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The Prayer of Faith, Part 2 (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #166)

November 1, 2011 in Prayer Motivator Devotionals with 0 Comments

Prayer Motivator Devotional Broadcast #166

Our prayer motivator verse from the Word of God today is Colossians 4:2 which reads: “Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.”

Our prayer motivator quote today is from Paul E. Billheimer. He said: “Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.”

Our prayer motivator devotional today is part 2 of our series titled “THE PRAYER OF FAITH” from Dr. John R. Rice.

Dr. Rice begins by quoting Dr. R.A. Torrey, who said:

The Holy Spirit is the One who does the healing, if it really is divine healing. In Romans 8:11 we read, “But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies thru his Spirit that dwelleth in you.” Now, as the text itself and the context clearly prove, that verse refers to the future resurrection of our body by the Holy Spirit, and not to our present healing, but, nevertheless, it shows the quickening; that is, life giving, power of the Holy Spirit in our physical bodies.”

Dr. Rice continues with: Now this passage in James says in verse 13, “Is any among you afflicted? Let him pray.” There is prayer for the sick without anointing with oil. And again in verse 16, “Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed.” There is mutual prayer of Christians for one another, without anointing of oil; yet it is prayer for healing. But verse 14 suggests, “Is any sick among you, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.” The anointing with oil is proper under some circumstances; but it is not the oil that heals. Neither is the oil essential. It is the prayer of faith that saves.

The twelve disciples sometimes anointed with oil. In Mark 6:13 we are told, “And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.” However, in many, many other cases of healing in the New Testament there is no mention of healing with oil.

Anointing with oil is sometimes a help to our faith. It reminds us that the Spirit of God dwells in the body of the sick Christian. Thus, to do just what the Scripture suggests by anointing the sick with oil, we are encouraged to expect His blessing; and we make it more real to ourselves that God has invited us to pray for the healing of the sick.

But whether we use oil or not, it is the prayer of faith that saves the sick. In the Bible there is no mention of anybody’s anointing with oil except elders of the churches. But any Christian has a right to pray for his own healing or for the healing of a friend or loved one.

+ Plus, listen to Lecrae singing “Praying for You”

Prayer for the Sick is Appropriate for Today as it Was In Biblical Times, Part 2 (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #164)

October 28, 2011 in Prayer Motivator Devotionals with 0 Comments

Prayer Motivator Devotional Broadcast #164

Our prayer motivator verse from the Word of God today is Ephesians 6:18 which reads: “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”

Our prayer motivator quote today is from Samuel Chadwick He said: “There is no power like that of prevailing prayer, of Abraham pleading for Sodom, Jacob wrestling in the stillness of the night, Moses standing in the breach, Hannah intoxicated with sorrow, David heartbroken with remorse and grief, Jesus in sweat of blood. Add to this list from the records of the church your personal observation and experience, and always there is the cost of passion unto blood. Such prayer prevails. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.”

Our prayer motivator devotional today is part 2 of our series titled “PRAYER FOR THE SICK IS APPROPRIATE FOR TODAY AS IT WAS IN BIBLICAL TIMES” from Dr. John R. Rice. Dr. Rice said…

Some ultra-dispensationalists say that the book of James was primarily to Jewish believers and not to Gentile Christians. Even the Scofield Reference Bible has a subhead before Hebrews, James, I and II Peter and Jude, calling them “the Jewish-Christian Epistles,” as if they were essentially different from the rest of the New Testament. But this is not true. It is true that James addresses his epistle “to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad.” But that was when the only Christians scattered abroad were Jewish Christians. James was probably the first epistle written in the New Testament and was written to all those who were Christians. But it is also true that the book of Galatians was addressed “unto the churches of Galatia,” and that Romans was addressed “to all that be at Rome.” And no one doubts that they are messages for us, the spiritual successors of the Christians in that day.

But fortunately we do not have to guess as to whom the Holy Spirit meant to address in these writings. Notice in James 5:14 that it is elders who are to be called to pray, not a rabbi; elders of the church, and not rulers of the synagogue. This is a message to Christians in churches, and not to Jews in synagogues. And notice particularly James 5:3, “Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.”

James, chapter 5, is fitting for the last days. Verse 7 says, “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord,” This epistle of James, the last chapter particularly, is fitted for the days just preceding the Lord’s return.

Again in verse 8 we are told, “Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.”

And again, verse 9 in this same fifth chapter of James says, “Behold, the judge standeth before the door.”

So in this chapter, at least four times, the last days and the second coming of Christ are mentioned. It could not be clearer than it is, that the Lord meant these blessed commands and promises about praying for the healing of the sick to be claimed in these last days, when the coming of the Lord draws nigh, and when the Judge stands at the door. Do not let anyone take away from you the book of James — it belongs to Christians of this age.

+ Plus, listen to Jessy Dixon singing “I Know What Prayer Can Do”

Prayer for the Sick is Appropriate for Today as it Was In Biblical Times, Part 1 (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #163)

October 27, 2011 in Prayer Motivator Devotionals with 0 Comments

Prayer Motivator Devotional Broadcast #163

Our prayer motivator verse from the Word of God today is Psalm 4:1 which reads: “Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.”

Our prayer motivator quote today is from Robert Murray M’Cheyne. He said, “I ought to pray before seeing anyone…Christ arose before day and went into a solitary place. David says: ‘Early will I seek thee’…I feel it is far better to begin with God—to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.”

Our prayer motivator devotional today is part 1 of our series titled “PRAYER FOR THE SICK IS APPROPRIATE FOR TODAY AS IT WAS IN BIBLICAL TIMES” from Dr. John R. Rice.

+ Plus, listen to CeCe Winans singing “Anybody Wanna Pray”

Encouragement to Pray for Your Healing and for the Healing of Others, Part 5 (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #162)

October 26, 2011 in Prayer Motivator Devotionals with 0 Comments

Prayer Motivator Devotional Broadcast #162

Our prayer motivator verse from the Word of God today is 1 Corinthians 14:15 which reads: “What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also.”

Our prayer motivator quote today is from S.D. Gordon. He said: “Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.”

Our prayer motivator devotional today is our 5th and final in our series titled “ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAY FOR YOUR HEALING AND FOR THE HEALING OF OTHERS” from Dr. John R. Rice. Dr. Rice said…

Once in a church prayer meeting, in Dallas, Texas, we had many testimonies of remarkable answers to prayer for healing of the body. Some had been healed after spending hundreds of dollars on hospital and doctor bills and after long weeks of suffering. Some had been healed who had been given up by good doctors to die. The testimonies were blessed.

At the close of the testimony meeting, a dear old Christian lady rose and said, “Brother Rice, if the time ever comes when I am sick and the doctors can’t help me, and when medicine doesn’t do any good, I’m going to call on you and this church to pray for me!”

How like the rest of us that is! We call on God when other things have failed. How glad He would be if we called on Him first; then, as He directs, we can use medicine and doctors as He leads, and give God the glory when He heals. Or if He gives faith for healing without doctors and medicine, we can take the blessing He gives and thank Him for it. Christians ought to look first to God in every trouble and in every need. So when we Christians are sick, we should pray, and others should pray for us.

No doubt there are many Christians who are sick who ought to be well, and would be if they came in Jesus’ name to God in prayer according to the scriptural plan. It is not always God’s will to heal the sick, we know; but usually it is His blessed will, and certainly always we should pray. In those cases where it is not God’s will to heal the sick, He will make His will known to humble and surrendered hearts. Meantime, whenever we are sick, let us pray.

Encouragement to Pray for Your Healing and for the Healing of Others, Part 3 (The Prayer Motivator Devotional #160)

October 24, 2011 in Prayer Motivator Devotionals with 0 Comments

Prayer Motivator Devotional Broadcast #160

Our prayer motivator verse from the Word of God today is Luke 18:1 which reads: “And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.”

Our prayer motivator quote today is from John Laidlaw. He said: “The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray. My answer is pray and never faint, and then you shall never fail.”

Our prayer motivator devotional today is part 3 of our series titled “ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAY FOR YOUR HEALING AND FOR THE HEALING OF OTHERS” from Dr. John R. Rice. Dr. Rice said…

Sickness is evidently the attack of Satan. Job’s sickness was brought on by the direct attack of Satan. Jesus healed one woman whom, He said, “Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years.” And then of Paul’s thorn in the flesh, we are told it was a “messenger of Satan”. Sickness and disease come from Satan. God permits them as He permits sin and permits certain results of sin. And often God overrules sickness to His own glory. But generally, it is proper to say that sickness is from Satan.

And thus, may not God’s own children call on their Heavenly Father to help them in the attack of Satan on their bodies? Surely, the very nature of sickness means that we ought to pray about it and have a perfect right to pray about the healing of our bodies.

And even better is the sweet thought that God is our Heavenly Father. He has an infinite compassion for us. As Jesus Himself went about doing good and was moved with compassion by the sickness and the sorrows of the people, so He has compassion upon us now, and our dear Heavenly Father has loving compassion upon His children. Psalm 103:13 tells us, “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.”

If there were not a line in the Bible upon which to base our hope except this — that God is our Heavenly Father and we are His dear children, redeemed at infinite cost — then surely that alone would give us a right to look up in His face and tell Him of our woes and ask Him for help in our sufferings and sicknesses. Jesus said in Matthew 7:11, “If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?” The relief from pain, the healing of disease, the strength for our daily tasks — surely in many, many cases at least, these are good things for which we have a right to ask our Heavenly Father. His love and compassion are enough to guarantee that He is concerned about our sickness. Sickness is a proper subject for prayer.

+ Plus, listen to Daniel White Jr. singing “Prayer”

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