God answers prayers according to his will and character as a loving Father. The passage encourages persistent prayer through "asking, seeking, knocking" which suggests increasing intimacy with God. It provides principles for effective prayer: only God's children will be answered; we should ask for what is promised; God hears all prayers and answers yes, no, or not yet; he gives what we need, not always what we want; and no prayer is wasted as seeking God brings us closer to him.
Do we still believe in the power of prayer today? Listening to some pray would lead me to believe we serve a helpless God! "God if you can...." There is power in prayer!
This power point is aimed towards the importance of Wisdom and how God wants us to live by the path of His wisdom. We must seek wisdom, live by wisdom, and grow in our faith by gaining wisdom.
Do we still believe in the power of prayer today? Listening to some pray would lead me to believe we serve a helpless God! "God if you can...." There is power in prayer!
This power point is aimed towards the importance of Wisdom and how God wants us to live by the path of His wisdom. We must seek wisdom, live by wisdom, and grow in our faith by gaining wisdom.
The Truths of A Victorious Life
-Zac Poonen
INDEX
1. A life of constant triumph
2. The absolute necessity of faith
3. Taking God’s Word seriously
4. God’s dealings are all in love
5. God loves us as He loved Jesus
6. God has a purpose in every trial
7. You cannot be tested beyond your ability
8. God gives His grace to the humble
9. God controls our circumstances
10. Faith in God - or faith in money?
11. God helps those who are weak
12. All-sufficient grace
Appendix 1 - The Secrets of Victory
Appendix 2 - What God Did For Jesus....
Appendix 3 - Words of Wisdom
CFC, Christian Fellowship Church, Christian Fellowship Center, Christian Fellowship Centre
When we pray for others, we tend to pray the same thing for them over and over again believing this is an acceptable way to pray. However, when praying for others it will fall into one of two categories, and based on the reason you decide to stop praying for a person it may matter to God.
You should pray for a person once for any given circumstance, not the same circumstance over and over. If you stop praying for them because of un-forgiveness, thats another matter.
God is a God of order, no matter our individual complacency or reduction in spiritual standards. God is not like us. The way we speak to God should have order. Consider the detail that God is actually concerned with.
The construction of the Ephod (Exodus 28:4-43) and the requirements to come into God’s presence is an example of the little things God cares about. It is true, that all these requirements were under the law, but the larger point is that God is the same now as He was then.
“For I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6)
Christians are told that “without faith it is impossible to please Him” (Hebrews 11:6). Jesus Christ raised a sobering question to His disciples. He asked, “when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8).
The Truths of A Victorious Life
-Zac Poonen
INDEX
1. A life of constant triumph
2. The absolute necessity of faith
3. Taking God’s Word seriously
4. God’s dealings are all in love
5. God loves us as He loved Jesus
6. God has a purpose in every trial
7. You cannot be tested beyond your ability
8. God gives His grace to the humble
9. God controls our circumstances
10. Faith in God - or faith in money?
11. God helps those who are weak
12. All-sufficient grace
Appendix 1 - The Secrets of Victory
Appendix 2 - What God Did For Jesus....
Appendix 3 - Words of Wisdom
CFC, Christian Fellowship Church, Christian Fellowship Center, Christian Fellowship Centre
When we pray for others, we tend to pray the same thing for them over and over again believing this is an acceptable way to pray. However, when praying for others it will fall into one of two categories, and based on the reason you decide to stop praying for a person it may matter to God.
You should pray for a person once for any given circumstance, not the same circumstance over and over. If you stop praying for them because of un-forgiveness, thats another matter.
God is a God of order, no matter our individual complacency or reduction in spiritual standards. God is not like us. The way we speak to God should have order. Consider the detail that God is actually concerned with.
The construction of the Ephod (Exodus 28:4-43) and the requirements to come into God’s presence is an example of the little things God cares about. It is true, that all these requirements were under the law, but the larger point is that God is the same now as He was then.
“For I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6)
Christians are told that “without faith it is impossible to please Him” (Hebrews 11:6). Jesus Christ raised a sobering question to His disciples. He asked, “when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:8).
Jesus was the ultimate optimist on prayerGLENN PEASE
This is a study of Jesus being the ultimate optimist on prayer. He said all we have to do is ask, but we have many questions about this absolute promise.
God is a God of order, no matter our individual complacency or reduction in spiritual standards. God is not like us. The way we speak to God should have order. Consider the detail that God is actually concerned with.
The construction of the Ephod (Exodus 28:4-43) and the requirements to come into God’s presence is an example of the little things God cares about. It is true, that all these requirements were under the law, but the larger point is that God is the same now as He was then.
The Bible is very clear as to what our purpose in this life should be. Men in both the Old and New Testaments sought for and discovered life’s purpose. Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, according to scripture, discovered the futility of life when it is lived only for this world. He gives these concluding remarks in the book of Ecclesiastes: 13 “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil”. - Ecclesiastes 12:13-14.
Based on "Respectable Sins" by Jerry Bridges, this lesson examines the sin of pride; specifically, pride of moral self-righteousness, doctrinal pride, pride of achievement, and an independent spirit. The fact that God is the source of all our success, that we need to be humble in our doctrine and opinions, and that we need to maintain a teachable spirit are all emphasized.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Praying in the Holy Ghost
CHAPTER II.
Praying in the Name of Christ
CHAPTER III.
Chastisement
CHAPTER IV.
Strength made Perfect in Weakness
CHAPTER V.
Daily Renewal
CHAPTER VI.
Hope in God
CHAPTER VII.
Against Vain Thoughts .
CHAPTER VIII.
" Fight the Good Fight of Faith "
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
1. Ask, Seek and Knock” – 30th November 2015
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart”( Jeremiah 29:13).
There is nothing that reveals more about a believer than his or her prayer life.How that individual approachesGod
and what that individual isaskingGod reveals how he or she views God. We frame our requests in accordancewith
what we know of the character of the one we are addressing.Itis very similarto how an child will makea request
from their father. The child with a kind, gentle and firm father, does not fear to ask anything,for deep down they
have the assurancethatthe father has greater wisdom and experience, and therefore would not give them
anythingthat would be harmful to them. This is also truespiritually.When we pray we must pray in harmony with
the view of God we have. As an example the individual who believes that God is vengeful wil l befearful.But the
individual who believes that God is gracious will ask for what he or she needs boldly.
We can read in Mark 7:“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened
to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be
opened.( Matthew 7: 7-8). Ask, Seek, Knock are imperatives or commands.. It refers to givinga peremptory
authoritativecommand; There are two imperatives in the New Testament. There is the aoristimperativewhich is a
command to do a particular thingatone specific time, and there is the present imperativewhich is a command not
only to do something but to keep on doingit indefinitely.Ask,Seek, Knock are not only imperatives but they are
present tense imperatives.We are told to ask and keep on asking,we are to seek and keep on seeking and we are
to knock and keep on knocking. There is also within theabove verse a suggested progression in prayer.The very
words; ask,seek and knock suggests an ever increasingintensity in prayer.
What we Ask is always in reference from God for something that the need, that is so clear thatwhen we ask,the
omnipresent God knows even before we ask. What we seek is a deeper level of prayer than justasking.Sometimes
we may doubt or be in darkness and we need to firstseek God’s will before we know what to pray for. But God has
made provision for us even in such times which we can learn in Romans 8:26-27,“In the same way, the Spirit
helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us
through wordless groans. 27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit
intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God..” When we areuncertain we must seek God’s will
because we don’t really knowfor certain whether itis good. Our human tendency is that what I ask “should be
good for me”. When Jesus is tellingus to Knock it denotes seeking entrance, or desiringfellowship. Wecan Read in
Matthew 7: 8, “For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door
will be opened”. Within this command that we read, we can learn five general principles aboutprayer.
Firstly thatGod does NOT promise to answer everyone’s Prayers. We must know that the promises apply only to
those who are really God’s children…who steadfastly believein Him and act within His teachings. Some would say,
“But isn’tGod the Father of all humans?” Yes he is the creator but sincesin separated us fromGod. He is not
obligated to answer the prayers of those who arenot His children.God is Father only to those who areborn again
into the family of God.
God does Not Promiseto answer everyone’s Prayers….
Secondly that we are expected to Ask for the things God Has Promised.“ask and itshall begiven.” This same
principleisstated in the negative in James 4:2, “You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot
get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.” We livein an age of
hustleand bustle, of man’s efforts and man’s determination, of man’s confidencein himself and his own power to
achievethings… human scheming, and human achievement; In today’s context things from God means no real
achievement...When all thatfails they may then revert to God’s provision. As Christianswemust know that we are
expected to ask for the things God Has Promised …but not arbitrary things likewantingto own an additional
holiday bungalow…
2. Thirdly we must know that God hears and answers every prayer. As we read in “Matthew 7: 8, “For everyone who
asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened”.” There are two
certainties when we pray.One is thatGod hears every prayer.The other certainty is thatGod always answers.This
verse says for ‘everyone who asks receives,” did I read that right? Yes, itsays everyone receives! But we have the
misconception that the only possibleanswer to prayer is yes.There aretwo other possibilities.God can say,No or
He can say,Not Yet. But know that God hears and answers every prayer…
Fourthly we must know that sometimes God gives us what we need and not what we ask for. We can learn the
answer to Matthew 7:9 -11,“Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a
fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how
much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Even earthly fathers give good things
to their children.We do not give a child a red-hot chili pepper justbecause they ask for it. John Stott puts itthis
way, “So then if we ask for good things, he grants them; if we ask for things which are not good (either not good in
themselves, or not good for us or for others, directly or indirectly,immediately or ultimately) He denies them; and
only He knows the difference.” John Stott.
Finally wemust know that our Prayers arenever wasted. The underlyingprinciplebehind the significanceof
persistentprayer has to be the truth that no prayer is ever a wasted effort. We are told to ask and keep on asking,
we are to seek and keep on seeking and we are to knock and keep on knocking…We need to seek God more and
more…keep seekingtill you find Him! The very words; ask,seek and knock are imperatives for an ever increasing
intensity in prayer.
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me
with all your heart”( Jeremiah 29:13).