{"id":1541,"date":"2012-12-16T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2012-12-03T02:14:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T07:14:20","slug":"prayer-teaching-12-16-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/16\/prayer-teaching-12-16-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Teaching 12-16-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>EXPECTANCY IN PRAYER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever heard someone say:\u00a0 You get what you expect!\u00a0 That statement is true.\u00a0 Our lives gravitate toward our expectations.\u00a0 We are now told by even scientists and physicians and psychologists that our physical bodies, our emotional responses, our very future or destiny can be determined to a large degree by what we think, which produces expectancy.\u00a0 What we think releases chemicals from our brain into our systems to direct our actions.\u00a0 Actions are a result of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t you consider it absolutely awesome that God has provided a divine connection called prayer between you and Him to guide your expectancy through His Word and through His Holy Spirit.\u00a0 A Spirit-directed prayer, based on the Word of God, produces God\u2019s expectancy and thus God\u2019s results.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, we must talk about the fact that we do have an enemy who does everything possible to steal our God-given expectancy for good.\u00a0 I am not being negative here.\u00a0 We must be aware of the expectancy stealer.\u00a0 Don\u2019t let him steal your expectancy for Godly results when you pray.\u00a0 Never give up your expectancy.\u00a0 It is your lifeline to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly ask yourself the question today:\u00a0 What am I expecting when I pray?\u00a0 Am I expecting disappointment based on past history?\u00a0 Am I expecting God\u2019s Word to work in my life?\u00a0 Evaluate your position.\u00a0 Perhaps you are one of those rare people who always expect the best.\u00a0 That is what our God designed us to do.<\/p>\n<p>For most people expectancy of good Godly results has to be cultivated and nurtured to fullness.\u00a0 Life and its problems tend to rob us of the right kind of expectancy.\u00a0 Disappointment, discouragement, disillusionment creeps in and reduces us to people who merely pray because it is the one thing we are told to do.\u00a0 And we enter into that vicious cycle like a gerbil who goes round and round on that same wheel of prayer defeat time after time.<\/p>\n<p>Today make a quality decision that regardless of what has happened in your past, this is a new day where you decide to expect the best for you and your loved ones.\u00a0 You expect results in prayer.\u00a0 You expect good.\u00a0 God is good and His mercy endures forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXPECTANCY IN PRAYER Have you ever heard someone say:\u00a0 You get what you expect!\u00a0 That statement is true.\u00a0 Our lives gravitate toward our expectations.\u00a0 We are now told by even scientists and physicians and psychologists that our physical bodies, our emotional responses, our very future or destiny can be determined to a large degree by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}