The Power of Love in Prayer [Part 2]

Pastor author and Bible teacher Alan Wright when you get the love of God.

It removes the fear out of your life when you get fear out of your life. You don't have to be so concerned about the people that are persecuting you can release the people that have hurt you, you can begin to pray for them, you can begin to love them, you can begin to demonstrate the love of God when you are saturated with the love of God is the most wonderful thing in the world and if we are going to be a people of prayer.

What we need is a fresh encounter with the love of God.

That's pastor Alan Wright welcome to another message of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new light. I'm Daniel Britton excited for you to hear today's message in the series called praying with power as presented at renewal the church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout the entire program I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now.

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We have said that another way that we pray spiritual prayers is from the revelation of God and that every Christian can hear from God because Jesus says my sheep hear my voice so if you're his sheep. You can hear from God.

This is not reserved just for a few especially prophetic people have a special gift, although that's wonderful and you get special preventative but every Christian can be led by God directed by God and can hear the voice of God. And if you can hear the voice of God because you're a child of God, then you can be led by God in your prayer life now. Sometimes this will take miraculous manifestation in which your praying about something, and God just gives you a word of knowledge. He gives you some special leading or information that this is what you're supposed to pray about and that's wonderful when that happens, because in you just focus your prayer right in on the right thing but sometimes it happens just because God speaking to you and you just have a sense of knowing that this is what he wants you to be praying about, or perhaps comes about as a burden or a certain kind of leading all of this is a part of hearing from God. And when you hear from God by his revelation and you pray that back to God. You have a spiritual prayer that's going on because the communion of your spirit with God's spirit is producing this prayer. That's a wonderful way to praise and learn all you can do here, the voice of God. It will affect your prayer life for thing that I mentioned is that if we really want to have effective prayer life will learn to pray in partnership with Jesus.

As Jesus is our advocate and our chief intercessor.

Paul said not only did Christ die for you but he's been raised to life for you and he lives to intercede for you that the life of Christ now is an ongoing life of intercession and that while there is an accuser of the brethren, the accuser Satan means the accuser who is constantly bringing accusations against us. There is an advocate there is an attorney and have them there is that there is a a a a a counselor and enter Sasser who is going in between for us because he died for us. He has a right to make an appeal for us and so Jesus is praying for you and Jesus is interceding for you and he is interceding for the world and on this one. In whatever ways I can hook up my prayer life to his prayer life. So I was going be prayer partners with Jesus as a powerful prayer life.

You get into that.

We talked about that and then last week I talked about the importance and power of praying the desires of your heart, not of your flesh, not just of your mind, but of your heart because when your spirit is in touch with God spirit the deepest longings of your life become heart longings, and we get connected with that then we can pray in the spirit out of that so these are ways in which we can have a spiritual prayer life now and what is the center of all prayer.

What is that which fuels all real spiritual prayer that with, without which there is no real effectiveness to any prayer nor is there anything pleasing to God about the prayer. Without this, and an end to this all effective powerful prayer is fueled by and filled with God's love. If you think about what Jesus says to pray for those who persecute you. How are we going to do that because every time you get ready to start praying for people that have hurt you or people that are persecuting you anyway you just find it almost, choking right here because it's so tied up with so many other thoughts and selfish ambitions, and in the wounds and all of that, they become so difficult to pray for them doesn't the command I think of Jesus right there in his inaugural address to pray for your enemies to love them and pray for them is to highlight for us that God has always known ever since the fall of humanity that we were going to be able to keep even his wall that he given through Moses, and we certainly are not going to be able have our own flesh or mind to be able to do what Jesus is saying in the sermon on instead what he's pointing us to is the inauguration of the new covenant that was prophesied by the prophet Jeremiah that in that day I will give them a new covenant that will not be as the old covenant. This will be a covenant which I'll put my law in their hearts. I'll write it on their hearts. I will transform their hearts. I will make the law. The common internal thingy within them, so that what they do will be fueled by something that I have wrought inside of their spirit, and that the spirit that is born a new will embrace the very heart of God so that their hearts will be my heart and out of that then all of these things become possible and they only become possible by that spiritual transformation. We can only love. To the extent that we've been loved. I love the way that Jean Peterson wrote this in the message from this wonderful text in and in the epistle of John. This I think is the apostle at the late stages of his life when he lived so much longer than many others, and he has distilled down what it's all about and said everyone who loves is born of God and experience is a relationship with God. God is law that if you if you really have love God's kind of love.

You can only have that if you're born of God. That's a radical statement because what it says is that the world's version of love, erotic love, and even some of the kind of of affection that we have or falling in love and getting those emotional infatuation feelings and all of that that that is not what he's talking about because anybody can experience that anybody that has ever walked the face of the earth could experience what it is just a fall in love with another human being. What John is saying here, is it anyone who truly loves.

With God's love. Agape love is born of God and as you love your experiencing a relationship with God because God is love.

When we take up permanent residence in a life of love. We live in God and God lives in us this way. Love has the run of the house becomes at home and mature and eyes. First we were loved. Now, we loved. He loved us first.

First we were loved. Now we love. He loved us first, we cannot love any more than we have been loved because love is not something that is born out of the body or out of the soul. It is a spiritual thing. Love is the chief the principal in the initiating of all of the fruit of the spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, love is the central thing because it is the very heart of God. And so, without love, then everything else becomes rendered ineffective. That's what Paul was communicating to the Corinthians. He said if I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I'm only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. Think about this. This is the apostle Paul. This is one who had been transported into heavenly places. This is one who perhaps had heard the language of angels. This is one who is saying that even if I were to have a prayer language so heavenly that it was on the level of communicating in heavenly dimensions with angels that even if I were to to be praying in that way that it is still absolutely impotent and no more to God than just a clanging symbol unless it is full of love know what I've come to understand the radical thought, but I believe it with all my heart that love is not merely that which accompanies the powerful flow of God's purposes. It is not just something that comes alongside of God's power. I've come to believe that God's love and God's power or moving such at the same time that love is power and talent right will have more teaching moment.

Today's important series prayer as a Christian you know it's important and you want to make it a priority. If you're like most your parent can slip so easily into routine fervor in person meeting you're wondering what is the key to praying with willpower in Ephesians chapter 6. The apostle Paul has a clear answer, praying in the spirit pray in the spirit. Some would say that Paul is referring only to the spiritual gift and a supernatural prayer language Megan Allen writes unique series, praying with power Pastor Alan reveals five different ways of praying and spirit. Discover how praying God's word is praying in spirit. Learn how to listen to the spirit as you pray, come to see Jesus as your prayer partner. It's practical.

It's powerful to pastor our nights praying with power. Discover the power of praying in the spirit change your prayer life and you change the world.

You need to get talent right ministry said I will send you pastor outlines messages through digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today we listen jiggly special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I banks from our night ministries today is the last day. This special offer is available to you. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor. Our.work. Today's teaching now continues your once again is Alan writing. Do not be overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good that the very love that you begin to demonstrate has a power in it because it is God's force in the world.

It is something that is moving and transforming and when love takes over and begins to just transform things because it just change begins to heal and begins to move us and begins to direct us in love has power and that I was I was watching someone who is recently was ministering in the in the power of God and his man as you lay hands on people and dramatic things were happening, but what I saw a really without wanting the love of God that was moving in God just spoke to my heart and ended in the spirit was a look at the loving and then it turned from. Look at the power and then I realize I'm looking at the power when I'm looking at the love because everything Jesus did was through love. God moves through his love is what God is and see what what he wants to take place is for a for you and for me to have a continuing experience of his love, so that we would be able to show that love to others. Some 10 years ago I began to have a series of profound spiritual encounters at and became friends of a dear friend of mine now Pentecostal evangelist who is he would lay hands and pray for people. The dramatic things that happened although nothing dramatic going to happen to me but boy was on dramatic happened to me and happened to me over and over again and I was very dignified Presbyterian and undignified things happen.

I found times that I was like smitten on the floor and I'm like this and get over the embarrassment. Whatever is happening to me in these things didn't happen to my wife in the same way somebody came to her in the midst of this, and said what you think of all this and she said well I'm all for it to sick of every time he falls down when he gets back up he loves me more. That's the bottom line admit of every spiritual encounter. You encounter God guess what's going to happen your hearts going to get filled with fresh love your life's going to get filled with fresh love and let me tell you if you love people. If you get the love of God is the most wonderful freeing thing you could ever get because the Bible says that perfect love casts out fear and were not designed to run on fear were designed to live by faith, and when you get the love of God. It moves the fear out of your life and when you get fear out of your life.

You don't have to be so concerned about the people that are persecuting you. You can release the people bit of her tooth. You can begin to pray for them, you can begin to love them, you can begin to demonstrate the love of God when you are saturated with the love of God is the most wonderful thing in the world and if we are going to be a people of prayer.

What we need is a fresh encounter with the love of God cranes one with the prayer partners before for service and I just confess to them some struggles I was and I woke up this morning.

I just confess it to you. I woke up this morning with the struggle of having some thoughts or some people that work were were making life hard for me and I woke up struggling with it and and and I'll just be honest you know what the soul does the older the soul is not totally the mind is not been totally transformed. I just start strategizing about how I could win that thing in the flesh I may come on that's what we do and just our limited mind. We start thinking like that and I just came in here and I just got down the prayer this morning. I sadly know if I got a sermon today I was struggling with this whole thing this no-brainer. I just confess it, you know, when you confess that you just start repenting on that just delights and that you start moving in that just take whatever old stinking thoughts you got confess it to the Lord today. Repent of it is not the way I want to live my life. I want to live a life a lot and you know what will happen is he'll just come into your life and you start replacing that with his love when that happens, it just drives out fear, because he won was impotent about our prayer lives so often is it were praying these soulless prayers that are really just bringing our puny fears to God. Listen to me God you can bring your fears of God go ahead and bring your fears to what you know what the truth is, your fears don't move God fear of God is when we put all I'm worried about someone so you got that person in there there there there going to trip you know when you're worried about don't want to be safe you know more designed as breeze keep them safe and does know this, you know, I'm worried about more than just just know we moving God by just to bring in your afraid that something bad will happen. The Bible says without faith it is impossible to please move on to speak beyond you as a lot of my permit it as long as I what will got a lot of it is you know is, bring in some fears that I express through prayer. That whole know something you will withhold some bathroom habit is that does not.

God is not sitting up there going on, afraid of that myself to when you love drives out fear and now your prayer is directed towards the well-being of the one you're praying for, rather than the fear of what might happen if your prayer is not fulfilled using different and then it's everything is everything. If we could understand what Paul is talking about in first Corinthians 13. If we bring this up more than that wedding time we we might love is patient, love is kind.

It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking me tell you about the love of God, and you cannot understand this if you're not born of God. There is a miracle that takes place. It is extraordinary and wonderful the love of God is a spiritual thing and it comes into the spirit that is born of God is much as we will allow preeminence to the Holy Spirit in our lives that love will become more and more what characterizes the way we live and will eventually affect the way we think and feel and what we do and give and say and that love when it is God's love. It moves not only us to pray for a person, but the prayer that were praying is now not self-seeking in the slightest, but it become so aware of the need of the person it comes so it becomes captured with a desire for that which is good for the other. This is what love does this is what love does love just want something so good for you because you just because of the love that is there.

Remember Catherine cool in that strange ladybug years ago. You know, and she had healing ministry. They said people would walk sometimes outside of the auditorium or Coliseum where she was on the sidewalk, not even knowing there was a meeting going on inside and get healed. Yes, she had a flowing thing you know and all that stuff but I was always fascinated by Glenn knew God move that lady read autobiography of hers one time and I saw it I came this one paragraph and she said oftentimes most of the time when I'm praying for the sick. Just as my heart is so overwhelmed with love for that person that I feel I would gladly die for them, such as the love of God things on the power of love, prayer, prayer as a Christian you know it's important and you want to make it a priority. If you're like most your prayer life can slip so easily into routine fervor in person meeting you're wondering what is the key to praying with willpower in Ephesians chapter 6. The apostle Paul has a clear answer, praying in the spirit pray in the spirit. Some would say that Paul is referring to the spiritual gift in the supernatural prayer language Megan Allen writes unique series, praying with power Pastor Alan reveals five different ways of praying and spirit. Discover how praying God's word is praying in spirit. Learn how to listen to the spirit as you pray, come to see Jesus as your prayer partner. It's practical.

It's powerful to pastor our nights praying with power. Discover the power of praying in the spirit change your prayer life and you change the world. You need to get to Alan Wright ministry said I will send you pastor outlines messages through digital download as our way of saying thanks for your partnership. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support. When you get today. We will send you a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I banks from our night ministry.

Today is the last day.

This special offer is available to you. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor. Our in.work if it's true love. If you're really focused in with all cold emotion: the power I see this translating into a powerful prayer life. That's what you're teaching right is love causes you to want the absolutely best and only what is good for the one you love. Love causes you to want to forgive and not hold a record of wrong.

So when you have this love that comes only from the Holy Spirit moving in your heart you realize that prayer becomes a delight close you what is best for them and so now this motivation is this powerful motivation of law is showing together in God's ordained means by which he moves in the world through our prayer you put those things together what you have is someone who's praying in the spirit because there praying in law love is not just joint to the power of God. Love is a manifestation of the power of God. And so it is important to look at just a tool. You bring out shelf. It is the actual power that is going on in prayer and thus you're telling some of the stories of people that have had great love often are the people of Great Britain.

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