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Sunday, April 13, 2008

Prayer
Pastor Kong 12 Apr 08

1 Chro 4
v9 Jabez: The pain/ sorrow maker
v10 "that I may not cause pain"

Jabez was just an ordinary man, but he was able to achieve extraordinary things through God!

Honourable = Kabod (Hebrew) = glory, substance, weight

Jabez had the anointing, substance and presence of God. Why was he so anointed?
He had unusual spiritual hunger!
  • Blessed are those who hunger and thirst, for you shall be filled
  • Hunger - Although we can guarantee the quality of food one eats, we cannot guarantee the appetite of the people
  • .: We need to have an appetite for Him and His word. If we don't hunger and thirst, He will pass us by!
Jabez prayed for God to/for:
  • Bless his spiritual life
  • Enlarge his territory
  • God's presence and power to increase in his life
  • God to keep him from evil and power
Spiritual hunger will always lead to a strong prayer life! And it is only through prayer can we unleash the greatest potential of our life!

Samson was given superhuman strength. He was gifted with leadership potential. But he was the only judge that did not lead his people. Why was it so?

He was not a man given to prayer. Without prayer, you will never reach the highest potential in life, no matter how talented one is. For Samson, his hair was representative of his prayer life. The longer he prayed, the longer his hair.

While we are in the world, we are not of the world! The world will try to shave us of our prayer life, much like how Samson's hair was shaved off, and if so, we will lose our power!

A church is only as great as its members. We need to pray so that our church has power! We need to have a strong prayer life so that the potential of City Harvest will come to fruitation!

While it is easy to praise and worship God, prayer does not come as easily. We know it in our heads, but not in our hearts. Although we ought to pray like how the Lord's Prayer and the Tabernacle Prayer is prayed, we need to remember that God is a colourful and exciting God! When God draws near, our lives become more colourful!

How do you seek an invisible God?
  • Blessed are those who have not seen but believed!
  • Seek God with the eyes of our spirit
  • Get addicted to the presence of God!
  • Ish 40:30 "youths shall faint and be weary"
  • If you do not have the strength of God inside, you will faint and fall away from Him
  • Having a vision is not enough, you need to have a passion to continue living and loving
  • Ish 40:31 "those who wait on the Lord"
  • Spend time waiting on the Lord in prayer
  • It is not whether it's night or day - it's about praying
  • No matter how much hair you have shaved off, your hair can grow back and you can get back the power and the presence!
  • Prayer is private
  • Matt 6:5 "secret place" "sees in secret"
  • Psalms 91:1 "secret place of the most high" is where you can find the "shadow of the almighty"
  • It is important to dwell, wait and spend time in God's presence
  • Find a quiet place, a place of solitude that is secret between God and you
  • Get a hold of God and put an action to the prophesy that God has put in your heart
  • Read the Bible and pray
  • The Christian life is beyond worship!
  • Jesus often sat the feet of the Father in prayer
  • A prayer warrior is always a worshiper but a worshiper may not always be a prayer warrior

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