August 22, 2023 WWJWMTD by Steve, the son of John (2SoJ)
A Series on the Last Days, What Must I Do?
#5 Waiting and Watching with Praying
It is not easy to wait for God to act. Patience is a quality that mankind does not produce nor uses it. People no longer want to wait for anything. People are simply impatient, especially Americans.
The Bible says God has patience for the ‘fruits of the early and latter rain’. If you are in Christ, you also are waiting for God’s timing in all you do. This is why God gives peace, and endurance, without which the Bible says, you will not see God.
This will be the hardest thing to do in the last days—to wait for God and allow the patience of the Holy Spirit to keep your mind and strength in Christ and the likeness of Christ, while God is placing all things under the feet of Christ. It isn’t easy to ‘just do nothing’ while you see the world falling apart.
If you are like me, I want to do something instead of waiting for God to show up to get things done. But that is exactly what God wants of His Church (read the Book of Revelation of Jesus Christ—the last book of the Bible and the only road map of Christ’s return).
If I told you what is to come it would take a few pages and the end result would be frightening for you. You would not know where to turn and you would feel trapped and without hope. The world has little hope now and soon there will be no hope for civilization—the time of the Beast and the Antichrist will come for all to see.
What does God ask of us who are called by His name, “To wait, watch, and pray.” We do not take enough time to pray. I have always liked what the Rev. Billy Graham said when he was asked what he would do differently if he had the chance to relive his ministry. He simply said, “I would pray more.” Not do more, not make better decisions, not love more—just pray more!
All the Scriptures and examples of Jesus’s ministry point to prayer. Not just to pray when needed but to be in a constant state of prayer. Paul said that he prayed more than all his followers. Jesus prayed all the time, by escaping up into a mountain to pray all night or most the night. Bible says, “to be always in prayer” and “to pray in secret so the Father hears and answers your prayers.”
The Holy Spirit was given to Christ’s followers at Pentecost for this one purpose, Christ said, “To be Comforted.” The Holy Spirit is not just about power, gifts, and fruits, but to be comforted! How does this happen, by praying in the Holy Spirit (praying in tongues secretly). Why did Jesus go off to pray, to be alone, and to pray in the Spirit and talk to His Father. This is what the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the manifestation of the gift of tongues does for the believer. There are so many examples and teachings in the Scriptures that cannot be refuted and so many examples in history stating the ability to pray in the Spirit in a language no one understands but God—this is prayer in its purest form. (I have heard multiple teaching and read doctrinal studies about how praying in tongues is wrong and even from Satan himself. Oh, how foolish these doctrines are. The Scripture does not support these lies and misguided teachings.)
If you want God’s fullness in your life, you need to pray more and not just Biblical prayers and casual speaking to God but praying in the Spirit. The more you spend time in prayer the more you will be at peace, the more you will feel clean and forgiven, and the more your natural language prayers will be heard.
Want more of God? Want to be ready for the Biblical End Times? Want to experience peace in the storm? It is not what you can do but what the Holy Spirit does for you when you pray not knowing what to pray or understanding the words that come out of your mouth, but it is what the Holy Spirit does through you by sending your requests to the Father. This is the ‘oil in our lamps’. This is faith in action that cannot be stopped. This is what Jesus did and He wants you to do also. This praying, changes everything!
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