The Power of Prayer 

Article By: Tom Demeter
http://www.repenttolive.com 

The  Power  of  Effective  Prayer 

Dear Friend,

We are now in the "great  tribulations,  such as was not since the  beginning  of  the world to this time, no, nor  ever shall be"  and  "except these days should be  shortened, there should  NO  FLESH be saved: but for the elects sake these days   SHALL   be   shortened"  Mat.24:21, 22.  We are told that the destruction of the world and humanity will be as it was in the days of Noah V.37.  To be protected by God you must have the   "SEAL  of   GOD"  on you  Rev.9:4.  You must also have to have power and that comes by effective prayer. 

Proper prayer opens you to God's omnipotent power, where there are no impossibilities.  Jesus who performed innumerable miracles told us:  "you shall SAY unto this mountain, Remove from hence to yonder place; and it  SHALL remove; and  NOTHING  SHALL  be  impossible  unto you"  Mat.17:20.  Jesus promised that  "we shall receive   POWER,   AFTER  the holy spirit is come upon you"  Acts.1: 8.  We were told that Jesus gave His twelve disciples  "power  and authority over   ALL   devils, and to cure diseases" Lk.9:1.  This promise is repeated by saying:  "I give unto you  POWER  to tread on serpents and scorpions, (demons) and over   ALL   the  power  of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you" Lk.19:19.   Jesus could give us power,  because  "All power was given unto Him in heaven and earth"  by our Father in heaven Mat.28:18.

Jesus had great power, this is why He said to Pilot  "you could have  NO  POWER  at all against Me, except it were given you from above" Jn.19:11.  Jesus knew that He came to this world to be   "killed"  and sacrificed Mat.16:21; Rev.13:8, that we could receive God's  "holy spirit,"  not the  "Holy  Spirit"  we received in the churches.   Jesus, being our Creator Eph.3:9 knew that He was sent by our Father to  DIE  that the   "holy spirit"  could be sent to us Mat.16:7.   The greatest power given to us in this life,  is to  "become Sons of God" Jn.1:12, by receiving God's holy spirit  through baptism.  

There are   KEYS   to prayer to move mountains.  You must know some of these   "KEYS"  or  your prayers will not  move mountains, and without it can and will be answered by the Anti-god!  

The first   KEY   is the recognition that the   "whole  world"   is deceived Rev.12:9.   Therefore we worship the Anti-god, instead our Creator!!   We are like the people in Noah's day, and are without God's  "holy spirit"  Mat.24:37, and God's  "knowledge of salvation" Lk.1:77.  If you can't accept this most fundamental truth, you can't have   true prayer power with God,   because you serve the limited Anti-god.  It is unfortunate that in this age,  we can't  all come to Christ, but only those whom our Father calls Jn.6:44, only the "few" are "called" in this age Mat.7:14.  This will limit most people to receive God's power or the  "mind  of  Christ"  ICor.2:16. 

People's prayers will be answered but if   not using these Keys   the prayers will be answered by the Anti-god!  If you are not the "few" whom God has called in this age, you will not recognize this difference.  Your prayers will be heard, and will be answered, because the Anti-god is god, and use many of the same principles as our Creator, to teach us.  

The next  KEY  is that prayer works best if it is not in your behalf.  We read:  "You   ASK  and receive not, because you ask amiss,   that ye may consume it upon your lusts"  Jms.4:3.  Why,  Jesus told us that Christianity is based on His and   OUR   "sacrifice"   by saying:  "whosoever will    SAVE   his life shall   LOSE  it; and whosoever will   'lose'  his life shall  'find'  it" Mat.16:25.   Why do Christians need to sacrifice?   We are asked to sacrifice, like Apostle Paul was,  to   "FILL  UP  that which is behind of the  AFFLICTIONS  of Christ in my (Paul's) flesh  for the body's sake, which is the church" Col.1:24.  Paul said  "For unto   YOU   it is given in   BEHALF   of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to  SUFFER   for His sake" Phil.1:29.   I will explain this a little further in more detail.

Praying to Our Father 

This is the  MOST  important   KEY  because if you do,  even if you are not   "called"  now by our Father, in this age He will answer  your prayer.  The  people who are praying to   Mary,  or to the "Lord,"  or to any other name,  they are not praying to our Father in heaven, but to the Anti-god, or one of his servants.  Let me give you a secret  given to  Apostle Paul, after he received  "Christ's gospel"  which was very different from the gospel given to the twelve Apostles Rom.2:16; ITim.1:11.   After Paul died Apostle John and the rest of the Apostles  "accepted"  Paul's gospel, the "gospel of Christ" Rom.1: 16 to advance from Jesus' gospel.   This is why John says that   "God  is  love"   IJn.4:8.  He loves   ALL  His children let them be   "alienated"   from Him Col.1:21, serving the Anti-god in this age, or are the "few" Mat.7:14, who are in the process of    "reconciliation"   to Him Col.1:20; 2Cor.5:18.   Our Father is not a   "respecter of persons" Acts.10:34, He loves every one of us, but He is not  "calling" all  of us at the same time, but in our time order ICor.15:23, until we all will be called V.25, when our Father will be  "all  in  all"  V.28! 

Our Creator's name is   Jesus  the  Christ   Eph.3:9 to those who obey the New Testament.  Those who obey the Old Testament know  God  as   YHVH,   YHWH,  Yahveh, Yahweh,  Yeshuah, Yashuah, identified by Apostle Paul as the   "angel  of  the  Lord"   Gal.3:19.   The Jews did not know their Creator because the  "holy spirit"  was not given to them to be  "in them,"  but was only   "on  them." This is why God talked with the people in the Old Testament through angels.  In the New testament He is talking to us by the spirit of His Son, the   "holy  spirit."   For  the truth of righteousness  is "reveled from FAITH (of God) to faith" our faith Rom.1:17.

To  gain  power  for  our  prayers,  we  must   know   that  one  of  God's   name   is   Elohim  which means a   FAMILY.   God is  a family kingdom, where members of he family compliment each other instead competing  with each other, like the people in the world of the Anti-god.  Like a true father willing to sacrifice his life at work and war for his   family,   so is the God family. This is why to learn this   KEY  God ordained that His love would be  sacrificial   Jn.15:13, where a man must  lay down his life to love his friend according to the law of Mat.16:25.  This is why God   "created  evil"   Isa.45:7 that we could  "sacrifice" going against evil to gain God's sacrificial love.  This is why God  made us  "lower" in kind than the God kind, and the angel kind  and dying Heb.1:7. 

#  1  KEY   is that God is   "our  Father"   who is lifting us into the   "Godkind"  in three steps, by giving us three different   laws,  religions  and  governments,   as we graduate  from one system to the next.   We  progress as we are willing to   "sacrifice"  our lives to  "obey"  more and more difficult  LAWS,   advancing to more  demanding   RELIGIONS  and their advanced   KINGDOMS  to gain  increasingly  more self government,  as children do in our human family.   This is why Jesus when the disciples asked Him to teach them how to pray Jesus said, to pray to our Father which is in heaven Mat.6:9. Then Jesus gives His  

  #  2   KEY of effective prayer  to  accomplish  the  # 1  goal  of  all  prayers  and to fulfill the "purpose  of  our  life" on this earth is to  "Hallowed  be  they  name"   in   YOU  Mat.6:9.  This means that God's character of  sacrificial love, is   progressively   "perfected"  in you IJn.4:12, since  "God is love" IJn.4:8.  When you pray this in mind, God's invisible world opens up to you increasingly, giving you more and more power.  This is what we do in our family with our children to help them to be independent, successful in life.  We all make   mistakes   to grow because God made it that we learn "good" through "evil." This is why He created "good and evil" Gen.2:9.

#  3  KEY  is to  "seek  first  the  kingdom  of  God"   Mat.6:10,33.  Why?  God's system is based on good and evil, so for us to gain   love,  through it   PEACE,   gaining  prosperity,  freedom, fulfillment, satisfaction and joy, we need to eliminate the   CONFLICT   between "good and evil."  The sooner we establish God's kingdom in our heart first, then in our home / church and our work and our neighborhood, then town and county and state / country, the more peace and prosperity, happiness safety and security  we experience.  How are   CONFLICTS  eliminated this way?  By establishing God's kingdom,  we   "come out"   from the Anti-god's kingdom Rev.18:4 eliminating our conflicts. How?  We do by realizing that God's kingdom is based on  TRUTH defined by LAWS,  interpreted and taught by His Religions and executed by His governments.  The Anti-god, who is the "god of this world" 2Cor.4:4, Satan   "has  NO TRUTH  in him" Jn.8:44.  This is why the world's  "lower"  kingdom is based on  "iniquity"  Mat.7:23  or   LAWLESSNESS,  and the religion of  "mammon" the  worship of money,  and  it's  tyrannical  government of slavery, keeping us children not to be  independent.

When you establish God's "higher" government you are not in conflict to serve "two masters" or Gods  Mat.6:24, where one is  "lawful"  and the other is the opposite,  "lawless"  and operates with instructions we call "codes." 

#  4  KEY   is to always seek   "God's  will   to be done in earth, as it is in heaven"   Mat.6:10.  Why?  For our Father knows what things you have need of before you ask Him" V.8.  We are human and as an unconverted man we naturally hate God, as the world hated Jesus Jn.15:18. The unconverted love the "god of this world" for he eliminates our trials  without  a sacrifice, like with the use of insurance, instead using faith.  If you as a Christian unwilling to establish God's kingdom,   GOD'S  WILL, will  not be established on the earth.  The world is now so "deceived" that only God's First Witness of His Two Witnesses is seeking God's will, and kingdom, to start the "restoration" of God's truth to His "pre-ordained children  Mat.17:11.

Your New Testament Prayers  

#  5  KEY   is to  "Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread"   Mat.6:11.  This tells us that if you are a Christian, you live by faith Rom.1:17,  not by the security of the world, causing you to be an idolater, for doing things the  "world's  way,"  walking through the  "wide" and open  "easy"  gate the  "way of destruction"  and death Mat.7:12; Prov.14:12; Jer.21:8, which is the world's way of success.  If you are willing walk   "God's  way"   requiring  to   "lose  your  life,"   you will   "find  eternal  life"   Mat.16:25!  Don't worry,  if you obey God and  "walk  with  God"  like Noah, and  "flee"  with God's First Witness, you will be saved  ICor.10: 13. God will   guide you and direct you   Prov.3:5,6. Remember the world worships mammon, and makes you to  lust  to become a millionaire.  Money will not bring eternal security, so you will never find satisfaction the  "world's  way."   If you  "live  by  faith"  you will.

#  6  KEY  is to  "Forgive  us  our  debts,  as  we  forgive  our   debtors"   Mat.6:12.  The power of our prayer is proportionate of our spirituality.  The more we understand our Creator and His "operation of salvation,"  the more we are able to  "forgive"  for the evil others cause us, like Jesus did on the cross of all those who have crucified  Him. This is  VITAL  to  reach  out to God.  Why, it is because God "created evil" Isa.45:7, so ultimately he is the  offending  party,  and the cause of   ALL   evil.  If we are not able to  forgive God  for the evil He created, we can't be forgiven, and we die for our sins and its penalty which is death  Rom.6:23.   The  only  way  we  can  gain  eternal  life  is  if  Christ  pays  the  penalty  for  our  sins,  we can't pay for our sins even if we die.  This is why  no other name than Jesus is given who can die for your  "spiritual  sins."  This is why only Christianity has a way to eternal life or a true salvation, which is not the salvation we received in the churches.

#  7  KEY   "Lead  us  not  into  temptation"   Mat.6:13.  If we are not close to God, by fasting, study, prayer and meditation we become very easily  "carnal"  and worldly.  This takes away our spiritual power.  Paul tells us that  "when I am weak,  then am I strong,"  for  "my strength is made perfect in weakness" 2Cor.12:10,9.  This is why Satan and his angels do just about anything to make you refuse to fast.  He will give you a rough schedule, heavy work, makes you sick or just intellectually unable to see this vital   l-a-w.  To move mountains, to have a spiritual brake through to overcome your fears, and  dissatisfaction, hang ups, mental, spiritual and physical limitations with your  FAITH,  you  must  fast.  For it is your  FAITH  and prayer which moves mountains.  There is no faster way to grow spiritually than with   fasting,  study and prayer and meditation.  This is how you  "humble yourself in the sight of God"  and if you do "He shall lift you up"  James.4:9,10.

#  8   KEY  is to  "Deliver  us   from  Evil"   Mat.6:13.  This is another vital key because most people do not realize that  they are   sinners,   just by   being in this system,   and by doing things the Anti-god's way.  Paul tells us that   "whom  we  obey,  we  serve"  Rom.6:16 .  We need to be  "delivered"  from this system of evil, or we can't even pray to our Creator, only to the "god of this world" who is Satan.  If you don't   "come out" of this world religiously, legally and financially Rev.18:4 you are like Israel in Egypt and you are unknowingly forced to  "worship"  the Anti-god, by   "obeying  him"  Rom.6:16.  Praying to the Anti-god will not help you much, because his created function is to  "steal"  your wealth, opportunities, health and life.  Once this is done he has to  "KILL"  you for being an idolater Jn.10:10.  Now you see the importance of finding God's   Two Witnesses   Rev.11:3 who will help you to  "come out"   of this system  Rev.18:4, by  first   "restoring"  God's truth to you Mat.17:11 that you could discover your   "deception"   Rev.12:9 which Christ has put you into, as He did all the people before the flood Mat.24:37 by    "ALIENATING"   you form Him Col.1:21 that you may be later in the coming "ages to come" Eph.2:7 be   "RECONCILIATED"   to God Col.1:20. 

#  9   KEY  "For  Yours  is the  kingdom,  and  the  power,  and  the  glory,  for  ever"  Mat.6:13b.  We all will be tried at the End of the World Mat.24:3, because the truth will be presented to all of us, that we may face our  "deception"  and to  CHOOSE  between the  "god of this world"  to  OBEY,  or our Creator.   We must know that our Father is to whom   ALL  kingdoms belong, and   ALL   the power originate from Him, and   ALL   the glory is His.  This gives us an  "inner  strength"  which is needed to face our  "fear  of  death"  Heb.2:15 which is the greatest fear.  Those who do not have God   "holy spirit"  only one of the spirits of God's seven churches,  will have a real difficulty to give up their lives, during their trials, because they do not have  eternal  life  in them. These will be like the Israelites who "came out" of Egypt, but did  not  "enter"  the promised land, because of their "unbelief" Heb.4:6.

How to Use these Keys for Affective Prayer

If you are a true Christian you know  that you have to  "lose"  your life to  "find"  eternal life Mat.16:25. So how should you pray?  The adherents of the Old Testament, who do not have God's spirit in them, only on them say fight to save your life if it is in danger.  It is OK to fight and even to kill some one in battle or when they are trying to take your life, because it is self-defense.  The Old Testament allows these believers to save their lives, since they have no eternal life in them.  The problem  with  the Old Testament is, that its  believers can only be protected and be in the millennial physical kingdom of Christ at His coming.   They can't be in the resurrection for eternal life!   They can't because to be in the "resurrection" ICor.15:52, one has to have the  "knowledge  of  salvation"   Lk.1:77 which was given in the New Testament,  and they must have the   "holy  spirit"   of God  Acts.2:4   the  "mind  of Christ   ICor.2:16.   We are now very close to the   End  of  the  World   and we have a chance to be in the "better" resurrection at Christ's second coming Heb.11:35, if we are Christians. 

This presents a dilemma for the Christians.  Why, because we are told that  "flesh and blood can't inherit the kingdom of God"  in heaven ICor.15:50.  There is only two ways to be in the resurrection to eternal life, one is through death, and one is by being one of the Elect Mat.24:22,  who can be in the resurrection  "without  dying"  ICor.15:52;  IThes.4:17.  This presents a problem how to pray for our adversaries, who are serving the Anti-god and their function is to  "try  us" IPet.1:7,  and to   KILL   us that we could be in the  RESURRECTION  Jn.10:10.  We,  by using our faith   "perfect our love"  IJn.4:12  through these trials that we may be  "perfect  in  love"  IJn.4:18 by losing all our fears, specially our  "fear  of death" Heb.2:15!  This is why as Christians we should   not fight evil,  but  "overcome evil with God" Rom.12:21. 

For the Christians defense Christ tells us "vengeance is mine; I will repay, say the Lord" Rom.12: 19b.   Why, because Christ   "created  evil"   Isa.45:7, so   "evil   (offences)  must  come"  to all of us,  but   "WOE  to that  man by whom the evil come"  Mat.18:7.  The way you judge others, and  hurt  them that is how  you  will be judged  by the law.   The  Old Testament  called  this an  "eye  for  an  eye"  Lev.24:20.  

There is an   EXCEPTION   to this,  if you are an official of God's  Kingdom, like an   Ambassador 2Cor.5:20, and God is using you to set up one of his three Kingdoms on earth.  If  the officials of the "god  of  this  world," and its spirit counterparts are  hindering  you,  you can use your power to   "bind   and   lose"   of their sin,  because to   YOU  are given the   "KEYS   of the kingdom of heaven"   Mat.16:19 to voice God's  JUDGMENT  for  SIN, which was given  2000  years ago on  Palm Sunday  Lk.19:27!  You have to tell them their punishment of   DEATH   to warn them,  that they may repent,  to allow God's Kingdom to come!   If they do not repent,  like the Pharaoh,  death  can and will be executed by God,  using His invisible servants the angels Mat.13:35.  It is  their   "god's  function to  kill  them"   if they don't obey Christ, and you as His Ambassador Jn.10:10!   It is not in your power when the sentence will be executed, but of Christ, because it was He who  DIED  for them.

God's  JUDGMENT can be very swift, like in the case of Korah who rebelled against God and Moses Numbers 16:5.  God had to demonstrate to the un-converted that He called Moses, and he did not volunteer for His job V.28.  The  "test"  came next day, and the   "earth opened up, and swallowed Korah and his family"  V.32.   And then came a  "fire from the Lord, and consumed the  two hundred and fifty   men that offered incense" V.35.  We find  even swifter judgment in the New Testament when a Christian couple,  Ananias and Sapphira his wife   LIED   to Peter!   Peter prophesied  that they will die, and they both did suddenly Acts.5:1-10.  This is why Paul said that the "unrighteous / liars shall not inherit the kingdom of God"  ICor.6:910.  This can and will happen again, because the greatest changes and the JUDGMENT  of the  ANGELS   will come at the   End  of  the  World!  This is why  the whole Bible was written for us, upon whom the End of the World come ICor.10:11.

This means daer friend that the Christians are given "little strength" at the End of the World Dan.11:34, because we are required to  "sacrifice  our  lives"  Mat.16:25, to become perfect in love, to qualify to be in the resurrection.  Now if you are like the "five wise virgins" and you prepare for Christ's coming, by helping God's Two Witnesses Rev.11:3 to do their "work" Acts.13:41, and you "come out" of this world as Christ is telling us Rev.18:4, you will go into the marriage supper of Christ, and its  "Place of Safety"  Rev.12:6 given to the Philadelphia church of God Rev.3:7, to whom it was given to be protected from the "tribulation" Mat.24:21 at the End of the World Rev.3:10.  These are the ones, who will be in the "resurrection" without dying ICor.15:5, IThes.4:17.

This is why I am asking you that you learn how to pray,  as our  "captain of our salvation" Heb.2:10,   Jesus our Creator Eph.3:9 our Christ and Savior, shown us in the Lord's prayer  Mat.6:9-13.  If you learn to pray   His  way   you will be a  "new  man"  Eph.4:24 and you will be a very powerful prayer warrior,  whose ("weapons of warfare are not carnal,  but    MIGHTY  through God to the pulling down  of strongholds;)  Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the KNOWLEDGE of God, and   brings  into  captivity  every  thought   to the obedience of Christ"  2Cor.10:4!  

I ask you to be my prayer partner to accomplish God's "work" at the End of the world Acts.13:41, sounding the   "Midnight  Cry"   of the Beast's and later of Christ's coming Mat.25:6.

May Christ   bless,  Protect  and   SAVE  you into one of His coming Kingdoms, according to your willingness to respond to our Creator's invitation.

In the reality of Christ's eternal love, 

your friend and brother, 
Tom Demeter