Hi guys (:

Another abstract from Dr. Cho's article! Hope you are blessed by it! (: Let's really keep all our friends in prayer! Be specific in your prayers! P.U.S.H = Pray Until Something Happen! (: Revival!!! (:

THROUGH PRAYER YOU CAN TOUCH ONE ANOTHER:

When you want to win a soul to Jesus Christ. First you must have time to pray for that person so that the power of God may have already worked in that heart. God makes no distinction between time and space. Through prayer, you direct God's power to that person or to that area. Many people try to win others at random. You don't have much success in winning souls in this way. Through the cell system, the cell leaders always should point out one family, and concentrate their prayers on that particular family. I tell my cell groups. You only need to win one family in six months. So take about three months to pray for them. Every time you gather together, pinpoint that family, call their names out in prayer and direct God's power to that family. Usually, our cell leaders go to that particular home and lay hands on the outside wall of the house, and pray, calling out the names of the persons in that household. After three months of praying, when they visit that home, they have already been broken by the Holy Spirit, and easily accept Christ in to their hearts. So through prayer, you bring the power of God down to a specific person or to a specific area. You break the power of Satan. Before you bind the strong man, you are unable to steal his possessions. The devil is a strong man and can hold the people. So, if you, through prayer, bind the strong man, then you can go and deliver the people from his clutch.

Prayer is very necessary for evangelism. Many people try to program evangelism. They try to make it successful through their programs. That is a very foolish thing to do. We are not fighting against blood and flesh. We are fighting against spirits. So, if you pray a vague prayer you will have no power. You should have a pin-pointed prayer. When we have prayer in the Olympic Stadium, I always give the subject of prayer: Let us pray for yourself, your family, your church, your nation, your President, reunification, etc. All of these are specific goals. Then God's power will come down and destroy Satan and deliver. But if you just say, "Oh, God, bless us," vaguely, how can God bless you? There are 7,000 promises in the Bible. Which one do you want Him to use? Many people have vague faith because they do not have clear-cut goals. Faith is the substance of things hoped for. Faith is the substance of things. If you don't say clear things, then faith cannot have clear-cut substance. Many people pray very vague prayers. So, they receive a vague answer. If you pray for a clear goal, you will have a clear answer. You cannot have powerful cutting faith without having a clear goal.

For a long time I prayed a vague prayer. "Oh, God, bless our nation. "What kind of blessing? It is so vague. "Oh God, bless my life." How do you want Him to bless you? Healing, spiritual blessing? You must make your goal very clear. "Father, bless this, this, this." That is the reason that Jesus always asked a sharp question when the people came to Him. "Son of David, help me." Jesus asked, "What do you want me to do for you?" Blind Bartimaeus came to Jesus. Jesus knew that he was blind. Still, Jesus wanted to make it very clear. "What do you want me to do?" "Sir I want to see." May it be according to your faith." Jesus always wanted people to be clear about their goal so that they would have clear faith. So when you pray, make it very clear what you want. You must make your goal very clear, very definite, so that God's power may be directed toward that goal. God's power can be like a magnifying glass.

Concentrate on one point and you can burn that point. But if you just pray all over the world, nothing to be burned. You can bring God's power down through prayer to the specific goal. Make it very specific when you pray. Keep on pounding on that point. Many people try to use beautiful language in their prayers. You don't need to have beautiful language. Just keep praying on one point. Think of the man whose friends came to his house in the middle of the night and he had no bread to give them. He went to his neighbor and said, "Please give me some bread, three loaves of bread so that I may feed my friends who came in the evening. The friend said, "Oh, I and my children have already retired. Come tomorrow. I am not ready to rise up and give you bread." What did his friend say? Did he use all kinds of flowery words? No, the friend only spoke in one shrieking voice, "Give me bread! Give me bread! Give me bread!" He did not need any flowery words. He was knocking and pounding upon the door saying the same words over and over. His friend in bed was so harassed that he said, "I would never give you bread because you are my friend, but you are harassing me so much that I will give you some bread to get rid of you."

When you pray effectively, you just pound on one point with one phrase over and over again. If you just repeat, then you will lose power. Concentrate with one simple sentence on that point, then you can break the power of Satan.

Love,
Mel (:

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