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The Power of Prayer is Listening to God
Mark 11:12-26
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
The Gift of Miracles
(1 Cor. 12:10)
12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, {Jesus} was hungry:
13 and seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon:
and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
14 And Jesus answered and said unto it,
No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever.
And his disciples heard it.
Comes From Your Devotion to God
15 And they come to Jerusalem:
and Jesus went into the temple,
and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple,
and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves;
16 and would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.
17 And he taught, saying unto them,
Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer?
but ye have made it a den of thieves.
18 And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him:
for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine.
19 And when even was come, he went out of the city.
Faith in God for Miracles Works Through Love
Your Love for God
(Gal. 5:6)
20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots.
21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him,
Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.
22 And Jesus answering saith unto them,
Have faith in God.
23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain,
Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart,
but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
When You Stand Praying for Miracles
Forgive Others First
Because Your Obedience, Listening to God, Your Devotion
Are the Roots of Your Faith for Miracles
24 Therefore I say unto you,
What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any:
that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
To Listen to God
Is to Please God
In yesterday's post, I told you about miracles I have been doing in prayer lately ... even to my surprise. Turning tornadoes away from my town and sending the Lord's tabernacle to gush waters out on the fires in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles County, California. Praying away bronchitis in me and an eye infection away in my cat Stoney.
The Holy Spirit gave me a verse today as I thought about what happened when I prayed for those things ... When God speaks His voice is the Bible. One of God's ways of speaking to people is through scriptures they've read in the Bible. The Holy Spirit is the power of God's word (). When you read the Bible, the Holy Spirit will remind you of what you've read as His way of reaching you (Jn. 14:26). The way that God spoke to me in giving me the title, i.e. "Live to Please Me" is the powers of "tongues and prophecy" (1 Cor. 12:1-11). My spiritual gifting and office for service to God is "Prophet".
That said, the verse that the Holy Spirit gave me via memory today to explain to you how easy it is to pray for miracles such as moving mountains and casting them into the sea and praying tornadoes away, is Mk. 11:25.
Mark 11:25
Authorized (King James) Version
25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any:
that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
What the Lord wants to show us about miracles today is that to forgive is the devotion that Jesus showed in vv. 15-19 when He kicked the "thieves" out of church. In between the miracle of vv. 12-14 and the faith of vv. 20-23, is the devotion of vv. 15-19. In v. 25 Jesus calls it "forgiveness". That's the path to miracles.
This is what happened before I prayed the tornadoes away and asked God to help put out the fires in Pacific Palisades. Devotion and forgiveness are the power of faith for miracles. They please God. To please God is to listen to God with your devotion and forgiveness. If you want your prayers answered, please God first with your acts of devotion and forgiving of others trespasses against you. When you please God, He will answer any prayer even miracles. It's that easy!
1 John 5:14-16
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
You Will Have Whatever You Pray for
14 And this is the confidence that we have in {God},
that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
15 and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask
{even moving mountains and tornadoes},
we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Forgive Others First
You Will Have Nothing from God If You Do Not First Forgive
16 If any man see his brother sin a sin {against him} which is not unto death,
he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death.
There is a sin unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it.
Personal Testimony
Three Tornadoes Turned Away by God
And I and My Town Slept in Peace
God is Good
I want to talk only about the tornadoes instead of the healings. There is great power when God hears your prayers. I was surprised when the winds and the waters obeyed me. This reminds me of a scripture where Jesus said that faith as tiny as a mustard seed is all it takes to move big mountains and tornadoes.
Luke 17:6
Authorized (King James) Version
When You're Right with God
You Can Have Whatever You Say
6 And the Lord said,
If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree,
Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Yes, you heard the Spirit,
"You got to be right with God {to have your prayers answered}".
At this time in the summer of 2024 in the wee hours of the morning as I sat awake talking to the Holy Spirit and the angels with my cats ... there came a tornado warning ... I got up thinking that I don't want to get in my car and leave with my cats and whatever property I can get as fast as possible. My faith created by reading the Bible told me that God loves me and doesn't want me running out into the stormy night with my neighbors to a tornado shelter.
Man is Lord of the Sabbath (). This means that everything is made for our delight. And Jesus cursed a tree with no fruit on it when He went to eat from it (). The winds and the waves obey us (). We have power over everything when we're right with God. God just wants to someone to intercede for people. In this case, it was my town so He can give us rest and sleep from the storm. That's usually what happens when God intervenes. You're in a storm and suddenly God gets involved and everything is returned to normal, and you can carry on eating, sleeping and being at ease from danger. Those feelings of rest and sleep are from God ... only a few people in my town heard my prayers.
I got up and asked the Lord for words to pray. He always said to go look out my window and that I would see the tornado coming and then turn in another direction and dissipate ... it was dark out and the sky was black and stormy ... but when I looked exactly where the Lord said to look in the sky, I would see the black clouds and lightning and hail ... He then would give me words to pray and when I did, almost immediately I would see, just as He said I would, the tornado turn around into another direction ... I was also seeing my neighbors leaving in their cars from the tornado warnings on their TV's ... then a few minutes later they returned as the storm warnings said,
"The tornado stopped and turned around and went in another direction, then dissipated".
After I prayed, I went to sleep, lol ... because as God's child, that's what I wanted ... I didn't want to run around in unbelief all scared to die ... I was laughing cos no one knew that I did that ...
God wants me to tell you all something ...
"Only those with the Holy Spirit can do this".
This message is getting deep ... but it's important for you to know this because if your prayers are not answered, you may walk away from God thinking that He doesn't love you.
I did these things and was surprised that they happened ... but God showed me and reminded me that I got no problems with Him no more. That He restored fellowship to me and now hears my prayers. Nothing is impossible when you're right with God. You can do anything when you're right with God. When God forgives you then restores fellowship after sin, you can do things like this because God hears you ... the power is God hearing you ... this can only happen if you forgive and listen to God in devotion ... I had the faith of a mustard seed from reading the Bible saying that we can do these things ... that's the mustard seed ... it's a small faith in God that comes from reading the Bible ... but if you don't have the Holy Spirit, nothing will happen ...
For example, I believed and for years I prayed with no effect and suddenly the Holy Spirit came to me and forgave me and restored fellowship with Him to me, and He heard everything I said. Don't backslide because you'll lose this power, and you won't know when you'll get it back. It's up to the Holy Spirit and He is like the wind. You can't tell when He'll move and restore fellowship to you through forgiving you. He'll come suddenly and until then, you'll believe but have no power. You can forgive others before you pray, but you'll still have no power because you got to have the Holy Spirit inside you to do these things. And when first forgive then pray without having the Spirit, God sees this and soon you'll get baptized into the Holy Spirit with God's power in you. And when you got the Holy Spirit in you and are right with God in devotion and forgiveness, that mustard seed of faith will be heard by God and He'll big things that you, even to your surprise. You'll say things like, "I didn't think it would happen" ... how surprised I was when I asked God to put out the fires in Pacific Palisades and soon I saw the Lord's Tabernacle on TV dumping water on the fires ... some people say that was a cloud burst ... but clouds are round ... this was square with the words "The Lord's Tabernacle" on it ... God calls it His "Cathedral in the sky" ... a city in the clouds ...
Small faith is rewarded with big things when you're right with God. You will have whatever you say. Mustard seed faith means that you believe. But you got to have power. You got to have the Holy inside you and then you got to be devoted and forgiving through the Holy Spirit to have these things happen.
How to Get the Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit Moves Suddenly and Unpredictably
But You can Ask God for Him
Jn 3
lk 11
I Can Pray Like This Because the Holy Spirit Anointed me to
It's called Prophetic Intercession
This Means My Job in Church is Prayer
The Lord is giving me the opportunity to tell you here what I'm capable of with this anointing. If people will not stop their racial profiling and I stop dressing like a gangmember, not only can I ask God to give you your delight, but I can also sit down with you with the Holy Spirit and the angels and answer anything you want to ask. I can hear the spirits. I can hear the Lord talking. I can hear the angels talking. You can ask anything you want hear, and I will tell you the words that I hear them speaking ...
scriptures on pleasing God
People get the text mixed up when Jesus says that you can whatever you say if you believe with all your heart. Jesus' focus isn't on believing, but on forgiving. I too before I knew the Lord like I do today, thought that this passage meant that you had to believe heard enough to have your prayers answered. That if you didn't have the faith that it won't happen unless you try to believe harder and harder like a magic spell or something.
Now, we know that the power of prayer is God hearing us. And for God to hear us we have to be right with God in forgiving others and acts of devotion. God hears us when we listen to Him because we're devoted to Him.
And it is true that without faith it is impossible to please God (Heb. 11:6). So, we can a crises of faith when we stop believing God to do whatever we say through fellowship with the Holy Spirit. This happens when we stop reading the Bible because Rom. 10:17 says that faith in Jesus comes when we hear the word of God. The Bible creates your faith in Jesus because it's talking to you about Him. When you hear about Him, you believe in Him like magic.
So, you can never doubt in your heart and will believe with all your heart that what God will do whatever we say, even moving mountains and stopping tornadoes, when we build up our faith with the Bible.
Thus, to not doubt in your heart and to believe that what you say will come to pass comes from the faith created by the scriptures. You can doubt that what you say will come to pass if you keep the promises of God going in and out of your ears and eyes (Pr. 4:20-27).
People believe and ask God why their prayers are not answered. First, you got to have the Holy Spirit. if you believe but are not anointed, you need to get baptized into the Holy Spirit to have God's power inside you (Acts).
Second, you got to keep listening to God in everything to keep that fellowship with the Holy Spirit active. if you sin instead, God will bring you into judgement in this life to restore you to fellowship. You will not face judgement with the dead for a formal sentence to hell if you backslide. but God judges us in this life to get us out of that judgement to be condemned with the world ().
This means that God will hide his face from you if you sin (). This means that he will not hear your prayers. You'll have faith and have the Holy Spirit min you. Your gifts become dormant because the Holy Spirit isn't hearing you.
You can cry and repent and get back to your first works on your own with the word, but you will not have your prayers answered until the Holy Spirit decides to forgive and restore fellowship with you. Only then will he hear your prayers, and only then will you be able to with that tiny faith in God that comes from the Bible to move mountains and tornadoes.
The Sinner's Prayer
The Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ
Romans 10:6-17
Authorized (King James) Version
{Paraphrased}
God's Saving & Healing Power in the Bible
The Word of Faith & Salvation
6 But the {right standing with God} which {comes from biblically created faith}
speaks {in this way in the Bible about how to get saved through faith from sin & death},
"Say not in {your} heart, 'Who shall ascend into heaven'"? {Dt. 30:12}
(that is, to bring Christ down from above).
7 or, "Who shall descend into the deep?" {Dt. 30:13} (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead).
8 But what {does} it {say}?
"The word is {near you}. {It is in your} mouth, and in {your} heart
{from hearing the scriptures - Pr. 4:20-27}.
That is, the word of faith, which we preach.
9 That if you shall confess with {your} mouth the Lord Jesus
and shall believe in {your} heart that God has raised Him from the dead,
you shall be saved {from sin & death}.
10 For with the heart man believes {the scriptures about Jesus giving him right standing before God}
and with the mouth confession {of these scriptures about Jesus} is made
giving him God's salvation from sin & death through faith in Christ}.
11 For the scripture {says},
"Whoever believes on {Jesus the Son of God} shall not be ashamed" {Isa. 28:16}.
12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek.
For the same Lord over all is rich {in faith & salvation} to all that call upon Him {through the scriptures}. 13 "For whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord {Jesus} shall be saved
{from sin & death - Joel 2:32}.
14 How then shall they call on {Christ for salvation from sin & death} if {they do not believe in Him}?
And how shall they believe in {Christ if} they have not {first} heard about Him?
And how shall they hear without a preacher {telling them what the scriptures say about Him}?
15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent {by God to do this}?
As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace
{with God through faith in His Son Jesus} and bring glad tidings of good things"! {Isa. 52:7}
16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For {Isaiah says},
"Lord, who has believed our report
{in the Old Testament prophecies that God's Son Jesus
is the long-awaited Savior from sin & death"? {Isa. 53:1}
17 So then faith {in Christ as the Lord & Savior from sin & death}
comes by hearing, and hearing by {what} the word of God {the Bible prophecies say about Him.
To get faith to call upon the Lord Jesus for salvation from sin & death,
listen to what God's preachers tell you about Jesus & read what the Bible says about Him}.
Got it? What the Holy Spirit is saying in this passage is that to get saved, you need to do verses 9 and 10 highlighted in bold case above. That is, confess with your mouth the scriptures about Jesus being the Lord of sin and death because you believe them, and you will be saved from sin and death by your faith in what the Bible says about Jesus dying and raising from the dead for your sins.
The Holy Spirit is telling you in this passage that if you want to believe in Jesus and be saved from sin and death, then read what the Bible says about Him, because faith in Jesus comes, or, is created in your heart and mouth, when you read the Bible. Read what the Bible says about the Lord Jesus in the New Testament and you will be saved when you tell God and this world that you believe what the Bible says about Jesus. To do this is called the Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ, and the Sinner's Prayer. Let me lead you in the Sinner's Prayer.
The Sinner's Prayer
The Confession of the Word of Faith in Christ the Lord
"Lord Jesus. I believe in You. I believe that you died for my sins and rose from the dead and that you are alive today right here with me now as I tell you that I believe in You.
Please forgive me of my sins through my faith in your shed Blood on the Cross, and please raise me from the dead by my faith in Your resurrection. Thank you, Lord, for saving me from sin and death. In Jesus' Name I pray. Amen".
Get out your Bible out and read John, Acts and Romans in the New Testament while you listen to the Playlist below...and know that the tears that flood your eyes when you pray the Sinner's Prayer are coming from the Presence of God. That's God the Holy Spirit you're sensing and that's why you're crying as you pray this prayer. God is love (1 Jn. 4:7, 8) and when you meet Him, you can't but cry around Him. It's called "godly sorrow" (2 Cor. 7:9-11).
Now, I want to use my anointing & authority in Christ to baptize you into the Holy Spirit, because the Holy Spirit is Heaven's guarantee. There are believers, and there are born again believers (Acts 19:1-6). Please pray this prayer below and you will meet God the Holy Spirit instantly...
The Holy Spirit Is Heaven's Guarantee
Ephesians 1:13, 14
Living Bible
{Paraphrased}
13 And because of what Christ did {on the Cross}, all you others too,
who heard the Good News about how to be saved, and trusted Christ,
were marked as belonging to Christ by the Holy Spirit,
who long ago had been promised to all of us Christians.
My Prophetic Intercession for Your Baptism into the Holy Spirit
Since you are reading my Page and hearing Jesus call you to the Rapture here,
I will use my Prophetic Anointing and ask the Holy Spirit to give me a prayer for you
to be baptized into the Holy Spirit NOW.
Read the prayer and receive the Holy Spirit...
"I am using my anointing and authority with Christ to pronounce you dead in Christ
And renewed to life by the Ever-Living Presence of God."
said the Holy Ghost...
"NOW RETURN TO ME AND BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST!"
said the Lord Jesus...
"Altar Call" (Keith Green - 1983)
"Take Me into the Holy of Holies" (Mind's Eye Music - 2018)
"Leaving On My Mind" (Steve Brock -2009)
"Awesome God" (Rich Mullins - 2023)
"We Exalt Thee" (Grace Larson - 2017)
"Breathe" (Hillsong Worship - 2020)
"Create in Me a Clean Heart O God" (Keith Green - 1982)
World without end. Amen.
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