Throughout this week, we have been looking at the ministry of an intercessor and what it entails. Every believer is an intercessor called by God to make things happen through our prayers of intercession. The nations cannot be subdued and transformed with ...
JESUS CHRIST: OUR PERFECT EXAMPLE OF AN INTERCESSOR
Exposition Intercession involves an act of praying to God on behalf of someone, a group or a course. It also connotes taking full responsibility for the occurrence or non-occurrence of a matter through an act of petition to God for His intervention. T ...
THE INHERENT POWER OF INTERCESSORY PRAYERS
Exposition The song writer says that, “Prayer, its value none can measure, it will bring you lasting treasure; present help and present pleasure, spend much time in (intercessory) prayer” (Emphasis mine). Intercessory prayers constitute a spiritual we ...
THE MINISTRY OF AN INTERCESSOR IN POSSESSING THE NATIONS
Exposition Go labour on, spend and be spent. Thy joy to do the Father’s will; it is the way the Master went should not the servant tread it still? (Horatius Bonar) Dearly beloved, intercessory prayer is not the preserve of a few classified Christians ...
SUBDUING KINGDOMS THROUGH INTERCESSORY PRAYER
Exposition Thy Kingdom come, oh God Thy rule, O Christ, begin Break with thine iron rod The tyrannies of sin. (Lewis Hensley 1824-1905) The kingdoms of this world must be under the subjection of the eternal kingdom of our God. Jesus shall ...
INTERCESSORY PRAYER AS AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL IN POSSESSING THE NATIONS
Exposition We cannot be complacent or pretend to know it all or have it all as a church on a sacred mandate. The enormity of the task assigned to us in this kingdom business of intercession is so huge that we cannot but resort to prayer. The constant ...
POSSESSING THE NATIONS THROUGH INTERCESSORY PRAYER
Exposition If there is a man to pray, then there is a God to answer! Possessing the nations through intercessory prayers connotes a concerted effort by all and sundry to resolve to engage God in the affairs of man through a consistent and fervent pray ...
SO FAR THIS WEEK
Exposition We have been looking at the Christian and secular music. Secular music is defined as any music not written for the church. They include love songs, political satire, songs for dancing and drama; they are usually based on moral subjects. Sec ...
THE CHRISTIAN VERSUS SECULAR MUSIC
Exposition A secular song is a song that is composed not for the glorification of God, whereas Christian songs seek to glorify God and His Christ. Psalm 100 has five verses written in twelve lines according to the NKJV. In the lyrics, the psalmist ref ...
THE EFFECTIVE CHRISTIAN MUSIC
Exposition Staff members of all banks are trained to detect a counterfeit note not by concentrating on the counterfeit note but rather by becoming very familiar with the real one. It is not enough to talk about the devastating effects of secular music ...