Posts with the category “21-days-of-prayer”

Good morning this is day 20 of our 21 days of prayer and because we gather together on Sunday morning we've chosen not to do a Sunday devotional, so this will be the final devotional for these 21 days...  Read More

Submission means the act of submitting. It also means the act of yielding to power or authority. To surrender to the power and the control of another. This definition comes from Noah Webster, who wrot...  Read More

“Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.” (Proverbs 3:7, NKJV)Don’t be wise on your own eyesThe more that we think we know the less open we are to the Lord.There have been...  Read More

Today we're still following the encounter that Moses had with God at the burning bush. We're going to look at another perspective of this encounter.Yesterday we determined that Moses was curious at th...  Read More

Jesus is teaching us how to pray and we're digging deeper into the word where Moses is in Exodus chapter 3 and encountering God at the burning bush.When I think of this moment where Moses goes near to...  Read More

We've been talking in particular about our dedication and commitment to do God's will. This week we're going to focus more on how we receive instruction from God about what he wants us to do.Yesterday...  Read More

This morning we're going to reemphasize the powerful point that we made yesterday about presenting ourselves to God. It is our responsibility to present ourselves to God daily.Here's today's scripture...  Read More

Through prayer we experience a greater consecration and sanctification.Every time that we pray - "Lord, not my will be done…but Your will be done in my life" we go deeper with God.And we should expect...  Read More

We need to go deeper about consecration and sanctification. These spiritual truths are powerful and we need dig a little more in them.Here’s another scripture about consecration“But you are a chosen g...  Read More

This morning I’m going to try and illustrate the concepts of consecration and sanctification in under 5 minutes.Here’s our scripturesEphesians 2:10 NLT  For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us...  Read More

The reason that we have two seasons in the year where we focus on prayer is so that we can learn how to pray.No matter how long we have been born again and had a relationship with God we can always le...  Read More

Let's go back to the moment when Jesus took Peter, James and John to the garden to watch and pray.“Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I ...  Read More

A powerful passage in Romans 12 where Paul, by the Holy Spirit is requesting us to present ourselves to God as an act of worship. This is the prayer of consecration so that we can understand and do th...  Read More

Jesus knows what it is like to choose to do the Father's will. When He prayed in the garden He went back 3 times to declare to Himself, "Not my will, but Your's be done!". He has to refocus. We have t...  Read More

If Jesus had a will and He had to purposely lay down His will, so do we. The Father knows that we have a will, He created us with a will. Jesus showed us how to lay down our will so that we can take u...  Read More

Jesus wasn’t giving us a shortcut or a script in prayer when He was teaching His disciples to pray, He wants us to expect the help of the Holy Spirit in prayer. When we don’t know the will of God in a...  Read More

God expects us to ask Him for wisdom. He is the only one that knows everything and He is the one that knows what we need to know. He wants us to have the answers that we need to make the right decisio...  Read More

The theme of this 21 day season of prayer is a four word phrase from the prayer that the Lord used to teach His disciples about prayer in Luke chapter 11 -    “His Will Be Done”   Jesus actually said ...  Read More

Answers come when we pray. The Lord wants us to expect answers when we pray. He says call Me, and I will answer you. He has the answer we need and He wants to give us the answer....  Read More

Strength comes when we pray. We should expect to be strengthened as when pray. He infuses us with all that He has and all that He is as we depend on Him and spend time with Him....  Read More

In prayer, we can expect Jesus to give us His peace. The very same peace that Jesus walked in while He was here on earth is given to us by Him. It belongs to us....  Read More

God expects us to expect from Him. Jesus told us to ask. It is the will of God that we ask the Father for the things that we need when we pray....  Read More

Our will for His will.Are we willing to lay our will down in order to pick up His will? ...We can’t have both.“And He withdrew from them about a stone’s throw and knelt down and prayed, Saying, Father...  Read More

God has given us all the same amount of time. It is up to us to give back to Him the best of our time, spent in prayer....  Read More

The first thing that we do in the morning becomes our priority and shows what we value most. Our first meeting should be with our Master. Pray first....  Read More

If Jesus prioritized prayer as His first thing in the morning, we should do the same....  Read More

Seeking His Kingdom first means praying and connecting to God before we do anything else.Matthew 6:33 (NIV) But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you ...  Read More

When the Lord speaks to us or impresses something on our heart by the Holy Spirit it is important and valuable. The scriptures that we write down and the words and phrases that He gives us are wisdom ...  Read More

We want to know what's going on so that we can do something to become more healthy. In a spiritual way we want to know how to grow in the areas that we have been weak in. We want to change from faith ...  Read More

As we examine our own heart and question our motives, we should consistently ask our self, “Are we doing what we’re doing and saying what we’re saying because we love? Or is it because I’m thinking ab...  Read More

The motives are the very root of our actions. When we ask the Lord to examine our motives we are asking Him to get to the root of the real reason that we do what we do and say what we say. He can show...  Read More

God's greatest gift to man, besides Jesus, is our will or the ability to choose. With our will, we get to choose to be obedient to God's will. Using our faith and choosing to obey Him is pleasing to o...  Read More

Just like our mind and our emotions, our will is a very critical area. The enemy knows if he can wear our minds and our emotions down to the point where we are weary, he can have more influence over o...  Read More

In order to be healthy in our emotions we need to understand how to discern our emotions and deal with them according to the word of God. The bottom line to asking and allowing the Holy Spirit to exam...  Read More

The Holy Spirit is our helper and helps us examine our heart when we ask him to and allow him to. Ask him in prayer to examine your emotions. If you've been hurt, disappointed, brokenhearted, and cont...  Read More

Our mind is a critical part of our soul when we ask the Lord to examine us. Prayer is the place where we must ask the Holy Spirit to analyze any strongholds that we may be dealing with. In prayer, we ...  Read More

Our mind is a critical part of our soul when we ask the Lord to examine us. Prayer is the place where we must ask the Holy Spirit to analyze any strongholds that we may be dealing with. In prayer, we ...  Read More

We are waiting in faith to hear what He wants to say to us. Waiting time is not wasted time. We know the One we're waiting for and the One that we're waiting on, He is faithful. He's faithful to speak...  Read More

We need to understand our soul and discern what is going on in our soul so that we can correct it. In order to judge our self, we have to have some standard by which we measure our self. The word is o...  Read More

Being real means dealing with reality and dealing with the truth. Regarding our relationship with the Lord, we must be truthful and genuine, because he is the truth and only deals with the truth. The ...  Read More