{"id":1545,"date":"2012-12-30T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=1545"},"modified":"2012-12-30T01:01:45","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T06:01:45","slug":"prayer-teaching-12-23-2012-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/30\/prayer-teaching-12-23-2012-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer Teaching 12-30-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>BELIEVING IN PRAYER<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What a way to start off our new year of 2013, which will be here in a few days!\u00a0 Believe!\u00a0 What will you believe in this year?\u00a0 Will you believe at all?\u00a0 If you do, will you believe big or small?\u00a0 What is your goal this year for which you are believing?\u00a0 Whatever you believe for, that is what you will get.\u00a0 Believe big and receive big!\u00a0 Believe small and receive small!<\/p>\n<p>Take an inventory of this past year.\u00a0 What did you believe for?\u00a0 Did it come to pass?\u00a0 Did you rejoice and thank God when it did?\u00a0 Were you excited and did you tell others, to encourage them in their walk of faith?\u00a0 Or were you too afraid to believe, for fear that you would not receive.\u00a0 Regardless of what this past year held for you, why not make a decision to believe God for good things to happen to you this year.\u00a0 Believing costs nothing.\u00a0 It is a free choice.\u00a0 Why not believe!<\/p>\n<p>Believing God is trusting Him, having confidence in Him, relying on Him, regardless of what you think or what you encounter.\u00a0 He is capable!\u00a0 He is reliable!\u00a0 He will bring you through to victory every time.\u00a0 Blessing is the only vocabulary He knows.\u00a0 We as human beings try to interject many other words into God\u2019s vocabulary like failure, defeat, giving up, letting go, and walking away.\u00a0 What is so encouraging to me is that God never gives up, never lets go and never walks away.\u00a0 He is always right there, cheering us on to the victory line.<\/p>\n<p>Prayer is about believing, never giving up, never letting go, never walking away.\u00a0 There is nothing too hard that God cannot do something about it.\u00a0 As one preacher said:\u00a0 It is impossible for God to do nothing.\u00a0 Put that sentence on your iPad and your smart phone and even on the outdated 3&#215;5 card on your mirror as the first thing you see in the morning, on your refrigerator as the first thing you see when you open the door for food for breakfast.\u00a0 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR GOD TO DO NOTHING!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark 11:22-24<\/strong> tells you and me to have faith in God (that is believing).\u00a0 Speak to your circumstance (not talk about it).\u00a0 Tell that circumstance to move out of your way.\u00a0 Once you speak to it, believe in your heart that those things YOU SAY shall come to pass.\u00a0 Believe you shall have what you say.\u00a0 THEREFORE, Jesus said to us, what things you desire, when you PRAY, BELIEVE you RECEIVE them and YOU SHALL HAVE THEM.<\/p>\n<p>BELIEVE WHEN YOU PRAY!\u00a0 This year go for it&#8212;-decide to believe, regardless of what you encounter.\u00a0 Make it your goal that you are a believer, even if nobody else believes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Psalm 27:13,14<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[What, what would have become of me] had I not believed that I would see the Lord\u2019s goodness in the land of the living!<\/p>\n<p>Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring.\u00a0 Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord.<\/p>\n<p>HAPPY NEW YEAR!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BELIEVING IN PRAYER What a way to start off our new year of 2013, which will be here in a few days!\u00a0 Believe!\u00a0 What will you believe in this year?\u00a0 Will you believe at all?\u00a0 If you do, will you believe big or small?\u00a0 What is your goal this year for which you are believing?\u00a0 [&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\/1545"}],"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=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}