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There is only one typr of righteousness and thats personal. It is out of a personal relationship with our Father in Heaven. Hezekiah was appealing as a child would his father. Daddy you know I only do what is pleasing to you Yes son then daddy take this from me your faithful child. All sin and unrighteousness will hinder prayer, but Daddy is not looking for our prayer, He will even forgive our sin and correct our unrighteosness. What he is looking for is a pure heart that loves him and seeks him. Jesus said if you love me you will keep my commandments. Love not Law.

Witout true recognition of oru allmighty father it is not possible to give him all glory, praise and adoration. Look to the hills from whence our help cometh. Our prayers must be directed to the one true God, and this recognition refocuses the prayer towards him who is able to answer his prayers. It also appeals to the nature of God as we acknowledge hi in all his fullness. Our Intimate knowledge of him revealed through our appeals

As we had seen in other studies Moses had appealed to our fathers nature regarding how it would look if he destroyed his people, this time it was in the hands of the enemy. Out of the book Of Job we can see that our enemy has no power over us except that the father gives it. We can all agree that the battle is the Lords,but Ephesians tells us that we are in the battle too. So we must seek the Lord with all our Hearts for if God before us who can be against us. The offence was against our God ,The focus was agaist Hezekiah;the victory will be combind.

Giving is a form of worship as is praise and adoration. They all come from a heart of thanksgiving and appreciation. Songs can be sung and not ment as many people do. Giving without reward or expectation is one of the most purest forms of worhip and religion.

Our father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name. the song Oh Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder, consider all the the things thy hands have made. I see the stars,I hear the roaring thunder; thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul my saviour God to thee , How great thou art.

In order to lift some one up you must place yourself at their service. our focus is totally off our selves and absolutely on that whom we are lfting up so this is very pleasing to our father. We acknowledge our purpose and secure our position as he gives grace to the humble.

Prayer is not just about giving a wish list. Acknowledgement of Our Father for Who he is and what he has done reveals our gratitude and reliance. Our praise will bless Him when it is given out of a grateful heart and not a duty or a format. Too often i hear formatted prayer and feel that God cannot be please with them. In the old testament the insence of burning flesh was pleasing to the Lord and now it is when our hearts are on fire and burn with passion for him. Absolutely sold out and in love we can worship him,praise him and bless as our word flow from our hearts.

Godly sorrow worketh repentance. There is a connection with God as we allow our selves to be broken before God. He resisteth the proud and gives grace to the humble,If we who are called by his name will humble our selves and pray ,repent and turn from our wicked ways he will heal our land. Many times I have had to combat pride in order to break into a truley contrite heart. Pride would say things like come on you big cry baby you are just feeling sorry for yourself. Yet when overcome a freshness and renewal occured in my heart.

blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God. Yes we can have a pure heart. Create in me a clean heart. God is the only one who can clean the heart of a man. He that searches the heart knows what is the mind of the spirit The Holy spirit has a very real part in the regeneration of our hearts,he convicts of sin and our part is to repent. We also are told to protect our hearts for it is the well spring of life. Rejoice in the Lord always and be careful for nothing, but put everything in prayer and supplication and the peace of God will keep your hearts and mind.

Only when we are totally honest with our selves ( to thine own self be true) are we able to be honest with God and be truley repentant. To exagerate or belittle would be less than honest and therefore would be treated with contempt. Honesty is as much a part of holiness as is piety.

No ritual or formula or program will ever be able to deliver or release us from our sin.The 1st cammand is to love God with all our heart,strength and understanding. This is a total and absolute requirement to be in relationship with him. So faith is not in letter or word ,Our Confidence is in the nature and character of God who does not lie and will do what he say's he will. It can only be by the power of his Holy Spirit who leads us into all truth and convicts us of our sin, that we will hear the word of God and receive the faith we need. Even faith is a gift from his love toward us and is developed out of an intimate relationship with him.

Abrahan continued to enquire with God how far he was willing to go. And even as he was answered continued to seek more for the answer he wanted which would give Lot his salvation. I was having much difficulty dealing with some character weakness with my new wife who was also a new Christian at the time. I was daily and constantly before God pleading for him to reveal to her the need to change some of those bad habits . Funny thing was He instructed me to place a mirror in my prayer room. As I did this he them showed me as I looked at myself, that I was the one who needed to change. I repented and was absolutely humbled in my prayertime that day. As I walked inside to my wife Who was waiting for the fight (verbal),all I could do was seek her forgiveness and confess my Faults. This absolutley flawed her not being accustomed to this behavior from her previous partners,she was humbled knowing that the problem was her fault and was changed from then on.

Abraham was bold not only in his request but in his questioning of God. So God just how far will you go? No man can see God Face to face and live yet here we see Abraham having a face to face with God. His continued life ,the salvation of lot and the fulfilled promises of God are signs of God's approval, so the anwer is a great big yes.

From dust we came and dust we will become again. We exist because he has called it to be so, and by his voice we will become as dust again. One has to have absolute reverence for Him, whose voice commands life and death. From this prospective we then are much more able to acknowledge the Grace that God has given us that we are able to approach him at all. God resists the proud, so humility is essential for an intersessor. (anyone who stands in the gap in prayer ) Seek 1st the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness

This is a very special moment as few people have stood face to facewith God and lived,so here we are able to witness a very special relationship. Abraham was absolutely aware of God's righteousness. Not from stories or scrolls but out of his interaction with him. In this conversation we see God reveal his righteousness and his love for all things righteous.We also see an aproachable God who is Willing to consider the request of the righteous Abraham. We also see mercy and grace towards Lot and family.

When God looked at the world in the days of Noah his heart repented at the state of mankind and he was moved to destroy the inhabitants except for Noah and kin. God can change his mind, the how/who he does things can be different yet still remain in his will. If God wills then it will be so . So yes we must pray according to his will.We can also pray that it be his will and appeal to his character and word. Permissible will and express will have different bounderies and love is without boundry. If God answers prayer it will be his will anyway.

If all was predestined prayer would be limited to praise and worship. The effectual ferverent prayer availeth much. Gutsy prayer can change the heart of God.God's will willbe done and we cannot change that .But we can influence the way it is actioned when it is passionatley presented to him with all prayer and supplication,interceding on behalf of those concerned.

we need to pray accordin to God's will. When we pray his word and promises to those who have gone before us we acknowledge that we are under those same promises as God's words and covenants are everlasting. We also need to remind ourselves of God's character, this remebereance will produce the boldness we need to lay claim to those very promises. It's our intimacy with the Lord that reveal our relationship with Him. The prayers prayed with his word and will will always get peferential treatment over the words and will of man. Jesus said the things I do ,I do because i have seen My father doing them. So we too must see the Father doing them and this by what he has said and done with other as written in the Bible.

The focus of the people was on the man and not on the Lord. Even though they had witnessed many great miracles they still had hearts that were hard and far from loving God,they still looked for the man not God. Aaron the Preist of God was left in charge and he should have lead these people into righteousness. Instead he compromised and attempted to make a representation of Yaweh. This form moulded of the gold taken from Egypt showed that the people had religious hearts relying on the former ways to identify with God. No matter how we can try to represent God using our own resources we will always come up short.No image we could create would ever give God the praise he is due. This also shows how that years of living in slavery as egyptians were not going to fall away as if by some miracle.

We ask not only for our selves but for others also "father forgive them for they know not what they do". So we need to come daily with hearts of repentance and full of grace and mercy. Love in action. Unforgiveness is like a binding chain keeping us in bondage to those whom we don't forgive. It is a cornerstone for building resentment,a stronghold for the critical spirit.It can lead to judgement and result in condemnation. Give no room for the Devil Forgiveness brings freedom and healing,It also reveals love and humility. We were created in God's image and need to emulate his nature consistantly reveal God in us.

Independance can be given another name self reliance. a most dangerous aliance with our own strenths and abilities. Praying for daily bread is not only essential as it allows God's provision in our lives. It is an attitude which recognises that God alone has what we need to be sustained. Even though we may gather through the works of our own hands it is out of partnership An interdependance with him who provides in order for us to gather. Every day we need to submit our ego, our pride and God given abilities to acknowledge that he is El Shaddi,Jehovah Jireh,our daddy who loves and provides.

Jesus said that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink but Joy and peace in the Holy Ghost.He also said that the kingdom of God is at hand. A man cannot see or enter the kingdom of God unless he is born again. Praying for God's kingdom to come is not limited to some coming event but for now. I am absolutely confident that his kingdom is all around and about us now.So in praying this my expectation would be for people to look beyond what they can see and allow God's rulership in our lives to be as though we have been placed in heaven. His will be done reminds me of the scripture that we have before us blessing and cursing,life and death;God's will is that we would choose life. so praying for his will to be done iis not a request for his intervention. It is a request for the aid and leadership of the Holy Spirit and our submission to his leading in order that the choice we make be the will of God.

As God's name is set high above all of creation we must accept and acknowledge it in all it's glory. His character is revealed in his name and so is our relationship revealed by our use of it. When our appeals and supplications are made to him through his many names we acknowledge him in all of his splender. Father:Iam your son, Lord :I am your servant, Redeemer I need Saving,ect. God is not seeking copycat prayers like the pagans using a pattern or formula,he is looking for hearts that are seeking and find their trust and hope in the relationship with in all his Glory.