(By Ray E. Leonard) to return go to portalsofglory.com (Post pg6″THE GREATEST THING ANYONE CAN DO FOR GOD AND MAN IS PRAY. It is not the only thing: but it is the chief thing.
The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer;
But I mean those people…’WHO TAKE TIME TO PRAY.”
S.D. GORDON
God needs you, my brother, my sister. He needs your ministry of ‘INTERCESSION. This Ministry needs your ministry of Intercession.
We need prayer that each particular article written will accomplish specific things within each individual that reads them.
We need Intercessors that will bring to each reader salvation, healing, encouragement, and answers to prayer.
Please pray for the Reader’s salvation and deliverance from dark powers. Pray that weak and discouraged Christians will be able to stand strong in the Lord, and be a viable witness for our Lord. It is interesting to note that when we obey God and pray for others, our love for souls and the brethren increases greatly.
Praying for others, loving others, wanting them to be saved, healed, delivered to also become ‘Fruitful Believers’ brings us closer and closer to the ‘HEART OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER’, and to the Heart of His Son Jesus Christ.
CAN WE COUNT ON YOU TO INTERCEDE WITH US AND FOR US? LET US KNOW IN THE ‘PRAYER REQUEST BOX OR THE ‘CONTACT US BOX’. THANK YOU MY DEAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE LORD.
God needs your passion for souls. He needs your compassion for those who are sick, wounded, hurt, broken-hearted, and in spiritual prisons.
He needs your sensitivity to the voice of the Spirit, and a heart to always do His will. You need these qualities deep within your being so you can be an effective ‘PRAYER WARRIOR‘.
HE WILL LEAD YOU TO PRAY WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO PRAY FOR.
HE WILL TEACH YOU TO BE SENSITIVE AND TO KNOW HIS TIMING, AS TO WHEN TO PRAY, AND FOR WHOM HE WANTS YOU TO PRAY FOR.
I know there are some wonderful people that God wants to use in meaningful Intercession that are reading this article.
Please know that God hasn’t passed you by, but is right now putting us and this ministry on your heart to pray for.
You are special in the eyes of God, and some of you have been faithful intercessors in the body of Christ for many years, and God hasn’t forgotten you. Angels have recorded your every prayer, and have written down the passion by which you have prayed for souls.
His heart has been moved greatly by the sacrifices you have made for the Kingdom because of your love for Him, and your desire to please Him.
Your prayers mean so much to God, and you, Dear Intercessor, are greatly loved by Him. Your prayers are very powerful, and the Devil has tried to destroy your effectiveness, but he has failed miserably.
You may feel that your prayers are not accomplishing anything, but that is the lie that Satan is feeding you. The fact is, you are destroying and weakening Satan’s kingdom every time you come to God in prayer. Every time you take your sword, (the Word of God) and wield it in prayer, captives of the enemy are being set free, and souls are being released from spiritual prisons.
And having said all of that, always remain humble and small in your own eyes, because then God will continue to use you and then can exalt you in His time. Keep sin out of your life, by keeping your focus on Jesus. If you sin, repent quickly, that keeps you in the graces of the Lord, and it shuts the door to the Devil and the problems he will bring you. The Lord God loves you so much.
He’s with you and to some, God wants me to tell you, ‘He hasn’t abandoned you, you are His. You are His precious jewels, His beloved. SO, SHOUT GLORY!
Others of you have great faith and a very positive outlook. You don’t take God for granted and you know you must depend totally on Him, but you have faith like a lion and are ready to tackle any problem that would stand in your way.
You are a defender of God’s Word and God’s work. You are a loyal and faithful Child of God.
You know your authority and place in God and you also know God is using you as an intercessor, I believe God is speaking to you right now to be an Intercessor for this Ministry, ‘PORTALS OF GLORY’. If so welcome, ‘PARTNER IN PRAYER’.
So let’s continue on in (Romans 8:14) “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the ‘sons’ (daughters) of God”
We must know God, be born-again, know His Word with ever increasing understanding and knowledge.
READ: I NEED HELP. WILL YOU PRAY FOR ME?
We will not be able to live for God, and stay faithful to Him in this day of increasing evil and wickedness unless we know God and know His Word.
The two are vitally connected, the one to the other.
(Matthew 4:4) Jesus said, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God”.
We may call ourselves INTERCESSORS and not know God’s Word well, but we will be ‘WEAK AND INEFFECTIVE’ INTERCESSORS, and certainly not ‘PRAYER WARRIORS’, whom God needs in His front-line of battle.
As important as bread, meat and vegetables is to the sustenance of our physical body, so, is ‘THE WORD OF GOD’ to the Sustenance and building up of our ‘SPIRITUAL MAN’, and our ‘SPIRITUAL LIFE.
I am understanding more and more that just being saved, and just being born-again, is not necessarily knowing God well enough to hear His voice.
It is needful that we know His voice in order to hear His plans. It is needful for us to hear His voice, so we know what path we should walk on today.
We need to be close enough to God to know His voice, and be confident that it is His voice, so we can avoid Satan’s traps.
We need to know His voice well enough to connect to the one who at this very moment is needing an answer in the next 20 minutes or their condition will be beyond remedy.
We need to hear God’s voice good enough to be led by the Spirit every moment and every hour of the Day.
Are we that close? Are we close enough?
READ: ARE YOU STRUGGLING? DO YOU NEED PRAYER?
If we’re not as close as we believe God wants us to be this is a challenge to us all. But let me encourage you, because many of you are very close to God, but Satan has been beating you up.
He’s been telling you that you’re no longer effective. He’s telling you that God isn’t even hearing you anymore, but that’s a lie. God loves you very much and your prayers have been accomplishing what God has put on your heart, and He is pleased.
(John 10:27-28) “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them; and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish; neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand”.
A friend of mine that sees and hears from God had a vision of Jesus standing in a ‘GLORY CLOUD’, and then, invited him to meet Him in that cloud.
He entered, and then, Jesus said to Him, “YOU MUST ‘SEE ME’. YOU MUST MOVE WITH ME. WHEN I STRETCH MY ARM OUT, SO MUST YOU. WHEN I PULL MY ARM BACK, SO MUST YOU“. He then followed Jesus here and there to minister as the Lord directed.
READ: LED BY THE SPIRIT
The next morning, I was the first one that he called, to tell me about his vision.
I HAVE BEEN PRAYING EVER SINCE THAT I CAN SEE HIM, AND BE CLOSE ENOUGH TO HEAR HIS VOICE AND EVEN HEAR HIS WHISPER.
NOT ONLY HEAR HIS VOICE OCCASIONALLY, BUT HEAR IT CONSISTENTLY.
THAT IS MY GREAT PURSUIT, AND GREAT DESIRE.
Paul tells us that he prayed both “with his understanding (his native tongue) and with the Spirit (in Holy Ghost tongues). That is needful and produces balance.
BUT OF THE TWO WAYS TONGUES IS A MUCH MORE POWERFUL, AND POTENT WAY AND MEANS FOR US TO PRAY.
IT IS SO POWERFUL AND EFFECTIVE that we as believers should make sure we are equipped to pray in that manner.
We must make sure that we are ‘baptized in the Holy Spirit, with the initial physical evidence of ‘speaking in tongues’.
READ: THE IMPORTANCE OF TONGUES
It is not the only evidence, but it is the initial physical evidence. It was the evidence that the disciples in the New Testament accepted for one being ‘BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT’.
And it should be the same evidence that we accept and acknowledge as to one being filled with the Holy Spirit today.
(Acts 10:45-46) “And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost…FOR THEY HEARD THEM SPEAK WITH TONGUES, AND MAGNIFY GOD”.
This is the believers ‘ATOMIC WEAPON’.
There’s no way to explain how it works. This gift of the Holy Spirit with ‘speaking in tongues’ defies reason.
It can only be acknowledged that it works. We see it in operation, and then we see the results of it’s workings.
Just as Jesus explained to Nicodemus the ‘ONE THAT IS BORN AGAIN’ IS BORN OF THE SPIRIT.
It’s like the wind. We can’t tell where it comes from and we can’t tell where it’s going, but we see the results of it.
We see the direction of the INVISIBLE WIND by the direction by which the limbs are being bent and bowed. We see the life of it in the blowing of the leaves.
So it is in the results of the invisible SPIRIT OF GOD that is evidenced when we speak, pray, or war against the Devil in Authoritative, unknown languages to us the speaker, in TONGUES OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
But it’s not unknown to the person who hears him speaking in his native language. He hears in his language the wonderful works of God. He hears what brings the answer to a problem he has not been able to work out, until that very moment.
The person speaking in a language he’s never learned nor does he understand is not unknown to an enemy spirit who knows that particular human language.
That language is being spoken to that demon in order for the one speaking in tongues to defeat, conquer, and cast him out, in Jesus name.
READ: DELIVERANCE: WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW IMMEDIATELY
TONGUES PLEASES GOD, BECAUSE HIS SPIRIT IS DIRECTING THE SPEAKER TO SPEAK IN ACCORDANCE TO THE PERFECT WILL OF GOD.
AND THE RESULTS THEN, WILL BRING, ONLY GREAT GLORY TO OUR GOD, AND HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.
If you are an ‘INTERCESSOR’ God is calling you to pray. Make yourself available to God.
Pray for me and my wife Elaine for the guidance of the Holy Spirit. This whole ministry is based on Articles I write to reach precious people that don’t know the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe time is short and we must pray for and reach out to the lost that they might be saved.
I reach out with Spirit anointed articles to encourage, activate, and help people to receive Christ as Savior, Healer, Deliverer, the One who baptizes in the Holy Spirit, and the One who answers the prayers they have been praying for , for a long time.
Pray for us. Pray for this ministry, and pray with us for concerns we bring up.
We need prayer ‘GREATLY’ in our Nation (USA), and other countries need prayer also, as some of you are from other countries.
God bless you dear friend and Intercessor.
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