Changing Your World Through Prayer

Good evening one and all. As I attempt to begin this blog I am blessed with a great gift from God. I am blessed to be a writer. When writing I am in a comfort zone like no other. If I put my mind to it I can write poetry, which I have, I can write a book, which I have and I can write a twelve page essay, which I am doing now in school, in a matter of minutes. Each of us has a gift that God has given us. I fall short in many areas of my life though. I do not make the money I want. I do not have the job that I want. I struggle with confidence at times. But I think the main attribute that I lack is an active prayer life. I am not ashamed to admit that and am willing to work on it. Are you?

In looking up the word prayer I go to dictionary.com to find the meaning of prayer. The word prayer is a noun and it means as follows: a devout petition to God; a spiritual communion with God; the act of praying to  God. We most times pray when things get bad. We most times pray when we are wanting things. But we should pray often. The Bible gives great examples. We all know the Lord's prayer ( Matthew 6:9-15) as a model for prayer to petition God.  In Ecclesiastes 5:2 it tells how to have the proper spiritual communion with God. In Ephesians 6:18 gives act of praying to God. We as Christians must have a active prayer life. In the next three paragraphs I will give examples on the power of prayer.

In the first example in the Word of God I go to Nehemiah 1:4-13 Nehemiah who was just a cup bearer for the king,  prayed a devout petition for his people. Nehemiah did not just not pray one day but he prayed for many days (verse 4). We a a people of God must not only pray for ourselves but those in the world as well. Prayer changes things. We must have an active prayer life.

In looking at the second example in the Word of God I go to Daniel the 6th chapter. In verses 10-17 Daniel knew that praying was not the popular thing to do and in fact praying could kill him. But Daniel had to have his spiritual communion with God and nothing was going to separate him from that. In verses 18-28 we see where Daruis the king not only saw the power of God but decreed that this is the true and living God. We must have an active prayer Life.

In the last example in the Word of God I go to Matthew 26:36-46. In this passage Jesus was praying for an act of God but he still knew what his assignment was. It may be times that others around you are sleep on the job like Peter, the rock, and the sons of thunder, James and John ( Jesus loved John the most ) but you still have to have an active prayer life.

In closing I urge you to have an active prayer life. You can change the areas of family, religion and arts and entertainment when you devoutly petition God. You can change the areas of business and government when you  have spiritual communion with God. You can change the areas of social media and education with an act of God.  Exodus 4:31 give us a proper example of how to pray. 1st Kings 8:22--53 is example of prayer to God. In Acts 7:54-60 even as Stephen was being killed he prayed for his people. We can have an active prayer life.  I give God all the glory and honor for this teaching. I thank Minister Kimberly Baker for this chance to teach on prayer. To show you the move of God I actually prayed a fervent prayer this morning and am going to begin, not talk about, but begin active prayer life. Have a great week. Those in the Chicago area please visit Rhema Word 2.0.

“Spirit Prosperity –vs- Soul Prosperity”

                        Teachers how do we get the job done?

                                 
                                   By the Late Elder Fred McCoy

Base Scriptures: And the very God of peace sanctity you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ( I Thess. 5:23)

When God created us, He did so in a certain order. The Spirit first, then the Soul and lastly the body. This is how He intended for us to live. When man fell in Genesis 3 that order was reversed. We now live soul, spirit, body. When we receive Jesus as our Lord and Savior, that order should’ve been straighten out, but it hasn’t for many of us.

When we got saved, it was not our soul that got saved, it was our spirit. Contrary to popular belief, God is not interested as much in your soul as He is your spirit. Why? He wants the part of you that best resembles Him. That is your spirit!!! (Gen 1:26-27)

 
 If you lived all your life governed by your soul, it is extremely difficult to change your lifestyle and now live your life governed by your spirit. But, despite that difficulty, it is necessary.

There is a clear difference between your soul prospering and your spirit prospering. I’m willing to bet that most people have never thought about the difference between the two.

The soul represents the natural life: the seat of personality, sentient elements of man, the seat of the will, the part of man that perceives, reflects, feels desires; the emotional part of man.

The spirit represents that which most resembles God: the eternal part of man, the element of man that gives him the ability to communicate with God, the seat of character, the first order of man.

Again, we are spirits, who posses a soul, and live in a body. Even before were born again we have a spirit-human spirit. (Job 32:8/Prov. 20:27/Eccl. 12:7/Acts 7:59 I Cor. 2:11)

One of the Holy Spirits functions is to lead and guide us. He does so by communicating to us through our spirit. The reason why a lot of us can’t be lead by the Holy Spirit is because the Holy Spirit speaks one language and we haven’t taken the time to learn that language. This is why 80% of the church has LED poisoning-they’re being lead by the wrong spirit-their own.

The Bible uses the word “flesh” as a synonym for soul.

 “For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life everlasting. (Gal 6:8)

What is soul prosperity?

Soul prosperity is the increase of actions that prosper your emotions, desires, will, and feelings, to the point that you heed them and govern your life by them. In other words, the order that God established for your life is reversed. The disability of soul prosperity over spirit prosperity is that you use your soulish nature to try to discern God and the things of God, which leads to inaccuracies in both perception and daily living.

Soul prosperity is easy to do. The neglect of one will lead to the prosperity of the other. Prospering in your soul is never challenging or difficult. It takes very little effort. Simply give in to the desires of the flesh and you’ll prosper your soul.

A problem with prospering your soul instead of your spirit is you develop in your personality. Never mistake a person of strong personality with a person of strong spirit. Charisma doesn’t equal character. Never be impressed with a person who says the right things, does the right things or appear to have the right look. Be impressed with a person with a developed and mature spirit. (Eph 4:7)  Personality isn’t a bad thing. However, personality without the Holy Spirit is futile. Keep in mind that your soulish nature is that which is emotional and sensual. It’s through the soul (emotions and senses) that enable individuals to inspire you. But, inspiration doesn’t equal CHANGE!!!! People who are strong in spirit will not only inspire you, but also inspire you to change.

To grow or prosper in spirit is to develop in character. A person of character is a person who portrays and displays Jesus Christ. Someone, who is literally becoming a walking, and talking Jesus. (Rom 8:9-11/Gal 2:20/I John 3:24 amp)

Christ us in us by the presence of His spirit. We have the responsibility of growing in the spirit. In other words, we have to decrease while the Spirit of Christ increases. There are many different ways to prosper spiritually, but there is only one thing that will effect us spiritually-God’s Word. (John 6:63)

Whether it is done through reading, singing, meditating, studying, praying, listening, teaching or preaching. You as a teacher have a responsibility to prosper spiritually. You can not afford to allow your soul to be stronger in you than the Spirit of God. We often quote 1 john 4:4, “grater is He that is in me than he that is in the world”. What if he that’s in the world is greater in you? The spirit of God being great in you is your responsibility. You have to allow Him to be the great ONE.                                

                              

                                  
This blog is in memory of one of my instructors at Teacher's Training Course at Valley Kingdom International. This was a great lesson that he taught so much so that I saved it. But by it being so powerful I wanted to share it with one and all. I added the video and the pictures but the lesson is so great I could have left it as is. I want to thank in memory Elder McCoy so much for the knowledge that you have given me to teach. We all miss you much. And I want  to thank Rhema Word 2.0 Superintendent Liz Hope for letting me be part of Rhema Word 2.0 through social media and photography. Look forward to another teaching blog from a Rhema Word 2.0 teacher next week. May God bless all those who read this blog and we give God all the glory and the honor. Amen. Have a great week.




                                             

Rhema Word 2.0- Expand Your Understanding

 Good morning and Happy Monday. My name is Fred Wesley and I am a contributor to the Facebook page of Rhema Word 2.0. As I write this posting I am in the knowledge that we as people of faith need all the education we can get. Yes the Word of God being delivered by your leader of your religious organization or whomever is anointed to give the Word that day is important. But the foundation of any thing that deals with the Word of God is being educated on what the Word or passage of scripture means to you. We all can use a bit more understanding to be able to go into the world rather personally or through social media. What Rhema Word 2.0 is able to do is expand your understanding.

In looking at the definition of of the two words that are the main point of this teaching I go to Dictionary.com and get the meanings. The first word is expand and it means as follows; to increase in extent, in size and in

volume. And the word understanding means as follows; knowledge of a particular thing, skill in dealing with, and familiarity with handling something. In the next three paragraphs I will give three examples in the Word of expanding your understanding.

In looking at the Word of God the first example of Expanding Your Understanding came in Exodus 20:1-17 as the people of God received the Ten Commandments after Moses has received them from God. Moses

had to be the one to expand the understanding of the people of God as they had come into a land unfamiliar to them. We cannot reach the youth or the seniors or the unbelievers to  increase in the extent the knowledge of a particular thing unless Expand Your Understanding.

In looking at the second example of Expanding your Understanding I go the Word of God and to Ezra 7:6-10 and we see after the temple has been rebuilt that they had to send a teacher who was to increase in size

 the skills of the traditions and the way to worship. The people were able to come to a land that they only heard about from their ancestors. But they had a teacher there to Expand there Understanding.


In the last example of Expanding Your Understanding I go the Word of God and Matthew 10:16-26 the Rabboni or the Master Teacher Jesus teaches that it is not going to be easy to increase in volume the

familiarity of handling something. But he tells us will speak for us through the Holy Spirit. We all have a duty a people of faith to go out and not only show the world our works but Expand there Understanding.

So as I place this mirror here and ask are you dedicated to change the areas of arts and entertainment, business, government, religion. family, social media and educated by taking advantage of Bible Study and Sunday School. If we want to Expand the Understanding of the world we need to expand our own understanding. I give God all the glory and honor for this teaching. I want to thank Rhema Word 2.0 Superintendent Liz Hope for allowing me to teach with social media. Please check out and like our Facebook page Rhema Word 2.0. The next blog by Rhema Word 2.0 will be done by another teacher in Rhema Word 2.0 which is undecided at this time. You can also read my blog called Brand New Week, Brand New Attitude as well. Have a great month.