P.R.A.Y.I.N.G. Bringing Power and Purpose to Your Prayers

You can visit this in facebook. Our pastor is Thomas Terry from faith alive fellowship. Thank you Lord for the power of prayer works! He quoted Mark 9: Second, the verse is not talking about a hard demon to get out but it is talking about unbelief. Jesus was telling them the only way unbelief will leave is thru prayer and fasting. Danny Loves Misty and Misty Loves Danny so pray to bring Misty and Danny into a close loving trusting affectionate positive permanent blessed relationship that includes Marriage and Kids and pets, pray for Misty to let Danny know when she is ready for the two of them to get together and build the life that God has planned for them as soon as possible in Jesus name Amen.

Answered prayer is not no, yes, or wait. It Is something He creates out of nothing, In His time, in His way, just for you, and then He gives you knowledge of it. Thanks for sharing the verses of power of prayer. Prayers are powerful, if we have faith as we pray to the Heavenly Father who can do all things as we trust Him with our lifes. Thank you for the very helpful bible verses. I am praying for a certain position, with faith I believe that God has already gave me that position.

Thank for all your Bible writing,its quite interesting. Please I want everybody who read this comment to always remember me in prayer,sometimes i think my problems defies solutions,sometimes I think maybe I dont know how to pray ,I have been on two prayer points for a long time. Because it may not be in the will of God. God will not answer a prayer that does not glorify Him. I feel bad about this. Please pray for me.

Hello my friend, and yes, I will pray for you, but please call your pastor and tell him and ask your church to pray for you as we are commanded to do James 5: Am glad I came across because am going through a hard with my kids at School and at work. They we diagnosed with Adhd and life is miserably..

We must remember the difficult things. Read the proper versions! Faith without works is a sure path to hell. Here are the works we must do: Many people we perceive as good, may still go to hell. We must be saintly! Christ tells us that we must confess our sins. We see this numerous times in the Bible. I was in relationship her family objected us so her family has done evil work on her to make her forget me she has changed and gone away from me please pray that she will come back to me. Please pray for daughter Tisha: Lord Jesus please move on that company that you have a job for Tisha, a well establish,stable company, that appreciate Tisha experience and talent, grant Tisha favor with her resume and provide the right job in her field, In Jesus name Amen, Amen, Amen.

I believed in power of prayer I am now praying i will pass my exam which is impossible because i miss someting to put in my paper but i still dont lose hope i am still have faith in God that i will pass the exam. I met the love of my life and hes a Christian…. We are in a difficult situation because we currently live apart.

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I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. Dec 27, Jannette rated it it was amazing. Dutch Sheets, the author of Authority in Prayer is one of the most powerful and awesome books I have read.

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I don't know about you, but I have always wondered why some Christians are successful in their prayer life and others seem to always go with unanswered prayers and confusion. I admit I used to be the ones without much success. I would always carry doubt and unbelief in my prayers. This book has increased my faith to a higher level of understanding and confidence.

Dutch, shows and reminds us w Dutch Sheets, the author of Authority in Prayer is one of the most powerful and awesome books I have read. Dutch, shows and reminds us while using the scriptures that we are all a royal priesthood that has the same right to go into the throne room with boldness when we are making our petitions to God. I always knew this, but it helped to actually see the scriptures that state this. As I was reading,I would take time out to pray with the knowledge and confidence that Dutch talks about.

I have already seen and felt a difference in my prayers already!. If you are a person who believes in the living God, but still has a hard time accepting and believing that you have the same right to operate with authority and power in your prayer life, then please don't delay. This book is a must have if you are serious in being a part of the real church!

The church that God has called us to be: One who has power and authority to carry out His plans for you, me, and the world. This is the first book that I have read by this author and it was pretty interesting. He has a style of writing which kept me interested throughout the whole book. He shares personal stories and it made it a more interesting read. This is a powerful book about taking authority over your prayer life.

I am not the best at praying I will admit, so reading these prayers and testimonies just amazed me. I was given this book by Bethany House in exchange for my honest review. Jun 06, Machelle Dykstra rated it really liked it. Rather than give up or post a negative review, I stopped reading it for a couple of weeks. Once I was in a better frame of mind, I began again and was much more easily engaged and interested in the material.

I have to admit, I am not an avid prayer. My prayers are simple, short, and specific. I do not get verbose, I just get to the point. This book was helpful in learning the authority I have in prayer, authority that God has given me. God doesn't need our prayers to act, he desires to work with us to get things to happen. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about prayer and our relationship with God through prayer.

Thank you to Bethany House publishers for providing me with this book free for my honest review. Praying With Power and Purpose by Dutch Sheets is an awesome book filled with faith, humor, testimonies and so much more. The author shows Biblical reasons for taking authority in our prayers.

A real faith-builder as you read of answered prayers and know that God does answer our prayers. This book helped me to see that it is important to use the power we are given, by God, in our prayers. I highly recommend this book. I received an ARC advanced readers copy from Bethany House in exchange for my honest review rather it be good or bad.

Mar 23, Gay Idle added it. If you are looking for a book to inspire you to step up in your prayer life, then this is your book! With examples of prayer breakthrough in others as well as that in his own life, Dutch Sheets, leads us to a greater understanding of the authority we are to have in this world as God's children and joint heirs with Christ as we learn to pray with the the authority God wants us to have. This is one I will return to when I feel the need to be recharged in my prayer life. May 18, A. This one got relegated to the Did Not Finish pile at page The further I read, the more the writing seemed to go off the rails into the weird.

I can personally hear God speak, so I'm not sure why the later stories in the book seemed like they went down the Cloak-and-dagger-hope-you-can-find-your-secret-society-decoder-ring-so-you-can-decipher-the-coded-number-messages-God-is-sending-you-through-other-people-so-you'll-actually-know-how-to-pray train of thought. I was not impressed. Jun 26, Jodi rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is truly one of my favorite books!

It is torn and tattered, marked and highlighted and shows the signs of a great book that you refer to over and over. I love Dutch's writing his obvious humor and his biblically sound teaching. Truly a gift to read and has helped me grow tremendously in my prayer life! Dec 30, Kelli rated it liked it Shelves: I was kindly given this book to review by Bethany house. This reads like a few other prayer books I've read. I don't see any real stand out writing or thoughts here.

It's probably just a good overview of the power of prayer. I did think some of his thoughts were very charismatic sounding or played out in very dramatized prophetic ways. Jun 04, Melissa rated it really liked it Shelves: Sheets gives scriptural backing and life examples to show the readers what it really means to have authority in our prayer life.

He carries a playful style throughout the book with his wit and sense of humor, but he doesn't lose his punch when he hits on important topics such the power of our words, purity and the true purpose of the church. May 24, Imjstgr8 rated it really liked it.

I really liked this book. It gave me awesone insight on how to pray with power and authority. The only thing I didn't care for were the political undertones in the book. I understand praying for our President however I do think George W. Bush was mentioned a little too much.. Besides that it was good and I would recommend it to anyone looking to go deeper into prayer. Sep 25, Robert rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is a powerful book on authority and prayer. I liked it so much that I had to read it twice.

What I liked a lot at this book was that the whole book contains stories from the author's life and others' lives that help you understand things better. Another nice thing is the way the author gets the message to you - in a cool and non-boring way! Aug 01, Sherri Hayes rated it it was amazing. I always learn something and I am always challenged to pray more fervently when I read one of Dutch Sheets books. We are all in a Spiritual Battle.

I pray that the eyes of my heart are opened. I pray that God opens my eyes to see what He wants me see and do what He has equipped me to do! The job that hadn't materialized. The very simple and direct conclusions I draw are these: First, if the Bible teaches us to do something, I want to do it. I want to obey the Lord in every way that He commands me to obey Him. And second, if fasting and praying are means to a breakthrough that God has for me, I want to undertake those disciplines so I might experience that breakthrough! Every person I know needs a breakthrough in some area of his or her life.

I am no exception. I need breakthroughs all the time -- it may be a breakthrough in understanding a situation, a breakthrough answer to a problem, a breakthrough idea, a breakthrough insight, a breakthrough in financial or material provision, a breakthrough in health. If you have any need in your life, you need a breakthrough from God to meet that need! Fasting and prayer break the yoke of bondage and bring about a release of God's presence, power, and provision.

When I was forty-two years old, I went to an Assemblies of God camp in Alexandria,Minnesota, to speak for a women's retreat. The first two days of the retreat went very well, and then I had one day in between the first retreat and the second -- so many women had registered, the camp could not host all of the women at the same time. I took that day in this lovely place in Minnesota to enjoy the lakes and trees -- it was a gorgeous environment -- and to fast and pray about God's will for my life.

I felt as if I was doing a lot of good things, but I also thought I might miss God's best for me. I longed to hear from God and to receive a revelation from Him about my life. In that day of fasting and prayer, God spoke to me words from Isaiah The breakthrough that you may need in your life is a sense of God's direction -- not only for today and tomorrow, but for the broad scope of your life.

If you long to know God's purpose for you on this earth, I strongly encourage you to seek God in prayer and fasting. First, biblical fasting is going without food. The noun translated "fast" or "a fasting" is tsom in the Hebrew and nesteia in the Greek language. It means the voluntary abstinence from food. The literal Hebrew translation would be "not to eat. I know people who say they go without television or movies, and they call these "fasting" times. I'm not opposed to that definition of fasting-fasting does imply that we are giving up one thing in order to replace it with something else, and in the Bible sense, specifically to replace it with prayer.

But in the main, I believe fasting has to do with our abstaining from food. Second, biblical fasting is linked with serious seasons of prayer. The more seriously we approach prayer and fasting, the more serious the results we will experience. I sometimes hear people say, "I'm giving up chocolate" and they regard this as a type of fasting.

I think this is a rather frivolous approach. The first and foremost purpose of a biblical or spiritual fast is to get a breakthrough on a particular matter that one lifts up to the Lord in prayer. A spiritual fast involves our hearts and the way in which we relate to and trust God. It relates to discerning and receiving strength to follow through on what God might reveal to us about circumstances in our lives or a direction we are to take. I am not against people fasting in order to lose weight. Many people fast to lose weight or maintain their weight.

What I am opposed to is making the losing of weight your primary goal in a season of spiritual fasting and prayer. To have weight loss as a goal makes your fasting a diet plan, not a time of genuine fasting and prayer. If losing weight is your purpose in fasting, you will be missing out on the full reason for fasting, and you likely will be concerned only with what you don't eat rather than with what you are led to pray.

Now there's certainly an issue of food that is associated with many seasons of prayer and fasting, and let me quickly add this: The purpose is not the number of pounds you might lose during a fast, but rather, trusting God to help you regain mastery over food during a fast. Jesus said, "The spirit is. Fasting is a means of bringing the flesh into submission to the Lord so He can strengthen us in our mastery over our own selves. Fasting in the flesh makes us stronger to stand against the temptations of the flesh.

Those temptations very often deal with food. Abstaining from food is often God's way of showing that His desire for us is that we regain mastery over all things associated with our flesh in order to subdue our flesh and elevate our emphasis on spiritual matters. God's promise is to help us as we overcome the flesh and put all carnal temptations into subjection.

We are wise to recognize that food was the enticement the devil used to cause Eve and Adam to sin in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 2 the Lord God told Adam and Eve that they could eat freely of every tree in the garden of Eden, "but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: God did not tell Adam and Eve to refrain from touching a particular animal or smelling a particular flower or swimming in a certain stream.

He told them to refrain from taking a particular fruit into their bodies-one type of fruit out of all the many types He had made available to them. God had given Adam and Eve authority over all things that He had created-every bird, fish, beast of the field, and over "every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat" Gen.

God did not prohibit Adam and Eve from interacting with any part of God's creation when He commanded them to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it-except for this one tree and its fruit. They were not to eat of a particular tree,what God described to them as the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Why did God set apart this one tree and its fruit? God was giving Adam and Eve free will and the ability to make choices and decisions. Free will isn't really free if a person has no choice. Adam and Eve had a choice to make about this one tree.

God told them to abstain from eating from its fruit because He did not want His beloved creation to have a knowledge of evil. He had already given them a full knowledge of everything He called "good. That's true for us today as Christians.