Daniel was a person who was always praying, even at the risk of his life. Because he was such a praying person, the kings (Nebuchadnezzar, Darius, and Belteshazzar) spoke of him as “having an excellent spirit”. Daniel had an excellent spirit because he had an exercised spirit, a spirit that always prayed to His God. […]
A Proper Church is a Praying Church: We Need to First of All Pray!
This week we are getting into the matter of a praying church in the unique stream of God’s work. We are living at the end of this age, and our ministry as the church is to pray so that we may inflict damage and loss on Satan’s kingdom and we may bring in God’s kingdom. […]
Watch and Pray: Being on the Alert for the Maintaining of Our Prayer Life
![Watch and Pray: Being on the Alert for the Maintaining of Our Prayer Life [In the picture: Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak (Matt. 26:41)]](https://i0.wp.com/mail.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/matt26-41-watch-pray-not-enter-temptation1.jpg?fit=300%2C215&ssl=1)
There must be something about prayer that we need to watch with persistence in it, since both the Lord Jesus and Paul charges us to do so. At the end of Colossians and Ephesians, Paul encourages us to persevere in prayer and pray at every time in spirit – watching unto this in all perseverance (Eph. 6:18)! […]
Watching in Prayer with Thanksgiving and Having Prayer Companions
![Watching in Prayer with Thanksgiving and Having Prayer Companions [In the picture: The more we pray, the more we will have to pray, the more we will like to pray, and the more we will be able to pray; to be watchful helps us to build up a habit of prayer. ]](https://i0.wp.com/mail.agodman.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/the-more-we-pray-the-more-we-have-to-pray.jpg?fit=300%2C196&ssl=1)
How can we be kept in a prayer life day by day? Col. 4:2 tells us, Persevere in prayer, watching in it with thanksgiving. For us to persevere in prayer, we need to watch in it with thanksgiving. We need to give thanks to the Lord all the time! In this thankless and godless generation […]
in like manner the Spirit also joins in to help us, to intercede for us according to God
I was very touched by the verse in Rom. 8:26recently: Moreover, in like manner the Spirit also joins in to help us in our weakness, for we do not know for what we should pray as is fitting, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. We all have to […]