Christian On The Right

Have you ever been praying about something and can’t seem to get an answer? You have to be persistant in your prayer life. In God’s time your answer will come.

Text:Luke 11:5-10 LB

Then, teaching them more about prayer, he used this illustration: “Suppose you went to a friend’s house at midnight, wanting to borrow three loaves of bread. You would shout up at him, ‘A friend of mine has just arrived for a visit and I’ve nothing to give him to eat.’ He would call down from his bedroom, ‘Please don’t ask me to get up. The door is locked for the night and we are all in bed. I just can’t help you this time.’ “But I’ll tell you this-though he won’t do it as a friend, if you keep knocking long enough he will get up and give you everything you want-just because of your persistance. And so it is with prayer-keep on asking and you will keep on getting; keep on looking and you will keep on finding; knock and the door will be opened. Everyone who asks, recieves; all who seek, find; and the door is opened to everyone who knocks.”

Persistance and preservation brings the answer. You just have to have faith. Faith can move mountains in your life. Sometimes you have to do something in order to release your faith for your miracle that you need from God.

Sometimes it takes a “prove-me offering”, or fasting and prayer.

These two frogs fell into a bucket of cream.

One frog decided to except his fate, so he gave up, and drowned. The other frog kept on kicking until he made butter out of the cream and he was able to jump out.

Which frog are you? Are you the one who keeps on kicking? Or are you still in the bucket?

The bucket can be your circumstances. In the natural world you have no way out of your situation. The only place that you can go is up, to get out of the top of the bucket. When you look up, God is there.

The Bible says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers us out of them all.”

Here is another example found in Luke 18:1-8 LB:

One day Jesus told his disciples a story to illustrate their need for constant prayer and to show them that they must keep praying until the answer comes. “There was a city judge,” he said, “a very godless man who had great contempt for everyone. A widow of that city came to him frequently to appeal for justice against a man who had harmed her. The judge ignored her for a while, but eventually she got on his nerves. “‘I fear neither God nor man,’ he said to himself, ‘but this woman bothers me. I’m going to see that she gets justice, for she is wearing me out with her constant coming!’” Then the Lord said, “If even an evil judge can be worn down like that, don’t you think that God will surely give justice to his people who plead with him day and night? Yes! He will answer them quickly! But the question is: When I the Messiah, return, how many will I find who have faith [and are praying]?”

Prayer Request from
Jesus, for the church.

I was reading the Bible the other day, and these scriptures jumped out at me. Text: Matt. 9:36-38

Matt. 9:36 KJV
36. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

First of all, you have to have compassion for people. Jesus had compassion, and he took the role of leadership over the people.

It takes the love of God to win souls for His kingdom. You have to have a heartbeat for souls. If you don’t have the desire, pray for it. Ask God for His Heartbeat for souls.

Verse 37-38

37. Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous; but the labourers are few;

38. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that we will send forth labourers into his harvest.

Our prayers must be for a harvest of souls, as well as labourers to reap the harvest. We have plenty of opportunities to pray for people to be saved. There isn’t any shortage there!

We all have unsaved loved ones. Sometimes you have to pray for someone to come into their lives to lead them to the Lord. There are people who can have more effect on someone, because sometimes we are too close to the situation.

When we pray this prayer, we have to have the willingness to be part of the answer. It involves our willingness to respond to the call of the Lord on our lives.

Not long after Jesus made this prayer request, he commisioned his disciples and sent them as labourers. (Matt. 10:1) The very ones who Jesus commisioned to pray became spirtual harvesters themselves.

Praying this prayer can have a tremendous effect on your life. It is a submission to Him to do His will. When you are walking hand in hand with Him, then that is when you have His peace and Victory in your life. You are most miserable when you aren’t in His perfect will.

I challenge you to pray for Jesus’ prayer request, and see what He does for you in your life. You have to get on His team. Look at the word, TEAM. There is no I in it.

I feel led to pray for the people who are reading this.
Father, I ask you to move on the people to pray about your prayer request for your church. I ask you to give them a spirit of prayer, and the willingness to be a labourer in your harvest, even if it means they are just a prayer warrior for your kingdom. I pray this in Jesus name. Amen.

At least I am not the only one who disagrees with his policy on Israel. I found this article by Dick Morris interesting. newsmax.com

Separation of Church
And State
Something to think about and pray about. Are you about your Father’s Business?

Luke 2:40-42
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him. And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.
vs 49. “And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? Wist ye not that I must be about my father’s business?” And they understood not the saying which he spake unto them. And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man.

No matter who you are, or what you do, if you are a Christian, you have a job to do for God. You are never too young or too old to work for him. We all have a job to do. In the above text, Jesus was 12 years old, and he realized that he must be about the Father’s Business.

How do you know what God wants you to do? You have to pray and trust Him to show you. Get the word into your heart, and ask him to open up spiritual things to you.

Read the following article:

GOJRA, Pakistan — The blistered black walls of the Hameed family’s bedroom tell of an unspeakable crime. Seven family members died here on Saturday, six of them burned to death by a mob that had broken into their house and shot the grandfather dead, just because they were Christian. New Your Times

We all need to pray for our fellow Christians in Pakistan and in different countries. It could easily happen here in our country.

The Separation of Church and State that threw out prayer in our schools could easily change this country into one that we don’t recognize at all. Already, our country has forgotten God. Hell is enlarging itself daily. Abortions are rampant. This country was founded on Christian Principles and is now being led down a path of destruction.

God holds us accountable for what our leaders do. He judges us as a nation. If our leaders don’t do right, our country doesn’t get His blessings. He always has victory for His Children. The Bible says that “many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers us out of them all.” It is our responsibility to pray for our leaders and to vote for Christian Principles. We already have a President who goes overseas and says that we are not a christian nation, but a nation of citizens.

The atheists are launching movements to put signs on buses that tell people you can be a good person without God. They also are suing to have God taken out of our Pledge of Allegiance, and have “In God We Trust” taken off the buildings around Washington.

Our Children are taught Evolution in school instead of the creation of the world by God. The Ten Commandments aren’t allowed in any public buildings. Think it not strange that our economy is in the tank. I never thought that I would see where Americans are starving and can’t find a job anywhere. Some have lost their homes, and are living in vehicles, and tents.

God needs His People to stand up for what they believe in. It doesn’t matter what denomination you are, the Church of Jesus Christ needs to unite and pray for this great nation of ours, and for other countries. Time is short, and if you are going to do anything for God, now is the time to do it. You may never get another chance.

We must be about the Father’s Business. We must unite and pray for the world. Already in the USA a hatred of Christians is growing. It is even in the Main Stream Media. The devil has rocked the church to sleep. God needs us to become prayer warriors for His Kingdom. We have to put on the full armour of God, and stand on his word.

They say if you leave your cell phone charger plugged in without your phone it is using electricity. In the same way, we need to get on God’s charger and stayed plugged in to Jesus. We must be about our Father’s business. We are promised that if we humble ourselves and pray, then God will heal our land. We have to do it.

When the disciples came together in the upper room, when they all prayed with one accord and with one mind, then the Holy Spirit came. I believe it is the 11th chapter of the Book of Acts.

Take inventory of your life. Ask yourself if you are praying and reading the word like you should. Are you doing what the Lord would have you do? Are you doing your Father’s business?