prayer changes me
Dr. Roberto Miranda
(Audio: Spanish)
SUMMARY: The passage in James 5:13-18 shows that prayer should be an instinctive and reflexive part of our lives. Prayer changes us and gives us a more effective spiritual life. While God commands us to pray, it is also important to understand the different reasons for praying. Prayer has a systemic benefit that penetrates all areas of our being and shapes our personality, mind, and perspective. While it is acceptable to pray for specific requests, prayer also has a direct impact on our mind, emotions, and perspective, allowing us to acquire an eternal perspective of the Kingdom and be more penetrable to the messages from the Holy Spirit. Prayer is like a spiritual transfusion that can change our perspective and leave us strengthened, blessed, and hopeful.
Prayer is a crucial part of a Christian's life and should be practiced proactively and preventively. It is like building up a base for future blessings and strengthening oneself spiritually. Prayer helps us to connect with God and receive guidance, advice, and strength. It should be a continuous platform in our lives and put us in contact with God. A supernatural mentality is necessary for a Church to spend time in adoration, flow in the Spirit, and exercise spiritual warfare. Churches need a supernatural mentality to reach the world and make an impact. The enemy has erected a metallic helmet over the minds of people in many nations and united culture, family and religion. Changing religion is seen as death and puts one's life and family in danger. Prayer is necessary to break these strongholds and reach these nations.
The speaker discusses the difficulty of reaching nations in the Middle East and other parts of the world where religion is deeply intertwined with culture and family, and changing one's religion can result in losing one's identity and even death. They also address the challenges of the secularism and anti-Christian mentality present in many developed societies. The speaker calls for a revival and a fresh visitation of the Holy Spirit to bring about signs and wonders and true power in the Church. They emphasize the importance of prayer and repentance in bringing about change and spiritual strength, and ask for God's help to change their prayer patterns and make them a prophetic and apostolic presence in their city.
Prayer is a crucial part of a Christian's life and should be practiced proactively and preventively. It is like building up a base for future blessings and strengthening oneself spiritually. Prayer helps us to connect with God and receive guidance, advice, and strength. It should be a continuous platform in our lives and put us in contact with God. A supernatural mentality is necessary for a Church to spend time in adoration, flow in the Spirit, and exercise spiritual warfare. Churches need a supernatural mentality to reach the world and make an impact. The enemy has erected a metallic helmet over the minds of people in many nations and united culture, family and religion. Changing religion is seen as death and puts one's life and family in danger. Prayer is necessary to break these strongholds and reach these nations.
The speaker discusses the difficulty of reaching nations in the Middle East and other parts of the world where religion is deeply intertwined with culture and family, and changing one's religion can result in losing one's identity and even death. They also address the challenges of the secularism and anti-Christian mentality present in many developed societies. The speaker calls for a revival and a fresh visitation of the Holy Spirit to bring about signs and wonders and true power in the Church. They emphasize the importance of prayer and repentance in bringing about change and spiritual strength, and ask for God's help to change their prayer patterns and make them a prophetic and apostolic presence in their city.
We are going to the Word of the Lord in James chapter 5 verses 13 to 18, and I am going to share a meditation that I shared last Sunday with the ministry in English in the morning and I was going to share it that same day in the afternoon for the ministry in Spanish but I felt the Lord go in another direction and you will remember that we ended up touching on another topic related to this idea of prayer and spirituality, but in a different way, but I want everyone to have the same teaching.
Today morning I preached the second part of that sermon on the subject that I am going to discuss with you now and I am going to try to catch up with you also on the second part of that sermon on prayer. Remember that we have concluded last week, last Sunday a week of fasting, crying out and prayer, and by the way, this past Sunday we had a beautiful vigil that was glorious, many different churches from the community came, there was a feeling of the Lord very , very beautiful and I am so glad to have been part of that event, I congratulate the brothers who started it and who were leading this glorious effort.
Today morning I preached the second part of that sermon on the subject that I am going to discuss with you now and I am going to try to catch up with you also on the second part of that sermon on prayer. Remember that we have concluded last week, last Sunday a week of fasting, crying out and prayer, and by the way, this past Sunday we had a beautiful vigil that was glorious, many different churches from the community came, there was a feeling of the Lord very , very beautiful and I am so glad to have been part of that event, I congratulate the brothers who started it and who were leading this glorious effort.
