January 18th 2012 Wednesday Message

Scriptures: Jonah 3:10, Genesis 19:23-26, 2 Kings 19:14-19, 29-37

Before writing this message, I prayed to the Lord. I prayed, “People do not know how important and necessary prayer is deep in their hearts. Please make them realize when they hear the Word to the point their hearts are set on fire, realize, and take the action of praying their entire life.”
Then the Lord spoke to me. No matter how much you tell someone about the importance of prayer, a person who hasn’t experienced it will never understand how important prayer is and how prayer determines their destiny.
In a large town in the countryside there lived a subject of the king of that country. That subject had a woman whom he loved very much. But a wicked person plotted against the woman and she was taken by an official and put to death unjustly. In that situation, what should the subject do? He should put everything aside and desperately petition the king about the injustice that he suffered. This is how absolutely necessary prayer is. If the subject did not tell the king, the king wouldn’t know and thus would not be able to exercise his power. Instead, he would have no choice but to let it be.

If the subject says to the king, “She was my beloved one. If you don’t take care of it, I will handle it myself with my own authority. Please just give me permission. I am your faithful subject, am I not? Please allow me to handle all of those who caused me injustice,” then the king will say, “I gave you that position and authority, so go ahead. Go and settle the matter to your heart’s content.”

We need to pray to God just like a faithful subject petitioning the king. Then God will either resolve the matter Himself or let us resolve it with the authority that He has given us. He clearly resolves it through one of these two methods.
After making me realize like this, the Lord said, “In this way, now is a time when prayer is very important. Now is a time when you must surely pray to God about your grief.”

Prayer enables you to have a give-and-take relationship with God and Jesus. Both parties must be living in order for them to have a give-and-take relationship, whether it is between things in nature or between human beings. If the relationship breaks, even if you are living, you are dead in terms of function.
Prayer is better than swords, spears or any new weapons. Prayer is a weapon that is more powerful than the atomic bomb.

Do you know how urgently prayer is needed in this time period? At this time, prayer is necessary for your life in this way: a virgin in love has a baby but because she is afraid that the parents will find out, she throws the infant out of the window in the winter. Someone immediately catches the baby and brings it into a warm room. Pray thinking that the newborn baby that was thrown out of the window is you, yourself. Your fate is determined by your sincere prayer.

A person who prays will not end up on a rough path, and every time they pray, the line of life that was as thin as a piece of thread becomes as thick as an iron rope. Therefore, they can safely climb even a rocky cliff. Those who do not pray have a treacherous path before them and their line of life is as thin as a piece of thread.