Prayer is not Magic!

Hello All:

Prayer is not magic; it’s miraculous. You see magic is the invoking of the supernatural through spells and charms, but miracles are acts of God. Do you still believe that God is in the “business” of performing miracles? If so, then you believe that God can do anything, that He can deliver you out of anything, and that He will see you through anything victoriously. And anything is anything which is all things. But God doesn’t “magically poofs” things into our lives (laps). Can He? I believe that God can do anything He wants, anything that we have need of or that we can think of. But that’s not how God operates when it comes to our prayers. God is moved by our faith; according to your faith (his/her) be it unto you. Our faith in God makes things happen. Just like the centurion, in Matthew 8, that came to Jesus and told him of his ill servant. Jesus was going to go and heal the centurion’s servant, but the centurion said all that Jesus had to do was say that his servant was healed and he would believe. In verse 13, Jesus told the centurion to go and it will be done just as you believe it would be. According to the centurion’s faith his servant’s healing was brought forth. The same can be done with us too. And it’s not just with healing, but in every area of our lives.

Also when we pray not only are we to believe that we can/will receive (releasing our faith), but our faith without works is dead so says the Word of God. I remember a woman came into the church needing a move of God in her body as well as her home. She hadn’t been to church in awhile, but we prayed for her, and told her to come to church; if not ours, then a church that is preaching the whole truth of God’s Word. Well Sunday after Sunday, Wednesday after Wednesday came and went, and we never saw her. I called to check on her and to encourage her, and I asked if she been to church; no, she hadn’t. A lot of times people begin to pray when things are going wrong, when they should have been confessing and praying even when things are going good. But they come for prayer thinking that the man/woman of God are going to pray some “magical” words of God, and that which they are needing will magically appear. But prayer isn’t magic, and faith without works is dead. She needed a moved of God, but wouldn’t even come to church. Some people can need a Word or a move of God yet they won’t come to church; they won’t search out God’s Word to see it has to say concerning their situation and speak it out of their mouths, or they won’t tithe (you are cursed with a curse), but they expect God to move on their behalf. When the man/woman of God prays and the persons needing the move or word prayers aren’t answered, then they want to blame the man/woman of God when the blame lies with them and them alone.

Prayer is not some charm or spells chanted to get God’s attention. It is a gateway to the throne room of God; it’s a way of communicating our requests to God, and an avenue to cultivate and maintain our relationship with Him. Through our relationship with Him, we become the righteousness of God; and being the righteousness of God; we can boldly enter the throne room of God and make our request(s) known.

The qualification for having your prayer answered is found in Psalms 91:
14 "Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation."

Those who love the Lord and acknowledge His name will have their prayers answered; and in loving and acknowledging Him, you will live for Him and keep all of His commandments. Prayer is not magic. Our prayers are answered as an act of God through love moved by our faith.

Did you put your armor on today?

Be Encouraged Today!

Don't Let the Devil Fool Ya!

Hello, Hello All:

It has been a minute since you've heard from me. Well if you don't know by now, our newest addition, Dorrien (check out pic), has arrived. He was 8lbs and 1 oz, at two (2) week check-up 9lbs, one (1) month check-up 12 1/2 lbs, and today for his two (2) month check-up 18 lbs and 2 oz (WOW)! Yes, he is a very healthy boy! I am so blessed to have two (2) wonderful, healthy and gorgeous babies. I love them so much even when they get on mommy's nerves. Last week Angie wasn't feeling to well, and she kept me up all night and all day (like I was the only parent in the house, but as it goes they always want momma - which is ok).

This brings me to my title of "Don't let the devil fool ya". If you are a parent, then you've most likely had a child/children that have been sick. They want you to hold them and comfort them, and yes they keep you up. This happened with my daughter. We had gone to visit my mom one Saturday, and she was fine while over there. She played with her cousins and had a good time. We made it home; she ate. Lo and behold around 1:45 AM (dark thirty as I call it), I woke up and heard check on Angie. So I checked on her and sure-nough she was hot. I checked her temperature, and gave her some Children's Tylenol and prayed for her. After a couple of hours, she finally went back to sleep, and yes you've guessed, my two (2) month old son woke and was ready to eat. I woke up with Angie again, and of course, the baby had to have another feeding. Well, I was tired and was thinking "Oh, today is Sunday (Church). So I began to hash over what I was gonna tell the pastor (Oh, don't act like I'm the only one). So I thought............ I'll tell the truth.......Angie is sick, and I need to stay home with her to make sure she gets better. It wasn't a lie. I heard that voice say "That's an excuse, can you not tarry with me for one (1) hour?" By this time church had already started; song service had been done, and it was time for the Word of the Lord to be brought forth. I told the Lord "Lord, I am tired". I know the Lord is not hard of hearing because Angie's the healed, but I also know that He's not blind which means He saw that I was up all night. In my confession time, I pray that God will bring back to my remembrance those that He has said, and God being the faithful God that He is did just that. I heard do not forsake the assembling of yourselves lest you see the day of the Lord Jesus approaching, and each day that passes is a day closer; this includes today. All I could do was just chuckle, and it's good to know that my Father God has a sense of humor.

The enemy will use any and everything to distract us from doing what we know God has called and instructed us to do. He instructed us to not forsake the assembling of ourselves, for those that don't get it He's saying GO TO CHURCH with other believers. The enemy almost deceived me into not going to church. I had a legitimate excuse for missing church. There would not have been anyone at church that would not have understood my absence from church that Sunday. I almost bought into that lie. I don't know about you, but when Shan prays, I expect for my Father to answer my prayers which means that when I prayed right then, Angie was healed. I could have let the devil fool me into staying home because "Angie was sick". If I had done that then I would have stopped the very thing that I had prayed for in the beginning which was for Angie to be healed. Oh don't stop reading now. So many times we let the enemy fool/deceive us when we ask the Father to answer a prayer or to do something for us. We let the devil weave little lies (seemingly truths) concerning our situation, and we negate the very thing that we ask God for, and then we wonder why we don't have the answer to our prayers. The enemy fool us so many times by weaving these lies, and we believe the report of the devil when we should be believing the report of the Lord. His report says that Angie is the healed, because our Lord Jesus has already paid the price for her healing. I pray by the stripes of Jesus that the Pirozzi are the healed, that we walk, live, breath, and move in the divine health and healing that He had come to give us. But I almost believed a lie which seemed to be truth or rather that I almost made the lie (of the enemy) the truth (that Angie was still sick); do you follow. We can either believe what the Lord says is truth, or we can believe what the devil has to say is truth. God has set before us life and death. He gave us a hint; He told us to choose life so that we may live (sickness can lead to death, so you figure that one out - it's easy). I did get up and went to church that Sunday because I heard the voice of the Lord, though it was humorous, I obeyed. I had texted the Asst. pastor and the pastor to "explain" why I was missing church (being disobedient to an instruction of the Lord and forsaking assembly with believers). Don't let the enemy fool you. We know that we should pray everyday, and read the Word of God everyday, but somehow we come up with "excuses" to why can't or why we have to postpone and read later, which sometime doesn't happened at all. I too am guilty sometimes of this; you know I will tell it on myself. But we can't afford to get lax; we can't afford to be ignorant of the enemy's devices. Don't be part of the elect that will be deceived by the enemy before the Lord returns. As a matter of fact we should pray that we will not be deceive, and therefore not a part of the elect (those who know the Word of God and choose to be lax or disobebient concerning the Word of God) that will be fooled by the devil.

Hey, do you hear that, do you hear that?.................................... It's the ticking of a clock. Time is running out. Be ever watchful for the day of the Lord is at hand. Search God's Word to see what His truths are, make them your truths so that you are not fooled/deceived by the enemy. The enemy roams about like a roaring lion seeking those he can devour. Don't let this be you! Lord, don't let this be me!

Did you put your armor on today????

Be Encouraged Today!