Text: James 4:1-2. Your first ministry is personally worshiping the Lord, and the second part of that is your personal prayer life. Prayer was meant for answers. If don’t we get what we pray for we need to check up on whether we asked and prayed, and whether we prayed amiss, praying with the wrong motive. Don’t take the world into your prayer closet, because God is against the spirit of the world and worldliness. Crises will make you pray negatively for needs because of bad circumstances, but positive needs will make us pray for things to change by changing ourselves. We pray to God in the name of Jesus, because we enter in by being in relationship with Him. If you don’t have joy, you don’t have a prayer life. John 16:23 and 24. Thank God for His blessings. Be specific in your prayers. Write them down. Joy is the result of a fruitful prayer life. Phil. 4:4-8 Rejoice, don’t be driven by lust, success, and how the world lives. Being prayerful and thankful brings God’s peace which guards your hearts and minds. Controlling your thoughts is being overwhelmed with the goodness of God.
Answered Prayer: Practical Aspects in the Life of a Believer
Healing at the Cross is for All
Ps. 103:1-3. Healing is about power and the true intellect of the Word of God. Biased pseudo-intellectualism has changed God’s Word. God’s benefits are forgiveness and healing. Is. 53:4 and 5 is a prophetic utterance of the crucified Christ. Pseudo-intellectuals changed the translation of “pain and sickness” to griefs and sorrows. Matthew translates it from the Hebrew in Matt. 8:16,17 to infirmities and sicknesses. Jesus bore our sickness at the same time He bore our sins. Jesus died for ALL, but just like all do not receive salvation by of their choice, so all do not receive God’s healing power by their own choice. Mark 9:14-29 tells of the demon-possessed boy that Jesus healed, but His disciples couldn’t. Jesus had to work with the boy’s father to help him have faith to get rid of all the previous religious teaching the man had about why God’s power doesn’t work. Listen to hear why people do not receive their healing. Healing gives God glory. Scriptures that tell us that Jesus healed all kinds of sickness and disease and healed all: Matt. 4:23; Matt. 9:35; Matt. 12:15; Matt. 14:14; Luke 6:17-19.
The Tithe and Vision for the Body of Christ
Mal. 3:8-11. When people ask, “Why did this happen to me?”, it is related to sin. It is not God’s intended will and blessings. Romans 5 says that even death came as a result of sin, because sin puts wages on us. When Jesus healed the crippled man, He told him to go and sin no more, or a worse thing would come upon him. In II Cor. 11, Jesus tells us that some people died prematurely because they didn’t discern the Lord’s Body. Poverty is not spiritual. In Ps. 112, God puts wealth and riches with righteousness. Losing your vision will cause you to perish (Prov. 6:10,11). The tithe is men carrying the vision of the Body of Christ in their hearts. We are in this with the Lord. Not giving the tithe is robbing God, and that brings a curse. Each person in the Body is part of you. We are members one of the other. Have a vision for the Body.
A Supernatural Generation Unleashing the Great Big God Within
How do we unleash the great big God within us? First of all, we must know that God is in us. We carry Him wherever we go. We need to unleash the healer to the sick, the provider to those in need. Dr. Kandole elaborates on many scriptures to show us who we are in Christ. We don’t need to ask God for power and revival. We must unleash His power and revival from within us. We must understand these five things from Acts chapters 1-4: 1) The resurrected Christ, 2) The irresistible promise of receiving power, 3) The power generation of being filled with the Holy Spirit, 4) The empowered believer, and 5) The unstoppable spiritual force that causes riots. revival, and/or revolution. He led us in praying for one another and charged us to go out and unleash the big God that’s in us.
Mercy and Truth, Not Tradition, Regarding Healing
Listen as Pastor Dale expounds on the truth about Paul’s thorn in the flesh and also God’s willingness to heal. What was God’s mercy to someone in the Bible becomes truth to us. Whatever is God’s grace to us is sufficient; we do not need to keep carrying around what Satan has tried to put on us. God is compassionate, but He is also willing to heal you. What did Jesus do on the earth? He taught, preached, and healed people. We are to be His laborers, doing the same things He did. There is life in holding onto the mercy that has turned into truth.
Family Life Vision
Julia Popov of Russia teaches on family life. The #1 reason for Christian families is to live for Christ. Family exists to serve the Lord. We serve God with our family. Marriage is the heart of the family. The wedding and honeymoon should not be the peak of the marriage, but our vision should be that the husband and wife keep getting closer and their passion for each other grows more and more. Your children should envy your love for each other as husband and wife. By loving Jesus, you can love your husband, and by loving your husband, you can love Jesus. When a wife serves her husband, she is serving Jesus. Eph. 5:1 starts by saying that we are to imitate God by living in love. It’s about serving God while married. The Hebrew word for love means to give. Marriage is giving love, not taking. The more you do for your spouse, the more your love grows. Eph. 5:28 is not for the woman to harass her husband, but it’s for the husband; so women, do not use it against your husband. Please Jesus in your marriage, because there will be many opportunities for your husband to disappoint you. It’s easier to respect God, because He is perfect. Wives, respect your husband. Believe in him, believe that he is a great man, speak well of him, especially when others are around. He is the glory of God. Husbands, reflect God’s nature. Take care of your wife’s needs and show love and affection. Show that she’s the most important person, even more important than your work and friends. If she does not get your love, nothing will satisfy her. Men, love your wife. Women, respect your husband.
Marriage Dreams or Demands and Expectations
Oleg Popov, from Moscow, Russia, describes what happens in many marriages when each person has a “box of dreams” which turns into a “box of demands and expectations”. Two big “I’s” collide and what might happen is a divorce, which means that both partners are still carrying their boxes of demands, setting them up for a second failed marriage. In a marriage there is always a strong and a weaker person, so what might happen is that the strong person gets his or her way, and the other person is under constant pressure. A divorce may come after many years in the marriage, shocking the strong person, because he or she thought everything was okay. Another thing that might happen is that they try to compromise on everything. “You do your part, and I’ll do mine.” A marriage of compromise is one of contract, rather than covenant. Each person is not concerned about the other, but about the marriage. What is a gauge to know if yours is a marriage of compromise? A marriage of compromise has no romance. It’s like fulfilling an obligation. God wants us to remember that our mates do not owe us anything. How often do you thank each other? Do not use Bible verses like darts at your spouse, but submit to one another because God loves you. Your love for God can turn on your passion for your spouse, and your love for your spouse shows God’s love for both of you. Let God fill you with His unconditional love. Put Christ in the middle of your marriage, and God will give you grace. Pride causes resistance. (Eph. 5:21-25; I Peter 5:5,6)
Transformational Transition
Perfect love casts out fear. What are the steps to transformational transition? 1) Walking in perfect love. What are you entertaining, speaking, thinking on? Phil. 4:8 says to think on the good report, the noble, pure, just, lovely. Speaking fear activates it. We carry royal love. 2) Walking into your royal identity. We are the children of God, new creations. Live in your eternal destiny and believe the report of the Lord. Listen as Pastor Ed gives many scriptures to build our faith. 3) Walking forward in the call of God. Cut off the rope to those things that you are dragging along and carrying. Receive the call, forgive, and ask God to guide you to your glorious destiny. 4) Walking fully immersed in the baptism of the Holy Spirit. If Jesus needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit, we surely do, too. When you are baptized in the Holy Spirit, you will receive revelation, boldness to love, intercede, and to minister, pray directly to the Father, a life that testifies of Jesus, your prayer language- speaking in tongues, and transformation.
Listen and See
Listen as 101 year-old Mary Jenkins of Baltimore shares experiences, teachings, wisdom, and testimonies from a lifetime of prophetic ministry. Her spiritual father was Smith Wigglesworth. She encourages us to use well what God has given us, do what He wants to be done, and not to talk about getting old. Let your works speak for you.
No Condemnation to Those Who Are in Christ Jesus
John 8:1-11; Rom. 3:9-11; Rom. 8:1-4; I Cor. 10:13; I John 1:7-9. The love of God is unconditional, but His blessings are conditional. Pastor Dale warns of cyclical errors in the church, such as the shepherding movement and now the “greasy” grace movement. Jesus died because sin is sin. Don’t go so far that sin loses its sinfulness. The purpose of the law is to lead us to Christ, so those laws you keep and follow should be those that lead you to Christ. Jesus took the place of the woman at the well when He went to the cross. Satan wants you to feel that you’re different. A lot of winning over sin is to run, to flee from it. The law cannot keep you from sin. It’s not as much putting down the flesh as it is picking up the Holy Spirit. Walking in the Spirit is how to get holy. Make sure your heart is not hard and seared. Before Christ- how does sin affect me? After accepting Christ- how does my sin affect Him?
The Awakening: A Revelation of Who You Are
We all have been given the same truth and promises from God. Why do some break through to success? We are to triumph, overcome, do what He says for us to do. Our greatest need is to have a revelation of what God has done for us and what He wants to do through us. The truth we know will set us free, but the truth is filtered by our emotions and our mind. Push through and don’t tolerate what is not from and of God. We lose confidence and our emotions take over when we are hurt or disappointed. Then we drift away from faith and our destiny instead of being the church. Make a decision to believe God! God wants to control you. The Great Awakening is when we realize who we are. God’s dream is of a glorious church, a glorious bride.
Enter the Spiritual Realm
When our spiritual eyes are opened to the unseen spiritual realm, our needs are met, the walls come down by God’s authority (like those of Jericho), we can see God’s forces for us (like Elisha’s servant seeing the mountain full of horses and chariots of fire), and we can be set free by just one truth from Him. How do we enter this realm? We enter through the Word of God. Without the spiritual realm accessed through the Word, we have to rely on our natural senses. Get rid of the negativity. Listen to a powerful testimony of a woman who was set free by getting rid of the negativity in a very difficult situation and replacing it with the truth, “Jesus is the Answer”.
The Holy Spirit
We need the Holy Spirit! Without Him there is no revelation of who we really are. He is the power of God. Jesus gave Him with a purpose- to empower us, to open our eyes, to carry life, the anointing, and victory, to do what we can’t do, so we can stand up and speak like Peter on the day of Pentecost, to do greater works than Jesus did, to awaken His ability in us, to reveal His power and His plan. Our minds may argue with God, but we need to let the Holy Spirit fill our hearts and mouths with the reality of Christ. The Holy Spirit opens ordinary people up to the realm of the Spirit, the supernatural, and possibilities so that we can get rebellious people saved, so they will be devil-destroyers.
Stir Up the Gift of God in You: The Body Needs Your Gift
Rom. 1:11; II Tim. 1:1-9; Eph. 5:1-2; I John 1:7. We, as the body have been given gifts, which need to be stirred up, like reviving a fire. Doing what God has required us to do is an act of our will, whether it’s serving in the helps ministry, in giving, or in the five-fold gifts. We (corporately) have been given the spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. Corporately, we must get rid of the spirit of fear, which renders our gifts powerless and useless. We need to be connected with the heart of the Father. Eph. 5 tells us to awake, submit to one another in the fear of God- be real, honest, and transparent. What hinders the gift of God in you? SIN- transgressing the law of love. Let Jesus have first place, and let the gifts in you be released now. Anything that’s not love will take you out of what God has for you. Repent and live in repentance every day.
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No Condemnation in Christ: Sanctification
Rom. 8:1-5; Ex. 28:41; Neh. 13:10. Listen as Pastor Dale explains the difference between legal and vital truth. Grace is not permission to sin, but empowerment to walk in love and in the Spirit. Sanctification is separation from the flesh- go and sin no more. Consecration means “to fill your hands”, such as filling your hands so full of God and His Word and work, and you cannot “pick up” sin. The time between the call of God on your life and the separation to Him is a time of pruning. We receive the anointing to serve when we are in a body of believers members of each other and of Christ. By focusing on the Spirit, we can better “see” the giftings in the body. The apostolic ministry of Apostle/Pastor Dale and CWI is gathering the called of God and setting them in their place.
The Hour of Visitation
Mark 10:46-52 (The healing of blind Bartimaeus). Pradeep Perera of Sri Lanka teaches and speaks prophetically about the time we are in. There will be a shifting, new giftings, new doors opening, an opportune time, but we cannot hold on to the old ways. In order to receive we need to hear what Jesus is saying, not the secular news media. Focus on Jesus and the Word. We must have a spiritual breakthrough before a natural one. Blind Bartimaeus acted on the faith of what he heard about and from Jesus. Just like Hannah, who cried out to God for a child and made a vow to Him, we must be willing to pay a price. There will be doubters and adversities that will try to stop the hour of visitation, but press in and go from victim to victorious. Use adversity to climb into your success. Brokenness is the key to the opening of the heavens for you. PRESS INTO GOD’S PRESENCE. Praise God and He will raise you. Throw away any insecurities that are hindrances- whether unhealthy associations, habits, or the past. Pursue Jesus and His presence. Pradeep ministered and prophesied over those wanting ministry.
Expect a Miracle
Listen as Pradeep Perera of Sri Lanka prophesies about 2010 for the body of Christ in this Kairos time (the time when God intervenes). Using John 11:1-44 of Jesus’ experience with Martha and Mary and raising Lazarus from the dead, Pradeep gives many comparisons of life’s lessons for us. Find out why intimacy with Jesus Christ is important to the miraculous.
How to Walk and Stay in Healing
Using Mark 5:21-42, Ron Bruce clearly elaborates on how two people, Jairus and the woman with the issue of blood, were healed. Jairus’ faith was tested when Jesus’ healing power was drawn out by the woman needing healing and again when he received the word that his daughter was already dead. The woman received an instant miracle. Jairus had to keep believing, even when the facts did not affirm his believing. He trusted in Jesus, who is the Word. He kept quiet and let the Word, Jesus, do the speaking. We must come to the Word, Jesus, bow down to Him, seek the Word diligently, keep in faith, believing and speaking the truth regardless of the facts, and rejoice and be thankful for our healing, even if the physical facts do not agree.
No Condemnation: The Spirit of Life
When Adam disobeyed, he lost dominion over himself. He had been clothed by glory. Your spirit is supposed to have dominion over your soul, and your body can be trained to righteousness. We must minister, worship, commune, talk, listen, praise, and spend time with the Lord, so that His strength is exchanged for ours. Doing works is not righteousness, but we must work (labor) to enter into His presence. Being led by the Spirit is not just for decisions. When you face temptations, you are not facing them alone. Walk with the Holy Spirit; He is greater than the temptation, and He will help you look at things differently. Don’t mix the law and the Spirit. Remember no weapon formed against you shall prosper, and you shall condemn every tongue that rises against you.