{"id":23228,"date":"2022-05-25T00:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T23:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/?p=23228"},"modified":"2022-05-25T12:56:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:56:10","slug":"never-stop-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/2022\/05\/25\/never-stop-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-23228-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May-25l.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May-25l.mp3\">http:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/May-25l.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Rom.8%3A26&amp;version=VOICE\">Romans 8:<sup>26<\/sup><\/a> \u201cA similar thing happens when we pray. We are weak and do not know how to pray, so the Spirit steps in and articulates prayers for us with groaning too profound for words.\u201d (Voice)<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">We began to explore the mysteries of prayer yesterday and the first is, <span class=\"s1\">Mysteriously It Seems That God Will Not Act Unless We Pray<\/span>. How can the creator of the Heavens and the earth be limited to the prayers of a mortal man?<!--more--> This is truly mysterious! <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/JAS.4.2\">James 4:<sup>2<\/sup><\/a> \u201c<i>You want what you don\u2019t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can\u2019t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet <\/i><span class=\"s1\"><i>you don\u2019t have what you want because you don\u2019t ask God for it<\/i><\/span>.\u201d Knowing that God is waiting on our prayer should fire us up to pray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Secondly, mysteriously even if God knows everything, <span class=\"s1\">He Still Wants Us To Ask About What He Already Knows<\/span>. Why would we tell God what He already knows? God already knows everything. Something is about to happen, God already knows but He wakes me up at three o\u2019clock in the morning and says, \u2018Pray, so that xyz thing will not happen.\u2019 \u2018Lord, You already know this thing and you have the power to stop it. Why disturb me from sleeping? Let me sleep and You do what You have to do.\u2019 But He will not let me sleep, \u2018You need to pray for person A and pray for person B.\u2019 \u2018If You already know and You are God, why do I need to pray?\u2019 Mysterious mystery of prayer! But by God\u2019s grace, we have learnt to just pray. Sometimes, while I am driving, God flashes the image of someone before me and says, \u2018Pray for this person.\u2019 I just pray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">However, the unschooled you will say, why do You, God need me to pray for You to do what You want to do? You already want to do it, so why do You need me to pray? It is mysterious! When we get to heaven, I will ask, but until then I will pray. <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/MAT.6.8\">Matt.6:<sup>8<\/sup><\/a> \u201c<i>Don\u2019t be like them, for your Father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him!<\/i>\u201d Again, the question is, if You already know what I need before I ask then why do I need to pray? <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/LUK.11.11-13\">Luke 11:<sup>11-13<\/sup> <\/a>\u201c<i>You fathers\u2014if your children ask for a fish, do you give them a snake instead? Or if they ask for an egg, do you give them a scorpion? Of course not! So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him<\/i>.\u201d It seems God wants us to come to present the things He already knows before He does them. What a mystery!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Thirdly, mysteriously God wants us to keep asking about <span class=\"s1\">The Same Thing Even Though We Have Already Asked Him Before<\/span>. That can be mysteriously annoying sometimes if you are not schooled! Why would God have us keep asking about the same thing even though we have asked before? Why does He want us to keep asking? When we have our God Will Do It Again seasons, let\u2019s say you have not even prayed about anything until the vigils. By the third day of the vigil, should God not have heard everything you have been saying? If He does not know our problem by the first day, He must know by the third day. So, why can\u2019t we just ask once and let everybody be fine? <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.bible.com\/en-GB\/bible\/116\/1TH.5.17\">1 Thess. 5:<sup>17<\/sup><\/a> \u201c<i>Never stop praying<\/i>\u201d. Praying here means asking; never stop asking!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Prayer<\/b>: Holy Spirit, empower me to pray without ceasing, in Jesus Name. Amen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romans 8:26 \u201cA similar thing happens when we pray. We are weak and do not know how to pray, so the Spirit steps in and articulates prayers for us with groaning too profound for words.\u201d (Voice) We began to explore the mysteries of prayer yesterday and the first is, Mysteriously It Seems That God Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,152,258,30,54,18,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acknowledge-god","category-action","category-approval","category-commitment","category-encouragement","category-holy-spirit","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23294,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23228\/revisions\/23294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gfhlive.tv\/freshfire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}