Community Prayer Centers Inc.

12/26/2023

STILL

Hide me now under your wings
Cover me within your mighty hand

When the oceans rise and thunder roar
I will soar with you above the storm
Father you are King over the flood
I will be still and know that you are God

Find rest my soul in Christ alone know His power in quietness and trust.

When the oceans rise and thunder roar
I will soar with you above the storm
Father you are king over the flood
I will be still and know that you are God

09/04/2021

A Psalm I have loved most of my meaningful Christian life.

We are living in a time and age when being a Christian means a lot of different things to many people. In the past 20 or so years, we have acquired an ability to apply the word to our lives in the way we believe to be true or right. We have developed a relationship with God that invites him into our suffering, tolerates him in our celebrations, and discards him in our fantasies.

I used to recite this scripture everyday because it meant a lot to me. It reminded me to stay the course, stay close to God, to my confession, and to truth. Today this first verse might sound judgmental and unreal. But in reality, it is not. Any counsel that comes to you and is not from the mouth of God (does not have the ring of truth to it) is ungodly. If there is a word that drives you away from loving your neighbor, it is ungodly.

The Bible says that God is love. We know that we are God's when we can love others, not because we claim to love God. It is easy to confess a love for God whom you have not seen, try loving your difficult neighbor then you might be able to understand why Christ is God. He loved us when we were still sinners.

Sinners are not those people roaming the streets doing what is bad. Sinners are those who are led by the lack of love to do things to other humans and the universe, that a loving God could never do.

Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

02/12/2017

Amen, He is never gone, when I am alone, He is always there.

Everybody needs to read this !!!!!!

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01/02/2017

May Your Faith Grow and Mature

An exercise in faith, is an exercise in all of life. As I have matured in my Christianity, I have come to terms with the fallibility of my human state. I have come to terms with falling constantly and trained myself to stand up one more time. I do not mean the falling that comes from being careless with our faith, but rather the falling that is brought about by circumstances that push us to the depths of despair. The circumstances that challenge our faith, we lose ourselves for a moment and wonder if salvation ever meant anything to us.

Our journey towards eternity is not determined in the single moment of fallibility that takes away all our dignity, it is determined in those life changing moments when we decide to rise up from our circumstances and choose God one more time.

May faith remain stronger and more meaningful this New Year.

12/27/2016

A Walk In The Night

About a week ago, I had to walk home from work because of a transport miscommunication between me and my daughter. I started off from the hospital where I work around 8:30 pm after having waited for close to an hour. It was dark outside but Daniel's Parkway was illuminated by street lights and passing vehicles.

Instead of focusing on the darkness before me, the pain in my legs, the lonely sensation of being forgotten, I began to sing good old songs and hymns. Those great lines we sang as young Christians, with my sisters, parents, great grandparents, friends and other communities. They made everyone come alive again. It was as if all of a sudden, I had been joined by a crowd of people I used to love a long time ago, people who even if they were thousands of miles away or have gone to be with the Lord, appeared on this night to walk me along. These songs of inspiration that helped us to serve and keep walking with God, sped me up that night.

As I passed quiet thick bushes and dark flowing creeks, I was reminded of God's love and how He is always there when we are alone, how he walks besides us when no one is around. I was reminded that he is never gone and so are the memories that bind us strongly to life. I was encouraged, revived, and blessed. Rekindling the faith of my younger Christian days, I realized that God never changes, our circumstances do, they strive to shape our relationship with God, but they could not. God and the relationships we have formed with others, remain a constant beneath all the change and decay.

We are more than conquerors in Christ and God is always faithful, with this knowledge, we can hope to overcome the turbulence of life and latch on to hope while giving it to others.

Be blessed.

12/19/2016

We all wonder what will happen to us after we die. When a loved one dies, we long to see him or her again after our turn comes. But is that really possible?

04/24/2016

Are you troubled?

Sometimes we get overwhelmed by the attacks of the enemy whether it be at work or at home. Because of that, we lack the words or examples to look at during those times as we approach the Lord. Sometimes we worry, cry and look for avenues of release that normally do not help much but cause us more stress.

If you are going through trouble right now because of people who hate you, are jealousy or simply want to cause you trouble, here is a powerful prayer you can make your own and bring before God. It is adapted from Psalm 3 in the Bible.

Dear God, there are so many who hate and persecute me for no reason.

They nit-pick and tell lies about me. They gang up against me to cause me trouble.

Many of them look at me as a helpless person with no one to turn to, they think my
fate lies in their hands.

But God, in my heart I know that you are my defense, you give me hope and joy during
the most trying times, you give me gifts and promotions that no man can give me.

When I cry out to you, you hear me. Even if you dwell in the heavens, you still hear and
answer me.

Because you hear me, even in the face of all the trouble, persecution and threats,I get into bed and sleep peacefully because I know that you are watching over me.

I am not afraid of a crowd of people all around me trying to drain the life right out of me.

Arise Lord my God, you have turned trouble towards those who were trying to bring it into
my life, you have brought shame to those who intended to shame me, to those who do not
Know that you are my God.

God you are the one who saves me every day from the trouble, pain and stressors of life,
You give peace, hope, abundance and provide for your people daily.

A Prayer adapted from Psalm 3

04/06/2016

04/06/2016

Heartfelt Prayers - True Prayer Warfare

Have you heard expressions like, "my prayers fell flat" or "my prayers could not go beyond the ceiling?" The meaning is that, my prayers were not heard by God or did not reach the throne of God.

Praying calls for faith. One could argue that the fact that one prays means they have faith. However, there is a kind of praying that instantly moves the heart and hand of God. This is the prayer that comes from a deep seated and urgent need. If you have prayed it, you know it.

If something suddenly struck and you were overwhelmed with feelings of powerlessness, knowing there was nothing you could do to help the situation or yourself, if you ever prayed from such circumstances, you know that your prayer was direct hitting, passionate and not sugar coated.

Sometimes we feel like we can talk God into doing something for us. We probably could if we committed to bothering him incessantly. However, the most effective prayers are fervent, pure and to the point.

James 5:16 (KJV)

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

I remember the day I woke up from a vivid dream in which my father was being attacked only to hear my mother rushing him to the bathroom. Something had happened while he slept, he could not breath, he was wheezing so badly, I was certain death was imminent. I believed in the Pentecostal kind of prayers, long, verbose and sometimes loud. This time, the need was so urgent I was not sure what to do, I fell to my knees and from the depth of my heart cried out to the one true eternal God, "God please, heal my dad."

Immediately the wheezing stopped, even if he lost his voice for most part of that day and was particularly weak, the storm passed just that moment.I was only 18 years old then.

Another time, I must have been 38 years old. I had been listening to Christian radio in my car and heard some particularly disturbing News about abortion and the Christians that supported it. The story was so bad that it must have pierced the heart of God...it touched me like no other story had about abortion. When I walked into the prayer room that day for a prayer meeting, my heart was crying out before God in a language very unfamiliar with me. It may have been English, but it was the language of the Spirit, because when I prayed, I prayed for justice, I prayed out of my heart the very pain that God experiences when our sins become so heavy.

The people that joined me for prayer that day must have been astounded by the fervency and passion of those prayers, they were heartfelt, hard hitting and prayed from the belly...When they were over, I felt it was over and that whatever needed to be done, was done. A day or two later, there were headlines in the News regarding that issue with results that were far too shocking for me. Never in my moment of prayer did I think that vengeance could be so quick and the results so tragic. It was sad, it was fearful, but it was done.

How fervent and urgent are your prayers? Do you feel them rumbling from your belly? If you do, God feels them too. May be if you are not so passionate about something, you are not truly ready to pray it because what you are seeking are not answers, just conversations.

The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much, that is true...it does. If you must pray, feel your prayers, touch the heart of God and stir the enemy's nest, especially during those intercessory kinds of prayer.