THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS! (Part 3) (Understanding The 5 L's Of Prayer) 📖1 Corinthians 14:26 NIV: What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? WHEN YOU COME TOGETHER, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a TONGUE or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. ✒ The Introduction! ✒ When it comes to our corporate experience in the Grace of GOD communicated through the Holy Spirit in our church meetings (service), it is essential that speaking (praying) in tongues should both be encouraged and much time allocated to it. Why? Because, Praying in tongues AIDS (helps, enables) both the LEADER (the person anointed by the Holy Ghost to overseer that specific congregation) and the LISTENERS (the congregation of saints). > Inspirational gospel quote

THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS! (Part 3)
(Understanding The 5 L's Of Prayer)

📖1 Corinthians 14:26
NIV: What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? WHEN YOU COME TOGETHER, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a TONGUE or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.

✒ The Introduction! ✒

When it comes to our corporate experience in the Grace of GOD communicated through the Holy Spirit in our church meetings (service), it is essential that speaking (praying) in tongues should both be encouraged and much time allocated to it.

Why? Because, Praying in tongues AIDS (helps, enables) both the LEADER (the person anointed by the Holy Ghost to overseer that specific congregation) and the LISTENERS (the congregation of saints).

👉 In What area does it help the LEADER (Overseer)???
In the area of sound COMMUNICATION. You see, even though we as Ministers (Leaders) are sent to feed the Church of GOD with the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST, there's how it should be communicated. So as we (ministers) commit ourselves to praying in tongues we are enabled to dispense the Gospel of CHRIST as we should.

👉 In What Area Does It Help The LISTENERS???
In the area of COMPREHENSION. Why? Even though they are expected to pay attention to the preaching and teaching of the Gospel, there's a place of understanding; they are supposed to come to understanding. That's what drives home the Message.

Our Lord JESUS speaking about hearing or listening to teachings said:

📖Mark 4:24 "... Take heed WHAT ye hear... "
📖Luke 8:18 "Take heed therefore HOW ye hear..."

Did you notice those two words from two different authors, all from the same lips of JESUS?
"What" and "How"!

WHAT you hear... That's INFORMATION.
HOW you hear... That's what translate into REVELATION.

So as the church engages in praying in tongues, the Holy Ghost enables them to experience comprehension at a deeper level so that what they are hearing will not come across to them as "parables".

One thing you need to understand is that the Holy Ghost is always speaking (to the Church). He is actually never silent. Gone are those days when ISRAEL complained that GOD was silent. Not under this Dispensation, one in which Christ has offered Himself to bring us into an everlasting relationship with the Father.

📖Revelation 2:11 "He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit SAITH unto the churches..."

The word SAITH is translated to mean a present continuous tense of communication. A never ending flow of communication. That's why it's called FELLOWSHIP. It's a sharing. And this sharing from the Spirit never stops neither does it cease.

Apostle Paul in 📖1 Cor 14:26 mentioned TONGUES and INTERPRETATION. You see:
👉 Praying In Tongues is the Holy Ghost speaking THROUGH you.

👉 Interpretation Of Tongues is the Holy Ghost speaking 🔙 TO your edification. It's called RHEMA; it's called PROPHECY!

This is why Apostle Paul said:
📖1 Corinthians 14:13 Wherefore let him that SPEAKETH in an unknown tongue PRAY that he may INTERPRET.

When we speak in tongues to a point where the Spirit supplies RHEMA, tremendous power is generated to:
👉 TREAT what has been Tampered with
👉 FIX whatever is Faulty
👉 REPAIR whatever is Rusted

 📖Philippians 1:19 For I know that this shall TURN TO MY SALVATION through your PRAYER, and the SUPPLY OF THE SPIRIT of Jesus Christ.

The more we speak in tongues, the more the Holy Spirit supplies spiritual energy to meet every need and repair whatever seems to be damaged, knowingly or unknowingly.

Where you stop that's where the supply stops. You have to consciously determine to keep at it because the spiritual energy released through the Spirit as we pray in tongues has a target:
🎯 Your SALVATION (freedom from fear, success in your profession, prosperity in all endeavors, sound mental capacity, health, etc)

Why does the Holy Spirit target your salvation? He does so in order to fulfill the prophecy of JESUS:
📖Luke 21:13 And it (no matter what you are experiencing) shall TURN to you FOR a TESTIMONY.

✒ The 5⃣ L's Of PRAYER ✒

1⃣ The LIFESTYLE of PRAYER

📖1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray WITHOUT CEASING.

When prayer (especially, praying in tongues) becomes a lifestyle for you as much as breathing is to life, it maximizes your spirituality over your physicality.

This is why Apostle Paul said:
📖Galatians 5:16  This I say then, WALK IN THE SPIRIT, and ye SHALL NOT fulfil the lust of the flesh.

I humbly submit to you that one of the major ways to walk in the Spirit is to constantly form the habit of praying in tongues. Because the more you exercise yourself in this godly craft, the more you become sensitive to the frequency of GOD; the frequency of His communication.

As a Child of God, part of your inheritance is to be led and controlled by the Spirit (📖John 10:27 📖Rom 8:14)

Until Prayer becomes a lifestyle to you, the devil's suggestions will be your familiar experience, so much so that, you would hardly be able to tell the difference (distinguish) between the voice of the SPIRIT and the voice of SELF.

Apostle Paul said:
📖Galatians 5:17 For the FLESH lusteth AGAINST the SPIRIT, and the Spirit AGAINST the flesh: and these are CONTRARY the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
(This is a serious matter o!)

Part of the voice of the flesh is PLEASURE. Don't spend time feeding your flesh and listening to its numerous, insatiable lusts. Spend more time praying in the Spirit.

Don't wait until a Sunnami of Trouble billows on you before you commit to Prayer (praying in the Spirit).

The early church had a challenge; Herod arrested JAMES but the church did nothing about it. And because they didn't understand the Responsibility of Prayer, they waited until James was wasted.

📖Acts 12:1 Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 12:2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

I guess they were waiting on the LORD to rend the heavens and literally step down to James' rescue. But as soon as PETER was arrested, the whole church sprung into ceaseless prayers. Now prayer had become a lifestyle for them (They didn't do JAMES good at all o 😔)!

📖Acts 12:5 Peter therefore was kept in prison: BUT prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

"BUT" is a word used to express contrast. Which means, when James was arrested, they did nothing about it as compared to when PETER was arrested.

Don't wait for trouble to hit you before to jump into prayers. Such kind of prayers will be born out of desperation not faith.

📖Mark 14:38 Watch ye and pray, LEST ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

 Prayer should be a lifestyle, a hobby! And one of the ways to make prayer a lifestyle, habit or hobby is to ALWAYS FOLLOW THE PROMPTING OF THE SPIRIT.

How Does This Prompting Work?
👉 Through a sudden feeling (desire) to pray
👉 Through a heavy burden to pray
👉 Through the remembrance of a person.

Train yourself to understand and utilize the promptings of the Spirit. You also need to understand that the remembrance of a person is a CALL TO PRAYER.

📖2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that WITHOUT CEASING I have REMEMBRANCE of thee in my prayers night and day

Once the Holy Spirit knows that you are sensitive to His promptings, He will keep bringing people to your remembrance so you could pray for them. Soon enough you will become a champion of intercession.

And don't worry about your benefit because when those people experience God's GOODNESS, the same Spirit who reminded you to pray for them will also remind them to bless you in return. The SPIRIT OF JESUS is never partial.

I have, by reason of Grace and Growth, come to discover that the more I pray for a person, the more I love them, and the more I love them, the more I pray for them. You cannot separate LOVE from PRAYER, and vice versa.

📖Psalms 122:6 PRAY for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that LOVE thee.

2⃣ The LOCATION Of PRAYER

In dealing with this point, I would like to use two separate phrases:

✏ Before The Cross
Apostle Victor James, my spiritual father, teaching us one time said, "It's a shame and a pity that most people cannot tell the difference between BEFORE and NOW." GBAM!

Life under the Old Testament (LAW) is not the same as life under the New Testament (GRACE).

A minister once attacked ME, stating that even JESUS functioned under the LAW. I told him that even though JESUS "functioned under the LAW, He did not live by the LAW, otherwise, why were the Pharisees against Him?

📖Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, MADE UNDER THE LAW,

JESUS had to function under the LAW (carry out His assignment and minister to a people who were under the regime of the LAW) for Two Specific Reasons:

👉 REDEMPTION
👉 RECEPTION

Let ME prove it:
📖Galatians 4:5 To REDEEM them that were under the law, that we might RECEIVE the adoption of sons.

That's why you can't necessarily build a doctrine on ALL the information documented in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew ,Mark, Luke) except with a slight seclusion of John's Gospel.

So, IN dealing with the issue of prayer, as well as other matters, you have to consider what was permissible before the Cross and what is prohibited after the Cross.

Before the Cross the location of prayer was in Three Places:
👉 Solitary Place 📖Mark 1:35
👉 Closet 📖Matt 6:6
👉 Mountain 📖Matt 14:23

Concerning ministers going to MOUNTAIN 🗻 to "seek the face of God" or "to be closer to God" (which is gross insanity and blatant disrespect to the Finished Work) JESUS speaking to the Samaritan Woman said:

📖John 4:19-21
In John 4:21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, BELIEVE ME, the hour cometh, when ye shall NEITHER in this MOUNTAIN, NOR yet at Jerusalem, WORSHIP the Father.

WOW. Did you see that 👆?
Did you also notice JESUS started that statement with "Believe ME"? In other words, anyone who goes to what He just said doesn't truly Believe IN JESUS and what He came to accomplish (which is to establish an unbreakable relationship between us and GOD which has no limitations or restrictions)

✏ After The Cross
Apostle Paul, having caught the revelation of the Mind of GOD in connection to what CHRIST had accomplished for us, said:

📖1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men PRAY EVERY WHERE, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.

BELOVED, there's no location to prayer anymore. You are the Mobile Temple of GOD. You carry Him inside you. It's gross stupidity to go seek Someone you are already carrying inside you, Someone Who is not lost.

Did I still hear you say, "So where do we pray now?". Wait o, are you kidding me 😱? Didn't you read it? PRAY EVERYWHERE. God is Omnipresent (Everywhere at the same time). Take advantage of this truth. Don't be deceived by money-driven and pride-infested "men of GOD"!

3⃣ The LENGTH Of PRAYER

When we talk about LENGTH here, we are dealing with more than just DURATION.

We are talking about both the:
✏ Length of Words and
✏ Length of Time

Speaking on the length of words, JESUS said:
📖Matthew 6:7 But when ye pray, USE NOT vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they THINK that they shall be heard for their MUCH SPEAKING.

All these, "Shout Holy Ghost 🔥 21 times, the Blood of JESUS 21 times etc, is just madness; it's humanly made religion. That's what weakens the Body of Christ. By the way, who sent you to do that?

Let ME give you this verse of Scripture 📜 in other translations:

📜New Living Translation
"When you pray, don't babble on and on as people of other religions do. They think their prayers are answered only by repeating their words again and again."

📜The Message Bible:
"The world is full of so-called prayer warriors who are prayer-ignorant. They're full of formulas and programs and advice, peddling techniques for getting what you want from God.

📜The Amplified Version
"And when you pray, do not heap up phrases (multiply words, repeating the same ones over and over) as the Gentiles do, for they think they will be heard for their much speaking"

But as for the length of time in prayers, I believe you should follow the leading of the Spirit. If He wants you to go at it all night, He will not only HINT you but He will also HELP you to do that distance in prayer.

4⃣ The LAW Of PRAYER

The law that governs prayer is as simple as ABC, yet that is the most overlooked.

It is simply the Law Of Faith:

📖Mark 11:24
AMP: For this reason I am telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe (trust and be confident) that it is granted to you, and you will [get it].

📖Matthew 21:22
NIV: If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”

AMP: And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [really] believing, you will receive


5⃣ The LEVERAGE Of PRAYER

The word LEVERAGE, by extension, means: any INFLUENCE which is compounded or used to GAIN AN ADVANTAGE.

When we Speak in Tongues we INFLUENCE the REALM of the SPIRIT
📖 1 Corinthians  14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; HOWBEIT IN THE SPIRIT he speaketh MYSTERIES.

Speaking in tongues Frequently and Continuously gives us the Advantage, both Personally and Generally.

📖1 Cor 14:4
AMP: "He who speaks in a [strange] tongue EDIFIES and IMPROVES HIMSELF..."

📖Jude 1:20
AMP: But you, beloved, build yourselves up [founded] on your most holy faith [make progress, rise like an edifice higher and higher], praying in the Holy Spirit

There are Three Things I want you to Note:

📝 JESUS' Promise: 📖Luke 21:10-13
📝 Apostle Paul's behavior 📖1 Cor 14:18
📝 The Confirmative Advantage Phil 1:19

Now you know, take ADVANTAGE of this OPPORTUNITY, exercise yourself in the PRIVILEGE of this Heavenly Language and gain the UPPER HAND. This is your INHERITANCE!

GOD BLESS YOU BY ALL MEANS IN JESUS NAME! 💘

👑 Apostle Dr. ROCKSON AWESOME STEPHENS 💎
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