When You Pray, Believe! Prayer is Built on Real Faith. Do Not Fear!

Posted on by December 3, 2023

If You Don’t Believe What You Pray … Why Do You Pray?

“But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. 7- For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, 8- being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.” -James 1:6-8 (NASB)

There is much fear in the world today. Almost everywhere you will find calamities that are shaking things up terribly. Why? These are the last days before the Lord arrives to catch away His Bride and then the 7-year Tribulation starts. Sin and lack of sincere repentance drive these days. So we as Christians right now must stand firm in our faith and pray. People are scared and many have been displaced from their homes, lost jobs, have contracted sickness and disease. The world is becoming a “hell-hole” of lawlessness and wickedness. For example, just look at what’s happening in the US. Godless America is rising from ashes of a nation that was once built upon the precepts, laws, and righteousness of belief in Almighty God. So, folks, we are in trouble and need God’s help. We must engage in combat faith and combat prayer.

Why do you pray? Is it the “thing” to do in the circle of Christian friends you attend? Are you just “supposed” to pray as a Christian? Or is it just rote and you really don’t expect the Lord God to answer your prayer?

“And we are confident that he hears us whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. 15 And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for.” -1 John 5:14-15 (NLT)

First, in our prayers, we can’t pray anything out of the will of God. i.e. Praying so the Lord would give you lots of money. We must pray according to God’s instructions in His word. A good pattern to use is found in the Lord’s Prayer in Matt 6:9-13.

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” -Heb 11:1 (ESV)

Today we live in a time where prayer should be all Christians number one focus. Why? For the times we live in present all kinds of distress, and turmoil, especially with man-orchestrated viruses. People are scared to death and are therefore easily swayed to accept the nonsense spewed at us from supposed medical professionals (note: I am not a medical professional). Mask wearing is ridiculous but it has promoted an atmosphere of fear and worry that troubles almost all people including Christians. Where genuine faith should be in Christian lives, fear has stepped in, in a big way. Why?

People don’t believe in the prayers they recite … or … they don’t pray about things at all. Faith is in the back seat.

You see, the enemy of our souls has built a fortress or stronghold of fear around many Christians and now they can’t gain any traction in their spiritual lives for this fear fortress has immobilized or paralyzed them in their faith.

Friends, when you pray, you must believe in what you pray for especially if you bathe the prayer based on Rock Solid Scripture/s. For instance, in this seemingly re-currant virus crisis, I have heavily relied on Psalm 91 as my anchor in faith to Almighty God to protect my family and our extended family.

Real faith must accompany prayer or your prayers and faith are worthless.

Do not let the Devil establish a stronghold against you that intimidates or diminishes your faith or makes you freeze in your Christian walk. Pray in faith and believe in what you are praying. For protection, security, health, peace of mind, for your family members, etc. There will be many obstacles when you do this and so you really need to put feet to your faith in belief. The enemy will strike at every part of your life trying to bring you down. Remember, fear, worry, guilt, and shame are some of his sharpest and poisonous fiery darts.

Stand strong in your faith and let your prayers shake the gates of hell, against the powers of darkness in high places that want to devour you. Don’t fear!! Don’t panic for the Lord God Almighty is in absolute control over your life and my life. He hears our prayers and will respond according to your faith. Consider the [Gentile] Roman Centurion in Matt 8, his servant was paralyzed but yet the Centurion believed Jesus could heal him. And as a plus to his faith, he knew he was unworthy to have Jesus into his home, so he said, “The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.” Now, this is real faith and then some and from a Gentile no less. An example of what faith looks like for us.

Friends, don’t fear any virus or any disease but instead seek the Lord and let Him see your faith in action and then He will respond in His time and in His will. We must TRUST in His provision and will for our lives. We must not take this lightly for without faith it’s impossible to please Him. Do not fear!

“And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” -Heb 11:6 (ESV)

 

-BPWatcher, Internet Preacher and Bible Prophecy Watchman

 

GLORY TO GOD!

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How Often Do You Pray?

Posted on by November 26, 2023

Where is your Prayer Closet?

“But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.” -Matt 6:6 (NASB)

Before we begin I think it pertinent to describe that this message concerns not praying to just any God; e.g. Allah, Buddha, Baal, Mary, or any other of the thousands of false gods people worship these days. I am talking about praying to the one true God: to Almighty God – the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, YAHWEH God, Jehovah God, Elohim, the Lord Jesus Christ, the God of the Bible.

So, the question this morning is how often do you get alone with Almighty God in serious and sincere prayer? Do you have a prayer closet or somewhere you go to go one on one with the Lord? Now I know some folks do actually have a closet they go into and pray. For others it may be another location but the point is we all need to have a regular place to come before the Lord in prayer and supplication presenting ourselves to Him so we can communicate, and He can talk to us as well. Let me add that this cannot be in front of the TV in at a commercial break. This can’t be while you are engaged in other activities; granted you can pray anytime but the prayer that I’m talking of today has to be genuine dedicated prayer, dedicated communication just between you and the Lord. This has to be a time where your mind is focused on the Lord so you can hear what He has to say to you. This is of major importance to any professing Christian today for many of the faith do not make it a practice to seek Him. Consider what the Apostle Paul said in the Book of Romans:

“There is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.” -Rom 3:11 (HCSB)

Let me say that if you claim to be a Christian and do not spend time seeking the Lord in daily sincere prayer, it’s time to reevaluate your faith and position in God Almighty. Do you really know Him and does He know you? Luke 6:46.

The world is becoming increasing treacherous to Christians and highly disrespectful and rebellious to Almighty God. People in the Middle East are getting their heads chopped off for their faith. Others have been tortured for their stand in Christ. Here in the US, Christians are demeaned, persecuted and unjustly fined for their belief and stand in the teachings presented in the Bible and their faith in Jesus Christ. American justice has been perverted, twisted and turned against the God of the Bible. These are examples of real life and real-time events that call us to no-kidding prayer.

“Devote yourselves to prayer; stay alert in it with thanksgiving.” -Col 4:2 (HCSB)

When we pray we should pray several times a day seeking the Lord, inquiring of His guidance and direction in our lives. How often do you seriously seek the Lord? Only when you have a problem or are in trouble? Maybe at the end of the tiring day sitting in your easy chair watching TV while slowly dosing off to sleep? Or perhaps 5 min before you go to bed … ? How serious about and in prayer have you been? If you were to be given a score on your prayer life what would you get? An “A” or “C” or “F”?

You know prayer can also be in thanking the Lord for what He has blessed you with, and what He has done for you. How often do you really seek the Lord? C’mon now, how often? I’m not talking about just praying or sitting quietly at church while other things are going on. Can you say that you seek the Lord daily; can you say that you call on Him to help you understand His will for your life? Consider the following verse:

“Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:” -Isa 55:6 (KJV)

What does this verse say to you and what does it tell you? Will there come a time when He won’t be found or won’t be near? Is this verse speaking that one day as you keep rejecting Him and His outstretched hand that by the hardness of your heart you may miss His presence or opportunity for salvation? As He calls to you and you keep stiff-arming Him will His Spirit not be found again by you? Gen 6:3. Or could this mean that we are to seek Him while we still are alive and before death where His voice, calling and nearness will not be found? However,0 you’d like to view it I think you would agree that the time to seek and call upon Him is now, today, right here. 

“The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth. ” -Psalm 145:18 (NASB)

Friends, we must seek the one true God. We must pray and call upon Him. We must get away and have periods of quiet time where we can shut off the world and listen to His still small voice – 1 Kings 19:11-13. This is a must for a professing, practicing and believing Christian wherever you are located. Prayer is something no man can strip from us. In these last days the urgency in prayer is even more crucial that ever before. The big question before you and me is do we pray with candor and do we pray in truth. God knows our hearts and measures us not by our minds but by our hearts -Jer 17:10 . So where are you at today? 

“I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” -Jer 17:10 (KJV)

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Grace and peace

-BPWatcher, Internet Preacher and Bible Prophecy Watchman

GIVE ALMIGHTY GOD ALL THE GLORY FOR HE IS KING and HE IS LORD!

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Are You Prepared For The Cataclysmic Earth Changes That Are On The Way?

Posted on by November 19, 2023

Editor’s Note: Holy Scripture tells us what the signs will look like in the end days. But are you looking, listening and seeing?

“There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fainting from fear and the expectation of the things that are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken” -Luke 21:25-26 (NASB)

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Are You Prepared For The Cataclysmic Earth Changes That Are On The Way?

By Michael – Nov 16, 2023

An absolutely massive volcanic eruption in Russia has created a cloud of dust and ash that is a thousand miles long.  Yeah, that is “normal”.  In recent days we have also seen a spectacular eruption of lava at Mt. Etna in Italy, volcanic activity has caused a brand new island to emerge off the coast of Japan, and thousands of people have been forced to evacuate in Iceland as volcanic magma races to the surface near the town of Grindavik.  If you understand the period of world history that we are living in, then you already know that what we are experiencing now is just the tip of the iceberg.  Unfortunately, the vast majority of the population is completely and utterly unprepared for the apocalyptic “Earth changes” that are rapidly approaching.

Personally, I was stunned when I heard about what was taking place in Russia.

I knew that there had been an eruption, but I didn’t know that it had actually created a cloud of dust and ash that is 1,000 miles long…

Eurasia’s tallest volcano has violently erupted, throwing a 1,000-mile-long (1,600 kilometers) cloud of dust and ash into the air, new NASA satellite images show.

Klyuchevskoy, sometimes referred to as Klyuchevskaya Sopka, is an active stratovolcano in Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, which is home to more than 300 other volcanos. Klyuchevskoy’s peak stands at 15,584 feet (4,750 meters) above sea level, making it taller than any other volcano in Asia or Europe, according to the Kamchatka Volcanic Eruption Response Team (KVERT).

Eruptions of this magnitude have the potential to dramatically affect the climate of the entire planet.

On November 1st, the cloud of dust and ash from this eruption actually reached a maximum height of seven and a half miles…

Klyuchevskoy has been continually erupting since mid-June. But on Nov. 1, a massive volcanic explosion released a torrent of smoke and ash, which reached a maximum height of 7.5 miles (12 km) above Earth’s surface, according to NASA’s Earth Observatory.

This is serious.

But because it is happening in Russia, most people in the western world simply do not care what is happening.

 

Meanwhile, rapidly rising magma is now only about 500 meters from the surface near the town of Grindavik, Iceland…

 

A huge nine-mile long magma intrusion, just northwest of Grindavik, has formed and is growing, according to experts, with magma thought to be as close as 500 metres from the surface.

Just a few days ago, experts were saying that magma was accumulating three miles below ground, but it has now risen much closer, if estimates are correct.

‘At this stage, it is not possible to determine exactly whether and where magma might reach the surface,’ the Meteorological Office said.

I hope that everyone is long gone from that area by now, because it appears that a major eruption could be imminent.

Prior to being evacuated, local residents could literally hear “thunder in the ground” as rapidly moving magma caused earthquake after earthquake to happen right under their feet…

Residents in Iceland fear homes in the evacuated town of Grindavik could be ‘frozen in time like Pompeii’ should they be covered in lawa.

British Expat Anne Sigurdsson, 66, moved to Iceland from Carlisle seven years ago with her husband Siggi, 63. She told the Mirror: ‘This island could be ripped apart. We fear Grindavik could end up frozen in time like Pompeii.’

She said she could hear the heavy earthquakes plaguing the area before she could feel them, describing them as ‘thunder in the ground’.

Unfortunately, this could be just the beginning of Iceland’s problems.

According to one volcanologist, what we are currently witnessing could be part of “a new eruptive phase” which could possibly last for hundreds of years…

Iceland’s looming volcano blast is just the beginning of a new era of volcanic eruptions that will last for centuries, with the build-up of magma beneath the coastal town of Grindavik signalling that more is to come, scientists have warned.

The Fagradalsfjall volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula is threatening to erupt, with Iceland’s Met Office saying that the ‘likelihood of a volcanic eruption is high’ and could happen at anytime in the coming days.

After 800 years of inactivity, a 2021 eruption marked the start of a new cycle of volcanic activity, and now Cambridge volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer, says that blast may have kicked off ‘a new eruptive phase’ which could last centuries.

Of course it isn’t just Iceland that is seeing unusual seismic activity.

According to the Smithsonian Institute’s Global Volcanism Program, 19 volcanoes are erupting all over the globe right now, but that list “doesn’t include all erupting volcanos”…

The Smithsonian Institute’s Global Volcanism Program tracks new eruptions and updates its list of currently erupting volcanos on Wednesdays. The most recent update shows three new eruptions, bringing the list’s total to 19 eruptions at once. The list doesn’t include all erupting volcanos.

The new volcanic eruptions have some people voicing their concerns on social media.

“Volcanoes erupt simultaneously in Italy, Iceland, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Philippines, etc. Below is a volcanic activity map of 2013 vs 2023. Totally normal, right?” one person posted on X, formerly Twitter.

Sadly, the changes that are happening to our planet will greatly accelerate during the months and years that are ahead of us.

So are you ready?

Are you prepared for truly cataclysmic Earth changes?

One recent survey discovered that 34 percent of Americans “believe they can be the sole survivor of the apocalypse”…

A third of Americans (34%) believe they can be the sole survivor of the apocalypse, a new survey reveals. The poll of 2,000 U.S. adults looked at how this would be the case and found that these respondents believe they’d outlast everyone because of their strong survival skills (54%) and adaptability (53%).

Three in 10 see themselves as the “underdog” of the apocalypse, while more respondents believe they’re the “top dog” who would undoubtedly survive it all (33%). According to Americans, the ideal “survival team” they would build to get through the apocalypse includes Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (43%), Chuck Norris (36%), Superman (33%), John Cena (26%), and MacGyver (23%).

To me, that survey makes it very clear that Americans have been watching way too much television.

This isn’t a game.

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Fear God and Flee from Evil!

-BPWatcher, Internet Preacher and Bible Prophecy Watchman

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem – Psa 122:6 (KJV)

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