Thread by @earthworkrr

In the church I worshipped with in the past, I observed that during the intercessory prayers, people don’t just mumble words while many just sit and form distracted.

It didn’t make sense.

As a matter of fact, it was the women that even prayed the most.

I also observed a trend and it was like this: when people weren’t praying, the minister leading the prayer begins to cajole people to pray with words like...

“It’s only the living that can praise God”

“What if you had died from accident?”

“I know of a man/woman...

“...who trailer crushed and died on the spot and I shouted Baba... have mercy on me”.

It works! All the time 🤣.

Why did it work? Because it put the fear of dying in your mind.

Why does it bother you? Because you think if you die in your sin, na hell.

It is why folks don’t have a conquerors mindset.

Never.

When people are cajoled to pray, it is a reflection of two things:

1. They don’t have a lifestyle of prayer nor have a relationship with God.

2. They don’t understand the grace of God.

During a Sunday school, we were speaking about prayer and I raised the issue as I explained people don’t need to be cajoled with death and near death experiences to pray.

One of the deacons was listening and she waited until the intercessory prayers and called my name.

She raised my comment and openly condemned it stating some justification that lacks scriptural backing filled with emotionalism.

I just laughed. It wasn’t new and since i joined the church, she was the one who had an issue with me.

It happens. There’s always that one person.

That one person who can’t give results but will criticize all the results you get.

The Holy Spirit told me of such and how to handle them - With love.

One day, she called me after church and started telling me of a family issue regarding her brother.

Apparently, her brother attends a uniform wearing church and during one of the deliverance sessions using a strange approach, he became afflicted and was drying up slowly.

Everyone had come in for a family fasting and prayer and by day 6 nothing and everyone panicked.

I told her to give me his phone number and tell him someone would call him by 8:00PM that evening.

I called and I asked him some basic questions and then the Holy Spirit impressed upon my heart a question relating to his salvation.

He wasn’t saved.

How then did you come into such a position?

He didn’t say but I already knew. I led him to Christ and we prayed, he refused to speak in tongues so I just rebuked the hold of the devil over him.

I instructed him to get water, I prayed on it and he drank.

One hour later...

...he calls.

“I had the urge to urinate and from there I needed to poo and greenish substance came out of me. The smell was putrid”

“Hallelujah”. I screamed. “The poison is out”.

You need the Holy Spirit to make a change and come into real power.

I’ll call when I’m ready.

It’s been 2 years and he hasn’t called.

The deaconess? She never stopped giving me issues in church but then again... we move; in love!

I have said many things but one thing stands... the Believer is a conqueror because of the victory of Jesus at the Cross.

Until we work with that Victor’s mindset, our reality will always be one of fear and compromise.

Remember, greater is He that is in you.

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Beloved... just come but be very early.

@earthworkrr