Title: Opportunity Comes Again/Matthew 7:7-12
Content Matthew 7:7-12
The opportunity has come to you again to pray. Please seize this opportunity. Also, next week is Thanksgiving. An opportunity to thank you has come. Arm yourself with the faith of thanksgiving. Prayer is the channel of blessing. Also, thanksgiving is the best response to God's grace.
We bless your families and businesses more openly through this special early morning prayer meeting. I hope that your children, your workplace, and your workplace can become channels of blessing. What we are grateful for is the fact that there is a powerful working of the Holy Spirit from the first day. Please seize the opportunity of grace that has come again.
Prayer is not just a word of mouth: “Ask, seek, and knock!” This is what we need to pray with our whole body and all our lives, just as we ask with our mouth, seek with our feet, and tap with our hands. This is today's text.
We hope that you will pray with your whole body and your whole life during the special early morning prayer meeting. Not only your mouth is busy, but your hands, feet, and your whole life must move.
We rejoice that the opportunity to pray and receive grace has come again, and I hope that you all hold on to this opportunity.
1. Prayer is a fence.
People need a fence to protect them. Your home or business must also have a fence to protect it. However, no matter how much a person builds a fence, it cannot protect me. We must build a fence of prayer.
A human being is my body, I cannot protect it. Who gets sick because they want to get sick? Who gets into accidents because they want to happen? We must build a fence of prayer every day. A heart that does not pray, a family that does not pray is Satan's playground. Satan makes a fuss as he goes in and out. The church must also build a fence of prayer. Only then can the church revive and grow in God's grace.
A heart that does not pray is tested. A family that does not pray cannot overcome the problem. The Lord said, “Watch and pray that you may not fall into temptation!” This is what prayer is fenced in.
It is difficult to expect heavenly peace from those who do not pray.
In 2 Kings 19, there is a scene where King Hezekiah received a letter from Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, to surrender. “If you do not surrender, and if you do not surrender the whole country, I will invade and kill you all.” After receiving this threatening letter, I was terrified and did not know what to do. Because they didn't have the strength to resist.
But King Hezekiah took the letter to the temple of God and prayed earnestly. “God behold, they say that Assyria is attacking our country. Behold God...” God said through Isaiah, “I have seen you praying because of Sennacherib king of Assyria.” He saw God praying. What happened the next morning? Sennacherib's army of 185,000 men were dead. Since God built a fence for prayer, nothing was a problem.
Please pray over the problem. Come up to God's house. Prayer is a fence that prevents misfortunes in life and builds happiness.
This time, the opportunity to pray again has come. Cry out to me with your vision and all your problems. I believe that God will surely see you. When God sees my sleeping, what happens? I hope that you will see God praying and seeing devotion.
Weep a lot for the family. Many tears for your children. Have a vision and cry a lot. We believe that tears shed in prayer will bear fruit of joy and answers. God will see your prayers, see your tears, and fill you with the most appropriate things.
I hope you will show God many ways to hold hands with children and hold hands with family members in prayer. Please hold on to the opportunity to pray again.
Do you know how strong the fence of prayer is? The first thing the Israelites struck when they went to conquer Canaan was the city of Jericho. The ruins of Jericho are still there... It's huge. I don't know how strong it is because it's built with stones. But the Israelites had nothing but a fence of prayer.
They wandered around Jericho without a word. It circled for six days, and on the seventh day it circled seven times. It is a silent prayer because it turned around silently. They did not rely on spears and swords, but only on God and obeyed. After the last seven rounds, I raised my voice as you said. The great stone city of Jericho built by humans collided with the fence of prayer. The strong city of Jericho fell. In this way, the fence of prayer protects those who pray and is the power to defeat enemies. The fence of prayer is stronger than the city of Jericho.
It is necessary to fence with prayers. I hope that you will build a fence for me, my home, my church, and my workplace with prayer. Even though it is difficult and difficult, I do not pray at all, but everything is going well. Don't worry! Don't guess. Fences must be built to prevent enemies from entering. How healthy am I...? Don't be arrogant! I hope you will fence with prayer.
2. Prayer is the channel of blessing.
How desperate are we to receive blessings? God longs for us to bless us too. It's like how parents can teach, feed, and do better for their children. It's like thinking.
The passage of blessing must not be blocked. Please open the channel of blessing through prayer this time. Prayer is not in vain. Nothing is ever free. Do you not believe that God's blessings open to you when you pray with faith, knowing that water comes out when you turn on the tap?
There was a blind man named Badimaeus. One day I was sitting by the roadside of Jericho and begging. At this time, I heard a lot of people passing by. that Jesus is passing by. At this point, Bartimaeus said, “Jesus, Son of David! Have mercy on me!” he cried out in a loud voice. Jesus said to Bartimaeus, “What do you want me to do for you?” You asked. “Yes, I want to see.” Then the Lord opened the eyes of Bartimaeus.
There were people around him who rebuked him for being noisy, but he called on the Lord even louder. It's about seizing the opportunity that came your way. In this way, we too must hold onto it. An opportunity of prayer and an opportunity of grace have come. Please hold onto it. Please open the channel of blessing through prayer.
“Call to me, and I will answer you, and I will show you great and mighty things that you do not know.”
As we hold on to the word of promise and pray, we hope that you will be blessed with a great and mysterious grace that you have never experienced before.
3. Let's open the way of blessing by seizing the opportunity of prayer that has come again.
People often talk about a certain “who answered”. Those people are special people, so they mistakenly think that they received such a response.
Elijah, the man of prayer, was also a man with the same nature as us. To put it simply, we are people just like us. But when Elijah prayed earnestly on Mount Carmel, the gates of heaven opened and the fire of the Lord came down. After that, Elijah prayed seven times earnestly, and rain came down on the land that had been in drought for three years and six months.
I hope that you will receive the answer of fire like Elijah at this opportunity that comes again. Our souls must live first. We must receive fire to heat up our spirits and come alive. I hope that your thirsty and thirsty state of spirit and body will be filled with the rain of blessing.
After 3 years and 6 months of drought, the seeds did not sprout even after sowing. Even the animals became thirsty to death. However, as God gave showers of blessings, the world became new. In this way, prayer is the channel of blessing. Please believe it. “Prayer is the channel of blessing” to the person next to you. Amen. Let me be the person who opens the way to blessing! Amen.
Prayer is life. Prayer is a fence and a channel of blessing, but prayer is life. To live means to breathe. When you breathe, you say that a person is alive. Prayer is the breath of the soul. It is breathing. Anything else is fine if you take a little break.
For example, eating rice is eating in the morning, resting for a while, then eating at lunch.. isn't it the same as taking a long rest and eating in the evening? No matter how much work you love, you should take a break. But you must not stop breathing. If you do not eat rice for a month, you live, but if you do not rest for 10 minutes, you die. So prayer is life.
If a believer does not pray, he will die. I hope that the line of prayer with God will not be cut off. Believe that the cord of prayer is the lifeline! I hope that you will seize the opportunity of prayer that has come again and receive abundant life.
Esther prayed, “If I die, I will die” and went out. At this time, God rescued the nation from the crisis. Boldly praying even in the lions' den. God saved Daniel. Paul prayed when he met the great storm of Euraculor. God saved me from that crisis. (1 John 5:13)
God sees you who seize the opportunity that has come again. He sees the cry of prayer, he sees the tears, and he sees the children holding hands in prayer. Please show me how to pray to God.
No matter how difficult or difficult it is, there is an opportunity and hope as long as we pray. Please seize the opportunity that comes again. So I hope you live a really new, beautiful, and abundant life. I hope that the thrill of answering the shower of blessings will fill your home. Please build a strong spiritual fence through prayer. Please believe that prayer is life and the channel of blessing. I hope that you will become the saints who open the way of blessing by seizing the opportunity of prayer that has come again.