Luke 4:36 Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, “What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.”
Luke 5:5 But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.”
The theme is simple “Follow Jesus”, He, that is Jesus, has the power and He knows where the fish are. So don’t follow someone or something else, just follow Jesus.
Hebrews 5:7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,
Elijah used this prayer when he stopped the rain from heaven and started it again after three and one half years.
The Lord Jesus teaches us to speak to the mountain. Look at these passages:
Matthew 17:20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Matthew 21:21 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done.
Mark 11:23 “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
So when the Lord gives us a mountain He wants us to speak to it. Let me say it another way. When we encounter some difficult thing in life, the Lord wants us to speak to the thing. How do you pray or speak then it seems impossible and one can only see in faith that God can do something.
Can prayer reach anything? I would say that prayer can touch everything except what is outside the will of God.
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| John 17:3 | “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. |
| Coloss 3:3 | For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. |
| Coloss 3:4 | When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. |
Christ wants to be our Life. We seem to want to let Christ be our life when we need help or we are in trouble. But He (that is Christ) wants to be the “life” that lives in us. So He initiates, He moves, and we just follow.
It seems we live most of our life independent from Him, and then use Him when we are in trouble or our emotions are low. Let us let Him live and move in us.
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In Hebrews it says: Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever. Our God is everlasting, He does not change. But people ask “Where is the God of Elijah?”. He is still here, just waiting for His people to obey, believe and pray. That’s all that Elijah did in 1 Kings 18, he just obeyed God, then he believed God, then he just prayed. His prayer was based on what God said, that caused him to believe and have faith in God.
Hebrews 13:8 tells us, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
| Psalms 24:7 | Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. |
| Psalms 24:9 | Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. |
| Psalms 41:13 | Blessed be the LORD God of Israel From everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen. |
| Psalms 90:2 | Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God. |
| Psalms 93:2 | Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting. |
Someone help me pray when I don’t know how to pray. I need words, but I only have a few feelings. What do I say, what do I pray. Sometimes the best and most honest prayer is to put ourselves before God just as we are, just the way we feel. And then just count on the hidden Spirit of God to come to the rescue. Let the Spirit figure out what to pray. He knows. When words appear cold and feeble we need to just count on the hidden and quiet Spirit of God working in our human spirit. He has words, He has accurate words.
Now that I have said all this, look at these two passages in the Bible.
Zechariah 12:10 “ And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for [his] only [son,] and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. He, that is the Spirit of God gives us a Spirit of grace and supplication, that is gives us “prayer”.
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
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In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches us to pray “Let Your will (God’s will) be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
A great mystery is right here, why should we pray when God already knows what we need? God is ready to fulfill his will and purpose, but waits for His people to cooperate with Him in prayer. God will not move until somebody prays.
With the example of Elijah in 1 Kings 18, God wanted someone to show to the unbelieving world that He, the Lord is God. It took the obedience and prayers of Elijah to fulfill this. God could easily have shown the world who He is, but He, that is God, waits for a man on the earth to cooperate with Him. God loves to work with men in the fulfillment of his will and purpose.