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[chdlowc]

Different Levels of Prayer

Prayer is a communication with God. If you don’t pray, you cannot receive his guidance. A Christian must pray.

You all are Spirit. God is a Spirit. We possess a soul and live in a body. Body is something that you have worn. You are a spirit.

You may be fat or black but you may have a great heart for the lord.

The life of this body is so short. The age of the body is decreasing day by day.

The body has to die ,the body will finish one day and it will go to heaven or hell depending upon our obedience to God.

Soul is a mind. Soul is a thinker ,the one who decides and the body follows it. Soul is in the blood. The moment you die, the soul dies.

To maintain your physical body, you eat,drink and exercise regularly.

To develop the soul,mind is the organ of the soul, you go to school and train yourself. Mind will make him an advocate, engineer, or doctor.

Soul will die and go either to heaven or hell depending upon your obedience to God.

Some people never train their Spirits to pray. You must train it. The Spirit of man is God’s element in man you want.

All these elements are hungry and thirsty. As our body wants delicious food and drink, our spirit is hungry for the presence of the lord.

If you don’t have Spirit to pray and read the Bible then check your Spirit because your spirit is dying.

As you eat every day, you must pray and read the Bible.

3 Levels of payer :

1. Prayer is asking and receiving from the lord:

God cannot be connected with flesh. As God is spirit, we need to come in Spirit to talk to him. God breathed into the nostrils of Adam. He breathed the Spirit, from that moment, we are spiritual beings.

Never go in your prayer room with flesh. It’s the first level. All religions know this.

Matthew 7:7 asks and you shall receive. The Bible is a guide for effective prayer.

Anybody can pray and ask God and he can get. You cannot ask without faith. As prayer without faith is useless, faith without prayer is useless. Say I believe God will do it for me.

The more faith you have the more prayer you offer. Hannah had faith and she prayed like anything to get a child. Faith filled people are also prayerful people. Don’t quit your prayer.

Pray because God will do it for you.

2. Prayer as fellowship with God:

If you ask according to his will,he will give otherwise not. In the second kind of prayer, you become friends with God. At this level, you call him father Abba.

You will always miss his fellowship, you will spend whole night with him. They will pray every day.

for them, God is their friend. We are children of God, you ask with authority like a child.

Nobody will tell you to pray. They will skip the meal, not pray. If you watch during the prayer then you have not given your heart to God.

3. Fighting in prayer:

Jacob battled with God face to face. He had a grip on God and did not let him go unless he blessed him.

Your prayer can change the plan of God.

God was ready to kill king Abimelech but Abraham prayed and God spared his life.

When you pray, God will extend the life if your partner or child’s life is over.

You will change the mind and plan of God.

Pray for every member of family. Pray for money, job and health.

pray out loudly . Rebuke the demons . God changed his name and called him Israel.

God bless you abundantly.

[steveezekiel]

A MASTER/SERVANT RELATIONSHIP

9. “Exhort bondservants to be obedient to their own masters, to be well pleasing in all things, not answering back,

10. not pilfering [thieving], but showing all good fidelity [honesty], that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.”

Titus 2:9,10 (NKJV)

• If you are an employee under a  person or company, the Bible admonishes you, as a Christian, to be obedient to your master or employer.

- Not only that, but also, you should be well pleasing in all things, that is, you do your best to please your master (Titus 2:9).

- Not answering back: if you are being instructed, corrected or scolded, you should not talk back (Titus 2:9).

- Your obedience should not be to the masters who are good only, but froward or harsh masters as well.

18. “Servants be submissive to your masters with all fear, NOT ONLY TO THE GOOD AND GENTLE BUT ALSO TO THE HARSH.

19. For this is commendable, if because of conscience towards God one endures grief, suffering wrongfully.”

1 Peter 2:18,19 (NKJV)

• You should do, whatever you do for your master, employer, as if you do it for the Lord (Ephesians 6:5-7).

5. “Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, IN SINCERITY OF HEART ❤️, AS TO CHRIST;

6. not with eyeservice, as men pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

7. WITH GOODWILL DOING SERVICE, AS TO THE LORD, AND NOT TO MEN.

Ephesians 6:5-7 (NKJV)

- If you are submissive and obedient to the person you work for, your boss, you are not being stupid; you only display the good virtues of God in you– the unbelievers will have nothing evil to say of you (Titus 2:8).

- Through your conduct, the Word of God is adorned–you make the teaching about Christ, the gospel, attractive to others (Titus 2:10).

• In addition to that, you should be faithful and financially accountable; not pilfering or thieving, that is, not stealing things, regardless of the value– no matter how small.

- Some believers do not have a good testimony where they work, they collude with other employees to steal and swindle their masters.

- The reason why a number of believers do not excel in what they do is because; they employ, apply, the principles of the world to succeed, but it cannot work for them– a servant cannot serve two masters (Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13).

- If you want to prosper in what you do, follow the principles of the Bible (Matthew 7:24-27).

• If you have a callous, froward, or harsh master, submit to him anyway.

- If your employer is cruel and unkind, and yet you are faithful, loyal, and obedient to him– God will safeguard your interests, deal with him, if he mistreated you (Ephesians 6:9).

- God is not partial, He is a just God (James 5:1-4).

• Truth

- At times the reason why some masters are unfair is because some employees are not faithful–they are not diligent in their works (Proverbs 22:29).

- Some do the work given to them with levity–they have a laid-back attitude to work. They do not work for the money they earn.

- Albeit, if you are faithful in what you do, God will give you a better job–if your faithfulness is apparent or obvious (1 Timothy 4:15).

• Take Note:

- If you are honest, you live right where you work; through your good conduct, you make the gospel attractive to others–you adorn the gospel.

- Some believers cannot witness for Christ where they work or live.

- The life they live, sinful life, has shut their mouth–they cannot witness for Christ (Acts 1:8).

- Remember, if you are good to your master, God will reward you. If you are faithful in another man’s thing, yours shall be given to you (Luke 16:12).

“Knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.”

Ephesians 6:8 (NKJV)

14. “YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden.

15. “Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lamp stand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

16. “LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN, THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN.”

Matthew 5:14-16 (NKJV)

• You will not fail in Jesus’ name.

Peace!

[bibleversegarden]

The King of Glory Wants to Come In

The King of glory is standing and knocking at the doors of our hearts, and wants to come in. "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me." (Revelation 3:20)

Jesus, the Son of God, born in a manger, died for our sins, and resurrected for our justification, is our light and our salvation—Manifested to destroy the works of the devil and reconcile us to God. 

In Jesus our LORD, we walk in newness of life. Once blind, now we can see. Bless His holy name!

The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, and upon those who sat in the region and shadow of death, light has dawned. (Matthew 4:16)

Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, He is the King of glory. (Psalm 24:9-10)

- A Walk In The Garden Devotions

[anastpaul]

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[chadbrodrick]

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Light is a powerful image in Scripture, and in John 8:12, Jesus uses this imagery to reveal a profound truth about His identity and mission. When He declares, “I am the light of the world,” He invites us to leave the darkness of sin and confusion behind and to walk in the light of His truth and grace. “Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not…

[clarissaxrose1212]

As Christians, we should not cover up our gifts that God gave us because of any reason, including worrying about what people might think, or us feeling nervous, etc. When people see us behaving in Christian ways that show we really care about others’ wellbeing, even in smaller ways like saying thank you to the bus driver, or saying good morning to someone entering an elevator, or even giving change to someone on the street, people can see the light emanating from within us in those actions and might even praise God for it!!!!!

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[anastpaul]

One Minute Reflection – 9 February – Salt and Light – Matthew 5:13, 14

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[leauxness]

The #LightOfTheWorld. 🤩🧍🏽‍♀️🤩