THE HEARTFELT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN!

The other day, we were talking about the unlimited power of corporate prayer and corporate anointing. I love it when we gather together to pray, and in fact it inspires me a lot.It is the easiest way to get me to pray and in fact most people who are growing in their faith. I love it when am challenged by the zeal of some brother , or some pastor when we pray together.

However today, I want to talk to you or to look at the power of the prayer of a righteous man.As we proceed, I will like you to note some keywords here. These words are (a) a righteous man(b) heartfelt(c) power(d) prayer.

We will now look at the scripture that will guide our discussion, today, and that is taken from the book of James, chapter 5 and verse 16, we read as follows:

16 "Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much".

Firstly, this scripture tells us to confess our sins one to another. This I believe means to admit it when you offend your brother, or your sister in Christ Jesus, and ask for forgiveness. Pastor James tell us that will help our healing to come forth speedily.

However, the second part of this scripture is the part that carries most of the revelation we are out to receive today.

Who is a righteous man? A righteous man is a man who has received the righteousness of God by faith.God's nature or part of His nature is righteousness. He is always right and can never be wrong.He is the head of all things and he created them.He therefore is entitled to claim to be right, to know what is right, and to never be opposed, He has the right to be the head at all times, and to never be wrong, any other person opposing God's in any way is practicing disobedience or sin and is rebellious or wrong.

In the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21, we read as follows:

21 "For He hath made him to be sin, for us who knew no sin;that we be made the righteousness of God in him".

This scripture gives us the root to the fruit, this is because without you receiving that which you have been given free of charge from the Lord, you cannot bear any genuine fruit of righteousness.We can understand this better, with the second scripture that I am about to share with you now. Let us look at the book of Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 24:

24 "And that ye put on the new man, which is created after God in true righteousness and holiness".

 We can still go on and read one more vital scripture about the root to your fruit, where righteousness is concerned, in that it is a gift to the believer from God. Let us read from Philippians chapter3 and verse 9:

9 "And be found in Him not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of God, the righteousness which is of Christ by faith.

This gift of God which we receive by faith in Christ Jesus, now produces right living in us-that is called the fruit of righteousness. We can see this in Philippians chapter 1 and verse 11.

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11 " Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and the praise of God".

Finally again on righteousness, in Ephesians, chapter 5 and verse 9, we read:

9 "(For the fruit of righteousness is in all, goodness, righteousness and truth;)" ,all these now show us that a righteous man is one that has received God's righteous son and is now living the righteous life that flows from the Spirit of the living God.You can know that you have received this life and that you are now living by the Spirit of boldness-'The righteous is as bold as a lion'.

Secondly, or the second important word we need to look at here now is the word, 'effectual, fervent, or heart felt'. These three words which am taking as one word actually have to do with putting in your whole attention, concentration, energy, and focus into what you are doing when you pray. Looking in the real of the spirit unto the father, in the name of Jesus and coming before Him, with your whole attention, completely immersed with your whole spirit, soul and body attached passionately to His being.

Dr Chidi Peters,

Wishes all the readers of the House of Revelation, and lovers of the gospel,especially as expressed

via the ministry of The Marvelous International Ministries-Merry Christmas,

and a Happy New Year-may the year 2013 become the greatest year of your lives-Amen!

Lastly, the product of this passionate prayer, with your whole body working and tensed up, and your spirit and soul concentrated on God, you will surely make tremendous power available, which will produce change in the direction that you need it.

THE HEARTFELT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN!

The other day, we were talking about the unlimited power of corporate prayer and corporate anointing. I love it when we gather together to pray, and in fact it inspires me a lot.It is the easiest way to get me to pray and in fact most people who are growing in their faith. I love it when am challenged by the zeal of some brother , or some pastor when we pray together.

However today, I want to talk to you or to look at the power of the prayer of a righteous man.As we proceed, I will like you to note some keywords here. These words are (a) a righteous man(b) heartfelt(c) power(d) prayer.

We will now look at the scripture that will guide our discussion, today, and that is taken from the book of James, chapter 5 and verse 16, we read as follows:

16 "Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much".

Firstly, this scripture tells us to confess our sins one to another. This I believe means to admit it when you offend your brother, or your sister in Christ Jesus, and ask for forgiveness. Pastor James tell us that will help our healing to come forth speedily.

However, the second part of this scripture is the part that carries most of the revelation we are out to receive today.

Who is a righteous man? A righteous man is a man who has received the righteousness of God by faith.God's nature or part of His nature is righteousness. He is always right and can never be wrong.He is the head of all things and he created them.He therefore is entitled to claim to be right, to know what is right, and to never be opposed, He has the right to be the head at all times, and to never be wrong, any other person opposing God's in any way is practicing disobedience or sin and is rebellious or wrong.

In the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 21, we read as follows:

21 "For He hath made him to be sin, for us who knew no sin;that we be made the righteousness of God in him".

This scripture gives us the root to the fruit, this is because without you receiving that which you have been given free of charge from the Lord, you cannot bear any genuine fruit of righteousness.We can understand this better, with the second scripture that I am about to share with you now. Let us look at the book of Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 24:

24 "And that ye put on the new man, which is created after God in true righteousness and holiness".

 We can still go on and read one more vital scripture about the root to your fruit, where righteousness is concerned, in that it is a gift to the believer from God. Let us read from Philippians chapter3 and verse 9:

9 "And be found in Him not having my own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of God, the righteousness which is of Christ by faith.

This gift of God which we receive by faith in Christ Jesus, now produces right living in us-that is called the fruit of righteousness. We can see this in Philippians chapter 1 and verse 11.

Dr Chidi Peters Peters informs all the readers of Prayer Network, that -The Marvelous Light International Ministries, will make a difference in the lives of men and women around the world.

11 " Being filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and the praise of God".

Finally again on righteousness, in Ephesians, chapter 5 and verse 9, we read:

9 "(For the fruit of righteousness is in all, goodness, righteousness and truth;)" ,all these now show us that a righteous man is one that has received God's righteous son and is now living the righteous life that flows from the Spirit of the living God.You can know that you have received this life and that you are now living by the Spirit of boldness-'The righteous is as bold as a lion'.

Secondly, or the second important word we need to look at here now is the word, 'effectual, fervent, or heart felt'. These three words which am taking as one word actually have to do with putting in your whole attention, concentration, energy, and focus into what you are doing when you pray. Looking in the real of the spirit unto the father, in the name of Jesus and coming before Him, with your whole attention, completely immersed with your whole spirit, soul and body attached passionately to His being.

Lastly, the product of this passionate prayer, with your whole body working and tensed up, and your spirit and soul concentrated on God, you will surely make tremendous power available, which will produce change in the direction that you need it.

THE MYSTERY OF THANKSGIVINGS

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There is a profound revelation about the power of gratitude and thanksgiving in the word of God! There is so much in the word especially in the life of Jesus(if you read the previous article),to support this. I will be using just one simple example from the book of Luke, chapter 17, and verses12-20.
In this portion of the scripture, ten lepers came to Jesus.
12-"And as he entered into a certain village, there met him ten men that were lepers,which stood afar off:
13 And they lifted up their voices, and said, Master, Jesus have mercy on us! 
14 And when he saw them , he said unto them,Go shew yourselves unto the priests, and as they went, they were cleansed.
15 And one of them when he saw he was healed,  turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God!
16 And fell down on his face at his feet, giving thanks, and he was a Samaritan.
17 And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine?
18 There are not found that came to give glory to God, save this stranger.
19 And he said unto him, arise and go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole."
The fact that only one of these lepers came back to the Lord to give thanks to him, was shocking to Jesus.
However, Jesus taught a great lesson here in that he restored wholeness to this man who was thankful.
His friends got healing, in that the germs which caused the leprosy were killed off, and the spirit of infirmity sustaining the disease was cast out.Their destroyed limb, toes, and fingers were probably not restored back.

I can however bet my life on it that this our friend who gave thanks to the Lord for his healing, experienced re creative miracles, restoring everything that he lost.

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THE MYSTERY OF THANKSGIVINGS IN THE LIFE OF JESUS

Jesus knew all the secrets and still holds all the secrets of power.  He said that all the powers in heaven and on earth have been given unto him.  He usually prayed in secret, and he knew how to utilize the power of prayer.  However, most of the time when he needed to set someone free from a problem, he did not pray, but he did some other things.  He knew that the power has been made available already, and he merely activated it through thanksgiving.

Thus in Matthew Chapter 14, verses 15 to 21, we are told the story of how Jesus went into a desert place, and there came unto him a multitude of people.   He had compassion and healed them.  Then, the evening time approached, and his disciples urged him to send the people away and he refused, but told them to feed the people instead.  They were astonished because there were at least five thousand men, apart from women and children there.   There was no way they were going to be able to buy enough food to feed all the people, so they protested to the Lord.

The Master who knows the secrets of power and multiplication asked them to give him what they had which they said were but five loaves and two fishes.  In verses 19 and 20 we read:

19" And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude".

20 "And they did all eat, and were filled; and they took up of the fragments that remained, twelve baskets full.

It is important to know or to note that this same important event was equally recorded in John Chapter 6 verses 11 and 34.  There in John Chapter 6 verse 11 – "And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise the fishes as much as they would". 

Thus in the portion of scripture in the Book of John that talks about this event, we can see that Jesus gave thanks when he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and blessed the bread and fishes.  This produced the desired miracle of multiplication.

Another but similar event was recorded again in the book of Matthew and other synoptic gospels.  In chapter 15 of Matthew beginning from verses 30 to 39 we read the story of Jesus and another multitude in the wilderness.  They had brought to him people that were maimed, blind, dumb, lame and others and cast them down at his feet and he healed them.  Obviously because of the many wonders he performed, they stayed with him and could not go away.  They ended up fasting for 3 days and his disciples because of their human knowledge and sense knowledge, in spite of all the wonders he had done, did not think that these people could be fed.  But Jesus knows better, thus we read in verse 34 of Matthew 15:

34: "And Jesus saith unto them, how many loaves have ye?' And they said, 'seven, and a few little fishes".

35 "And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground".

36 “And he took the seven, loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and break them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude".

37 "And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children".

Thus Jesus astonished his disciples again by performing the same feat again.  However notice that each time he desired this miracle of multiplication, he gave thanks.  There were other instances in the scripture where Jesus performed miracles after he had given thanks and not after he had said a lot of earth shaking prayer.  As a matter of fact, the ability to give thanks for what you are expecting from God, instead of prayer, takes a higher level of faith.

Thus in the book of John Chapter 11, again we see Jesus put that mystery to work.  They informed him that his friend – Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha was sick, but he stayed back where he was until Lazarus died.  Then he decided to go and visit, I am sure you know the story or can read it up in John Chapter 11.  However, I'll like you to pay attention to John Chapter 11:41-44.

41 " Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid.  And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father I thank thee that thou hast heard me".

42 "And I know that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou has sent me".

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43 " And when he had thus spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth".

44 "And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave cloths: and his face was bound about with a napkin.  Jesus saith unto them, loose him and let him go".

Note that this man had been dead for four days before Jesus came and must have been surely decomposing by then.  However the force of faith transformed the situation and he came out brand new like a new born child.

Lastly, Jesus said, 'He that is faithful in little is faithful in much'. In other words, it takes a thankful heart that is full of gratitude to receive more from God.  That is the principle.

THE GREATNESS OF GOD-VIDEO-2

Here you can see a continuation(actually the introductory part), of the Greatness of God-video.You know that in Psalm 145, verse3, we read, "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised;and His greatness is unsearchable".

THE GREATNESS OF GOD-VIDEO CLIP.

This epic video talks about

the GREATNESS OF GOD! In this video you will learn what makes God so different from all other God's.

THE GREATNESS OF GOD-1

Have you ever imagined how big God is? Have you ever thought about His omnipotence and omniscience? What about His omnipresence? We were looking at His goodness the other time and we saw that He is not just good, He is goodness personified. Now let us look at His awesome greatness.

We cannot talk about God without looking into the Bible anytime we want to examine the character or nature of God. In the Book of Psalms chapter 93 and verse3 we read as follows:

3 “For the Lord is a great God and a great king above all gods”.

Again in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 10 and verse 17 we read as follows:

17 “For the Lord your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty and terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:”

This portion goes on to explain that God is great, as well as mighty and terrible.

King David of Israel we all know was one man who saw God do great things. He saw God use a little Sheppard boy whom He (God) had anointed, to slay a lion, then a bear, and then a giant reputed to be the super champion of his own time, when he tried to defy the armies of the living God. God used him to do amazing things. He therefore by the Spirit of God tells us in the book of 1 Chronicles chapter 29 and verses 10 to12 as follows:

10 “Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregations: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, forever and ever.

11 Thine, O Lord  ,  is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in heaven and in earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou is exalted as head above all.

12 Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great and to give streghnth unto all”.

These verses followed a series of events in the Bible during which David told the congregation of Israel that although he had desired to build God a temple, God had refused him because he-David, was not qualified. God Himself had chosen his son Solomon to build him a temple. The one whom the Lord had chosen was still a child. King David did not want a shabby work to be done because this God is a great God. He therefore decided to gather Israel  together so that they can give towards the building of the temple. When they had finished giving, he was amazed, excited and elated and spoke those beautiful but great and true words above, about the greatness of God.

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Talking about the omnipotence of God, we see His power demonstrated in the creation of the World. The Bible tells us in the book of Genesis, that in the beginning God created the Heavens and the earth. Many of us have not yet understood the concept of the heavens.