Prayer is the Key to Revival Prayer and the Holy Spirit Scripture Ref: Joh 14:1617

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Prayer is the Key to RevivalPrayer and the Holy
SpiritScripture Ref Joh 1416-17

• Joh 1416-17 'I will ask the Father, and he will
  give you another Helper, who will stay with you
  forever. He is the Spirit, who reveals the truth
  about God. The world cannot receive him, because
  it cannot see him or know him. But you know him,
  because he remains with you and is in you'
• I am of the opinion that our outward action will
  never reach higher that our inward life of
  prayer. You will never grow stronger than your
  ability to pray. It does not matter how mutch you
  give or even how mutch you sacrifice. You are
  nothing better than what you are when you are
  alone with God on your knees.
• How important it is for us to know and understand
  the importance of prayer. There is no way we are
  going to see the will of God accomplished in our
  lives and ministry if we don't learn how to pray.

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• Last week we spend time on the theme - What
  Prayer Accomplishes, and saw that Prayer Produces
  Power. We spoke on prayer and personal power and
  prayer and corporate power. We also saw how that
  Prayer will Overcome Satan. Today we are going to
  see how that Prayer Opens the Door for the Holy
  Spirit How that Prayer Brings the Holy Spirit's
  Manifestation and How that Prayer Creates
  Spiritual Sensitivity.
• This is the time of the Holy Spirit. Jesus told
  his disciples that it was imperative for Him to
  go away so that the Holy Spirit would come. At
  the Day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came upon
  and filled 120 faithful waiting in Jerusalem.
  This is the time/dispensation of the Holy Spirit.
• How do we get to know the Holy Spirit? We only
  become aware of His nature as we enter a life of
  prayer.
• Prayer Opens the Door for the Holy Spirit
• The Holy Spirit can bless you when you read the
  Bible. The Holy Spirit can direct you as you
  witness for Christ. The Holy Spirit can anoint
  you as you minister to others.

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• But if you want to have an intimate communion
  with the Holy Spirit you need to pray.
• See the problem is that we know that we are born
  again and we know we are filled with the Holy
  Spirit. Yet we also think of the Holy Spirit as
  an experience and not as a personality. Getting
  to know this personality would require of us
  spending time talking with the Holy Spirit and
  letting Him talk to us.
• Prayer is more fellowship with the Holy Spirit
  that any thing else. See it is in this fellowship
  with the Holy Spirit that we are renewed
  spiritualy, mentally and physically. It is the
  Holy Spirit that'll impregnate us with destiny
  and with purpose and with promise. 1Co 212 'But
  we have not the spirit of the world, but the
  Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have
  knowledge of the things which are freely given to
  us by God'
• See it is the Holy Spirit that anoints us to
  minister with power, but He also protects us from
  the attacks of Satan. Daily communion with the
  Holy Spirit can shield us from the effects of
  attacks.

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• If your prayers are empty and not refreshing, it
  could be that you are not fellowshipping with the
  Holy Spirit. See the Holy Spirit will bring you
  into the same joy, peace and feeling of right
  standing that you so desire. Remember that the
  Kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but
  righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  (Rom 1417)?
• Prayer Brings the Holy Spirit's Manifestation
• 1Co 121 'Now concerning spiritual gifts,
  brethren, I would not have you ignorant' This is
  important because so much of the church is
  ignorant regarding the gifts and the
  manifestation of the Holy Spirit.
• We receive the fullness of the personality of the
  Holy Spirit when we are born again. After that we
  are admonished to enter a more intimate
  relationship with the Holy Spirit receiving a
  fuller understanding of His personality and
  workings. We enter this fuller understanding and
  functionality through prayer and fellowship with
  Him.
• See Purpose and Destiny and Promise will only
  manifest to those who desire to go deeper with
  God. Those who desire true fellowship.

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• Paul divides our purpose and destiny into several
  ministry gifts. These gifts are given as God
  chooses 1Co 1218 And once we know our
  purpose/our ministry gift, we are to develop that
  ministry Paul explains in 1Ti 414-15 'Do not
  neglect the spiritual gift that is in you, which
  was given to you when the prophets spoke and the
  elders laid their hands on you. Practice these
  things and devote yourself to them, in order that
  your progress may be seen by all'
• In his letter to the Ephesians Paul lists these
  ministry gifts Eph 411 'It was he who "gave
  gifts to people" he appointed some to be
  apostles, others to be prophets, others to be
  evangelists, others to be pastors and teachers'
  and then he explains their function in the next
  verse 12 'For the perfecting of the saints, for
  the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the
  body of Christ'
• Now how is it that we grow and mature in our
  ministry? There is no other way than prayer and
  fellowship with the gift giver The Holy Spirit
  and to practice and devote oneself to the gifts
  and the gift giver. Your ministry will only grow
  through prayer and fellowship.

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• The Holy Spirit's 7/11 manifestation scripture
  1Co 127-11 'But to every man some form of the
  Spirit's working is given for the common good.
  For to one are given words of wisdom through the
  Spirit and to another words of knowledge through
  the same Spirit To another faith in the same
  Spirit and to another the power of taking away
  disease, by the one Spirit And to another the
  power of working wonders and to another the
  prophet's word and to another the power of
  testing spirits to another different sorts of
  tongues and to another the power of making clear
  the sense of the tongues But all these are the
  operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving
  to every man separately as his pleasure is'
• The 14th chapter of 1Cor is dedicated to the
  proper use of the Holy Spirits manifestation and
  the 13th chapter of 1Cor the love chapter
  shows the proper motivation for the exercising of
  these gifts.
• The way to develop spiritual gifts/manifestation
  is to be dedicated to prayer. Prayer will cause
  the different gifts to work together. Prayer will
  develop the motivation of love which will keep
  all spiritual gifts/ manifestation in proper
  order. Prayer is the answer.

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• Prayer Creates Spiritual Sensitivity
• Scripture is more that black ink on white paper.
  Jesus said in Joh 663 that 'The spirit is the
  life giver and ... the words which I have said to
  you are spirit and they are life' We also read
  that God is spirit, and that they that worship
  him must worship in spirit and in truth. (John
  424) So it is important to alowe the Holy Spirit
  to develop in us such a spiritual sensitivity
  that we are able to understand God's Word in a
  new way and that we worship Him in a new way.
• The reason the Word of God is sometimes not
  understood is because there is a higher dimention
  or frequency than just a natural wisdom and
  understanding to the Word of God. It contains a
  spiritual dimention impossible to comprehend
  without the Holy Spirit's help.
• Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of
  God, Paul wrote to the Romans. God increases our
  faith as we develop our hearing or spiritual
  sensitivity. Our sensitivity comes by prayerfully
  studying God's Word.
• The same is true for our worship. It is much more
  than words we sing

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• As our spiritual senses are developed we can
  understand the 'Solid food' of the Word of God
  and enter the deeper dimentions of His presence
  and Glory. Heb 514 'Solid food, on the other
  hand, is for adults, who through practice are
  able to distinguish between good and evil' See
  those who have not developed their spiritual
  sensitivity can only partake of the milk of God's
  Word.
• It is also developing a sensitivity to discern
  the Lord's presence. At times the Lord's presence
  will be so intense during your time of prayer and
  fellowship with Him that you will feel Him close
  enough to touch. It is when we loose this
  intimacy that the Christian life can become dull
  and routine.
• If you are not accustomed to this type of
  fellowship, the time to begin is now. Right now
  begin to ask the Holy Spirit to make the presence
  of Jesus known to you. Ask Him to give you a new
  understanding of His Word. Ask Him to bring you
  into a new walk of fellowship in the Holy Spirit.