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Home Communications Sermons Specific Prayer, It Works
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| Written by Associate Pastor Wayne Durden |
| Thursday, 17 April 2008 12:22 |
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So in the course of time Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, "Because I asked the LORD for him." (1st Samuel 1:20) We will begin a new thought today about God’s daily provision. Where would we be without His daily help. God desires that we pray specifically so that when we get the answer we will know that only God could have sent it. Specific prayer will get specific results. Jesus taught us to pray when He said "Give us this day our daily bread." (Matthew 6:11). You may think that this scripture means to only pray for God’s grace and guidance, but we must never forget that the "good shepherd" (God) desires to provide all our needs, to lead us beside still waters, and make us lay down in green pastures (Psalm 23). God fed millions of Israelites with manna every morning in the wilderness; And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan. (Exodus. 16:35). God sent an angel to feed Elijah; Then as he lay and slept under a broom tree, suddenly an angel touched him, and said to him, “Arise and eat.” (1 Kings 19:5). Jesus fed over 5,000 people with one lad’s sack lunch and had leftovers. I say "Praise God, He can still do it and He desires to do it". (John 6:1-14). There is no doubt that our God delights to touch His children, to minister to us, mind, body, soul, and spirit. Don’t take your prayer life lightly, it is our life-line. Pray specifically it works. Love through Him, Pastor Durden |
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