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  (SERMON CLIP) THE BLESSING AND IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER
  by Bill McLeod
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Summary: This sermon emphasizes the power and importance of fervent
prayer in the life of a believer, highlighting the need to strive
together in prayer with love and faith for one another. It explores how
the love of the Spirit is manifested when believers are fully committed
to prayer, and how God's love and power are poured into our hearts
through the Holy Spirit. The message also draws from the example of Job,
showing how his situation changed when he prayed for others,
illustrating the transformative impact of intercessory prayer.

Topics: "Fervent Prayer", "Intercessory Prayer"
Scripture References: Romans 8:26, 2 Timothy 1:7, Romans 5:5, Job 42:10, Acts 6:4

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This sermon emphasizes the power and importance of fervent prayer in the
life of a believer, highlighting the need to strive together in prayer
with love and faith for one another. It explores how the love of the
Spirit is manifested when believers are fully committed to prayer, and
how God's love and power are poured into our hearts through the Holy
Spirit. The message also draws from the example of Job, showing how his
situation changed when he prayed for others, illustrating the
transformative impact of intercessory prayer.

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For the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and for the for the love of the
Spirit That you strive together with me the word really means agonize In
your prayers to God for me Now he's saying something there that needs to
be picked up, and it's this that in some way When we get totally
committed in the area of prayer The love of the Spirit is manifest in
fullness in our heart and life God has not given us a spirit of fear,
but of power and of love and of a disciplined mind The love of God is
poured out or shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who is given
unto us but prayer You also helping together by prayer Did you ever
notice in Job chapter 42 at what point God set Job free from all his
problems? He said I am made to possess wearisome months of vanity and
when did it all end? The Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed
for his friends And You and I will find the same thing that there will
be times when we're interceding with a heart filled with love and faith
For some brother or sister or some Christian work, and while we're doing
that for others God does something special for us In our heart and in
our name You Also helping together by prayer You know Christian people I
say this kindly most of us don't believe that at least many of us don't
if we did we'd pray more We would make prayer the principal thing Like
the Apostles we admire them great men of God great preachers Spirit-
filled great men of prayer. They said we will give ourselves Continually
to prayer and to the ministry of the word But we do it the other way
around we'll give ourselves continually to the ministry of the word and
if we have time we'll pray But that's not what the Bible says I Read us
in churches

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