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1. Before you Pray Believe

2. Before you Speak Listen

3. Before you Spend Earn

4. Before you Write Think

5. Before you Quit Try

6. Before you Die Live

I. Before you Pray Believe

When You Pray, You Must Believe!

? The Bible tells us that we are not just to pray, but rather to pray believing.

? Not all prayer brings results. Only believing prayer moves God and receives from Him.

? The Bible does not teach is to rely on prayer alone. It teaches us to rely on Him. Only when we can fully rely on Him can we fully pray believing. We are to believe Him first, and then express that belief in prayer.

The faith must be in the heart before the prayer comes out of the mouth.

1. Prayers go unanswered because of a lack of faith.

2. Prayers go unanswered because of a lack of purpose to glorify God.

• Jesus said, "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it" (John 14:13-14).

• Notice the connection here between "My name" and "the Father's glory."

• And when the Son is glorified, the Father is glorified.

3. Prayers go unanswered because of a lack of obedience.

? Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

? A Christian can see more on his knees than he can from his feet

? Prayer is not getting God prepared to do your will Prayer is getting you prepared to do Gods will

? Prayer is the only way to release supernatural power of God in your life, in your marriage and I your business

? Prayer is the key that unlocks the gates of heaven and closes the gate of hell

? Prayer has the power to cure sickness

? Prayer can shatter the shackles of misery and habit that are tormenting your life

? Prayer does not need proof, prayer needs practice

• If your marriage is under attack-pray

• If your childrens are being tormented by the prince of darkness- pray

• If your business is falling- pray

• If you are fighting deadly desease-pray

• If you are lost without God- pray

• If your life is empty-pray

• ,, ,, meaningless-pray

• ,, ,, hopeless-pray

• ,, ,, meaningless-pray

Pray, pray, pray, because God answers prayer

A prayerless Christian is a Powerless Christian

“ ‘’ ‘’ ‘’ Miserable Christian

A prayerless Christian who always lives in defeat

Church has become more airconditioned than prayer conditioned

A prayerless Church is a Powerless Church

A Prayerless church is a defeated church

A prayerless family is a defeated family

It has been said that, the family that prays together stay together

Somebody prayed for you, that’s why you are saved.

? The bible says , what you bind on earth, will be bind in heaven.

? God in heaven given you authority in earth in heaven, he is looking is there someone who use that authority

? Ask him to defeat the things are impossible, because with God noting is impossible

? Ask him to defeat the giants in you, because our God is a giant killer

? Ask him to send fire from heaven as he sent to Elijah

? Ask him to walk with you in the fire of furnace and be the fourth in the fire

? Ask him to depart the sea that lies before you and he will make your enemy go as fish food in the sea

? He is the god who cannot fails, he is waiting to show the great and mighty power

? Pray, pray pray God of the heaven will give that power

You are not asking to the most powerful man on earth

You are not asking to Billgates, you are asking to the creator of the univers who moves the mountain and divide the seas, because nothing nothing nothing is impossible to God

When Hutson Taylor was sailing to China to begin his missionary work, his ship was in great danger. The wind had died, and the current was carrying them toward sunken reefs which were close to islands inhabited by cannibals—so close they could see them building fires on the shore. Everything they tried was to no avail. In his journal Taylor recorded what happened next: The Captain said to me, “Well, we have done everything that can be done.” A thought occurred to me, and I replied, “No, there is one thing we have not done yet.” “What is that?” he queried. “Four of us on board are Christians. Let us each retire to his own cabin, and in agreed prayer ask the Lord to give us immediately a breeze.” Within minutes the wind did began to blow, and it carried them safely past the reefs.

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