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the world that he gave His one and only begotten Son that those who believed in him will not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16). He provides for our clothing and shelter, he also surrounded us with good people in our lives that help us when we were down and in distress they take care of us.

      We must continue to give God thanks every day of our lives, he bless us with His peace that pass all understanding he save us from perils of danger, disasters, accidents, violent behavior from some people around us. He fills our heart and mind with joy everlasting. We must continue to give him unceasing thanks.

      What we need in our prayers is to confess our sin if we know we violate His orders or commandments telling him we are sorry for what we do or have done. Especially when we intentionally hurt someone feelings physically or emotionally know that no matter what they are, God created them in His own image.

      By telling God about our sins, we put our trust in him that he will restore us back into the fold as our Lord’s parable of prodigal son. (Luke 15:11-21), verses 17-19, “When he came to his senses, he said, How many of my father’s hired men have food to spare and here I am starving to death I will set out and go back to my father and say to him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and against your I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.” Our Lord said God and the angels rejoicing in heaven with great love, compassion and grief for those who have fallen into sin and spiritual death but when one sinner repents they rejoice.

      The book of Isaiah 62:5 said, “As a young man marries a maiden, so will your sons marry you; as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so will your God rejoice over you.” God is never silent. He has appointed watchmen on the walls of Zion, prophets and faithful intercessors who never stop praying for the establishment of God’s kingdom on earth and for the Glory of Jerusalem.

      We, the body of Christ, need to be diligently pray without ceasing for the establishment and the return of our Lord Jesus Christ on earth in order to set up His kingdom that Christ will rule with righteousness over all the earth.

      What we need in our prayer is the power of prayer for the great commission to be fulfill through the help of the holy spirit through all the believer of Jesus Christ for all the believers to work hard for the great commission sincerely, so that all the elect of God will be save and Christ will return without delay.

      We must also pray for our neighbor, our friends, those who are in government. We need to pray for the judges who are making tough decisions in the lives of individual who do wrong.

      We must pray for our enemy so that God can turn them from our enemy to our friends. We must pray for those who are violent among us, for the Lord to turn them into peace, for the peace of God to rule and continue to rule in their heart and mind always so that they can live a peaceful life.

      We must pray for those who hate us for our Lord to turn them from hatred in to love, for them to see the light of God penetrate into and through their hearts and fill them up with joy of the living heart.

      God told prophet Jeremiah 32:41, “I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.” God surely gather all the children of Israel from all the Lands God told prophet Jeremiah that the people would be restored to the land and to a right relationship with Him, and he will make an everlasting covenant with them. God did exactly what He said in 1948, is anything too hard for the Lord? The answer is No.

      Of the Father Almighty, father of our Lord and Savior, the father of all glory, sustainer of all things assured prophet Jeremiah that through His power the people would be restored to their land. Up until today God’s power of love never stop, or diminished for His people from individual people, to the people in the community, for the nations and for the entire universe. God’s Word promises a blessed future for all believers in Christ Jesus our Lord.

      Believers in Christ must and can depend on God’s Word even though we may not know the specific manner, or how His promises going to be achieve or takes place, or how it will be accomplished. But we must Continue to trust, and have strong faith in the Lord. We must believe that the good work He started on our lives, He is the only one that can carry it out to the completion according to the power that works in us. God hears the prayer of the righteous.

      Because of our sinful nature, we are powerless to make ourselves righteous and acceptable to come before God in prayer, we have to know that Jesus Christ is the only one that lived this earth sinless, His death and resurrection, declares us righteous, Jesus carried all our sin on the cross.

      His righteousness is ours by faith with this in mind, we are confident and boldly approach the throne of grace, where God hears and answers all our prayers.

      The holy Bible says: “There is only one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus our great intercessor in heaven. Christ is the only one who died on the cross for our past, present, future sins and rose from the dead, who is now sited at the right hand of God, who defeated death and the power of evil and sins.

      The same Jesus Christ is the only one that sited at the right hand of God interceding for us. Asking the Father for what we needed and the time we need it. Jesus Christ is our high priest of a new covenant in heaven, He knows and familiar with all our suffering, weaknesses, temptations, afflictions and troubles. When we call on God the father in prayer through our Lord Jesus Christ’s intercessory holy name we must know that we have the assurance and the confidence, and boldly we will obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of all our needs (Hebrews 4:16).

      We must all approach the throne of grace with confidence because Jesus Christ our suffering Lord sympathizes with our weaknesses, we can confidently approach the heavenly throne, knowing that our prayers and petitions are received and desired by our heavenly father. It is the throne of grace because from it flows God’s love, help, mercy, forgiveness, wisdom, spiritual power, spiritual gifts, the fruit of the spirit, the river of living water, and all that we need in any circumstances of our lives.

      We need to abide in Christ. Jesus Christ explained to us that the key to a strong and healthy Christian life is abided in him. (John 15:1-7). Jesus stated that I am the true vine, He describes Himself as the “true Vine” we are the branches, by remaining attached or clued to him as the source of our live, and power, we produced fruits. God almighty the father is the Gardner who takes care of the branches in order that they may bear fruit and more fruits into His kingdom. Our Lord Jesus Christ speaks of two different branches: the branch that is fruitless and the new branch that is fruitful.

      The branches that stopped to bear fruit are those that no longer have life in them that comes from enduring faith in and love for Christ. These branches the father pulled from the vine, He separates them from vital union with Christ.

      When people or a believer stopped remaining in Christ, they cease to have life in him thus they are severed and thrown into the fire. The branches that bear fruit are those who have life in Christ and in themselves because of their enduring faith in and love for Christ these branches the father prunes so that they will become more and more fruitful.

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      Pray Through the Word of God

      In order to be strengthened in our prayer lives we must pray through the Word of God. When we quote the Word of God in the Bible what he said to back up our request our supplications, our heart desires in our prayers to Him, we are praying through the Word of God.

      When Christ’s words abide in us, the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ takes control of our thinking our decision

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