In order to achieve godly goals, we must understand and communicate with spiritual realities. What you see with your eyes is not the only reality there is. The invisible spiritual world is also very real and people ignore it to their own detriment. If the spiritual world is so important, how can we perceive it and communicate with the King of the spiritual world, God Himself?
God's truth for today's world
prayer
How to Pray for Lost Loved Ones – Part 2
We’ve been looking at the biblical principles that a believer needs to practice to pray powerful prayers. Our theme verse for the entire series has been
James 5:16b (NIV) The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
Now this verse does not say that prayer by just anyone is powerful and effective. Only the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. A righteous person is a believer walking rightly before God, a believer that is not walking in any known sin. When you are living righteously, then you can be confident in your prayers being powerful.
How To Pray For Lost Loved Ones – Part 1
Prayer is one of the most important things you can do with your time. Now it’s not the only important thing, but it should have the priority in our lives. One of the reasons that prayer is so important is that it is one of the essential things that leads people to become believers. So prayer affects the eternal destinies of people.
A lost person is someone who has not believed in Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. They may or may not believe in God, they may or may not attend church, but they do not have a personal relationship with Jesus. Everyone in the world is in one of two categories, they are either a believer or an unbeliever, they are either saved or lost.
A Church of Prayer
In this message, I want to step back and look at the importance of prayer to our church as a whole. God’s Word teaches us that when the people of God gather together to pray, great power is released.
Matthew 18:20 (NIV) “For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.”
What Prayer Accomplishes
I think that a lot of people have no idea of the importance of prayer. I believe that prayer is the most powerful force for change in the world. Prayer is the force that shapes world events and changes history on the global scale. On the individual scale, prayer rescues lives that are destined for failure and death.
Yet, for many believers, prayer is simply an afterthought. If we’ve tried everything else, we might as well pray, it can’t hurt. Many people think that things happen in the world simply by chance or luck. What effect could prayer have on chance?