Run to the Battle by Roberts Liardon

Author:Roberts Liardon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Spiritual Warfare, Christian Ministry, Commitment (Psychology), Christian Life, Character, Christianity, Religion, Revivals, Evangelism, Pentecostal & Charismatic
ISBN: 9781880089705
Publisher: Albury Publishing
Published: 1989-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

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How To Be Fervent

This man was instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord....

Acts 18:25

Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.

Romans 12:11

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

James 5:16

The key word in these three verses is fervent, which speaks of authoritative strength. Notice that this authoritative strength is not in the flesh, but in the spirit.

Most people who read James 5:16 think, "Oh, a righteous man's prayer does a lot of work."

But the little word fervent can make as much difference to your prayers being answered as understanding righteousness.

As a traveling minister, I often have people walk up to me and say something like this:

"I've been praying three hours a day for a month.

I've been praying every way, every confession I know, and it doesn't seem to be working."

If there is a problem in our prayer lives, it is not God's fault. The problem has to be in us, and we need to diagnose it and find a solution. We need to find out what we are doing wrong and correct it.

Some of the people who tell me they have been praying for hours and have not gotten an answer are lying. They really have not been praying that long. They are trying to be superspiritual to impress someone, instead of just being themselves. Anyone with a little discernment will see through a facade, and honesty will make a better impression.

Some of the people who are not getting anywhere in prayer are just plain ignorant. They do not know what the Bible says about prayer, so they do their own thing, but God is not in it.

However, some of the people are not lying, ignorant, or flaky. They have been seeking God. They have been praying and not getting an answer, and they want to know why. They have been doing everything they know to do but have not gotten the breakthrough, the answer they need from heaven.

A House Divided

I began to ask, "God, why aren't these people getting an answer?"

It bothered me because I was raised in a home where as soon as we went to God He said, "What?" And we quickly got an answer. So when I entered the world of ministry and began hearing more and more about people who had trouble getting hold of God, I thought, "What's the problem?"

As I prayed about it, the Lord took me to James 5:16 and said, "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much."

He made the word fervent stand out to me. Then he took me to Matthew 12:25:

And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.

Individually, you are a kingdom or a house, and you have three distinct parts: You are a spirit; you have a soul; and you live in a body.

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