MY FRIENDS, “THE EFFECTIVE, FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN OR WOMAN AVAILS MUCH”

MY FRIENDS, “THE EFFECTIVE, FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN OR WOMAN AVAILS MUCH”

“….You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.”…The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man or woman avails much.”James 4:2-3 (NKJV) James 5:16 (NKJV)

My friends, from the mighty mountains of New York, [Praise His name] from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. [Praise His name.]From Lookout Mountain of Tennessee, [Praise His name.]

From every hill and mole hill of Mississippi, [Praise His name]!” because we now know with no reservation”[That the prayers of the righteous availeth much if we believe.]” (Martin Luther King I have a Dream Speech)

Those words tell His chosen that we must have a passion about what we are petitioning God for. There must be a passion of hope that a family member or friend will be healed when you lay prostrate before the great physician and say Lord not my will but thou will be done.

A passion of faith that our son or daughter will find the Lord one day as the tears runs down your cheeks and we cry out, oh the Great I Am, it was your promises that told me “train up a child in the way of the Lord and He will not depart.”

A passion of understanding as you study the word of God from Genesis to Revelation, as you cry out, all Scripture is breathed out by you God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. 2 Tim 3:16-17 (KJV)

A deep and heartfelt passion for a successful marriage as you plead for direction, as you cry out, my God too you only can I turn to, for I know “Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every [situation and] circumstance. ” Cor. 13:7 (KJV)  

A passion, today, in the 21st century, as we cry out, oh Lord, the true light of the world “the increase of wickedness, and the love of the world grows cold, please give me direction as a vessel “for such a time as this,” and the will, and desire, to spread the good news of the gospel to all the world as we look above with tears in our eyes and say “Lord Jesus, come quickly, please come soon.”

But most of all my friends, a passion that whatever our petition is, it will bring glory and honor to our Saviors name because we were “bought with a price, so every day of our life we will glorify God in our body, and in our spirit, which are God’s.”  1 Cor. 6:20 (KJV)

And as we lift Him up and magnify His name we are petitioning our best friend, not just some acquaintance. Oh “What a Friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and grief’s to bear! What a privilege it is to carry everything to God in prayer!”

My friends, as we talk to God we really can “here the sound of the rushing wind, and the more we talk to Him we begin to realize, His appearing is closer then ever as we begin to here the trumpet of Gabriel, and hear the Father as He says son go get my children,

And in the twinkling of an eye, as the trumpet is blown, our friends, family, and love one’s that were laid to sleep suddenly become alive, with new bodies that will never, never die; and then we who are still alive shall suddenly have new bodies also.”

As the final season of this world is about to end and the books of God’s judgment will soon be closed. Our prayers must be passionate and focused, as we pray for a double portion of God’s Spirit to rain down upon us while enduring until the day of Christ soon appearing and we will all, who are faithful, go to our new home and life eternal.

So friends stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY