Warring Hands

a) IF BELIEVERS THINK THAT GOD IS POVERTY STRICKEN IN STEAD OF WEALTH AND ABUNDANCE THEY WILL ONLY HAVE MEAGERNESS, LACK, POVERTY PAINS AND SUFFERINGS. THIS GLORIOUS INHERITANCE IS ONE WE CAN INHERIT HERE AND NOW AND FOR THE FUTURE THIS INHERITANCE IS IN THE SAINTS. WE HAVE ACCESS TO THIS INHERITANCE EVEN THOU THE PERSON GIVING US THE INHERITANCE IS STILL ALIVE. IN THE NATURAL LIFE THE SOMEONE HAS TO DIE FOR US TO INHERIT, SO THIS IS A GREAT MOTIVATOR FOR US OUR FUTURE IS BRIGHT WE KNOWS THAT PROVISION HAS BEEN MADE FOR OUR PRAYERS TO BE ANSWERED

A) THIS HOPE HAS HELPED ME TO HAVE A GREATER LEVEL OF FAITH, TRUST AND LOVE FOR FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. I FIND I BOUNCE BACK FROM NEGATIVE SITUATIONS MUCH QUICKER NOW. THE MORE I READ THE WORD IS THE STRONGER MY CONFIDENCE BECOMES. I DON'T GET DEPRESSED AS EASILY AND THERE'S A GREATER LEVEL OF PEACE EVEN WHEN THINGS AREN'T GOING THE WAY I THINK IT SHOULD. CHRISTIANS WHOSE HOPE ARE WEAK EASILY BECOME TARGETS OF THE ENEMY. THEY FIND IT HARDER TO DEALS WITH LIFE STRUGGLES AND SO FALLS EASILY INTO SIN. C) WE WOULD HAVE TO PRAY THAT FAITH BE BORN IN THEM THAT THEY MAY COME INTO AN UNDERSTABDING OF THIS BEAUTIFUL HOPE THAT WE ARE ENTITLED TO AND THAT OUR FUTURE IS ACTUALLY A BRIGHT ONE.

a) PAUL'S MANNER OF PRAYER WAS ONE BORNE OUT OF GENUINE LOVE AND AN EAGERNESS TO SEE THEM GROW TO KNOW GOD MORE AND MORE AND HE ALSO THANKED GOD FOR WHAT HE WOULD DO IN THEIR LIVES. I THINK THEY COULD BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE MUCH HARDER FOR THEM. IT IS THE PRAYER OF THE RIGHTEOUS THAT WILL AVAIL AGAINST THE STRONGHOLD AND BARRIERS IN THEIR LIVES C) HE COULD BECAUSE THE WORD IS BEING PREACHED AND HIS WORD HE SAYS WOULD NOT RETURN TO HIM VOID AND IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT DO THE DRAWING. D) THIS KIND OF PRAYER IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT IS WHAT WILL BRING REVELATION AND UNSERSTANDING. LIKE BRINGING LIGHT INTO THE DARKNESS

A) I WOULD NOT SAY IT WAS SPECIAL TREATMENT. EVERYTHING THAT WAS AT THE DISPOSAL OF JESUS AT THAT TIME IS AND WAS AVAILABLE TO ALL BELIEVERS SO B0 YES WE DO GET THAT KIND OF HELP

A) I BELIEVE THE FATHER MUST HAVE BEEN PLEASED HE'S NOT PLEASED WHEN WE BECOME PASSIVE BECAUSE HE HAS GIVEN US HIS WORD, HE HAS SET US THE EXAMPLEOF HOW TO PRAYAND HOW TO PETITIONTHE FATHER,IT COULD ALSO MEAN THAT WE HAVE NOT TOTALLY SURRENDERED OUR OWN WILL C) IN ORDER TO PRAY THE PRAYER OF SUBMISSION WITH AUTHENTICITY WE HAVE TO FIRST TELL THE FATHER WHAT WE WANT, STATE OUR PREFERENCE BUT YET SURRENDING TO HIS WILL LETTING HIM KNOW WE ARE WILLINJG TO ACCEPT HIS DECISION ON THE MATTER.

a) I BELIEVE THIS WAS JESUS'S WAY OF SHOWING HIS DESCIPLES HOW TOUGH THINGS CANGET SOMETIMES BUT THAT THEY SHOULD NOT GIVE UP BUT PRESS IN I THINK HE WAS SHOWING THAT EVEN IF WHEN WE PRAY WE DON'T GET AN IMMEDIATE ANSWER OR EVEN THE ANSWER WE DESIRE WE SHOULD STAY HUMBLE AND CONTINUE TO PRESS IN OR IT COULD BE THAT BY THE INTENSITY HE WAS BRING THE HUMAN WILL UNDER SUBJECTION TO THE WILL OF GOD C) IT COULD MEAN THT THE HUMAN IN HIM WAS RESISTING THE WILL OF THE FATHER AS HE WAS VERY MAN AND VERY GOD D) I DON'T THINK HE WS RESISTING BUT HE WAS QUITE AWARE OF THE TASK AHEAD AND HE KNEW IT WOULD NOT BE EASY BUT HE HUMBLED HIM SELF TO THE CALL

a) JESUS ASKED THEM TO PRAY BECAUSE HE KNEW WHAT WAS TO COME AND THAT THEY WOULD NEED ALL THE COURAGE THAT THEY COULD GET. JESUS KNEW THAT THE TEMPTATION TO DENY THEIR FAITH TO DOUBT AND FEAR WOULD COME UPON THEM. C) THEIR PRAYER SHOULD BE ONE OF ASKING GOD TO KEEP THEM FROM FALLING INTO TEMPTATION. D) NO, I DON'T THINK THEY WERE DILIGENT IN MAKING THEIR REQUEST TO THE FATHER E) LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION F) HE KNEW IT WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO MUCH FOR THEM TO SEE HIM IN SUCH AGONIZING STATE

A) THEY WERE BOTH STRATEGICALLY PLACED BY GOD GOD'S PEOPLE ARE STRATEGICALLY PLACED BECAUSE HE'S GIVING US A VOICE AND INFLUENCE IN EVERY SPHERE OF LIFE BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S AND THE FULLNESS THERE OF. HE SAYS WHERE EVER THE SOLE OF OUR FOOT TROD IT BELONGS TO US. C)WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO THE LORD TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH AND JUSTICE TO LET OUR LIGHT SHINE BEFORE MEN SO THEY WILL RECOGNIZE THAT THERE'S A GOD IN ISRAEL D) I HAVE BEEN IN SITUATIONS WHEREI'VE HAD TO TAKE A STAND. IT'S NOT EASY BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU GAIN THE RESPECT OF THOSE AROUND YOU AND BRING GLORY TO GOD E) ONE JUST HAS TO PRAY THE WILL OF GOD AND ASK FOR GRACE TO ENDURE. SOME TIME ONE CANNOT EVEN PRAY BUT JUST GROAN BEFORE THE LORD.

A) THE BIBLE SAYS WE SHOULD BRING HIM IN REMEMBERANCE OF HIS WORD. NEHEMIAH KNOWS THAT GOD IS A GOD OF HIS WORD AND HE WOULD KEEP HIS PROMISE GIVEN TO MOSES EVEN THOUGH IT WAS SO LONG AGO. HE ARGUES HIS CASE BEFORE GOD BY TAKING PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. HE DID NOT BRING ANY ACCUSATION OR THROW ANY BLAME HE REPENTED ON BEHALF OF THE WHOLE NATION AS IF HE TOO HAD SINNED. AND NOW THAT THE PEOPLE HAD TURNED THEIR HEARTS TOWARDS GOD HE KNEW HE HAD THE RIGHT TO PETITION GOD. C) INTERCESSION IS HARD WORK. IT REQUIRES DEDICATION AND STICKABILITY. AND MOST OF ALL IT REQUIRES INTERCESSORS KNOWING WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS ABOUT THE SITUATION THAT THEY ARE PRAYING ABOUT.

A) THE BIBLE SAYS THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILETH MUCH, THEREFORE NEHEMIAH HAD TO STICK TO THE TASK UNTILL HE GOT THE DESIRED RESULT. AND BASED ON THE NATURE OF THE SITUATION NEHEMIAH COULD NOT PRAY ANY MEDIOCRE PRAY. HE HAD TO FAST AND WEEP BECAUSE HE WAS PREGNANT WITH THE SITUATION AND IN ORDER TO GIVE BIRTH THAT'S WHAT IT TOOK, INTENSE PRAYER AND WEEPING BEFORE THE LORD. WE CAN NERER BE TOO EXCESSIVE WITH OUR PRAYERS.

DANIEL WAS VERY MUCH APART OF THIS NATION HE WAS INTERCEEDING FOR AND SO HE APPROACHED GOD FROM THE POINT OF STANDING IN THE GAP FOR THIS NATIOSO THAT HE COULD EFFECTIVELY INTERCEED FOR THEM. DANIEL'S WAY OF STANDING IN THE GAP WAS SIMILAR TO THAT OF JESUS EXCEPT THAT JESUS BORE OUR SINS IN HIS BODY FROM HEAD TO TOE.

AS DANIEL PRAY HE TOOK THE POSTURE OF REPENTANCE AND HUMILITY HE PETITIONED GOD HE PREPARED BY MAKING CONFESSION AND ACKNOWLEDGING THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE WE PREPARE BY RENOUNCING, REPENTING, CONFESSING AND ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE HAVE FALLEN SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD

DANIEL WAS ENCOURAGED BY THE RECORD FROM SCRIPTURES THAT A PROMISE WAS MADE BY THE LORD TO ISRAEL THE STUDY OF THE SCRIPTURE BROUGHT THIS TO PASS

SOMETIMES IT'S OUT OF FEAR AND LACK OF UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWING THE GOD THAT WE REALLY SERVE. SOMETIMES WE ARE NOT WILLING TO GIVE UP THE OFFENCIVE WAYS OR SOMETIME OTHERS THINK THEY ARE NOT LIKE THAT SO THEY DON'T NEED TO PRAY THAT WAY. THE FIIRST TIME I PRAYED THIS WAY WAS DURING MY DIVORCE AND I REALIZED HOW BITTER AND RESENTFUL I HAD BECOME FULL OF UNFORGIVENESS. IT MADE ME REALIZE HOW WEIGHTY A BURDEN I WAS CARRY AROUND. I WAS A MUCH FREEEER PERSON HAVING VERBALIZED ALL OF IT TO THE LORD, I HAD MORE JOY AND BECAME LESS DEPRESSED. I DON'T THINK SO. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT IN US LIES NO GOOD THING. WE SIN IN OUR VERY THOUGHTS. WE CANNOT ENCOURAGE SOMEONE TO DO WHAT WE ARE NOT WILLING TO DO.

THIS PRE INVOLVEMENT SHOWS HOW INVOLVED GOD IS IN OUR WHOLE COMING INTO THIS WORLD, THIS TELLS ME I'M NO MISTAKE, GOD WAS VERY SPECIFIC WHEN HE SAID I'M FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE, HE SPOKE THE WORLD INTO EXISTENCE BUT OUR CREATION WAS HANDS ON. FOR SOMEONE CARRYING A CHILD THIS SHOULD TELL THEM THAT IT'S NOT SO MUCH ABOUT HOW MUCH THEY PLAN, BUT THAT GOD HAS A HAND IN ALL CREATION ESPECIALLY US AS HUMANS A YOUNG FATHER NEEDS TO REALISE THAT EVERY CHILD IS PRECIOUS AND HAS A SPECIAL PLACE IN THE HEART OF GOD HE KNOWS ALL THE MINUTE DETAILS OF ALL OF US INCLUDING AN UNBORN CHILD THIS CAN BE OVERWHELMING BECAUSE IT TELLS THAT THERE'S SOMEONE WHO KNOWS ALL ABOUT US, EVEN THINGS WE DO NOT OR HAVE NOT EVEN COME INTO AS YET ABOUT OURSELVES. HE KNOWS THINGS ABOUT US OR THINGS WE WILL DO BEFORE WE DO. THIS MEANS THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO OR SAY THAT WILL SUPRISE OR THROW GOD IN A FRENZY.

GOD'S HAND TOUCH THE THE PSALMIST BY SURROUNDING HIM, SECURING, GIVING DIRECTIONS AND BEING A GUIED. YES I HAVE FELT THE HANDS OF GOD ON MY LIFE. SOMETIMES GENTLY SOMETIMES FIRMLY. USUALLY IT IS FOR MY GOOD HE SAYS HIS PLAN TOWARDS US ARE GOOD AND NOT EVIL WHAT THIS DOES IS CAUSE ME TO SEE HOW FAITHFULL HE REALLY IS, IT BRINGS A SENSE OF PEACE

PEOPLE SOMETIMES WANT TO FLEE FROM GOD BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY HAVE DONE WRONG AND THEY CANNOT STAND THE ILLIMINATION OF HIS PRESENCE I WOULDN'T SAY PEOPLE THINK gOD DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DO, I BELIEVE IT IS JUST THE ENEMY'S WAY OF LYING TO THEM. HE DECIEVES IN ORDER TO GET PEOPLE TO DO EVIL CAN'T RECALL OR SAY I'VE EVER FELT OR THOUGHT THAT WAY

HE WANTED TO LEAVE AN HEIR TO THE THRONE AND TO MAKE SURE GOD'S WORDS WERE FULLFILLED IN HIS LFE TIME AS THE WORD SAYS GOD HONORS THE PRAYERS OF THOSE WHO ARE UPRIGHT AND THE EFFECTUAL FERVENT PRAYER OF A RIGHTEOUS MAN AVAILETH MUCH IT IS LAID OUT IN THE WORD...WHEN WE DO WRONG HE SAID HE WILL PUNISH US. ITS NOT BY WORKS

hEZEKIAH'S HEALING IS IMPORTANT TO HIS NATION INSHOWING THE INTEGRITY OF GOD'S WORD THAT HE DOES WHAT HE PROMISES. HE SAYS WE SHOULD BRING HIM IN REMEMBERANCE OF HIS WORD. GOD'S PROMISE TO dAVID RELATES DIRECTLY TO hEZEKIAH BECAUSE THE LINAGE FOLLOWS AND HEZEKIAH DID NOT YET HAVE ANY HEIR TO LEAVE FOR THE THRONE.

THE FIRST TWO SENTENCES CORRESPOND WITH THE lORD'S PRAYER IN THAT THEY BOTH TELL WHO GOD IS AND WHERE HE'S LOCATED THEY ARE IMPORTANT TO FAITH BECAUSE THE MORE WE TELL GOD WHO HE IS, IS THE MORE IT WILL RESOUND IN OUR SPIRIT MAN AND THE MORE OUR FAITH IS BUILT UP IN HIM. THEY ARE IMPORTANT TO GOD BECAUSE IT TELLS HIM THAT WE RECOGNIZE HIM FOR WHO HE IS AND THAT WE ARE TOTALLY DEPENDING ON HIM.

HEZEKIAH WANTED TO SHOW THE LORD THAT HE RECOGNIZED THAT THE BATTLE WAS ALL ABOUT HIM (GOD) AND THAT HE'S ALSO AWARE THAT GOD IS QUITE CAPABLE OF HANDLING HIS OWN BATTLES WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM HIM. THE UNDERLYING PRINCIPLE IS THAT WE NEED TO LAY OUT EVERYTHING BEFORE THE LORD DO NOT TAKE ON WHAT BELONGS TO HIM. WE CAN APPLY THIS PRINCIPLE BY AS THE SCRIPTURE SAYS HAVING DONE ALL TO STAND. STAND WHEN WE DO NOT OBEY THIS PRINCIPLE WE END UP BEEN FRUSTRATED, DISCOUIRAGED AND SOME EVEN GIVE UP.

(A) Abraham constantly made reference to his frailtyand acknowledged that he was nothing before God.He also made constant reference to God's attributes. ( Boldness & Humility goes hand in hand because shows that we understand the character of God and also the power and authority of God.

(a) Most definately God was pleased, because it showed Abraham understood the Father/Son relationship that he wants to have with us. ( He would take delight in our prayers to him when we show how much we reverence him and acknowledge that it's all about him & not about us.

(A) Abraham argued on the basis that he did not want his family to be destroyed along with the wicked but more than all i think that he was applealing to the righteousness and justness of Almighty God. He says we should come boldly to His throne. ( The Bible says he's a God of Justice and he's also a fair God.

Q3 (a) If we have a wrong understanding then we will not be able to pray the will of God. and we will remain defeated christians ( If we believe that our prayers makes no difference to God's response we are ignorant unbelieving of the word