Prayerlessness – Are you praying or are you playing?

29 March 2013 by Donna Uning CM – 

 

“Are you praying or are you playing?” asked Ps Julius Suubi to the crowd in the second day of the Effective Fervent Prayer seminar at Good News Fellowship, Kuching. The seminar calls churches to pray for the nation.

The spirit of prayerlessness is a very dangerous spirit; it stops you from praying, he said.

Isaiah 56:9-12 talks of God’s accusation against the wicked. People who don’t pray are likened to dogs that do not bark. The watchman is blind and has no vision. When praying you can’t see the heart of God or plans of God for the city.

“One way you pray is to pray seeing with your eyes,” said Ps Suubi. You see the election coming, so you pray; you see immorality happening, you pray about it. There are levels of watchmen prayers.

 

 

Another level is you can see what’s in the heart of God, he added. You know what’s in the heart of God for your nation, city and ministry.

Intersession enforces what’s in the heart of God. Intercession produces a lot of results because you are operating in a realm above the devil. You are operating in the heavenly places, he said. “We are able to intersect devices and plans of the devil before he can attack us,” he added. The Lord reveals plans before they come.

A prayer less person cannot have spiritual foresight. Prayerlessness makes us blind or ignorant; we do not understand God’s plans. What is the purpose of the dog? Dogs signal for you to take action, they communicate with the master of the house. It is for security. You are supposed to be a dog in your city, a barking dog in your church. Through the power of Jesus Christ we are able to stop the forces of darkness.

Our work is to bark and heaven will send its troops to earth. The people are the ground battalion; the air forces are the angels. “The air force won’t come down until the ground battalion starts barking,” he said.

“We are going to bark for Kuching. You can break strongholds and stop the enemies. We must rise up as the watchmen for the city,” Ps Suubi called. The cities in the bible are taken in the morning. You are to rise up in the morning to pray.

“Watchmen have to rise up! Stop sleeping! God gives good sleep to those He loves,” he said. Some people pray but too little; some people pray three times a day – breakfast, lunch and dinner; but you need quality and quality prayer.

Spend quality time in the presence of God. The Holy Spirit cannot release new pattern of prayer in your life if you don’t spend quality time with God. You have different patterns of tongue; change the patterns until heaven opens. Become an expert in using the spiritual language. The Holy Spirit can’t help you if you spend two minutes in prayer.

The more you spend time in prayer, the hotter the flame of prayer. When you pray nonstop, there’s a momentum that builds up inside of you, he said.

Isaiah 25:7 says, “On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations.”

Ps Suubi, who has been to many places in Malaysia, also told that East Malaysia has more open heaven than in West Malaysia. It is the key to revival in the nation. “Don’t sleep; revival will not come when you are sleeping!”

“Pray until you experience an open heaven. You can never go back to the other level,” he said.

Praying in the spirit is a sign of humility. Some people refuse to pray things they don’t understand. There are so many things we don’t understand, like why a cow eats green grass and produces white milk.

 

 

Ps Suubi continued with the importance of prayer. “People don’t attend prayer meetings because of the boredom spirit,” he told. That is not good. You receive many prophesies that never come to past. Some of you have a prophetic bank! For prophesies to come to pass, you have to pray for them. “Don’t remain in the wonderful prophesy. Take the prophesy and pray, tell the Lord,” he added. It is important to come to a prayer meeting.

“The Lord releases a corporate anointing at a prayer meeting. Corporate prayer leads to corporate burden, which leads to corporate anointing and to corporate authority.” 

In Acts 2, when the Holy Spirit came down in the upper room, it was impossible to have 120 people pray fervently. The super apostles were praying. In the atmosphere, there are people who are prayers, he said. Each one of them received the tongue of fire.

Prayer generates power. The more the church stops praying in the spirit, miracles disappear. Prayer stirs up the spiritual man in us to generate power. “It is important for us to make prayer our first priority,” he said.

Ps Suubi then asked the crowd if they pray for their spiritual and political leaders. “God is the one who makes leaders,” he said. Good or bad, you have to pray for them. You have to love him, I don’t care if you stone me or not, you have to bless him, he said. God is the one who anointed him, that’s what the bible says. You are not already there, he told. 

The pastor called the people to pray for the leaders and nation. The session ended with an hour of praying in the spirit. Over 400 people from various churches in the city attended the seminar.

 

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