Prayer Solutions: Word of the Week
Are there times in your life where you feel that you have prayed, and yet it seems like nothing is moving in the right direction?
Does it feel as if nothing is changing?
If so, there is a solution.
Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn teaches a powerful message on this week's FORREAL Radio Broadcast about Prayer Solutions.
People often say that prayer changes things and of course, prayer does, but there is an overuse of this statement to make people feel God about what God can do for them while they sit back and do nothing. This explains why Chief Apostle stated that “Prayer doesn’t always change things or fix them, but it can change the way you look at things by changing you.”
If you want God to move for you, you have to do a self-check on how you move for God in what he says.
It’s through enduring hardships that your growth in Christ is produced. This endurance takes a person out of delighting in comfort zones into becoming good stewards of Christ. Ever hear people say “you can’t talk to me about that because you’ve never been through it?” That’s the thing, Jesus has experienced all things and endured all for us. Likewise, he allows us to endure difficulties to shape us into our calling.
Like Chief said in this week's message “you don’t get to be the up man by lifting weights one time, or doing an arm curl one time. Not if you want muscles like Arnold Schwarzenegger.” The Lord is not looking for Dr. Do-Little in the church, saints. That includes the church in our homes, the church of our day-to-day lives, the time we spend with him -- allowing him to be Lord over our lives. That means that there needs to be a sincere and continual effort in seeking Jesus. That seeking requires prayer, which allows spiritual muscle growth that produces the results of prayer.
Taking the first step is essential, otherwise you would just have a physically fit body through exercise but be spiritually weak -- lacking the essential exercise of prayer. Prayer is striving against sin. Physical exercise or any substitute to the word of God and to prayer will never suffice the changes necessary to supply you with joy. Those things the flesh gravitates toward are merely sweets, a kind of pacifier masking the symptoms to the hunger of something tangible, something real. Once the high is gone from your go-to, the drought sets in again and down emotions take over. God said it doesn’t have to be that way this season. Jesus is that answer and the word he has given through Chief Apostle H.C. Gunn concerning prayer.'
If you are feeling weak in your walk, God is saying that he will restore you. The Lord told Chief Apostle to share a message with the saints that’s vital to your change. The Lord said “when you get up at night if you would pray in your bed, on your knees, when you awake to check on the children or use the restroom -- whatever bondage, fear and whatever the trap the devil has you in ... if you will pray, continually pray, and remember to pray each and every time that you wake up, even lying in bed he will deliver you.”
Chief Apostle continued the message as God gave him revelation that “it could even be when you are facing bouts of sickness, when you first get up -- even in the midst of pain -- let Jesus be first on your mind.” He said that doing this “will cause you to pray less about things, less about what’s going on, less about convictions, and less about what you don’t have." He said that doing this “you will find yourself surrendering all to Christ, and that by taking these steps in prayer it “engages God to help you as he has promised.”
Just as he did in Psalm 23:
1 - The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 - He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3 - He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 - Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 - Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 - Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
He demonstrates in the very first lines of Psalm 23 that he is our help because he is our Shepherd. This means he is (and must be) Lord over our lives. It’s Jesus Lordship that gives us rest because our way tires us out. It’s his way that restores us when we stop substituting his commands for what we want to do, and do his will. He said he will lead us, but you have to be willing to let him.
On Friday, November 22, 2019, Chief referenced Ephesians 6:10, which reads, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.” So, just as in this week's radio broadcast, when you are strong in Jesus' Lordship over your life, then you will get the results of prayer. You can’t put on the armor of God that is described in the following verse of Ephesians before then. You can’t have the results without taking the steps.
Tune in weekly, as Chief Apostle said that he believes “God has some special events on the horizon within the next 7 weeks that needs to be shared through the radio broadcast. Take the steps of tuning in for these sure to be special upcoming broadcast and God is likely to be more real in your life.
Prayer is the solution!
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