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accompanied with our faith, our prayers could accomplish the impossible: Jesus said:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain,
Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have
whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when
ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. (Mark 11:23-24;
see also Matthew 21:21-22)
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my
name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye
shall receive, that your joy may be full. (John 16:23-24)
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Jesus also instructed us that we should pray in agreement with other believers. When we
do this, the power of our prayer is increased. He stated: “Again I say unto you, That if two of you
shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my
Father which is in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I
in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:19-20)
Paul instructed the believers that the Holy Spirit helps us in prayer. He said: “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.” (Romans
8:26) We shall explore further how to invoke the Holy Spirits intercession in my next book Be
Not Deceived.
God Is No Respecter of Persons
God does not randomly select, honor or bestow upon individuals protection, provision or
mercy and grace. Peter declared: “Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.”
(Acts 10:34) God is a respecter of our thought, actions and the desires of our heart. Abraham was
a man of faith and he obedient to his father in Heaven. God said of King David, he is “a man
after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will.” (Acts 13:22; see also 1 Samuel 13:13-14)
The Apostles and Prophets were chosen by God because they answered God's call on their lives
and God respected this.
God wanted to have the same relationship he had with Moses with all of Israel but it was
the people who chose not to have it. They didn't want God to speak to them directly (Exodus
20:19). God wants the same thing today, he wants a relationship with each of us and he wants to
speak to us directly. It is up to us as to whether we want to hear and obey him. Moses said that it
is God's desire that all his people would be prophets (Numbers 11:29) which is to say that He
could speak to them and they would hear Him.
The prophet Joel writes: “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my
spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream
dreams, your young men shall see visions.” (Joel 2:28) This is beginning to happen today but
how many of us recognize it? How many seek to understand what God is saying in a dream or
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