It is the same power, which God released when He created this planet earth.But when we are in prayer we are in line and in tune with God to allow God’s creative force to flow through our lives. God can create without us. He does not need us but we need Him. However God has chosen to do creative work through human lives from the time that He has entrusted this earth to man. He has chosen to release His creative power through human beings. And this came to fullness when the Spirit of God came in this planet earth on the day of Pentecost when God released a new degree and a new measure for his people to move into the realm of groaning prayer.
Prayer has a creative work involved. God does not do anything except that there is a release of that creative power before anything happens. John Wesley and other men of God have discovered that unless there is prayer God will not do anything at all. There can be no action unless there is first a release of His creative power. And there can be no change unless the creative power comes forth.
Colossians 4:12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, greets you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. Epaphras labors fervently for the Colossians in prayers that they may stand perfect and complete in the will of God.
But Colossians 2:10 says, And you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power. They are already completed. But in Colossians 4 v.12 Epaphras is still praying that they may still be completed. Potentially we are already complete in Christ. Jesus'
work is a complete work. The work of Jesus’ atonement is complete. There is nothing more you can add to what Jesus has done. But for the perfect work to enter into our lives prayer is the force that must be released. That is why Epaphras prayed. It is not enough to study the Bible in order to grow into this completeness. Bible study and acquiring knowledge has to be mixed with prayer.
Growth in perfection is fundamentally based on prayer life. It is the level and measure of your prayer life that determines true growth. You can't even understand the Word of God unless you pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation. It is only through prayer that you obtain this spirit of wisdom and
revelation that enables us to understand the Word of God. Prayer and the Word go together and it is only both of them that is marvelous.
Ps Peter Tan
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