The New Life In Christ Jesus

    Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, Hebrews 11:1. One of those peculiar rules and requirements of effectual prayer is that you present the Word of God as your evidence. This is one of the reasons you should constantly study God’s Word; the Word is evidence you need to lay claims to your inheritance in Christ. If you were told to prove your ownership to a piece of land, for instance, you wouldn’t set out to move the property from its location to show anyone making such enquiry, would you? Rather, you’d simply produce the “evidence” or “title deed” to the property. in the Amplified version, faith is defined as “…the assurance (the confirmation, THE TITLE   DEED) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we]do not see {and} the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses]” Hebrews 11:1. When you seek to effect changes through the prayer of faith, you must be spiritu

     Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, Philippians 3:13.    The book of acts gives us the detailed story of Saul of Tarus, who later became known as Paul. Prior to his conversion, he desperately persecuted God’s people. However, one day, on his way to Damascus, in furtherance of his merciless onslaught   against the church, he had an encounter with the Lord “…what wilt thou have me to do?...” Acts 9:6.   That day, Lord changed his destiny and gave him a new focus. The hitherto persecutor of the church became one of the Lord’s greatest Apostles whom He charged with the responsibility to take Gospel to the Gentiles, turning them from darkness to light, and from  the power of Satan unto God, Acts 26:18. With a greater zeal than that with which he previously persecuted the church, Paul committed His life to reaching the Gospel, refusing to be deterre