What every Christian should know about the gift of;
SUPPLICATION!!!!
As children of the Most High God, whom He has called and chosen to be His own, even before the foundation of the world, we have a responsibility to walk upright before the God of our salvation. Biblical history has taught us that He is not willing that His Children should remain estranged from Him. Just like a good parent, God will take measures and steps to cause us to return to Himself.In the book of 1 Kings, chapter 8, God shows what He expects form us, as we return to Him. In prayer, we must go before Him in supplication. Sin moves us out from God’s favor, even though, grace yet abides. But, supplication is the vehicle of restoration. When we come before God in prayers of supplication, we are repenting for the wrong we have done and imploring God to restore what we lost because of our sins. Supplication is the voice of reconnection and re-establishment in God’s favor. God longs to hear our heart’s cry for restoration.
One of the biggest mistakes we make as Christians is that; we hope to see God move on our behalf, in healing, deliverance, financial break through and other areas, without first surrendering and confessing through supplication before Him. God will not hear our prayers of petition and request, if we do not first repent through prayers of supplication.Every time David failed God, he knew to supplicate before God in order to be restored.Psalm 6:9 KJVThe LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.Psalm 30:8 KJVI cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplicationPsalm 55:1 KJVGive ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.Psalm 119:170 KJVLet my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.Psalm 142:1 KJVI cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.We must cry out to God. He will hear us, deliver us and make us free.
Only a sincere heart can produce supplication. Supplication shows our humility in recognizing that we need God. It shows uttermost reverence and submission to God in our dependence on Him for restoration.If you ever fall from the grace of God, just supplicate before Him.If you ever fall into the snare of disobedience as so many of us do, just supplicate before Him. Search out the crevices and corners of your heart, and confess every, failure, fault and flaw. Pour out your heart before God. Never allow your soul to remain on the outside of the favor of God.Only after we supplicate before God, will He hear us form heaven, forgive our sins and heal our land. Supplication attracts God and all the blessings He has in store for us. Famine, pestilence, wars, distress, sickness, habits, disease… cease, when we sincerely and humbly supplicate before the Almighty God. Take advantage of the gift of supplication and be restored today in the name of Jesus.Please read and meditate on the scriptures below. Don’t spend and other day, outside of your favor in God.
Daniel 9:20 KJVAnd whiles I was speaking , and praying , and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;Ephesians 6:18 KJVPraying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;Philippians 4:6 KJVBe careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
1 KINGS 8:33-40 KJV33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.35 When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk , and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest ; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
Begin utilizing your gift of SUPPLICATION today!By:
Bishop Isaiah Musgrove.