Be serious and watchful in your prayers

On 31st August 2010, the Malaysia National Independant's Day, some 250 Christians from different Churches in Ampang gathered together at Revival Centre for a time of worship and prayer for Ampang and Malaysia! There was great fervency, faith and unity in the prayers offered up to THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY! And we believe our prayers have made a difference and will make a difference!

Before entering into prayer we looked at a verse in 1 Peter to encourage and empower us all to pray.

1 Pet 4:7 But the end of all things is at hand;
therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.

• The end of all things is at hand

Look at the current news and you will agree that the world and our nation is in crisis. But God is in control at such a time as these! HE is the ONE shaking the heavens and the earth. We need to pray like never before at such times. We need God’s help, presence, peace, power…. We need HIM! And He wants to come to us and dwell with us!

• Therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers

These are times when God wants us to look up to Him, to trust in Him, to draw resources from Him and to be guided by Him. He will lead us through victoriously! And He is working His salvation plans on the earth! We must not panic and get frantic. We must not try to make things work without realising that He is at work! We need to pray to be in tune with Him. More than at any other time we need to be alert to pray seriously.

3 things to know as we seriously pray with alertness

• Prayer is our priviledge

Our prayers are different from the prayers of unbelievers. We pray to God as His children. Our "prayer line" is purchased for us with the blood of Jesus, the Son of God. We don't need to wait outside the "gates", we can come right into the "study room" of our Father and talk to Him and ask Him. Ask and you will receive is His promise to us. Don't live life at this critical time without His presence and resources. We will NOT have if we don't ask. We don't have to live a "hard" life if we take hold of our priviledge to pray to HIM! Don't be too busy not to pray. Don’t be deceived not to pray. Don't let the devil rob you of your priviledge to pray. You can have great blessings and victories in life because you choose to pray. You can pray anywhere, anytime and HE WILL ANSWER YOU FOR YOU ARE HIS CHILD!

• Prayer is powerful

When man works man works, when man prays God works!

That's how powerful our payer is. We see in the Bible that Prayer can stop rain for 3 years. Prayer can bring rain after 3 years. Pray can still storms. Prayer can open locked prison doors. Prayer can bring down high seemly insurmountable walls. Prayer can defeat gaint enemies. Prayer can even stop bullets and break chains. Prayer can heal a family, transforms a city and change a nation... BECAUSE OUR PRAYER RELEASES THE POWER OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD!

• Prayer needs patience and persistence

This is the 10th year of our national 40 days of Prayer and Fasting for the nation. We have been patiently praying for God to transform our nation. There are increasing prayers going up to God. The prayer movement is gathering speed. We need to persist on, that through faith and patience we may inherit the promise. The Israelites were in slavery in Egypt for 400 years before deliverance came. They were in captivity in Babylon for 70 years before they could return to Jerusalem. Daniel fasted and prayed for 21 days before the breakthrough came. Elijah prayed 7 times before the rain came. We must not give up. We must pray and we must continue to pray. We must not give up half way or even 90% of the way. We must pray through to the end .... till we see something of God happening! And things are already happening!

A few years back Ps Ann receive this for AMPANG

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M ust
P ray
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G ive up

AMPANG - LET US PRAY AND CONTINUE TO ....

P ray

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S omething

H appens

MALAYSIA ---- MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA! MERDEKA!