The Word VEX means to Torment and Afflict.
When the Devil sees that the Church does nothing about his activities, he finds a Comfort Zone. This means that when the Church is cold, Prayerless and without Fire, the church becomes a breeding place for the activities of the devil.
The first targets of the devil in attacking the Church are leaders. When Devil tampers with the Leader he will have his way easily with the rest and that is why it is very important to pray for church Leaders because they are always the Prime Target of the Devil.
One Major Mandate of the Church is Intercession.
Everytime we talk about the Church, it is about you and I coming together in the place of Prayer.
But a Praying Church begins with the life of prayer with individual believers.
Your Private Prayer Life can greatly affect the Health of the Church. Your private prayer is so important to what God can do with His Church. .
One of the reasons the Church is weak is because most believers have Epileptic Prayer Life.
MATTHEW 17: 1- 9
One thing you can note about Jesus is that he was a Man of Prayer.
According to Exodus 34: 1-4, Moses was also a man that spends time alone with God.
In first Kings 17:1, Elijah introduced himself as a man who stands before God.
Our Christian Life is not complete without Personal Prayer Life with God.
The more you spend time privately with God, the more closer you are to Him.
The Power of your public prayer life is determined by the effectiveness of your private prayer life.
When people pray too long in the public is a sign of shallowness in their private prayer life.
It is the Power you generate in the private that Empowers your Public Prayer Life.
There are Dimensions of Encounters that you cannot have in the public with God, but in your Private Prayer Life with God (2 Cor 3: 8- 10).
There are Encounters waiting for you in the place of Prayer.
God is calling us to a life in the secret place because glorious things are meant for the secret place.
There are Encounters of Glory you can't see until you Private pratyer Life is Effective.
There is not subtitute for time with God. God wants our relationship with him to be personal because there are things God wants to say to you and not everyone.
Excellent glory is accessible when we have a life of private time with God.
REASONS PEOPLE DON'T DEVELOP PERSONAL PRAYER LIFE
1. Many people don't have a private time with God because they lack Spiritual Hunger.
2. Inability to resist the trap of busyness. You must resist the pressures hindering you from having private time with God, such as being busy. One of the most Dangerous Weapon in the hand of the devil is busyness.
3. Lack of the Holiness of life. When there is no life of Holiness, there is always fear in the heart to approach God's Presence.
4. Blindness to the Glory of God. When people don't develop personal Prayer life, they have not seen the Glory in spending time with God.
*WHAT WILL A PRIVATE PRAYER LIFE MAKE OUT OF YOU*
1. It will make you a person who really know God.
2. You will become a person of Deep and Earnest Prayer Life.
3. You will become a person who has access to the secret things of God.
4. You will become a person with Spiritual Vision of God.
5. You will become a person who carry out Special Assignment for God.
6. You will become a person who has the Revelation of Answers of things that bother others.
7. You will become a person who carries the Anointing of God .
8. You will become a person who never struggles for anything.
9. You will become a person prepared to be who God has called you to be.
10. You become a person like Jesus.
