIENCE, OMIT ION, CARELESSNESS IN YR LIFE THAT MIGHT HAVE BROUGHT THIS SITUATION? NB. U COULD BE IN PRISON LIKE JEREMIAH YET U THE ONLY GOOD GUY. GOD REJECTED ZEDEKIAH FOR HIS DISRESPECT TOWARDS THE PROPHET... BUT HE DID NOT REMOVE THE PROPHET FROM PRISON OR KILL ZEDEKIAH... HE JUST VISITED HIM IN PRISON AND THEY STARTED TO TALK... IF U R IN PRISON FOR PROCLAIMING GOD'S WORD CHEER UP! U MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE SAFE ENOUGH TO BUY HOUSES, IE .DO BUSINESS, GET REVELATION...etc. maybe being in prison was the safest place for the prophet, where he could be fed, and where without seeing the daily evils prevalent in that  day, HE could still worship, hear from GOD AND INQUIRE on behalf of the nation. In prison JEREMIAH managed to continue his ministry rather than being outside where it was dangerous and people didn't like him.
-GOD is wise His wisdom is unsearchable. He knows the safest place for u at a particular time!.
-GO to GOD with the right attitude like JEREMIAH.
-FOLLOW THE RIGHT PROTOCOL..WORSHIP.. SHOW GOD U KNOW WHO HE IS, DESPITE THE SITUATION.
-ACKNOWLEDGE YR CONTRIBUTION IN THE SITUATION CONFESS SIN, DANIEL ALSO DID (DANIEL 9VS 1-19.) SAME PROTOCOL USED BY JEREMIAH, GOD ANSWERED DANIEL'S PRAYER. GOD ANSWERS PRAYER THAT START WITH PRAISE AND WORSHIP... (I WILL ENTER HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING IN MY HEART, I WILL ENTER HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE...I WILL SAY...) NOTE ITS AN ACT OF SELF WILL. U HAVE TO DETERMINE IN YR HEART YR STRATEGY OF COMING TO GOD. IF U COME IN BITTERNESS, ANGER, ACCUSATION U HAVE NO PLACE AMONG THE MATURE  TO WHOM GOD CAN FELLOWSHIP WITH. AS A DISTRESSED CHILD GOD MIGHT SEND AN ANGEL TO CALM YR SPIRIT BUT THAT'S ALL. U WONT GET TO DISCUSS THE SITUATION WITH THE KING OF KINGS. Which l find very fascinating, God opening His HEART to men and sharing HIS feelings and emotions with HIS creation..WOW!.
---LEARN HOW GOD DEALS WITH SIN ...LEARN GOD'S CHARACTER.....

1- GOD DOES NOT TOLERATE SIN FOREVER , HE MAY WINK AT TIMES OF IGNORANCE BUT AS U MATURE HE COMMANDS U TO REPENT.Acts 17 vs 30-31.
-U CAN NOT AFFORD TO CONTINUE IN SIN AND DISOBEDIENCE FOREVER REPENT. SIN ALSO OPENS THE DOOR FOR THE ENEMY TO ATTACK U. ITS FOR YR OWN GOOD. GOD IS JUST AND RIGHTEOUS HE HATES SIN...(BUT U OH LORD ARE OF A PURER EYE TO BEHOLD INIQUITY.) HABAKKUK 1VS 13.  

ACCORDING TO THE WORD GOD DEALS RADICALLY WITH SIN....

1- HE KILLED HIMSELF TO DO AWAY WITH SIN FROM U.
2- HE HATES IDOLATRY SO MUCH THAT HE LET HIS WIFE (ISRAEL) GO TO CAPTIVITY AND BE PLUNDERED. HE REMOVED HIS PROTECTION AS A HUSBAND TO THEM SO THAT HE WOULD NOT SEE THEM AGAIN.... GOD CALLED IDOLATRY ADULTERY... MEANING WHEN ISRAEL WAS SACRIFICING TO IDOLS IT FELT LIKE A MAN WATCHING HIS WIFE WITH ANOTHER MAN!.. HE REMOVED ISRAEL FROM HIS FACE PREFERRING NOT TO SEE HER AGAIN ...(READ THE STORY OF HOSEA AND GOMMER) ITS THE STORY OF GOD AND ISRAEL.
3- GOD HATES PROFANE THINGS WHICH ARE DEFILED BEING OFFERED TO HIM. EVEN IF ITS WORSHIP IF ITS DEFILED HE WONT ACCEPT IT. HE IS A HOLLY GOD.
GOD LET THE GENTILES PLUNDER HIS TEMPLE GET INTO THE HOLY OF THE HOLLIES AND CARRY AWAY HIS VESSELS.
4-DANIEL CH5 VS 1-30....- GOD STILL CARED FOR HIS VESSELS FOR EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE IN BABYLON, IN EXILE, IN THE TEMPLE OF A FALSE GOD, WHEN KING BELSHAZZAR USED THEM FOR HIS PARTY, DEEP IN THE PALACE WHERE NOBODY OF JEWISH ORIGIN KNEW, WHEN EVEN THOSE THAT HAD GIVEN THESE VESSELS HAD LONG FORGOTTEN AND LOST HOPE,  AS SOON AS THEY RAISED THEM TO THEIR FALSE gods GOD SHOWED UP!!!  THE FINGER OF A MAN,S HAND APPEARED AND STARTED TO WRITE HIS JUDGEMENT. GLORY TO GOD!  WHAT A MIGHTY GOD WE SERVE. I FEEL LIKE BOWING DOWN IN REVERENCE AND WORSHIP RIGHT THERE. AWAY IN A FOREIGN LAND GOD KNEW WHERE HIS VESSELS WERE. AS SOON AS THEY RAISED THEM TO  FALSE gods HE SHOWED UP TO FIGHT FOR HIS VESSELS.. THAT WHICH HAD BEEN DEDICATED TO HIM A LONG TIME AGO. THE VESSELS COULDN'T FIGHT FOR THEMSELVES BUT GOD SHOWED UP. HE IS A JEALOUS GOD. IF U WERE DEDICATED TO HIM ONE DAY WHETHER AS A CHILD OR WHEN U GOT BORN AGAIN HE KNOWS WHERE U R. HIS EYE IS ON U. IF U R IN A SITUATION WHERE U CANT FIGHT FOR YR SELF HE WILL SHOW UP. U R HIS VESSEL WHERE EVER U R. MAYBE U USED TO SHINE FOR HIM IN SUNDAY SCHOOL LONG AGO HE STILL KNOWS U AND WHERE U R ONE DAY HE WILL SHOW UP. IT MIGHT BE AFTER MANY YRS. NB THAT KING LOST HIS LIFE AND THE WHOLE KINGDOM CAME UNDER JUDGEMENT JUST BECAUSE OF VESSELS....

-NB- HE MIGHT NOT HAVE UNDERSTOOD WHAT THOSE VESSELS MEANT TO GOD OR WHAT USING THEM IN HIS IDOL WORSHIP MEANT BUT GOD JUDGED HIM ANYWHERE... PLEADING IGNORANCE DIDN'T WORK! BE CAREFUL WITH WHAT EVER WAS DEDICATED AND SANCTIFIED TO GOD. TOUCH NOT MINE ANOINTED! U MIGHT PUT YR CHILDREN IN DANGER... BELSHAZZAR WAS A SON OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR, WHO HAD BROUGHT THE ARTICLES FROM GOD'S HOUSE IN JERUSALEM HE DIDN'T USE THEM HIMSELF, BUT  STORED THEM AWAY....BUT HIS SON, MAYBE IGNORANT OF WHAT THEY WERE, USED THEM AND BROUGHT JUDGEMENT TO HIMSELF AND HIS KINGDOM. PEOPLE PERISH BECAUSE OF LACK OF KNOWLEDGE THAT'S WHY I'M SPENDING SO MUCH TIME IN THIS STUDY TO HELP U UNDERSTAND THAT THE GOD WE SERVE IS SERIOUS ABOUT HIS WORSHIP. DON'T TAKE HIM FOR GRANTED HE IS A LOVING FATHER YES BUT ALSO THERE IS A SIDE TO HIM THAT IS MORE FIERCE THAN ANYTHING U KNOW ....HIS HATRED OF SIN AND IDOLATRY!.
LASTLY....GOD TAKES HIS INSTRUCTION SERIOUSLY....EVERYTHING THAT COMES OUT OF HIS MOUTH, ITS NOT FOR FUN ITS BECAUSE HE CARES.  NB WHEN GOD SAID TO ISRAEL AFTER 7 YRS LET THE LAND REST... WHO WD HAVE KNOWN THAT EVERY SEVEN YRS HE WAS WATCHING? PROBABLY PEOPLE HAD FORGOTTEN BUT HE HAD COMMANDED REST FOR THE LAND. WE MAY SPEND A LOT OF TIME ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT BUT I JUST WANT TO PUT IT AS THE PERIL OF AN IGNORED SIMPLE INSTRUCTION. LEVITICUS 25 VS1-7 AND 8-13. OBVIOUSLY SINCE THE INSTRUCTION WAS GIVEN TO ISRAEL ABOUT 700 OR MORE YRS AGO, GOD STILL EXPECTED THEM TO FOLLOW IT. IT WAS SPOKEN BY GOD SO IT WAS IMPORTANT. GOD PUTS THAT AS A REASON TO SEND THEM TO CAPTIVITY SO THAT HIS LAND COULD FINALLY REST!. WHAT INSTRUCTION HAVE WE IGNORED IN OUR LIVES THAT ARE CAUSING PROBLEMS? CAN WE PLEAD IGNORANCE?

FINALLY MY BRETHREN REMEMBER-1-  ISRAEL WAS RESTORED. BUT IT WAS THE REMNANT! GOD KEPT HIS PROMISE BUT TO THEIR CHILDREN AFTER MORE THAN 70 YRS. THOSE THAT HAD HURT HIM PERISHED IN EXILE.
2-GOD DID THE SAME WITH THOSE THAT LEFT EGYPT. (ISRAEL), WHO AFTER THEY HAD SEEN HIS MIRACLES MADE AN IDOL OF GOLD AND SAID THIS IS THE GOD WHO BROUGHT US OUT OF EGYPT( EXODUS 32VS 4-5) ALL THOSE PERISHED IN THE WILDERNESS 40 YRS WANDERING FAILING TO MAKE A JOURNEY THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO TAKE 11 DAYS. ONLY 3 ENTERED THE PROMISED LAND 2 ALIVE AND THE THIRD ONE -BONES! GOD'S CHARACTER IS CONSISTENT TOWARDS SIN CONTRARY TO WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT CONFUSING GRACE. GRACE DOESN'T GIVE US LICENCE TO SIN, ITS FOR OUR TRESPASSES..FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES NOT PERMANENT DWELLING OF SIN AND DISOBEDIENCE.
REMEMBER AFTER JEREMIAH HAD WORSHIPED AND PRAISED GOD HE SAID I WILL RESTORE BUT TO THE REMNANT...NOT TO THOSE WHO HAD PROVOKED HIM TO ANGER. SO WORSHIP WITHOUT SORTING THE ISSUES IN YR LIFE MIGHT GET U A RESTORATION AND A PERMANENT COVENANT BUT FOR YR CHILDREN..... TAKE CARE!. 
-THANKS
PASTOR NOMSA JONAH.
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THE PRAYER OF JABEZ.1 CHRONICLES 4 VS 9-10.

The HOLY SPIRIT gives a short account of the LIFE of a man named JABEZ (SORROW MAKER). Pliz read the story as u follow this discussion. Its fascinating because its in the middle of a GENEALOGY OF JUDAH. HE takes time to explain something about this man.WHY? Is it because Jabez life relates to many of us TODAY?. JABEZ discovered that his fate in life had been decided, when he was born. SORROW MAKER!. BUT The Word says HE was MORE HONOURABLE, NOBLE, BETTER (different translations) THAN HIS BROTHERS. I find that interesting because this comes in the middle of a GENEALOGY OF THE WHOLE TRIBE OF JUDAH. His is the only life that is expanded because of the PRAYER HE MADE. Obviously Jabez was not content with certain KEY issues in his LIFE. He must have studied his life and decided THINGS HAVE GOT TO CHANGE! I CAN NOT CONTINUE LIKE THIS. 1- What kind of a name is this?. 2- I need  BLESSING (EMPOWERMENT TO PROSPER) in my life. 3- My territory is TOO SMALL, I NEED ENLARGEMENT. 4- This desert i'm in does not show GOD'S HAND IN MY LIFE. (Isaiah 41 v 10 .....I WILL UPHOLD U WITH MY RIGHTEOUS RIGHT HAND.) I NEED THE HAND OF GOD IN MY LIFE.....IN ALL I DO!. 5- KEEP ME FROM EVIL... even that associated with my name, or Anything that l can't control which comes to interfere with my  peace, prosperity, joy,comfort......6- JABEZ took a leap of FAITH to confront that which life gave him before he could even decide for himself (SORROW MAKER). OR THAT I MAY NOT CAUSE PAIN. NB- Thats nobility. Concern not to cause pain or sorrow to others. Sadly few in Christ ever think about this. We say, do or dont do things to others hurting them badly. At times we say l was born like that! REALLY! PLIZ DO SOMETHING ABOUT TR SITUATION TODAY!. CONFRONT HARD ISSUES!. IF JABEZ had told somebody about his discontentment they would have probably said .."U CANT HELP IT!, U TOO OLD NOW TO CHANGE IT. ENLARGEMENT?, BLESSING? MAN ....BE THANKFUL YR NAME IS UNIQUE! WHO ELSE HAS IT. Jabez knew WHERE TO GO.... THE ONE WHO WAS PRESENT BEFORE HIM, ONE WHO WAS THERE WHEN THEY GAVE HIM THE NAME....., ONE WHO OWNS THE LAND AND IS ABLE TO NULLIFY THE PAST. THE ONLY SOURCE OF EVERYTHING. GOD COULD NOT REFUSE SUCH A DISPLAY OF FAITH, TRUST, AND DETERMINATION!. GOD GRANTED HIS REQUEST. FUNNY ,GOD DIDN'T THINK IT WAS RIDICULOUS, OR GREED, OR LACK OF RESPECT FOR HIS MOTHER. GOD GAVE HIM A STATE OF NOBILITY MORE THAN ALL THE FAMILY OF JUDAH.....

SO where are u now? ARE U GOING TO CONTINUE WITH YR LIFE AND BLAME IT ON FATE. JABEZ refused to let life or anybody dictate his present condition! He took charge!.SOME of us let the countries we r in dictate. BUT THE WORD SAYS WE R HIS OFFSPRING (GOD)  ACTS17 vs 28. FURTHERMORE....COLOSSIANS 2 vs14 ..Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. HE HAS TAKEN IT OUT OF THE WAY, HAVING NAILED IT TO THE CROSS. HAVING DISARMED PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS, HE MADE A PUBLIC SPECTACLE OF THEM TRIUMPHING OVER THEM IN IT. SO.... FINALLY...COLS 3 vs20 THEREFORE, IF U DIED WITH CHRIST FROM THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE WORLD, WHY AS THO LIVING IN THE WORLD DO U SUBJECT YR SELF TO REGULATIONS.......?. I REST MY CASE. AMEN.

PS,- POLITE NOTICE.....This post is for God's children who r not looking for advanced theology. Its just for those that are interested in prayer and help in issues of life not how much Qualification l hold or context or out of context, Greek and Hebrew words etc. ALTHOUGH WITH A MASTERS DEGREE FROM MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY I CAN WELL COMMUNICATE IN THAT LEVEL, THIS IS FOR SIMPLE EVERYDAY LIFE ISSUES!.  THANK YOU.

PRAYER-WEEK

Its prayer week ! I encourage friends and relatives and all saints of the MOST HIGH to spend some time in prayer for- 1, themselves, Choose one thing that bothers u the most and spend at least 15 minutes on it for the next 7 days. Something that u passionately seek an answer for.

 2- A FRIEND, IF u know somebody who desperately needs Prayer, Spend another 15 minutes on them totaling yr PRAYER time to 30 minutes a day for these needs. Its called sowing seeds of Prayer for somebody's breakthru.
3 IF u want ME TO PRAY WITH U pliz email your request to pastornomsa@gmail.com. Email for privacy so that pple dont read yr requests just in case they are private. BY the way u can still email yr  requests after the prayer week is finished.
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GOD BLESS YOU
PASTOR NOMSA.