The Christian Lifestyle - 2 - Praying Continuously | John Giftah | Sermon

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0:06 place and it just seems to get crazier and crazier. Ease your mind and

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0:40 International. Welcome to Fuel for the Soul with John Gifta. Hello everyone,

0:54 It's wonderful for me to join you again on this edition of the Fuel for

0:58 the Soul with John Giftup. And as I sard in my previous episode,

1:03 I just wanted to let you know that I've been talking about some things from

1:07 this passage found in the Book of Thessalonians first the Silonians. To be exact,

1:14 when I've been telling you, you know, to inculcate this to become

1:17 the lifestyle for you as you are stepping into this new year. So I

1:21 pray that this word will again be a blessing to you. And I'm just

1:25 reminding you of this. You know first Sicilonians chapter five or seventeen passage that

1:30 you may be knowing very well. And it says, if you say n

1:34 Ivy version, it just says pray continually. The Nalty version says never stop

1:38 praying. The other version says pray without ceasing a lot. This it says

1:45 in the amplified version, be unceasing and persistent in prayer. You know,

1:49 be persistent. You know, I believe, you know, one of the

1:52 things that is really lacking in the generation today because of bay VR. You

1:57 know, with everything to be intantaneous. You know, people are no longer

2:00 being persistent. They don't have the patience they want instantaneous results. But here's

2:06 the sense of being persistent. And you know, again I want to just

2:09 go to this when you say what is prayer, Prayer is simply, you

2:14 know, getting to that place where you are communicating with God. You're commune

2:17 communing with God. You're not just you know, talking to God. But

2:22 prayer is talking with God. You speak to him and you take time to

2:24 listen to what He wants to tell you. And here's the thing I want

2:28 you to understand today. Right when we think about this, the Bible is

2:31 saying pray without ceasing, pray all the time. What I want to remind

2:37 you is that get to that place when you have that lifestyle of prayer.

2:39 You know, I'm all in for devoting a time to pray. We all

2:44 need to do that. We need to devote sometime to actually pray, spend

2:49 time at the feet of the Lord. You know, read the Bible and

2:51 all of these things. There's obvious a play where you devote your time for

2:55 having that quiet time with the Lord. There's no doubt about it. But

2:59 I want to say is that you know, you need to get to a

3:01 place where you need to pray without seizing have a lifestyle of prayer, which

3:07 is so important. Prayer is not a ritual that you just do it,

3:10 you know, early in the morning when you wake up, or late in

3:14 the night before you go to bed, but it should be your lifestyle.

3:17 You're having that constant fellowship with God, constant communion with the Lord. Today,

3:22 I want to ask you every time, betterver you go, no matter

3:24 what you do, are you in a place where you're having the constant fellowship

3:28 with the Lord? Can you have that lifestyle of prayer. Lifestyle of prayer

3:32 is different from the act of prayer. Lifestyle of prayer is you know,

3:36 when you're going to the grocery store, you're saying, God, I know

3:38 you're with me. I want you to help me get the right things.

3:43 Or when you're going to meet a friend, you're saying, God, help

3:46 me be a blessing to this person, help me say the right thing at

3:50 the right time. Or when you're saying, you know, God, you

3:53 know I need to get this project done at work. You know God,

3:55 I want your wisdom upon me. What you're doing is your constant depending on

4:00 God. You're constantly looking up to the Lord. You're constantly having that communion

4:04 you're traveling or riding or driving. You know, that's one of my favorite

4:08 times, you know WHII because I'm in constant fellowship with the Lord. I

4:12 want you to understand today that, you know what, if you can get

4:15 to that place where you can have that lifestyle of prayer, nothing like it.

4:19 If you want to see that twenty twenty four is going to be effective

4:23 for you, you need to be a person of prayer. You need to

4:27 be a man of prayer. You need to be a woman of prayer.

4:29 You need to be a child of prayer, because prayer is what is going

4:32 to make the difference. Not the act of prayer, but when you are

4:35 having that real sense of prayer, you're in communion with the Lord at the

4:41 all given points of time. That's what is going to make a difference.

4:45 Today. I'm challenging you to have that lifestyle. I'm challenging you to introspect.

4:50 Are you constantly in fellowship with God? Even when you're watching that movie

4:56 enjoying yourself, can you think of God during that? Can you say,

5:00 God, while look at this, teach me something from this. Or even

5:03 when you're hanging out with your friends and you're just saying, you know,

5:06 this is so cool and awesome, can you still think of God? Can

5:11 you still say, oh, this is nothing but the grace of God and

5:14 say, God, you know, help me, you know, be productive,

5:16 or help me to you know, be in the right frame of mind

5:20 saying the right thing. Help me to give you glory in and through this.

5:24 Let my friends come to know about you, you know. Can you

5:27 get to that place where you are in that like, no matter where where

5:30 you are, no matter what you're doing, can at the back of your

5:33 mind, can you have that lifestyle where you are in constant fellowship with God

5:39 today? I pray that this is going to be that wake up call for

5:43 you as you step into the new year, that you are going to make

5:46 it a priority to pray without ceasing to have that constant lifestyle of praying all

5:55 the time, and you're having that fellowship with the Lord. And I'm telling

5:58 you, you know the scripture say the prayer of righteous men. I feel

6:02 it much, which means that you know, if you're going to be keeping

6:05 on praying, you're going to keep on talking to the Lord constantly acknowledge him.

6:11 You see, it's going to be a failing much in your life.

6:14 You're going to see your life go to another level that you never expected and

6:17 you're going to be a greater blessing wherever you go. Amen, God bless

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