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The Benefits of Hearing God

DAY 38 – March 18thhearing-from-god-series-randy-willis-photosScriptures: Proverbs 3:5-6; John 6:45

 

God has promised to guide us if we listen. He tells us not to listen to our own understanding but to acknowledge Him in all our ways. If you do what he says, He “will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:6). God wants to guide you because he knows what is best for us in every situation.

 

Things go right when we listen. When David inquired of the Lord, listened to His response and executed the detailed battle plans God gave him he won great victories over his enemies. (2 Samuel 5:17-25) That things go right when we listen, does not mean they are always easy .When Jesus submitted to the will of the Father in Gethsemane it surely wasn’t easy. It took Him to the cross. But it was right; and it lead to the defeat of Satan and the salvation of the world.

 

Listening leads us to Christ himself. Jesus said,” Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from Him come to me”. John 6:45. When the Father speaks He directs us to His Son because all the answers to life’s questions are found in Him.

The greatest benefit of listening to God is that we are directed by the Father to the Son and to the life He gives. Without His leading life is impossible. With His leading life is full of purpose, provision, and His presence.

 

Pray:

  • Ask God to give you a keen sense of your need for His guidance and the ability to hear his voice.
  • Pray that fathers will look to God as the ultimate spiritual head of their household, and serve their families by carrying responsibility for the physical, emotional and spiritual well being of their wives. Pray that God will instill a vision of wholesome, supportive, fatherhood to all fathers.
  • Pray for single people. Pray that Christ will protect them; that friendships and church fellowships bring ample fullness of healthy relationship; for wisdom to choose sexual purity and holy lifestyles; for marriage.
  • Pray for broken families. Pray for the healing of broken or embittered hearts. Pray for the children of such homes.
  • Pray for the Sunday School Ministry.

 

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DAY 39 – March 19th – Is That Really You God?

Scriptures:   John 10:2-5;   John 10:27: Psalm 23

 

The biggest problem in hearing God’s voice is knowing for sure that it is His voice that we hear. Maybe we are only hearing self-talk. Could it be just our imagination? Jesus says, “listen to (the shepherd’s) voice…his sheep follow him because they know his voice. They will never follow a stranger…because they do not recognize his voice”. (John 10:2-5) Jesus is the Shepherd. Believers are the sheep. Believers will listen to and recognize the voice of the Shepherd. They will also know that certain voices are not his and will flee from them.

 

The best way to get to know Him and His voice is to spend time with God. As Pastor Littlejohn has stressed we must have a personal relationship with Jesus. The more time that we spend with him the better we will know Him. As we come to know His ways, words and will through the Word of God and by the Spirit, and spending time with Jesus we will also come to know what his voice sounds like. “We want to have confident communication with the Lord by being in fellowship with Christ such that we know who we are talking to, know what we are talking about through Jesus’ Word, as a result of a relationship with Him”, Pastor Littlejohn explained on Sunday March 6, 2016.

 

Pray:

  • Thank God for revealing Himself through his Word and by His Spirit-the Spirit of Revelation.(Ephesians 1:7)
  • Thank Him for guiding you, protecting you and keeping you from harm.
  • Confess to the Shepherd if you have listened to other voices and followed their leadings and ask for forgiveness.
  • Ask the Shepherd to help you hear His voice, to follow His lead, and to spurn those who would lead you in the wrong way.
  • Ask God for an ear to hear (Revelation 2:7) and to teach you to hear better.

.Linda Fegins, The Prayer Leader Linda Fegins, “The Prayer Leader” serves as prayer leader and teacher/trainer on the “Prayer Boot Camp” with the Global Missions Prayer Force and as a guest intercessor and volunteer for Girlfriends Pray a global prayer ministry. She served as Prayer Coordinator for over 13 years( later Director over the Prayer Ministry) for the Lydia Circle Christian Business and Professional Women. As part of the Lydia Circle she has lead over twenty prayer boot camps, and has lead prayer services and workshops in the Bahamas and in South Africa. She served on the prayer team of a medical mission trip to Jamaica under the leadership of Rev. Jackie McCullough. She also serves as the Prayer Leader for her church’s Intercessory Prayer Ministry.

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Rise Spiritually: Obey His Voice

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Can you believe it? This is the Day 33 of the 40 Day Prayer Journey.Thank you for joining the 40 Day Prayer Journey. Begin right where you are and go back and start at the beginning at a later day. Hopefully you are examining your conduct and walk with the Lord , your prayer life and your study of the Word. Read the scriptures listed under the daily prayer focus. Answer the questions in your journal if there are any for the day and write your reflections. Meditate on the Word each day. Daily pray the prayer points for the day. Make an entry in your journal each day as lead by the Holy Spirit. Make sure you complete the “Spiritual Rise Act”. Go to the first day February 18 if you want to review the earlier statements about the purpose of this daily prayer journey to encourage each of us to rise spiritually.

DAY 33 – March 22 Seeking to Rise Spiritually Listen to and Obey His Voice
Scriptures: Psalm 81: 8-16; John 10:22-30

Pray:
• Seek the Lord for you to come to a place of being quiet before the Lord, expecting to hear what He has to speak to you.
• Pray for the grace to walk in humble obedience to His voice.
• Pray for ears to hear from the Lord through the pastor, teacher or through whatever way He has chosen to speak to and through His children.
• Pray for your relationship with a family member. Pray that the Lord will bring healing, reconciliation and restoration where it is needed.
• Pray for any relationship you may have with people who do not know the Lord. Pray for words to say that will turn their hearts to Jesus. Specifically, pray for ______ who has turned his/her heart from God.
• Pray for new hearts for ministry in all of the leaders. See Ezekiel 18:31

Spiritual Rise Check Up- Write responses in a journal or notebook

How do you think God feels when we don’t take the time to or put forth the effort to listen to Him?
 Can you think of a time when God spoke to you personally through the scriptures? By His Spirit to your spirit? Through circumstances?

Spiritual Rise Act

Learn to spend time each day quietly listening for God’s voice. Invite Him to bring thoughts to your mind from the Word or through the His Spirit. Test what you “hear” by the written Word of God.

Linda Fegins “The Prayer Leader” ldfaygo@gmail.com

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Repentance, Prayer and Exalt 40 Day Prayer Journey

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Day 36 to 39 40 Day Prayer Journey to Life Transformation

Repent. Pray. Listen. Exalt His Name.

DAY 36 – March 19 Live a Life of Repentance
40 Day Prayer Journey to Life Transformation

We are continuing to press on in these 40 Days of repentance and prayer to seek the Lord and for true transformation to occur. We must draw near to God. God can do great things in you and the body of Christ when we individually and corporately seek God’s face, hear his voice and obey His ways. During these last five days let us humble ourselves and pray, seek His face and turn from our wicked ways that He will hear our cry from heaven, forgive our sins and heal our land. (2 Chron. 7:14).

Scriptures: 2 Chronicles 7:12-22, 29:3-19; Jeremiah 4:1-18; Joel 2:12-32; Matthew 3:2; Acts 2:38-29

Repent: Of not humbly repenting and consistently turning toward the Lord; of resisting God’s call to humility and repentance of pride or hardness of heart; of _____________________.

Pray:

• For forgiveness and a fresh impartation of God’s grace to live a life of humility and repentance.
• Pray that you will be filled with a spirit of humility and repentance, turning form your ways of the world and toward the Lord.
• Pray that your church will be filled with a spirit of humility and repentance, turning form your ways of the world and toward the Lord.
• That the number of believers following the ways of humility and repentance would increase.
• That the promise of revival will be poured out upon the people of God as we seek His face, repent and walk in His ways.
• That the grace of God will impact the world through us as we follow Him in humble obedience. discover ways of serving our communities that will soften the hearts of unbelievers to the gospel of love, life and truth;
• To be clothed in humility in order to serve out of the love Christ has bestowed upon us.
• That our service in love will lead many to salvation to the glory of God.

DAY 37 – March 20 Live a Life of Prayer and Intercession
40 Day Prayer Journey to Life Transformation

We are continuing to press on in these 40 Days of repentance and prayer to seek the Lord and for true transformation to occur. As these 40 days of repentance, fasting and prayer draw to an end, we must make a commitment and set our minds to press onward to consistently seek the Lord in prayer and worship and to intercede for your city, family , nation and others.

Scriptures: 1 Samuel 12:20-25; Isaiah 56, 62; Romans 8:26-30; Ephesians 6:10-18; Philippians 4:4-9

Repent: Of failing to pray or growing weary or sluggish in preserving in prayer; of failing to watch and pray as watchmen on the wall of our city; of not yielding to the Holy Spirit who makes intercession through us; of not pursuing God on behalf of your city, the nations and household salvation: of________________________________________________.

Pray:

• Ask that prayer and intercession will increase in purity, passion and power throughout your life.
• Ask that prayer and intercession will increase in purity, passion and power throughout your city.
• Pray for those called to mobilize, lead, and encourage others in prayer will be raised up, trained and equipped throughout the church and city.
• That a manifestation of the Spirit of God with the baptism of the Holy Spirit would come upon every prayer meeting in the city, bringing forth prayers that are in agreement with Jesus Christ and pleasing to the Father until He answers.
• That you will be transformed by the presence of Christ as we cry out in humble and faith filled intercession.
• That our city will be transformed by the presence of Christ as we cry out in humble and faith filled intercession
• Pray for household salvation- those in your family. Pray for salvation for you community and city.
• Pray for the nations- Pray for your nation. Write the name of your nation.
• Pray for your city- Write the name of your city.

DAY 38 – March 21 Listening to His Voice
40 Day Prayer Journey to Life Transformation

We are continuing to press on in these 40 Days of repentance and prayer to seek the Lord and for true transformation to occur. Invite the Holy Spirit to search your heart and to reveal areas where you are not demonstrating love, compassion and serving others and you are not obeying God’s Word or hearing His voice. Seek to hear the voice of God and listen. Listen to His wisdom, guidance and instructions. Obey His voice.

Scriptures: Psalm 81: 8-16; Jeremiah 7 23:-27, 23-26; John 10:22-30

Repent: Of not heeding the voice of the Lord; of allowing fear, doubt or unbelief to hinder our willingness and ability to hear the voice of our God ; of hearing but not obeying His voice; of trusting the voice of others more than in the voice of the Lord; of__________________.

Pray:

• For forgiveness for assurance of being able to hear as God’s children the voice of the Lord,
• Intercede that you will find a place to be quiet and sit before the Lord, expecting to hear what He has to speak today.
• For grace to walk in humble obedience to hear His voice.
• For ears to hear from the Lord in the way He has chosen to speak to and through His children;
• That the church will have a deep desire to hear His voice as a corporate body

DAY 39– March 22 Exalt His Name
40 Day Prayer Journey to Life Transformation

We are continuing to press on in these 40 Days of repentance and prayer to seek the Lord and for true transformation to occur. Jesus has been with us on this journey through ups and downs, struggles to stay on course, to stretch out of our comfort zone and to grow in the Lord. Let us give Him the praise He deserves.

Scriptures: Exodus 15:1-2; Psalm 34:1-3; Psalm 99; Philippians 2:5-11

Repent: Of not magnifying and lifting high the name and person of Jesus Christ; of not participating in praise and worship of the Lord-personally and corporately; of not giving the Lord the honor that is due His name; of_____________________.

Pray:
• For forgiveness for not praising and honoring God as we should.
• That the spirit of true praise and worship will break out in the church.
• That you will faithfully magnify His name and give Him the honor and glory due Him.
• Praise God that He is the Exalted One; that His name is above every name, and that every knee will bow and tongue confess that Jesus is Christ is Lord.

Linda Fegins, The Prayer Leader

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