The Power of the Church
Jesus has given us the church as an instrument of instruction, guidance and protection.
Anything significant that happens in your life will be a result of God’s activity in your life.
The fuel, energy and life of the church is prayer.
Prayer is a relationship – not just an activity. It is designed more to adjust you to God than to adjust God to you.
God doesn’t need your prayers, but He wants you to pray because of what He wants to do in and through your life.
We often think of prayer as an outlet for expressing what we need – a cry to God for help.
But prayer is the asking of God to fulfill His needs through us.
God’s original thought is not the letting of believers to achieve their own aims through prayer, but God accomplishing His purpose through the prayers of believers.
God wants to meet our needs and will as it relates to His purpose.
Prayer is responding to God’s will since He seeks our cooperation with Him.
Isaiah 45:11
11Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and its Maker: Would you question Me about things to come concerning My children, and concerning the work of My hands [would you] command Me?
During the period called “time” all of God’s actions are governed by the church.
Today the church stands on earth as God’s vehicle for His will to be done. To the degree that we do His will, His power is released.
God is always waiting on the church to come into agreement with His will.
The church’s ministry today is the proclamation of the Gospel and the manifesting, on the earth, of the will which is in heaven.
