God's Strong Power

My friend Joann had a strong desire to become a concert pianist and to travel and perform as either a soloist or as a piano accompanist. While majoring in piano performance in college, she developed tendinitis in her right arm, and it became too weak to perform the solo recital that was required. She graduated with a degree in music history and literature instead.
She knew Jesus as her Savior, but she had been rebelling against Him for several years. Then through further difficult circumstances, she sensed the Lord reaching out to her, and she turned back to Him. Eventually her arm grew stronger, and her dream of traveling and performing came about. She says, “Now I could play to God’s glory instead of my own. His outstretched arm restored my spiritual life and the strength in my arm to enable me to serve Him with the gift He gave me.”
The Lord promised Moses that His outstretched arm would rescue the Israelites from bondage in Egypt (Ex. 6:6). He kept that promise even though His often-rebellious people doubted (14:30-31). God’s mighty arm is outstretched for us as well. No matter the outcome of our situation, He can be trusted to bring about His will for each of His children. We can depend on God’s strong arm.

What a fellowship, what a joy divine,
Leaning on the everlasting arms;
O how bright the path grows from day to day,
Leaning on the everlasting arms. —Hoffman

With God’s strength behind you and His arms beneath you, you can face whatever lies ahead of you.

Answering the call of God for your Life.

The Bible is full of people who God called out of obscurity, less than desirable backgrounds, trained them, filled them with His spirit and thrust them into the deep end to perform His works and do His bidding. From Noah, Nehemiah, Esther, Joseph, Moses, Samuel to Peter, Paul, John then in this day and age, you and me. Many struggle to identify whether God has called them or not. If so they cannot ascertain the area of their calling. As a friend I am here to help you with some information to help you comprehend. I answer six critical questions.

1. What does it mean to be called by God?
To be called by God is to be singled out to perform a specific assignment at a specific time. In the general sense of the word most people refer to those in full - time ministry of the gospel as having the call of God upon their lives, but I put it to you that everyone has a specific call of God in a specific sphere or domain. Sometimes God will allow you to function in a certain area yet that may not be the full - time place of calling for you. Just because you do not stand in the pulpit on Sunday doesn't mean you don't have a divine assignment in the market place where you must show forth His glory by occupying and dominating that domain on behalf of the Kingdom of God.

2. How can you be sure that it is Him and not your own imagination running away with you?
A relationship with God is not a one - sided affair where you do all the talking to Him and He just does as He pleases without telling you what's on His mind. He is always speaking in various ways. There are things He has already said and they are things that He is saying and those that He will say. The trained ear that is trained by habitation in His presence and tuning into the frequency of the Holy Spirit that will hear His voice will discern and not despise what He says through his word and His pastors and prophets. Your calling is already there and it is your responsibility to find out what it is.

3. What does God call people to do?
Jonah was called to go and tell the people of Nineveh to repent, Solomon was called to build the temple, Moses was called to deliver the Children of Israel and Samson was called to deliver the children of Israel from the tyranny of the Philistines. Joseph's calling led him to Egypt via the vehicle of slavery. His being sold into bondage led to the salvation of nations as he became P rime Minister of Egypt and commanded the resources of Egypt to feed the world which was in famine. God calls people into a plethora of assignments, your calling maybe in that job you despise. It may the path that leads you to your true place.

4. What happens when you resist God's call?
God does not call you because he has run out of resources. It is your privilege and honor to serve Him. Jonah tried to run away and learned the hard way about obedience by spending three days and three nights in the belly of a fish. When you choose to disobey God's call and destiny for your life you will wander on the earth, succeed at the wrong thing and still be dissatisfied.

5.Why would He call you and not another?
I do not think it's a case of preferring you over another person, but I am of the mind that we all have our portion and part to play in His Kingdom. He is a just God, doesn't treat everyone the same way. Because He is aware of that which He placed inside you He will use you for a specific purpose which may be different from that of the next person. Some are called to be apostles, some pastors, some evangelists, and some business people. We are not all the same and do no have to be. You may wear the same color dress as your friend and do everything together but that doesn't mean you will end up in the same place.

The Lord and His Prayer

Lord's Prayer is a basic prayer in Christianity. It's simple, yet it's so powerful. It's only consist a few sentences. Even though it's a short prayer, it contains all we need and what should we say in our prayer. We don't have to pray in a long prayer, since GOD knows what we need, even before we say it.
So, how should we pray? Just follow our Leader. He has given us His lead in Lord's Prayer. There are five parts in The Lords Prayer that we should remember when we pray:
a. Praising (Matthew 6: 9)
We must praise His Name in our pray. This is the first thing we must to do when we praying. We praise Him because He deserves it. Praise the Lord is the main goal in our worship to Him. Don't even forget it.
b. Confession (Matthew 6:10)
We confess He is Omnipotent and He has the rights to our life. He can do whatever He want, because He have the entire world and Heaven. We surrender our life to His decisions, include our prayer.
c. Demand (Matthew 6: 11)
What should we demand or ask to Him in our prayer? Something we want or something we really need? Jesus itself has taught us to asking what we really need.

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Healing Prayer

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Healing prayer is prayer that is offered up for the purpose of seeking healing of either a physical or emotional nature. It is believe that through prayer physical and emotional pain can be eliminated. Healing prayer may include prayer spoken aloud, prayer held within the heart or visits to religious shrines or other places of worship.
Healing prayer does not involve monetary donations. Although offering contributions to houses of worship is certainly worthwhile there is no amount of money that can guarantee a cure to a physical or emotional pain. Some unscrupulous individuals may offer stories of healing and divine intervention and offer you the opportunity for healing for a fee. These individuals should be avoided. True healing prayer is pure and heartfelt.
 

How Do You Pray for Healing?

There is no simple formula for healing prayer. Although some would like to believe that there are special prayers that guarantee healing but, unfortunately, this is not the case. The words of a healing prayer pale in comparison to the emotion and passion behind the words. The simplest prayer can often be the most powerful because it invokes the most heartfelt emotion of the individual offering the prayer. Whether you are praying for your own healing, for the healing of a loved one or the healing of a stranger it is important that as you pray, you know in your heart that God has the power to heal and He will answer your prayer according to His plan. It has been said many times that no prayer goes unanswered but the answer to these prayers isn't always, "Yes."

How to Pray An effective Prayer

 Ready, Aim, Pray: How To Make Your Prayers More Powerful And Effective
Why do so many people's prayers go unanswered? It really does seem like prayers are answered in preferential order, since some come to pass and many others don't. Is God really going by some criteria that we have to meet in order to have our prayers answered or could it be that we're just going about praying the wrong way?
From my observation, most people pray by begging for what they want. "Oh please let this happen." Or "I really need this, please bring it to me." If it's something really important, we often barter for the service. "If you heal me of my cancer, I promise to always be nice and loving toward everyone!" Sometimes this works but more often than not, it doesn't. I think it's because this form of prayer places us in a position of powerlessness. We're asking for things we don't think we can attain on our own and that makes us feel powerless and this feeling often brings about results that reflect it. "But I am powerless! I can't cure myself The Power of Simple Prayer: How to Talk with God about Everythingof cancer. I need intervention!"
Who told you you can't cure cancer? In medical terms, it's called spontaneous remission. People are diagnosed with cancer and return weeks or months later for a follow up and there is no sign of it anymore. There are many documented cases of people with Multiple Personality Disorder who have been diagnosed with cancer as one personality but show absolutely no signs of it as another personality. This is proof that we are more powerful than we give ourselves credit for.

HAVE YOU PRAYED ?

Several years ago I moved to England , but have traveled back to USA many times often staying with the same families. One family lived in farm house where a tiny

 Upstairs room always waited me.

            I will never forget one visit when, as usual, I logged my suitcase  up the familiar stairs. This time, however, a secret burden felt heavier than my luggage. As I near the  top of the steps, I saw an old plaque that I forgotten , it read:

HAVE YOU PRAYED ABOUT IT? Panting physically and spiritually I had to admit, “No I haven’t. So I slipped to my knees and finally talk to God about the problem.See How I Pray

            Instead of been anxious nothing, I had to be anxious about everything. Instead of praying about everything. I had prayed about nothing . But now, through prayer, my heavy load of worry became God’s  and His light weight gift of peace became mine.

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What To Pray For ?

When Life Goes 'Wrong' On Us
When things become horribly impossible, prayer is the only answer. It really is an admission of who is in control - for we are not!
Prayer is never the wrong thing to do when the world goes haywire on us, for the fact remains, the world's not the problem so much - our default view of things is generally the real issue.
Our prayers then can help us conform our thinking, or at the very least they convict us to a simple peace that God has all this chaos somehow in his charge.The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
The Therapeutic Nature of Prayer
This concept then has a soul-beauty about it; even as if we weren't there and weren't able to get in our own way - for there's nothing worse - getting in our own (and God's) way.
Prayer, therefore, is appropriate separation and 'detachment' to the coursings of life. It facilitates the gentle rocking of the soul anesthetised by its Lord.
We're only benefited to train in this activity - to make it part of who we are. It can only help. Our identities are fused this way to a God who designed life, in the first place, to happen in fusion with him and his Spirit.