HELP!! I NEED PRAYER!!

T

tup May 18, 2005

Will you PLEASE pray with me and for me? (My name is Steve) I need people can commit themselves in REAL prayer and fasting for me. My life is a total disgrace to God and to man. My life has no fruit and does not bring God the glory and honor He so rightly deserves. I am so ashamed of my carnality and my luke-warmness. My head is full of religious knowledge but this has only brought pride and harm not only to me but others who I attempted to impress with my "spirituality".My cries to God are shallow and casual, but I seem unable to make them more desperate. I need Him to met me even if I am not yet fully desperate enough yet. Is not THE CROSS and the BLOOD OF CHRIST more than sufficient to cleanse my heart and make it truly holy and pure? I do not expect less.I need to REALLY need God to come down into my life in a way that He has never done before. I am sick of casualness and carnality. I do not know what to do. I have nothing to offer God. I know about His FULL provision in Christ on the cross for me, but my life lacks the reality of HIM!!!I want my life to bring honor and Glory to God and Jesus Christ. I throw my self at God daily but He seems miles away. I guess I am not really serious enough yet but do not know how to get more serious.HELP!!!I will not post again until I have the reality of Jesus Christ.Please no advice or doctrine, I have that already.

S

Spitfire May 18, 2005

I will not post again until I have the reality of Jesus Christ.I have to laugh at this because my whole life feels this way on a daily basis. I will pray for you, Steve, please pray for me, as well. Love, Dian.

T

tinluke May 18, 2005

Dear Brother Steve, I will pray for you. I am writing your name down right now and putting in my Bible. Just a word of encouragment; Only the Lord can cause you to despise your sin, and hate your lukewarmness, only He can reveale to your heart the deep desire for Him!! The Lord loves the prayer of a man who says I can't do it Lord, if you don't do it in me than I will die this way!! God has caused this anguish in your heart and He who has started a good work in you is faithful to complete it!! I know he will!!!!

sermonindex May 19, 2005

Bro Steve, You (and Dian) will be on my hearts tonight. Let's just meet in the air tonight.Praise God NOW for the work He's doing in you!!

sermonindex May 19, 2005

I was born into a religious family. As I became an adult, I was so desperate for God. I see that same desperation in you. Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find. Sometimes God lets us get so desperate, that when He reveals Himself to us, the overwhelming glory and the releif beyond description places us in a place of obedience and worship.As I said, I too was desperate for God. I went on a weekend retreat that I really had no desire to go on. I told God that if He didn't reveal Himself to me in a real and personal way during this retreat, that I was never going to darken the door of a church again. Sound familiar?God did show up on that weekend. He completely ingulfed and consumed my heart. Everything that was dirty, everything that was guilty just gushed up out of me. I began to weep and worship.A word of caution. When God shows up, He gives life to the Spirit, but not the flesh. The flesh is never regenerated. It's desires do not change. It's harmony with temptation is often stronger than it was before. It can only be overcome by the Spirit. Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit sayeth the Lord of Hosts. How do we get this Spirit? By faith.Steve, you're not the first person who finds God at the "end of their rope". When misery gets so intense, and frustration appears ready to consume us, if we are really sincere in our cry out to God, He will come, and He will flood our souls with the wonder of Himself. From then on, you will not need a book to tell you God is real. You will know it, for He lives inside your heart.Your situation is unique. But you are not waiting on God. God is waiting on you. Throw yourself upon His mercy and grace. These two, mercy and grace far exceed our understanding. The supply is limiless. Better yet, He has a storehouse of it just waiting for you.Oh God, there is no understanding like that which illumins the heart when Your Holy Spirit comes in like a flood. Lord, I know that You are dealing with Steve, even as I pray. I put my trust completely in You, that You will leave the 99, and go after this one. Let Your Holy Light so shine in his heart, that all things past will melt away. Make life completely new in his heart, and cause Steve to be a new creation full of worship that gives Your Son Jesus all the glory, honor, and praise. We ask if for Jesus' sake. Amen and amen.

R

roadsign May 19, 2005

Steve, you have no idea how beautiful your words are to me - they touch my heart deeply. They are an expression of honesty - to the core. Isn't that what thrilled Jesus more than anything else!!May God surprise you today with a revelation of himself!Diane

sermonindex May 19, 2005

I just wanna say this to you brother, I love your witness and your testimony!! They just make my heart sing with the Things of God that you testify to. I just wanted to give you that encouragement, and thank you and love you in Jesus' Name. Your brother, Neil

sermonindex May 19, 2005

Brother, since I read your plea for intercessory prayer you have been on my heart so intensely. And I read a letter from my sister Dian and I realized she was on my heart too.I feel that your burden became my burden, because what you write is testimony to my burden as well. Does that make sense? That somehow my pain in my walk, is the pain you testify to as well. (as well as the pain Dian feels)Holy dissatisfaction.So around 9 last night I went to my knees, and I was with Jesus in the air, and I was with you and Dian, and Jesus said that I must learn to love Him, and I began to focus on lovely Jesus. Learn to love Jesus, and if this is hard, say 'Jesus loves me' over and over.May we become undone, and lose the head knowledge, and become simple in love and devotion to Jesus, for His yoke is easy and His burden light.May we become undone and learn to love Him.Then He gave me this quote, "Guard the good deposit".(Dian, this is all for you also)"Guard the good deposit".I didnt know where that was, so by the precious candles, I read that it was in Second Timothy, 1st chapter, and verse 14:"Guard the good deposit that was entrusted to you-guard it with the help of the Holy Spirit Who lives in us".He's gonna light us up like we never been lit up before, He's gonna fan the flames of the gift of God into a Holy Fire that will burn off the sin and the junk and the dross that clings to us.Lukewarm?!?Praise Him now for the conviction that WE are unfit for service, and only THROUGH HIM are we made worthy!!!!Glory to God!!Lets praise Him for turning us into instruments of Revival.Steve, hear me, Dian hear me......He's doing something in all our lives that is beyond what we dream of, beyond what we ask for.The corner is being turned in Jesus' Name.

sermonindex May 19, 2005

A message from Dr. Michael Brown that always lifted me has been Holy DesperationFire on the altar