Teaching: What is prayer? Prayer is TALKING to God. It is a RELATIONSHIP with God through His Son, Jesus Christ. God considers the PERSON who is praying as much as He does of the WORDS being said. How do we pray? We pray the Word or His will in FAITH. The kind of prayer that pleases God: God is pleased with the prayer of the upright. (Proverbs 15:8). He hears the prayer of the righteous. (Proverbs 15:29). Prayer that does not please God: If anyone turns a deaf ear to my instruction, even their prayers are DETESTABLE. (Proverbs 28:9). Because most of us Christians of today do not obey the Word of God, our prayers are detestable. We are just making noise to God or fulfilling a church program, but God is not pleased with such prayers. God will not answer them. Until we live by faith, love & obedience, we will continue to go round the mountain. What makes our prayers powerful, effective & impactful? Its righteousness. It is written: the prayer of a righteous man is powerful & effective. How do we become righteous? God CREDITS our faith as righteousness. Heaven Rules.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put My laws in their minds & write them on their hearts. I will be their God, & they will be My people. No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying: Know the Lord, because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest. (Hebrews 8:10-11). If our hearts are not changed, following God's rules will be unpleasant & difficult. We will rebel against being told how to live the Christian way. The Holy Spirit, however, gives us new desires, helping us wanting to obey God. With new hearts, hearts of flesh & not hearts of stone, we will find that serving God is our greatest joy. Under God's new covenant, God's law is inside us & not outside, ie, on a tablet of stone. No, it's written in our hearts. It is no longer an external set of rules & principles. The Holy Spirit reminds us of Christ's words, activates our ...
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