RCCG Open Heaven Daily 16 August 2024
TOPIC: Prayer Extinguishers (III)
READ: James 1:5-8 (KJV)
5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
MEMORISE
“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed”.
James 1:6
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR: Jeremiah 40-43
RCCG Open Heaven Daily 16 August 2024 MESSAGE
Today, I will conclude my discussion on some of the factors that can extinguish prayers. Some people get almost everything right in the place of prayer but miss out on just one thing – faith.
Today’s memory verse says that believers should always make their requests to God in faith without having any doubts in their hearts.
The next verse directly addresses anyone who makes requests from God without faith: For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord. James 1:7 When you pray without faith, that prayer is dead on arrival.
God requires that you have faith in Him when you ask Him for something. Luke 17:6 says that even if your faith is as little as a mustard seed, God will use it to move mountains on your behalf.
READ RCCG Open Heaven Daily Devotional 15 August 2024 – Prayer Extinguishers (II)
This is what we do when we ask God for things that we are not expecting Him to give to us.
When you come to God in faith, you come knowing without a doubt that what you have asked of Him is already done.
You bring your requests with thanksgiving (Philippians 4:6) because you know that your prayer has already been answered.
This is how to pray; it is the kind of prayer that God cannot ignore. Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is the evidence of things not seen.
In other words, when you have faith, even though you have not seen what you are asking for, you will be so sure that you have it that you can present it in court as evidence to any judge, telling them, “See what! have.”
For a long time, I tried by my own power to increase my faith, but it was difficult. Then, I read Mark 9:24, where a man cried to Jesus, saying that he believed but that Jesus should help his unbelief.
In minutes, what Jesus was asking him to believe in was done. I also started praying that God should help my faith, and I have seen my faith grow tremendously since then.
If you pray the same prayer, Jesus will give your faith a boost, and you will be able to overcome unbelief.
Prayer Point
Lord, I believe in you; please help my faith.
HYMN In Christ Alone
In Christ alone my hope is found,
He is my light, my strength, my song;
This Cornerstone, this solid Ground,
Firm through the fiercest drought and storm.
What heights of love, what depths of peace,
When fears are stilled, when strivings cease!
My Comforter, my All in All,
Here in the love of Christ I stand.
In Christ alone! – who took on flesh,
Fullness of God in helpless babe.
This gift of love and righteousness,
Scorned by the ones He came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied –
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.
There in the ground His body lay,
Light of the world by darkness slain:
Then bursting forth in glorious day
Up from the grave He rose again!
And as He stands in victory
Sin’s curse has lost its grip on me,
For I am His and He is mine –
Bought with the precious blood of Christ.
No guilt in life, no fear in death,
This is the power of Christ in me;
From life’s first cry to final breath,
Jesus commands my destiny.
No power of hell, no scheme of man,
Can ever pluck me from His hand:
Till He returns or calls me home,
Here in the power of Christ I’ll stand.
