(James 5:16) “Confess your faults one to another that you may be healed. The effectual ‘Fervent’ prayer of a ‘righteous’ man avails much”.
This verse is telling us that “THE PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN IS POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE.
NOTICE SEVERAL IMPORTANT THINGS ABOUT THIS SCRIPTURE.
First, it’s talking about ‘PRAYER‘.
The Apostle Paul shows us it’s importance when he says, “PRAY WITHOUT CEASING” (I Thessalonians 5:17).
I believe Paul may be implying several things here.
I believe he initially is referring to ‘HAVING A CONSISTENT PRAYER LIFE’.
READ: SEATED TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY PLACES
The Devil will do everything he possibly can to keep you from praying or distract you while you are praying. We must resist all his efforts to hinder or stop our prayer life.
Our own laziness helps the Devil do his job and makes it much easier for him to succeed against us. Let us conquer our laziness and make a determination to spend a decent time in prayer.
The Devil quickly makes inroads into our lives when prayer is either diminished or stopped.
(Phil. 4:6) “Do not be anxious (worried) about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with ‘THANKSGIVING’, present your requests to God”.
READ: SPEAKING IN TONGUES
James tells us that it is a ‘RIGHTEOUS MAN’ that God hears. The prayer is only effective if it comes from a person that is ‘RIGHT WITH GOD’.
He also tells us that the pray must be a ‘FERVENT PRAYER’ if it’s going to be effective.
A lazy, half hearted (ho-hum) prayer probably won’t make it to the ceiling.
God says, “If you seek Me ‘WITH ALL YOUR HEART’ you’ll be heard” (Jeremiah 29:13).
WHAT IS HOLY GHOST NETWORKING?
This is where we shift into ‘SECOND GEAR’. This is a level higher than the first. The first is needed and very necessary, but the second is a level higher than the first.
Let me make it abundantly clear that every level from the lowest to the highest level is extremely important.
‘FAITH IS ALWAYS NEEDED, FAITH IS ALWAYS NECESSARY. Nothing works without faith.
Every Christian must not rest until He or she has received the ‘BAPTISM IN THE HOLY GHOST’.
READ: I NEED HELP. WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME? CALLING ALL PRAYER WARRIORS
Salvation is a ‘Threshold experience’ into the kingdom of God’, while the Baptism in the Holy Spirit is a ‘Threshold experience into the Supernatural realm of the Spirit, with it’s gifts and manifestation of power’.
Much of what God does in the Supernatural and ‘spirit ream’ is revealed to us through ‘Revelation’, not Scripture.
READ: THE IMPORTANCE OF TONGUES
True revelations of the Spirit will not be contrary to Scripture, but, at times it may be above our ability to understand it according to Scripture.
Revelation, such as visions, and signs and wonders may be ‘Extra-biblical’, but never ‘Non-biblical’.
As Spirit baptized believers, who pray much in the Spirit (in Tongues), we have a powerful advantage over those ‘WHO DO NOT SPEAK IN TONGUES’.
(Romans 8:26-28) “Likewise, the Spirit also helps our infirmities, for we know not what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit (Himself) makes intercession for us with ‘groanings’ which cannot be uttered (or articulated).
Only the ‘OMNISCIENT’ God (who knows everything from the infinitely large, to the infinitely small, understands the nuances of every sigh, and every groan. Yes, even our groans have meanings that only God understands.
The Spirit who makes intercession for us with groaning’s which cannot be uttered (which cannot be spoken in words) understands every different part and intensity of that groan.
“And He that searches the hearts, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, for He makes intercession for the ‘saints’, according to the will of God.
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love the Lord, to those who are called according to His purpose.
God is ‘AMAZING TO THE HIGHEST POWER’. His knowledge is unsearchable. His power is unlimited, and He is everywhere present.
There is nothing that He does not know, there is nothing that He cannot do, and there is nowhere, anywhere that He is not present.
Everyone of us have many weaknesses of all kinds. Mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual.
And as a result, we all need help.
READ: THE SPIRIT REALM
Because you and I are filled with the Holy Spirit, we become very confident in our God for helping us in all our weaknesses when it comes to prayer.
In ‘tongues’ we pray for who needs it the most at the time, and God always loves and answers prayers that are prayed according to the specific will of God at the time.
Not only do we pray for the one who needs prayer the most at the time, – BUT WE PRAY EXACTLY WHAT THEY NEED AT THE TIME. The Spirit inspires (our prayers) and gives us exactly the pray that we need to pray then, at that very moment.
That has happened to me a number of times. The Holy Spirit has shown me that in tongues I prayed for someone in Africa, and once in Hawaii who himself was praying, and was very discouraged.
He heard me praying in His language, encouraging Him to trust God who was there right then to help him. He was strengthened and instead of giving up, he was encouraged to continue on in faith and in the joy of the Lord.
I know you’ve heard the expression, there’s strength in numbers, which is scriptural, “Yes, one can chase a thousand (demons), and two can put to flight 10,000 (demons), …..(Leviticus 26:8; Duet 32:30).
When you may not be able to pray for your (difficult) situation by faith, without doubt, when you switch over to praying in the Spirit (in tongues), you find yourself soaring in the heavenly places, while praying in the Spirit.
You just know, that you know, that you know that your prayer is being heard, and soon will be answered. You know that in the Spirit you are praying in ‘FAITH’.
READ: DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW VERSATILE TONGUES ARE?
(Jude 20) “But you beloved, building yourself up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost (Holy Spirit).
By the power of the Holy Spirit, and in the language of the Spirit, spoken by the Spirit filled believer, ‘A CALL GOES FORTH IN TONGUES TO OTHER CHRISTIAN INTERCESSORS TO PRAY FOR (VERY DIFFICULT SITUATIONS).
THIS IS, ‘HOLY GHOST NETWORKING’.
One praying in His native language, may put four or five (wicked spirits) to flight, or a few more.
But one praying in the Spirit (tongues) may put a ‘THOUSAND DEMONS’ to flight.
Two Spirit filled believers together as one (not necessarily in the same location), not even knowing who or where they are, become united in the Spirit and there prayer goes forth in harmony as ‘ONE’.
God through His Spirit filled believers speaking in tongues puts out the call anywhere in the world to the right people who God desires to use to bring about His will in a particular situation.
Yes, ‘ONE’ Spirit filled believer is putting to flight a thousand demons, but two is putting to flight 10,000 demons.
If two Spirit filled believers praying in the Spirit put to flight 10,000 enemy spirits, how many of the Powers of Darkness can be put to flight if 5, 50, 100, or 1,000 intercessors are brought together ‘TO NETWORK IN PRAYER’
Yet they may be totally unaware that God is using them in this way. Some may be shown what is happening, but then again, they may not.
God, often gets the job done, before the devil is even aware that an attack is being launched against him.
READ: ANGELS, ANGELS, ANGELS
He has no idea that in the Spirit, God has arranged for believers to network in prayer against him, his demons, and his plan against a person, family, community, church, or nation.
Tongues are very versatile and very deadly to Satan, and his ho-hort’s.
Tongues are very effective against the attacks and plans of the old Serpent, dragon, and Devil.
(I John 3:8) “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the Devil”.
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GOD BLESS AND KEEP YOU IN THE LOVE OF GOD.
