Prayer Power

WHAT HAPPENS IN HEAVEN WHEN WE PRAY?



This is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen and is so true:



I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, 'This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.

I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.

Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.


The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them." I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section, my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed." How is it that there is no work going on here? ' I asked.

"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments"

"How does one acknowledge God's blessings? " I asked..

"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord. "

"What blessings should they ever acknowledge God for?" I asked.

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world ' s wealthy. "

"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity..."

"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness .. You are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. "

"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... You are ahead of 700 million people in the world."

"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world."


"If your parents are still alive and still married ...you are very rare."

"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair........"

Ok, what now? How can I start?

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

Live like Ezra of the old!

For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. - Ezra 7:10

In the book of Ezra we read in Chapter 7 and verse 10 that Ezra prepared his heart to SEEK the law of the Lord, and to DO it and to TEACH in Israel statues and judgments.
Ezra was a well-read person and he was a teacher of the Law. Inspite of being busy and thorough in scriptures, he made up his mind and prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord.
In these last days, we too, should be like Ezra of the old. We need to first
Seek the law of the LORD with all our heart - this means that we need to read the Word, meditate and understand the Word in all its contexts. Many a times, we are carried away by the 'business' of the world and we forget to spend time with Him. We look to the gifts rather than the giver says a proverb. How true it is! We are more focussed on the created things than on the creater himself. Like Ezra, we too should prepare our hearts to seek the Bible, the law, the living words. In the book of Isaiah, it says to seek the Lord while he is near. In the book of Amos, it says: Amos 8: 11, 12
11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD: 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.This prophecy is going to be fulfilled soon. We are going to face a famine of the Word of God. But before that happens, we need to prepare and equip ourselves with the word of God.
Again, I stress on the fact that we need to prepare our hearts to seek the law of the Lord.


The second thing that Ezra did was to DO the word of God. It means that he did not just seek it and forget it, he made it a point to act according to the word of God. Many a times, we hear the saying 'walk the talk'. That means, we need to walk according to what we say. We need to be what we profess ourselves to be. We need to act according to the word of God. In today's world, we lack this. We are ready to stand and speak about the word of God but we are never willing to act/do what it says us to do.





The third thing that Ezra did was to TEACH the word of God. He did not stop at walking the talk, he taught many others the word which was a rarity at that point of time. We also need to do the same. We need to teach people the word of God.
We tend to look at the other way, we first teach the word of God, then we try doing it and then towards the end we try to seek the word of God. This is not the way. It should be the other way round.
First SEEK the word.
Second ACT according to the word.
Third TEACH the word.
Wishing that you all will follow Ezra's footsteps in Seeking, Doing and Teaching the Word of God.
regards
Harry