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 Prayer Email archive:(02/05/2001) ready or not
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| Hello prayer warriors,
1. Prayer note: ready or not Someone wrote an interesting note to me and asked me who is God's anointed in the context of the previous prayer email. God's anointed is the person that God has appointed into leadership position above us in the ministry. Submission in speech is not agreeing with everything your leader says but it means that we are not to disobey or rebel or instigate other people to disobey the leadership. If I am involved in a ministry, I obey the orders given by the leadership because I recognize the authority that God has placed in His church. However, submission in ministry is not the same as submission of your life. Submission in ministry is submission when serving in the ministry. Supposing your husband physically abuses your kids and you have stayed away from him to protect your kids. If your leader advices you to stay with your husband and you disagree, you need to seek advice from other leaders and counsellors and you need to pray for the inner witness of the Holy Spirit in this area. Seek the Word and find out what God says to you in this situation. Submission in your life is very different from submission in ministry. Now moving on to today's prayer note, what if you do not feel ready to serve in the ministry. You feel that you are not equipped, not talented enough or even not good enough to serve. What should you do? [John 15:4-5] 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. First of all, we need to recognize that we depend on God. He is the vine, we are the branches. We only bear much fruit when we abide in Him. It is not so much our own abilities or strength, we have to ask God for His anointing. When God called Gideon to serve Him, Gideon replied: [Judges 6:15] "But Lord," Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family." (NIV) And God said: [Judges 6:16] And the Lord said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man. God's answer to Gideon was that He will be with Gideon. That is all Gideon needs. When Gideon said that he was the weakest, that was when God could use him the most. It was the same when Gideon recruited his army ... God wanted the army to be small so that God can do the work and show forth His glory. The real battle was won by God and not by Gideon. If we can recognize that, we can tell God, "whether I feel ready or not, here am I, send me." What God requires from us is a step of faith and our obedience. Be faithful and step out in what God has called us to do. Grace also means that God will provide us with the anointing to carry out the task. God is not looking for able men but He is looking for faithful men whom He shall also make able to do the work. [2 Timothy 2:2] And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to FAITHFUL men, who shall be ABLE to teach others also. 2. New prayer requests: i. Pray for a friend in Bondage -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1672&table=prayer ii. Pray for God's Protection on My Family! -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1673&table=prayer iii. In desparate need of prayer!! -- abrown http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1677&table=prayer iv. Need to get back -- steven http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1679&table=prayer v. Pray for Tony with Cancer! -- mandy http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1681&table=prayer vi. new believer -- m parham http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1683&table=prayer 3. Prayer update: i. 6 year old niece -- pirlee http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1686&table=prayer ii. Victory for Confused Woman! -- guest http://mydevotion.com/logos/asp/viewpyrrep.asp?forumid=5&forumtype=2&topicid=1684&table=prayer 4. Number of prayer warriors: 669 We welcome btao18, cedjr, senait, anders, mima212, mzfrazier, 7039, peachtree02, naemo, chick4christ, beckaboo, melrose and furple4mb into our prayer group. 1 has unsubscribed & 2 emails have become invalid. in Christ, Wai Hun |
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| Monday, February 05, 2001 8:51:18 AM waihun | |
changed on Monday, February 05, 2001 9:10:49 PM |
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