THROUGH PRAYER WE OBTAIN SALVATION

PRAYER does not save anyone from trouble, GOD SAVES. God has CHOSEN PRAYER as the AVENUE through which we OBTAIN SALVATION— DELIVERANCE.

THE SCRIPTURE declares, “For everyone, whoever shall call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13).

GOD DOES NOT SAVE unless we CALL UPON HIM to save. GOD does not FORCE the HELP He can give on anyone.

“Out of my distress I called on the LORD; the LORD answered me and set me free.” — Psalm 118:5 

GOD HAS ORDAINED THAT THROUGH PRAYER man becomes a PARTICIPATOR in his own salvation. SALVATION is the WORK OF GOD, but this work is not WITHOUT the MAN.

EVERY WORK GOD does for man HE does it WORKING TOGETHER with the man. To man was given the PRIVILEDGE OF being GOD’S PARTNER.

“Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field.”—Gen. 2:19,20.

AS GOD’S PARTNER, EVERTHING MAN DOES, he MUST DO IT with GOD. John 15:5. Any GODLESS VENTURE does not SURVIVE TIME.

GOD GAVE US LIFE, but we MUST WORK TOGETHER with HIM to ENJOY that LIFE and MAKE the MOST OUT OF IT. PRAYER is MAN WORKING WITH GOD.

ANY PERSON who SEEK deliverance from ANY TROUBLE, MUST OF A NECESSITY CALL OUT to the LORD for MERCY and FAVOR.

 “The LORD is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them. — Psalms 145:18,19.

GOD’S RESPONSE is GUARANTEED when we CALL UPON HIM; IF we ASK, HE WILL ANSWER. The “DOOR OF SALVATION” will open FOR ANYONE WHO KNOCKS. If we SEEK to be FREE we shall find LIBERTY, IF you seek with ALL OUR HEART.

 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.” — Matthew 7:7-8

OUR GREATEST TROUBLE IS SIN and we need SALVATION from SIN. Most people WONDER why they NEED SALVATION FROM SIN.

Everyone KNOWS BY INSTINCT that we are MADE OF MORE AND MADE FOR MORE, more than what the present CONDITIONS of LIFE MAKES US.

SCRIPTURE tells us we were CREATED for SUCCESS; for POWER and PERFECTION of MIND and BODY; for MASTERY over EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE of our LIFE; for ABUNDANCE of all GOOD THINGS. Genesis 1:26; Psalms 8:4-8; 144:3;    

But we know this is not the case in our lives. We are POWERLESS and OVERTAKEN, WE LACK and SUFFER WANT of EVERY KIND. We DON’T have CONTROL over our MIND, SOUL and BODY (Prov. 25:28).

St. Paul said, “For what I desire, that I do not do; but what I hate, that I do… For to will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I do not find.”  — Romans 7:15,18 

SCRIPTURES DECLARES that SIN is the PROBLEM (Rom 7:8,17). SIN is NOTORIOUS for the SHAME, the WEAKNESS, the LOSS and LACK we feel in OUR LIVES.

SIN ROB us the JOYS OF LIFE, PEACE OF MIND, and the REALIZATION of the PURPOSE of our lives. WE DESPERATELY NEED SALVATION FROM SIN.

Man is an INSTRUMENT of LIFE, and GOD ALONE IS LIFE. God pours His life into His instrument and every part of him, as the sun pours its heat into a tree and every part of it. SIN causes us to EXPRESS LIFE in a LIMITED WAY. SIN brings SEPERATION from FOUNTAIN OF LIFE and ALL THAT IS PERFECT IN GOD.

SIN— CHOOSING a CHEAPER BRAND of LIFE— a GODLESS LIFE, in IGNORANCE of the UNLIMITED POWER of GOD within us, our HERITAGE and HIGHER CALLING in GOD Gen. 2:9; 49:15. Psalm 4:2

IN IGNORANCE we have “SOLD and DESPISED our BIRTHRIGHT” to a “SUPPLANTER—SATAN”. We say to ourselves “what profit shall this birthright be to me”. Gen. 25:32 

GOD gave us LIFE. HE INTENDS for us to be HIS FELLOW-WORKERS but we THINK this LIFE as GOD’S FELLOW-WORKERS is a BURDEN instead of a BLESSING.

“The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.” — Prov. 10:22

GOD has HONORED and BLESSED us by making us FELLOW-WORKERS together with HIM. THIS BLESSING will MAKES us RICH in GOOD WORKS, in WISDOM, in TRUTH, in RIGHTEOUSNESS, in HOLINESS, in JOY, in HONOR and in SUBSTANCE. This BLESSING is what MAKES us SUCCESS on this EARTH. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE GOD, because these QUALITIES are HIS NATURE.

 “There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.” — Proverbs 13:7 

We TRY to MAKE OURSELVES RICH and we become destitute of ALL GOD-LIKENESS as a result (Gen 3:5). Should we HUMBLE ourselves as GOD’S FELLOW-WORKERS, we would obtain GREAT RICHES of the POWER and GLORY OF GOD.

“for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” — Romans 3:23

The LIFE we have BARGAINED FOR with the DEVIL, is a LIFE MIXED with GOOD and EVIL, TOIL and SORROW, PAIN and SUFFERING. We have been CHEATED and DECEIVED.

We HAVE BECOME SERVANTS under SIN, INSTEAD of PRINCES under GOD (Rom. 7:14). And now with GREAT SORROW and TEARS we seek our BIRTHRIGHT. Gen. 25:31-34; 27:36.

SIN is a CAGE that LIMITS us. We are as HAPPY and JOYFUL when we get the OPPORTUNITY to MAXIMIZE our POTENTIAL. Sin TAKES ALL of this AWAY. IT DESTROYS RELATIONSHIPS which is KEY to ALL SUCCESS, especially our RELATIONSHIP with GOD.

GOD’S SALVATION is the KEY. SALVATION means LIBERTY. IN SALVATION God DELIVER us from the POWER and DOMINION OF SIN, the TENDENCY to SIN, HEALS the SCARS OF SIN, REPAIRS THE BREACH in our RELATIONSHIP with HIM, RESTORES US to FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM, CREATES IN US is NEW NATURE, ENLIGHTEN our DARKNESS, MAKES US WHOLE IN SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY, BRING US into GREATER BLESSING in CHRIST JESUS.

It is only in LIBERTY we can INCREASE and PROSPER; in CAPTIVITY we are DISADVANTAGED, IMPOVERISHED and will PERISH. 

God has GENEROUSLY granted us LIBERTY IN CHRIST JESUS. This LIBERTY is the only CONDITION OF LFE in which we can THRIVE, MAXIMIZE our TRUE POTENTIAL and REALIZE our HIGHER CALLING as SONS OF GOD. Gal. 4:5-6; Rom. 8:16-17; Gal. 4:1-2; Rev. 21:7.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed” — Luke 4:18

SALVATION IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY FOR EVERYONE. We can never underestimate the VALUE of PRAYER.

“If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, if you are pure and upright [by faith], surely then he will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation.  Job 8:5,6; Rom. 5:1. Addition mine. 

YOUR SALVATION STARTS WITH A PRAYER.

 “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” — Romans 10:9

A SAMPLE PRAYER:

GOD AND FATHER OF JESUS CHRIST. I CALL UPON YOU in need of SALVATION FROM SIN, the SALVATION which you OFFER through YOUR SON, JESUS.

I ASK for YOUR PARDON and FORGIVENESS for TRANSGRESSIONS I have COMMITTED in my IGNORANCE and STURBORNESS OF MY HEART.

DELIVER ME OH GOD, from the DEPRAVITY OF my SIN, the OPPRESSION of SIN and SET me FREE from ITS CAPTIVITY. BRING ME OUT of my DARKNESS into your LIGHT. BRING me OUT of SEPERATION INTO FELLOWHSHIP with YOU and MAKE me WHOLE AGAIN.

I BELIEVE JESUS went to THE CROSS with ME and DIED so I MIGHT DIE TO SIN. I BELIEVE JESUS PAID the PRICE for MY RECOVERY with HIS BLOOD. I BELIEVE JESUS WAS BURIED TOGETHER WITH ME. JESUS ROSE from THE DEAD, that I might RISE from DEATH into TRUE LIFE.

I UNDERSTAND that my SALVATION is NOT BASED on my WORKS but on THE SACRIFICIAL WORK of JESUS on THE CROSS.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARDON, FORGIVENESS AND SALVATION! I AM FREE and SAVED TODAY!