++ NEW LIFE GLOBAL CHURCH – BIBLE STUDY ++
(THE TOPIC : “PRAYER AND IT’S DIVERSITIES”)
KEY VERSES ON PRAYER FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT:
— EPHESIANS 1:16-21
— EPHESIANS 3:14-21 (ACTUAL PRAYERS)
— PHILIPPIANS 1: 9-11
— COLOSSIANS 1:9-11
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— MATTHEW 17:21
— 21:13
— 21:22
— MARK 11:17
— ACTS 1:14
— 6:4
— 12:5
— ROMANS 12:12
— 1 CORINTHIANS 7:5 (PARTIAL LIST)
— 2 CORINTHIAN 1:11
— 9:14
— EPHESIANS 6:18
— PHILIPPIANS 1:4
— 1:19
— 4:6
— COLOSSIANS 4:2
— 1TIMOTHY 4:5
— JAMES 5:15-16
— 1PETER 4:7
ALL OF THESE REFERENCES CARRY SOME OF THESE:
— GREEK WORD “PROS-YOO-KHAY”, S# 4335 FROM S# 4336, MADE OF A COMPOUND WORD S# 4314 AND 2172 = “TO PRAY EARNESTLY”!
— GREEK WORD “DEH-AY-SIS”, S#1162 FROM S#1189 = “A PETITION/ REQUEST/SUPPLICATION”!
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— GREEK WORD “ENT-YOOK-SIS”, S#1783 FROM S#1793 = “AN INTERVIEW/SUPPLICATION/INTERCESSION”!!
— GREEK WORD “YOO-KHAY”,S#2171 FROM S#2172 = “A PETITION TO GOD/A VOW OF OBLIGATION”
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I WANT TO FOCUS AND SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME ON ROMANS 12:12 WHICH IS A VERSE THAT THE LORD HAD GIVEN / OPENED UP TO ME QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO NOT TOO LONG AFTER I GOT SAVED WHICH REALLY ENCOURAGED ME AS WELL AS DROVE ME TO NOT ONLY STUDY MORE ON THIS VITAL SUBJECT OF “PRAYER”, BUT TO ALSO GET ME TO SPEND MORE OF MY TIME IN “PRAYER” AS IN “PRAYING”, AS WELL AS “PRAYING ACCORDING TO THE WILL OF GOD” & NOT “ACCORDING TO MY OWN WILL” AS WE SEE IN THE LIFE OF JESUS ACCORDING TO JOHN 5:17,19-20,30 ETC!!
THE “AMPLIFIED BIBLE CLASSIC EDITION” CARRIES THESE WORDS “BE CONSTANT IN PRAYER”! REGARDING THIS WORD/TRANSLATION “CONSTANT”, IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK WE HAVE S#5278 “HOOP-OM-EN-O” WHICH IS A COMPOUND WORD MADE UP OF S#5259 AND S#3306 WHICH BASICALLY CARRIES THE IDEA OF “TO UNDERGO, TO HAVE FORTITUDE, TO PERSEVERE, TO ENDURE, TO BE PATIENT”, ALL OF THESE KEY TERMS IN THE CONTEXT OF “PRAYER”!!
HERE IS A VERY SHORT LIST OF DIFFERENT TRANSLATIONS / VERSIONS:
— GREEN’S TRANSLATION: “ENDURING IN PRAYER”
— NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE: “DEVOTED TO PRAYER”
— NEW KING JAMES VERSION: “CONTINUING STEADFASTLY IN PRAYER’
— SCHREINER’S TRANSLATION: “BE DEVOTED TO PRAYER”
— MOO’S TRANSLATION: “BE DEVOTED TO / TO PERSIST IN PRAYER”!
— WUEST’S TRANSLATION; “WITH RESPECT TO PRAYER, PERSEVERING IN IT CONTINUALLY”!
— WEYMOUTH’S TRANSLATION: “EARNEST AND PERSISTENT IN PRAYER”!
THIS SAME WORD S#5278 “HOOP-OM-EN-O” IS ALSO FOUND IN MANY DIFFERENT PLACES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT TRANSLATED IN DIFFERENT WAYS, AND ONE OF THE BEST TRANSLATIONS THAT I HAVE YET TO COME ACROSS IS ACTUALLY FOUND IN THE “AMPC” HEBREWS 12:1 / “WITH PATIENT ENDURANCE AND STEADY AND ACTIVE PERSISTENCE””!! BRING ALL OF THIS INTO THIS WHOLE CONTEXT/SUBJECT OF “PRAYER”!!
ANOTHER KEY DEFINITION TO THIS SAME WORD HAS “TO OCCUPY ONESELF DILIGENTLY WITH SOMETHING”!! THAT’S POWERFUL!
IT IS ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT SOME OF THE TRANSLATIONS ABOVE CARRY THIS LITTLE WORD “BE”, BECAUSE THEY RIGHTLY PICKED UP THE “GRAMMATICAL RULE” WHICH HAS AN “IMPERATIVE” CONCERNING THE WORD “HOOP-OM-EN-O” !! AN “IMPERATIVE” IS A “COMMAND” MEANING IT IS NOT “AN OPTION / OPTIONAL”!! WE ARE “COMMANDED” TO “PRAY”!!
IT IS ALSO INTERESTING TO NOTE THAT THIS SAME WORD S#5278 “HOOP-OM-EN-O” IS USED MANY TIMES REGARDING THE TOPIC OF “PRAYER” AS IN;
ACTS 1:14
2:42
6:4 (AMPLIFIED)
EPHESIANS 6:18
COLOSSIANS 4:2
1 THESSALONIANS 5:17
1 TIMOTHY 2:1
++THIS ALSO PROVES THAT “PRAYER” DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN ALL BY ITSELF, MEANING THOSE WHO “PRAY” MUST CONSCIOUSLY AND DELIBERATELY SET THEIR MINDS & HEARTS TO DO SO (SCHREINER)!
++THE LORD TOLD ME YEARS AGO REGARDING “PRAYER”: HE WHO PRAYS LITTLE SEES LITTLE, AND HE WHO PRAYS MUCH SEES MUCH!!
++ONE OF MY FIRST VIVID EXPERIENCES REGARDING “PRAYER” TOOK PLACE NOT TOO LONG AFTER I GOT SAVED! I WAS SITTING DOWNSTAIRS WATCHING SOME DOCUMENTARY ON TV ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON AFTER HAVING WORKED ALL WEEK, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN I FELT A STRONG URGE TO GO AND PRAY YET I DID NOT FOLLOW THRU WITH THAT “URGE / IMPRESSION”, YET BY THAT TIME IN MY WALK WITH GOD I HAD ALREADY DEVELOPED A FAIRLY HEALTHY PRAYER LIFE. THE VERY NEXT SATURDAY AT AROUND THE VERY SAME TIME WHILE I WAS WATCHING ANOTHER DOCUMENTARY I FELT THE VERY SAME THING HAPPENING ALL OVER AGAIN, AND THIS IS WHERE / WHEN I REALIZED THAT GOD WAS ASKING / LEADING ME TO SPEND SOME EXTRA TIME IN PRAYER IN THE AFTERNOONS WHICH IS WHERE / WHEN I BEGAN TO DEVELOP A STRONG ROBUST LIFE OF PRAYER WHICH INCLUDED MANY YEARS OF “PRAYER WALKS” AS IN GOING OUTSIDE FOR WALKS WHILE PRAYING, NOT ONLY IN THE WARMER MONTHS BUT INCLUDING IN THE COLDEST MONTHS OF THE YEAR, IN THE EARLY MORNINGS OR THE AFTERNOONS AS WELL AS EVENINGS, INCLUDING IN THE VERY MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WHEN I COULD NOT SLEEP ON THE WEEKENDS!!
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++TO CLOSE MY TEACHING, ANOTHER ASPECT IN THIS WHOLE REALM OF “PRAYER / PRAYING” IS ALSO FOUND IN THE AREA OF THE “GIFT” OF “PRAYING OR SPEAKING IN TONGUES” WHICH IS FOUND IN THE FOLLOWING VERSES:
ROMANS 8:26 (?)
1CORINTHIANS 12:10
14:2,4-19 (2,4-5,13) (AMPLIFIED)
EPHESIANS 6:18 (?)
JUDE 20 (?)
IN 1CORINTHIANS 14:4 WE HAVE THE GREEK WORD S#3618 “OY-KOD-OM-EH-O”, FROM S#3619 WHICH IS A COMPOUND WORD MADE UP OF S#3624 AND S#1430, WHICH CARRIES THE IDEA OF “TO BE A HOUSE BUILDER, TO CONSTRUCT, TO EDIFY, TO EMBOLDEN, EDIFICATION, TO BUILD” ETC!
IN JUDE 2O WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE GREEK WORD S#2026 “EP-OY-KOD-OM-EH-O”,WHICH IS ANOTHER COMPOUND WORD MADE UP OF S#1909 AND S# 3618, WHICH THIS LAST WORD S#3618 IS FOUND IN THE ABOVE WORD / VERSE!.
ACCORDING TO THESE VERSES, IN A NUTSHELL HERE ARE THE BENEFITS OF “PRAYING IN TONGUES”:
— YOU SPEAK TO GOD
— YOU SPEAK MYSTERIES (FOR GOD TO ANSWER)
— YOU EDIFY YOURSELF
ONE LAST NOTE, IN 1CORINTHIANS 14:2, IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK THE FIRST PART OF THE VERSE READS LIKE THIS: “FOR ONE WHO HABITUALLY CONTINUALLY SPEAKS IN TONGUES” BECAUSE THE WORD “SPEAK” IS IN THE “PRESENT TENSE”!!
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