11:59 A. M., Friday, 7/30/31
As you read, study, ponder this material with the intention of adopting and applying it to your own life it is important to remember that none of us are perfect but Jesus is. So if we sin we should repent and ask for God’s forgiveness. 1 John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” When you have genuinely repented get right back into your prayer chamber/room/closet (also, remember that you don’t have to literally be in a secluded area, it could even be on a crowded subway in the middle of rush hour and you can pray privately)and the business of praying/interceding. Remember that God will take our sins and, “Cast all our sins Into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19) and never he brings them back up again.
NOTE: HAVING A PRIVATE PLACE WHERE YOU MEET REGULARLY ALONE WITH GOD IS PRICELESS. BUT HE IS ALWAYS READY AT ANY TIME TO MEET WITH US.
WE MUST GET/COME TO THE POINT/PLACE WHERE PRAYER IS NOT SECONDARY OR USED AS A LAST RESORT BUT ALONG WITH JESUS IT MUST BECOME A CENTRAL PART OF OUR VERY EXISTENCE!
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXCERPT FROM E. M. BOUNDS’ BOOK, ‘Classic Collection on Prayer, ‘ according to his study on the Apostle Paul ‘s prayer life.
’15 Paul and His Requests for Prayer’
” I desire above all things to learn to pray. We want to sound the reveille for the Christian warriors. We desire to find truth of the lack of real praying. What is it? Why is it? Why so little time spent in prayer when Christ, who had command of His time, chose to spend great part of it in INTERCESSION? “He ever liveth to make intercession for us.”We believe the answer to be the desire is in the heart, but the will is undisciplined, the motive is present, but the affections have not melted under hours of heavenly meditation; the intellect is keen, yet not for hours of tireless research. The intellect and the affections have never been linked together by the sealing of the blessed Holy Ghost to do or die for God’s glory in the secret places, with doors shut, lusts crucified. (Rev. Homer W. Hodge) The many requests of Paul for prayer for himself, made to those to whom he ministered, put prayer to the front in Paul’s estimate of its possibilities. Paul prayed much himself, and tried hard to arouse Christians to the imperative importance of the work of prayer. He so deeply felt the need of prayer that he was given to the habit of personal praying. Realizing this for himself, he pressed this invaluable duty upon others. Intercessory prayer, or prayer for others, occupied a high place in his estimate of prayer. It is no surprise, therefore, when we find himthrowing himself upon the prayers of the churches to whom he wrote. By all their devotion to Jesus Christ, by all their interest in the advance of God’s kingdom on Earth, by all the ardor of their personal attachment to Jesus, he charges them to pray much, to pray unceasingly, to pray at all times, to pray in all things, and to make praying a business of praying. Then realizing his own dependence upon prayer for his difficult duties, his sore trials, and his heavy responsibilities, he urges those to whom he wrote to pray especially for him” (Bounds, pp 1787 – 1789).
Friday, 7/30/21 – 3:36 A. M.
Often the least attended event in church is prayer time. While we should be led by the Spirit first of all, in order to be a true intercessor it takes love for God, love for people, a desire to live holy, willingness, commitment, effort, strength, and obedience on your part. In other words prayer takes everything. Perhaps this explains why many people don’t show up during these extremely important times.
4:59 A. M., Friday, 7/30/21
Prayer is the most demanding activity that a person will ever undertake because it takes all of you (spirit, soul, and body). It is a lifetime commitment. Every day, every night, to the point where you sometimes literally find yourself waking up praying, and often in your day to day life become conscious of the fact that you are praying. Intercession becomes your highest calling.
reveille
1 : a signal to get up mornings;
2 : a bugle call at about sunrise signaling the first military formation of the day; also : the formation so signaled
[ORIGIN: modification of French réveillez, imperative plural of réveiller to awaken, from Middle French reveiller, from re- + eveiller to awaken, from Vulgar Latin *exvigilare, from Latin ex- + vigilare to keep watch, stay awake — more at VIGILANT]
(1644)
af·fec·tion
\ə- fek-shən\noun
1 : a moderate feeling or emotion
2 : tender attachment : FONDNESS <she had a deep affection for her parents>
3 a (1) : a bodily condition (2) : DISEASE, MALADY b : ATTRIBUTE <shape and weight are affections of bodies>
4 obsolete : PARTIALITY, PREJUDICE
5 : the feeling aspect (as in pleasure) of consciousness
6 a : PROPENSITY, DISPOSITION b archaic : AFFECTATION 1
7 : the action of affecting : the state of being affected syn see FEELING
— af·fec·tion·less\-ləs\adjective
[ORIGIN: Middle English, from Anglo-French affection, from Latin affection-, affectio, from afficere]
(13th century)
ardor
noun
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ar·dor | \ ˈär-dər \
Definition of ardor
1a: an often restless or transitory warmth of feelingthe sudden ardors of youth
b: extreme vigor or energy : INTENSITY the ardor of a true believer