If you lose in praying, you lose in everything!
기도에 패하면 모든 것에 패한다 (최대복목사)(번역: 이건무 목사/ All Nations Church of God in New Jergy)
Spiritual Secret of Prayer:
If you are victorious in praying, you may win in everything!
- The number one on the hit list of the devil includes servants and Churches who pray and repent. Why? When you pray and repent, you will be filled with the Holy Spirit, and to you not only the spiritual secrets will be opened but also the conspiracy and identity of demons will be revealed. As a result, the works of devil using his soldiers are seriously damaged: The demons are kicked out from their positions where the devil and demons have worked very hard for
building their fortress.
- Without prayers, NO repentance can be done. Repentance is achieved through praying. So praying is the staircase that leads us to heaven. Breaking the ropes of prayers of servants and Churches is the number one tactics of the devil for destroying the kingdom of God. If you have negative attitude for repentance and you do not feel like to pray for repentance, you already are attacked by the devil: Your rope of prayers is already damaged or your rope is already in a process of being damaged. Check your rope of prayer and repent!
- However one is highly experienced or has superb theological knowledge, he/she will be destroyed when he/she let go of the rope of prayers. The rope of prayer is the connection of a branch to the Vine tree; through which every life giving sap is delivered from the Lord. This supply line of life has to be maintained healthy and undamaged! This is why this rope of prayer is the prime target of the devil.
- The one who let go of the rope of prayers CANNOT have assurance of salvation. Our Lord wraps those who pray and repent with the bundle of life. Ones who ardently desire intimate relationship with the Lord are not only protected by the Lord but also fortified by the Lord Jesus by sending holy angels. Such people or Church is invincible fortresses of the Lord. - Are you letting go of the rope of prayers? It is a suicidal act. If you do, you can’t be sure of your faith and life (salvation). Praying is breathing of your soul. How can a soul live without breathing? You may look like living but dead. You are already in or beyond the mouth of the devouring lion, the devil.
- The Lord leads to repentance when one prays without ceasing even though one’s life is threatened. (The Lord also protects intercessors that not only pray for themselves but also pray for others.) Ones who willfully live wonton life and abandon the place of prayers will not be given the chance of repentance so they will fall to hell, because the devil constantly request them as his soul before the Lord. The devil knows this very well, so he tries his best to entice people to stop from praying and repenting. Once you let go of the rope of prayers, your heart/mind becomes dull, corrupt, and easily commits sins, from the moment you stop praying, because the devil sends waves of worldliness (demons those are highly specialized for your fall) into you to destroy.
- Intellectual people who do not pray are beyond the targets but apt instrument of the devil. They are good in developing doctrines or theories: Some are very much like truth so believers may confuse, others are very different from truth. The latter will cause fear in believer’s mind and eventually generate doubts. These people usually are highly educated and prominent figures in Churches, so that their voice has strong influence in faith community. A good example is Saul before he repented. Calvin and Augustine also are excellent examples. The devil attacks theological seminaries first in order to contaminate Christian leaders through education and training. We need a lot more prayers and repentance and intercessor for others
. - When you let go of the rope of prayers, you may interpret the Bible scriptures by mere knowledge (not by the Holy Spirit), you may even be arrested by stronger deception of the devil. You may learn and study to become an enemy of God and an instrument of the devil, and simply lose the chance to repent
. - if you miss the place of prayers once or twice, you cannot meet the Lord on your knees and may meet Him with knowledge like Pharisees. Knowledge makes people arrogant and judgmental and become extremely legalistic. Those who bend their knees before the Lord can meet Him with heart which is repented and not hardened. They can bear the yoke of the Lord who is humble, gentle and meek
. - The Holy Spirit, who avails all things, reveals, leads, and discerns all things to those who pray and repent. One cannot receive the Holy Spirit except repented, and cannot repent unless one is availed by the Holy Spirit: So repentance is God’s grace! If one is not filled with the Holy Spirit, he/she is not a Christian, because he/she may have been filled with demons. The person’s body is no longer a temple of God, but a temple of the devil. If it lasts longer the devil will request the body as his property, if the Lord let the person go, he/she will go down to hell. (1 Cor 3:16-17) - Why do pastors of mega churches corrupt? All of them prayed very much when they began their ministries, but when their churches grew big and their lives became busy, they somehow let go of their ropes of prayers. When the congregation grew big, the Church needs much more prayers than when the congregation was small. A pastor has to train the congregation as prayer worriers, and make sure individuals develop own ropes of prayer for their lifeline. Then the congregation may engage into prayer ministry for intercessory, as a praying and repenting congregation. The pastor may train each household and family as prayer worriers. The devil makes that a pastor busier and busier in his ministries, and the pastor eventually cut his prayer time. It is all the result of the devil’s conspiracy and traps. Try to be Mary, not Martha, if you want to hear the voice of the Lord Jesus.
- When you let go of the rope of prayers, you not only cannot resist the temptations of the world, but also you cannot resist and overcome tribulations and persecution, and it is impossible to die for your Lord Jesus. Do you know how fearful and dreadful any tribulation and persecution can be to those who do not pray and repent? It is NOW to start investing with praying and repenting for our death to be like Stephan’s. The time is coming when believers are hated by all nations because of the name of Jesus as prophesied by Jesus.
- You may be like Peter in the night when Jesus was arrested, if you do not pray and repent. Remember Peter who even sworn that he would die for Jesus. Peter denied three times soon after he sworn before the Lord. Do you know why? One of the reasons is that he was sleeping in the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus asked him praying. Our Lord Jesus drank the cup of the cross by praying. Praying is the only way to make your swear come true. - Without praying no demons can be cast out, and without the Holy Spirit nothing can be established.
- Satan is developing this world where praying and repenting are even harder and harder. People start working from earlier and earlier in the morning to later and later time in the evening, and employers demand their employees to work even in the weekends. We see there are more exciting and attractive things going on for our scarce leisure times. All these are easily eating up people’s time for prayers. It is all Satan’s plan in action for stopping prayers and repentance in people’s life
. - Is there any room for Jesus in modern Christian’s minds which are carried away by or drenched in diverse worldly culture including internet and sinful excitements? It is Satan’s strategy to drive God’s people - particularly the younger generation - into spiritual fornication and adultery.
- Every prayer has to include repentance! Why don’t we have answers to our prayers? It is because we are just asking and not repenting. Prayers lacking repentance not only are not answered but also cannot lead us into fullness of the Spirit, and expose us before temptations and deception of the devil without any defense. We have to repent before any prayers and pleas which are our precious investment of time and effort in our lives. Repent every moment and every day as if we wash our hands and feet.
- All the spiritual truth and teachings have to be embraced in our hearts through prayers, in order to endure and victorious to the end. If you do this, the devil won’t be quiet and silent, because you are slipping out of the trap and snare of the devil, and you are going to heaven by holding the truth. Any Christian who prays and repents can easily be harassed and intimidated before long by those who are not praying and repenting, because the devil uses them as his instruments to attack God’s people. Christians who pray and repent need extra protection from the Lord such as daily assurance of the Holy Spirit available through prayers and repentance ONLY.
- Those praying and repenting Christians are protected by the Lord through the gift of being strong and bold so that they withstand MAN and the World without any fear. They shall live this life with goals of going to heaven and preaching repentance toward those dying souls with shouts. Believers should shout the gospel of Jesus! - Before asking any gifts and powers, ask gift of love, in which all kinds of gifts and powers are included. If you pray in love, for example, sick will be healed and demons will be cast out, because you love the inflicted soul. If you pray in love, you will get answers fast. Seek love above all, so you won’t be corrupt, unrighteous, and unlawful. Heaven will be granted to those who seek love every day. God is love and heaven is full of love. Anything we do without love is lawlessness and anything we do without faith is sin! Glory to our Lord only!