Philippians 4:6b ... in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;
We can learn to practise drawing near to God’s presence, calm down before Him, lay aside our own thoughts, and enter into His thought. You will then realize the significance of prayer and see in how many matters God is waiting for you to pray. Things around the entire world are to be subjects of your prayer, and matters in all directions are to be touched through your prayer. You do not pray according to your own feeling; you instead bring your own heart desire to the heart desire of God and let His will become your will, your groaning, and your hope in the universe.
Nothing of the will of God is ever released without passing through man, and nothing of whatever will of God released through man is ever free from an encounter with the power of Satan. For the realization of God’s will, there is the need for prayer; to remove Satan’s opposition requires prayer. Let us exercise authority of prayer in loosing whatever must be loosed and binding whatever should be bound. Let us not pray after our own will. Let us draw near to God and pray according to the will which He has reproduced in us.
Extracted from the book "Let Us Pray" by Watchman Nee
In the past, whenever I read the Newspaper and saw some bad news, I will just say, "so sad" and that is the end of the story. However, lately, as I learn to consider all the news before Him, I began to learn to pray over the issues/people to align them according to the will of God. Deep within, there is an unexplainable kind of groaning especially when things/situations are not right.
We can learn to practise drawing near to God’s presence, calm down before Him, lay aside our own thoughts, and enter into His thought. You will then realize the significance of prayer and see in how many matters God is waiting for you to pray. Things around the entire world are to be subjects of your prayer, and matters in all directions are to be touched through your prayer. You do not pray according to your own feeling; you instead bring your own heart desire to the heart desire of God and let His will become your will, your groaning, and your hope in the universe.
Nothing of the will of God is ever released without passing through man, and nothing of whatever will of God released through man is ever free from an encounter with the power of Satan. For the realization of God’s will, there is the need for prayer; to remove Satan’s opposition requires prayer. Let us exercise authority of prayer in loosing whatever must be loosed and binding whatever should be bound. Let us not pray after our own will. Let us draw near to God and pray according to the will which He has reproduced in us.
Extracted from the book "Let Us Pray" by Watchman Nee
In the past, whenever I read the Newspaper and saw some bad news, I will just say, "so sad" and that is the end of the story. However, lately, as I learn to consider all the news before Him, I began to learn to pray over the issues/people to align them according to the will of God. Deep within, there is an unexplainable kind of groaning especially when things/situations are not right.
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