1. Fellowship with God
« Recognizing God as God
~
Treat
God like vending machine is not right.
~
Not
all our prayer granted as what the vending machine did.
« Hamburger syndrome
~
God
will provide, don’t need to worry.
« Knowing God
« Our heavenly God is lovely
« God made man after his own image
« How to have fellowship with God
« Jacob’s well or Jesus’s well?
~
Jesus’s
well – no longer thirsty
~
Don’t
miss out intimate fellowship with God
2. Intercessory prayer
« Your home security system
~ Choose us as his spiritual FBI,CIA.
« The intercessor or watchman
~ Watchman= go to the wall of the city
to check and ensure there is no cracks and holes.
« Intercessor as spiritual builder
~ God told Jerusalem through Ezekiel: “I
looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in
the gap. On behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found
none.”
« Intercessor as spiritual warrior
~ Can do battle in the spirit.
« Intercessor as adviser
~ God give us great wisdom.
« Weapon from God
~ Strategy of God is powerful then any
clearly thought up strategies and plan of man put together.
~ If we seek and obey God, he will pour
his spirit on us with new fresh strategy.
« The weapon of the Holy Spirit
~ God can use our bodies for his will.
« The prayer tongue as weapon
A. We must have a deep fellowship with
God.
© To be man of God, they all had to
focus on the Lord.
© An intercessor is a very precious
calling.
© Spending times fellowship with him.
B. We should take proper care of
ourselves.
© Keep ourselves as temple of God.
C. We should be sensitive spiritually.
© Be choosy spiritual Christian.
© Word of God makes us very sensitive
in many ways. Before we serve the Lord, before we share the wisdom of God to
his people, we should thoroughly prepare ourselves.
D. We should be healed more.
© Must healthy spiritually, mentally,
emotionally, psychotically, and financially.
E. We should not be greedy
© Do not greedy and do not desire
worldly things.
© Only receive whatever God allows you
to have it.
F. As an intercessor, we should be tidy
© Clothing and hair style must be tidy.
G. To be proper intercessors, we must be
careful about what we speak.
© Be humble and wise.
© Ask God for his wisdom of speaking
and imparting his word to others that is always encouraging, edifying,
enriching and exalting to others.
© Must not GOSSIPs/BUSYBODIEs
3. Travailing Prayer
= May feel spiritually down and sometimes even suffer some pain and
loneliness or feel gloomy and experience some kind of sadness/burden of the
thing that he/she is interceding for.
What is travailing prayer?
God desires to bless his child.
à Never punished/ curse without reason.
à Before he decide to judge, he give
those who are wicked many opportunities to repent first.
à When people choose not to repent, God
will call his people of prayer and reveal his heart and plan to them the judgment
that he is about to bring.
à So when man of prayers goes to the
deep prayer in the spirit, God let him/ her do two things
i.
Reveal
God’s anger and plan of judgment that will come.
ii.
Opportunity
to intercede (with travailing prayer) for those who are about to face judgment
by God.
« God himself travails for his people.
« Being healed of the barren spirit.
« Knowing the times of the harvest.
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Pray
and travail to expand kingdom of God and reach out the lost soul.
~
Harvest
is plentiful but workers are few.
« Holy Spirit also intercedes on our
behalf with Groans.
~
God
never leaves us to pray on our own without his help.
Manifestation of travailing prayer:
a) Holy laughter.
b) A feeling of great comfort, joy, rest
usually experienced.
c) Sometimes Holy Spirit will even
reveal name of the spiritual body to us .
4. Command, Proclaim, Claim, Bind and
Release by faith.
« Power and authority in our tongue.
~
We
got great power and ability.
