Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. James 5:16
There is no hopeless situation that we can’t change through prayer. If we read the above mentioned scripture in Amplified version: it says – The earnest prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available. Our prayers are not empty
If we think about Paul & Silas for a moment , they were captured , beaten , tortured in areas, thrown into prison with their feet clamped. But the Bible says in Acts 16:25-26 that all midnight they prayed & sang praises unto God .. and all the prisoners heard them , And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so the foundation of the prison was shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and their bands were loosed
How remarkable this is ! The door opened by the power of their praise and worship and their prayer
There is nothing that we can’t change . Therefore we have to make prayer a major feature in our life and a major part of our daily routine along with singing Psalms, hymns & melodious songs to our Lord. It will strengthen us & help us to maintain focus even in the face of the toughest temptations & persecutions
Prayer
Thank you Father for the privilege to pray and to lead us into the kingdom of love to enforce your will in the earth and in our lives. I declare peace, progress & prosperity for all the nations of the earth in Jesus name , I pray. Amen
Testimony
Last year my marriage was about to break when everything was finalized. But my dear sister in the morning fellowship , they frequently prayed for me & God gave them Rhema and He did miracles in my life, My husband was changed , He came out of extra martial relationship & me went to abroad for vacation last month . Praise be to God
1John 3:9 says ”Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”
Now the question comes who is born of God? If we go to verse 1 of Chp 5 it says.” Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.”
So its clear that we are born of God when we put our trust on Jesus and on His saving work in our lives. Now the verse says, whosoever is born of God sins not. What is Sin? Sin is transgression or disobedience to God’s laws. (1 John 3:4)
What is Seed? Seed is the Word of God, i.e. Jesus as also mentioned in 1 Peter 1:23, “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.”
1 John 1:8, “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” Why? These verses seems contradictory as one end, he is saying that if we are born of God, we can not sin and on the other end he is saying its impossible for us if we say we are pure, divine and have no guile. The NIV version of Verse 3:9, it says NIV says. “No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God.” Same fact is also mentioned in 1John 5:18
So as we were all born in sin but after accepting JESUS, we cannot continue in sin. It’s a choice we need to make minute by minute, day by day. Whether we will surrender to the temptations, lusts and immoral thoughts or will put an end to all such thoughts by binding all such spirits in Jesus name. The flesh hates what comes from the Spirit of God and therefore Paul says, “No, I strike a blow to my body and make it my slave.”1 Corinthians 9:27
Besides we have the assurance as Paul says. “God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.”1 Corinthians 10:13.
When we are about to transgress God’s will, our conscience means our understanding of right and wrong tells us and reminds us when we have sinned. It is meant to be a help to prevent us from committing sin. But our understanding is limited and it certainly may not be exactly in line with God’s perfect will, since it can easily be influenced by outside factors- the culture that we have followed, the prevailing norms in society and our upbringing, the kind of friends we are with and most importantly sin stands in enmity of our conscience and makes it dull. But its only when we have the desire to know God, know Jesus as our personal saviour and to do everything for Him, to surrender our life for Him, its then only that He will send us the Holy Spirit to guide us to His perfect will. The Spirit can enlighten us in areas where our conscience cannot, and our understanding comes more and more in line with God’s will. 1 Corinthians 2:10 –But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Romans 8:26– Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”
So when we pray, invite the Holy Spirit and put on the whole armour of God as stated in Ephesians 6:11.
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)
I asked this question to the person who introduced Jesus to me is it right to ask forgiveness again and again from God after knowingly committing sin as I didn’t have any knowledge of scriptures then. He said every other sin can be forgiven except the sin of the Holy Spirit. Not convinced with his reply, when I opened my Bible, the Word of God spoke to me from Romans 6.
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?(1-2 Verses)
Prayer:
Father, we thank you for giving us this new life. Help us to walk in this newness of life and prepare us to ward off all the temptations from our lives like Jesus did when he was in the wilderness for 40 days. We know you are faithful and will not allow us to be tempted beyond our capacity. Thank you Lord. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.
