Hello! Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, today is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it. Amen! I thank for His amazing Grace and deeper Revelation I have been receiving day by day. Today’s message is “Prayer is the best weapon to fight your battles or challenges.”
The quote I received from the Lord is “If you are busy to pray it is easier to fail”
Most of us find hard to pray but easier to watch television, talking on our phones all day, listening to music, be on facebook and twitter.
Prayer should be second after reading and living the word. We always want to overcome battles. Be it addictions, struggling with sin, spiritual problems, financial problems, educational problems, marital problems, etc. Are we doing what is right to overcome that?
Jesus and Prayer
Mark 1:35-42
35 And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed. 36And Simon and those who were with him searched for him, 37and they found him and said to him, “Everyone is looking for you.” 38And he said to them, “Let us go on to the next towns, that I may preach there also, for that is why I came out.” 39And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and casting out demons.
40 And a leper came to him, imploring him, and kneeling said to him, “If you will, you can make me clean.” 41Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.” 42And immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean
This scripture is pointing to us how we should value prayer in our lives as Christians. If the Messiah Himself prayed before going out to preach the gospel in synagogues and casting out demons, How more us? Jesus prayed Himself in the morning with prayers for the battles He will be facing during the day. Mark 1:40-42 tells us how He healed a man suffering from leprosy when He came to Him. He was able to do this because He has already prepared for the battles ahead through prayers.
Luke 6:12-19
12 In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: 14Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, 15and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. 17And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, 18who came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases. And those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 19And all the crowd sought to touch him, for power came out from him and healed them all.
Luke tells us in chapter 6:12 Jesus Goes to the mountains these days to pray and all night He prayed to His Father (God). Jesus new the best way to talk to His Father (God) and also prepare Him for greater things was through prayers. Verse 17-19 tells us the kind of miracles He did after His prayers, He healed the sick, the unclean become clean, because there was so much power in Him and came out of Him the crowd sought to touch Him and they receive their healing. How amazing is that!
Power can come out of you to fight your challenges if you constantly prayer just as Jesus did.
Mark 9-28:29 (ESV) and when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?” 29And he said to them, “This kind cannot be driven out by anything but prayer.” In your own time when you read Mark 9:14-29 where Jesus Healed a boy from unclean spirit, the disciple came to him and asked Him (Jesus) how He was able to do that? Jesus told them it is through prayer and not else. We need prayers to fight our battles.
How can a soldier overcome His enemies if you do not use the weapon to attack the enemy? Definitely the soldier will fall.
Most Christians fall victim to this, we have the power to pray (Luke 10:19) and turn things around for our good (Romans 8:28) but we have chosen not to just as the soldier who fails to use his/hers weapon to attack the enemy to overcome his/hers battle. That is why we are struggling with our battles because of our poor prayer life.
Philippians 1:19 (ESV)for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance. If we do continue to pray as philippians1:19 says the Spirit of Jesus Christ will deliver you out of your troubles or challenges.
Colossians 4:12 (NIV)
Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured.
Jesus is wrestling for you in prayers so that you do not fall but stand firm in the will of God, matured and fully assured. Please do your best in prayers to make this battle a victorious one (Revelation 12:11). Amen. God bless you.
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