Gannam's Letter To Timothy Essay

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Prayer is an essential to any kind of religious faith. Over the years and years of believing in a higher power,

We pray for a soul to be saved and have confidence that God will answer because that soul is one for which Christ died. That soul is precious in the sight of God. When we pray in the name of Jesus, we leave behind our own name, and take on his. In doing so, we leave behind what we think is ours, and take up that which belongs to the name we hold. When we do anything in the name of Jesus, we do it for his glory and we do it in his power, not our own.

became the apostle to the gentiles. Why would Paul, a Jew, want to be an

spiritual weapons, such as prayer, have to be used against the spirit of lawlessness. God wants

As Christians, we are told that “You can get anything—anything you ask for in prayer—if you believe” (Matthew 21:22 LB). Shouldn’t we encourage our

Introduction: In these few verses Apostle Paul exhorts and directs Christians how to behave themselves in the spiritual warfare with the enemies of their soul; And to the exercise of several Christians grace, which he propose to them as so many pieces of spiritual armor , to preserve and defend them in the conflict. The apostle encouraged them about their duty.

Is thought that the recipient of the letter were people from a province in central Asia Minor and Paul preached them during his first mission. The authors of the letter to the Galatians was Paul and Jesus Spirit. One of the main purpose of the letter or theme was to address the relationship from the Gentile Christians towards Judaism. The main points of the letter are to be truthful to God and commit to Him, in order to gain the Kingdom of heaven. In verse Gal 1:7 Paul clarifies that there is no other Gospel than the one that Jesus proclaimed. Paul explains that there is people that try to confuse Christians and pervert the gospel of Christ but he is warning us not to fall into that. It repeats over and over to not follow the law of the world but the teachings of Jesus Christ. We all are the church. The ones who believe on God are the church. To be the church in this letter means to believe in Jesus Christ and only worship God because He gave us freedom from sin and He is the only one that can lead us to the Kingdom of God. It also means to live by the fruit of the Spirit which is in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal 5:22-23). It means to die to the sin, to reject the sin of, fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing (Gal 5:19-21), and anything that looks like

Satan can manipulate our minds and seduce us so that we’ll disobey God. He’ll take a natural wholesome desire and twist around like a shiny object. He’ll tempts us with a short cut for a promise of a reward for our disobedience. His weapons are always a mirror image like pleasure, power, or profit and Satan will stop at nothing to make you give in to him. You might think, I would never let that happen! But that’s a huge mistake to think you’re not vulnerable. Jesus taught us to pray, “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil!” Today, let’s be on guard. Let’s be proactive in our prayer life, and lets prize our obedience to God more than temptation’s

It is our direct communication with God where one pours out their soul. In Jeremiah 33:3 it reads, "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Through the Bible, God spoke directly to Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Isaiah, Jesus and countless others. The Bible clearly gives verses on just about every aspect of prayer. In Luke 11: 1-4 the disciples recognized that Jesus kept a daily relationship with God and one asked, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples” and to this He taught them the Lord’s Prayer. Jesus knew the vital importance of prayer and His communications with

Piper also makes the comparison of prayer being an essence for church and the missions as a walkie-talkie is an essence for a war. I agree with Piper when he talks about not being able to fathom the idea of prayer until you can get yourself to believe that life is war. For myself personally, it was difficult to understand the coalition between walkie-talkies and war to life and prayer. Piper says, “Probably the number one reason prayer malfunctions in the hands of believers is that we try to turn a wartime walkie-talkie into a domestic intercom” (Piper 69). Basically, we do not put enough trust and faith in our God. We are ready to share with Him our comforts and things that put us at ease. However, when things get a little complicated and life begins to look like “battlefield” it really is, we do not put trust in Him. God never promised to make life trouble-free for us but He has shown us enough how much he does care for His

Thank you for your post on Dave Earley’s thoughts on “fleece” praying and its relevancy in the Church Age today. In order to understand the relevancy of “fleece” praying, believers must understand the purpose of praying. Richard J. Foster shares, “Of all spiritual disciplines, prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father” (1998, 33). Prayer is a communication with our heavenly Father. Jesus shared with the disciples a simple, but powerful interactive prayer with his disciples. He stated, “Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done…” (Matt. 6:9). I agree with you wholeheartedly, “God will not answer prayers that are not a part of his will

God has told us to be persistent in prayer, to be a watchman on the wall. “Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me” (Ezekiel 3:17,

Take a moment to think about ten of them. If I asked you, where in the world is the hardest place to pray, where would you say? The hardest place would be here in the United States. Why? Awesome question! As Americans, we’ve become so caught up in a culture of always doing “something” that it’s hard to slow down and pray for any length of time. It feels uncomfortable or feels like we’re wasting valuable time. Our society has placed such a high premium on accomplishments or on being productive that prayer sometimes goes against the grain of our society. Do we see any accomplishments in prayer? Are we being productive when we pray? Prayer is nothing more than talking to God, but how many of us feel like it’s hopeless or useless? We pray for healing only to continue in sickness. We ask for victory over sin only to find defeat. What good does it do to pray? Another problem with the American culture is our attention span. When we’re not working, we’re watching television, playing video games, surfing the Internet(s) or on our smartphones. The next time you go to a restaurant or to the movie theaters, look around to see how many people are on their phones. Being still and quiet is not in the American culture. Sin is another “thing” which keeps us from praying as we ought to. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act III, scene iii, Hamlet sneaks in to kill King Claudius, who killed his own brother and Hamlet’s father. At the end of the scene, Hamlet realized he cannot kill Claudius and sneaks back out of the room and we hear Claudius say, “My words fly up, my thoughts remain low. Words without thought never to heaven go.” Claudius tried to repent for committing murder, but he couldn’t. We see him kneeling in prayer, but he couldn’t feel any sense of comfort or mercy from God. There’s a realization that because he had no intentions of confessing to the crime or even changing his life, his words were empty

2 Timothy 2:1-4, “You therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. “