Power Evangelism Church

Spread the word: "What Preachers Never Tell You About Tithes & Offerings: The End of Clergy Manipulation & Extortion," is scheduled for release August 2010! Tell as many people as you can. Free a friend (smile). Also, you can click anywhere in this sentence and read chapter one.

Our first prayer bootcamp was great! It was satisfying to see and hear so many people cry out to God for a protracted period of time. In one sense, there's nothing inherently special about praying four hours or 40 hours. But from the perspective of spiritual warfare and spiritual maturity, the time we spend in prayer "can be" a barometer of our walk with God.  For instance, is there not something wrong with spending a couple of hours watching television, but finding it impossible to spend two hours talking to Almighty God?  Especially when God said, "You do not have because you do not ask" (James 4:2). 

Another critical point is that long, passionate (and intelligent) prayer is definitely linked to effective prayer.  Jesus was graphically emphatic about this in his parables of effective prayer in Luke 11:1-10 and Luke 18:1-8.  Furthermore, the Lord's own life on earth was filled with exceedingly long and passionate prayers.  And besides His example, we have Moses, Jacob, Elijah, Hannah, Hezekiah, and the church in the book of Acts.  My favorite relatively recent example is George Mueller, who in the 1800's took care of thousands of orphans solely through prayer.  He didn't accept money from the government, and he absolutely refused to share his dire financial needs with anyone other than God.  He stated that this was a deliberate policy so that he may prove to the universal church that God can be trusted.  I'm not going to let his example of trusting God be wasted.  Whatever God did for George Mueller, He can and will do for me--if I live a holy and dedicated life to Him and seek Him with the same fervency.

Do you have a great need?  Do you need a miracle?  Go to God in prayer and stay there until the answer comes.  This probably will take hours, possibly will take days, plausibly will take weeks...or longer.  The issue is not when will God answer, but rather your willingness to pray until He answers.  Now go pray...until He answers!

We're excited about our first prayer bootcamp this Saturday.  We invite you to come and pray for your miracle.  Information is below:

Problem: Many situations have not, do not, and will not respond to ordinary prayer no matter how desperate you are.

Answer 1: Keep doing what you're doing and hope things get better. (Hint: Things usually stay the same or get worse.)

OR

Answer 2: Change your prayer tactics and strategy.

The Prayer Bootcamp Will Help You Enter Your Promised Land

The Bible is filled with Scriptures that promise us amazing answers to prayer. For instance, Matthew 7:7, 8:

Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

But let's be painfully honest. Most Christians don't live in this realm of answered prayer. They've grown used to living without miracles. We will help you change this by: 

• Training you to pray intelligently
• Training you to pray boldly
• Training you to pray passionately
• Training you to pray persistently 

This is not theory; it is fact. I have experienced many outstanding answers to prayer by following these principles and practices. The mountain in your life was made to move!

Time: May 30, 2009; 8:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Place: 351 Thornton Road, Suite 113, Lithia Springs, GA 30122

Cost: Four hours of intelligent, bold, passionate, and persistent prayer.

Prayer Bootcamp Instructions

Before the Bootcamp

1. Go to bed early the night before. It will be easier to concentrate and to persist in prayer if you are well rested.

2. Check your heart for sin, especially unforgiveness. Psalms 66:18, "If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.

3. Decide what single mountain you will attack in prayer. Concentrated energy is the most powerful form.

4. Write promise Scriptures on index cards. You will intermittently quote these as part of your petition to the Lord and demand of Satan.

During the Bootcamp

1. Approach God boldly, but humbly. He is your Father, but don't forget He is also your Creator and Judge. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16).

2. Plead your case before the Lord. Do not make the mistake of saying, God knows what I need; He'll do it. This is passivity and fatalism. It is a guarantee for failure and mediocrity. Present your case to God the way a lawyer presents his case to the judge. This is your calling and responsibility as a worker together with Christ (2 Cor. 6:1).

Recall that God has no desire or intention to rule the world without your input. He desired from the beginning that we would have dominion (Gen. 2). The world began with us ruling with God, and we will enter the eternal world to come as rulers: To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne (Revelation 3:21).

When you plead your case before the Lord, you are following the examples of: 

• Abraham, who persistently pressed God for mercy for the flagrantly sinful cities of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18:16:33).
• Jacob, who wrestled with God all night and refused to let go until he was blessed (Genesis 32:1-32).
• Moses, who pressed God on the single issue of mercy for rebellious Israel until God agreed to lift His death sentence from the nation (Exodus 32:1-14).
• Hezekiah, who passionately prayed to God all night until He agreed to remove the deadly, incurable disease from his body (Isaiah 38:1-22).
• Jesus, who vigorously and repeatedly prayed for the same thing until He received (Mark 14:27-39; Hebrews 5:7).
• The friend, who knocked on the door prayed until it was opened and he was given all that he desired (Luke 11:5-10).
• The widow, in Luke 18:1-8, who troubled the unjust judge Satan until he relented and gave her all she requested.
• The church, who prayed energetically all night until Peter was miraculously rescued from prison by an angel (Acts 12:1-17). 

Here are issues you may want to present to and discuss with God: 

• Ask God to forgive your sins and purify your motives.
• Explain the mountain in detail, as though He knows nothing about it.
• Explain the consequences of the prayer not being answered.
• Explain the benefits of the prayer being answered.
• Remind God of how and why you have served Him.
• Remind God of His promises.
• Declare to God that you believe His answer will be yes, but you will serve Him no matter how He answers. 

3. Speak to the mountain. Jesus spoke to trees, storms, corpses, and demons. He commands us to do the same. When we speak to mountains, His power is released in our behalf if He agrees with our words and life (Mark 11:23; 1 John 5:14, 15).

4. Change your physical position of prayer. Sit, stand, lie, walk, move. This will keep from dozing.

5. Change your articulation of prayer. Pray in English. Pray in tongues. Cry. Groan. Hurt. Praise. These various expressions of prayer will keep your prayer fresh and help you enter God's heart and your own more deeply (1 Corinthians 2:9-12).

6. Make declarations of faith. This encourages your faith and impresses God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).

7. Drink water intermittently. This will refresh you, break up the monotony, and help you prayer longer, and with more focus.

A couple of weeks ago, I spoke at a transition home for men that is run by Christians.  After my presentation, me and my team prayed for a few people.  A young man who had been seeking to be baptized in the Holy Ghost for a couple of months or so was wonderfully baptized in the Spirit.  Another had unspectacular but discernible manifestations of deliverance from demons in an area of his life.  As with all deliverance ministry, the proof of deliverance is not the manifestation of demons during ministry, but the manifestation of freedom after ministry.  Time will tell.  But we trust that what God begins, He finishes! 

The spirit of fear is one of the most common demons that attack people.  Are you afflicted with a demon of fear?  Some common signs are

• Tormenting fear
• Exaggerated timidity or shyness
• Persistent physical pains or stiffness that don't have a physical origin
• Panic attacks
• Persistent and troubling thoughts that something bad is going to happen to you (especially that you're going crazy)

I've seen Jesus Christ set people free in a few minutes from debilitating strongholds of fear that they had suffered with for decades.  Call us if you are tormented by fear and desire the Lord Jesus Christ to free you. 

If any of you have been delivered from a spirit of fear, please share your testimony.  I know that some of you have been delivered from things other than fear and you'd like to share your experience.  But in this thread I only want to hear from those who have been delivered from a demon of fear through the ministry of casting out demons.  Thanks for sharing! 

Here's the schedule and description of classes: http://www.powerevangelism.org/SDH%20Schedule%20and%20Lesson%20Abstracts.doc.