The Joyful Heart by Jim Hughes: Prayer Of Faith

I just prayed the prayer of faith over my dog Junior. He’s been under the weather today and he turned down a dog biscuit. He never turns down dog biscuits. He does flips for dog biscuits. So I knew something was wrong! When things go wrong the Holy Spirit comes to our aid to pray the perfect prayer because we don’t know how or what to pray. Praise God! I need the Holy Spirit’s help when I pray, how ‘bout you? – Jim

Romans 8:26

(MSG)

The moment we get tired in the waiting, God's Spirit is right alongside helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves, knows our pregnant condition, and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.

I just can’t take the credit when it comes to crisis’s in my life as if I know what to pray!

(AMP)

So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.

But there is one caveat, ALWAYS pray in faith believing what you pray for will come true!

James 1:5-8

(AMP)

5 If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.

6 Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind.

7 For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,

8 [For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides].

So let’s stop being wishy-washy with our prayers

James 5:14-16

(AMP)

14 Is anyone among you sick? He should call in the church elders (the spiritual guides). And they should pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Lord's name.

15 And the prayer [that is] of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him;

16 The effectual fervent <G1754> prayer <G1162> of a righteous man <G1342> availeth <G2480> much <G4183>.

[the effectual fervent, hot-to-boiling, prayer]

Greek Strong's Number: 1754

Greek Word: ἐνεργέω

Transliteration: energeō

Phonetic Pronunciation:

en-erg-eh'-o

Root: from <G1756>

Cross Reference: TDNT - 2:652,251

Part of Speech: v

Vine's Words: Effectual, Work, Wrought

Usage Notes:

English Words used in KJV:

work 12
show forth (one's) self 2
wrought 1
be effectual 1
effectually work 1
effectual fervent 1
work effectually in 1
be might in 1
to do 1
[Total Count: 21]

from <G1756> (energes); to be active, efficient :- do, (be) effectual (fervent), be mighty in, shew forth self, work (effectually in).

ζεστός

Greek Strong's Number: 2200

Greek Word: ζεστός

Transliteration: zestos

Phonetic Pronunciation:

dzes-tos'

Root: from <G2204>

Cross Reference: TDNT - 2:876,296

Part of Speech: adj

Vine's Words: Hot

Usage Notes:

English Words used in KJV:

hot 3
[Total Count: 3]

from <G2204> (zeo); boiled, i.e. (by implication) calid (figurative fervent) :- hot.

—Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary

So, the Lord wants us either hot or cold:

Rev 3:15-16

(KJV)

15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

References:

King James Version (KJV)—Public Domain/ 1604, King James I of

England

The Joyful Heart by Jim Hughes

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Prayer Of Faith

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