Servias Ministries Blog

Pray without ceasing!

Prayerlessness causes you to deal with circumstances you never should have faced.

Jesus spoke in Luke chapter 22:

45 When Jesus finished praying, He got up and went to His disciples and found them all asleep, for they were exhausted and overwhelmed with sorrow.

46 “Why are you sleeping?” He asked them. “You need to be alert and pray for the strength to endure the great temptation.”

Jesus found it necessary to pray, we should too.  The disciples failed to pray and did not have the strength to endure what was about to take place.

Prayerlessness robs us of creativity, strength, discernment, and Wisdom from Above.  It robs us of who we are in Christ.

Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 5:

43 “Your ancestors have also been taught ‘Love your neighbors and hate the one who hates you.’

44 However, I say to you, love your enemy, bless the one who curses you, do something wonderful for the one who hates you, and respond to the very ones who persecute you by praying for them.

45 For that will reveal your identity as children of Your Heavenly Father. He is kind to all by bringing the sunrise to warm and rainfall to refresh whether a person does what is good or evil.

46 What reward do you deserve if you only love the loveable? Don’t even the tax collectors do that?

47 How are you any different from others if you limit your kindness only to your friends? Don’t even the ungodly do that?

48 Since you are children of a Perfect Father in Heaven, become perfect like Him.”

Are we complaining about our enemy or are we praying for those who have wronged us?  I must admit that in the past I have complained about those who have been unjust toward me or my family, whether it be personal, political, or social in nature.  I have had to repent for those words that have been unrighteous.  Complaining is a form of cursing someone.

Jesus also spoke in Mark chapter 11:

22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.

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.

24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

25 And whenever you stand praying, if you find that you carry something in your heart against another person, release him and forgive him so that your Father in Heaven will also release you and forgive you of your faults.

26 But if you will not release forgiveness, don’t expect your Father in Heaven to release you from your misdeeds.”

Most of us have focused on verses 23 and 24 of these Words of Jesus.  However, they are conditional on our willingness to forgive and release others who have wronged us.  If we retain unforgiveness in our hearts for anyone, we cannot expect our prayers of faith to be fulfilled.

Jesus prayed often and so should we.  Praying daily and in the morning prepares you for the day at hand.

What words we speak are vital to our future!

We must carefully watch over our words for in them is contained life or death.

Wisdom speaks in Proverbs chapter 18:

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.

In other Words, your words are so powerful that they will kill or give life, and the talkative person will reap the consequences.

Jesus spoke in Mark chapter 11:

22 So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God.

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.

24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

You don’t go talk to GOD about your mountain; you talk to the mountain about GOD.

You speak to your problem, and you say to it, such as an inanimate object such as pain, depart in the Name of Jesus!  You must not doubt in your heart for your faith to operate in such an effective manner.

How do you develop to such a level of faith?

Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Romans chapter 10:

17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.

Faith grows as you immerse yourself in the Word.  If you focus on what the world says, your faith will become diluted and ultimately become of none effect, you will become void of The Word.

Jesus enlightened us as He spoke concerning the parable of the sower in Mark chapter 4:

13 And Jesus said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? How then will you understand all the parables?

14 The sower sows the Word.

15 And these are the ones by the wayside where the Word is sown. When they hear, Satan comes immediately and takes away the Word that was sown in their hearts.

16 These likewise are the ones sown on stony ground who, when they hear the Word, immediately receive It with gladness;

17 and they have no root in themselves, and so endure only for a time. Afterward, when tribulation or persecution arises for the Word’s sake, immediately they stumble.

18 Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the Word,

19 and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the Word, and It becomes unfruitful.

20 But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the Word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

When you focus on the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things, you become unfruitful.  It is your decision on what you allow yourself to watch and hear.

I urged you to participate in the 30-day soul cleanse to remove worldly seeds that have been planted in the past.  Each of us determines the level of faith we want to walk in, and what impact we want to make through our words in our daily lives.