CampfireTALK - (05/24/2010)

In James chapter 5, verse 16, the second part of that scripture says this: 

"The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much." 

This scripture recently just "jumped" out at me in the spirit, as God began to unfold some new understandings, a different way of looking at it, to me.

The phrase "fervent" simply refers to a prayer that is "earnest" and one that is "heartfelt" ... a "continued" prayer that is persistent, unyielding.  And we have always focused on "that" ... that a man who wants to "availeth much", or in other words "accomplish much" ...  I like what the Amplified Bible says about that!  It interprets the phrase "availeth much" as "makes tremendous power available, dynamic in it's working"!  Man, talk about "pump you up", THAT right there tells me that persistent fervent prayer "makes things happen"!

But again, we're only seeing "half" of what the Spirit was showing me about this scripture.  In almost every translation the word "righteous" is the same!  The Message translation, however, refers to it as "a man living right with God".  What the Spirit of God said to me was this, and I'll paraphrase it ...

"a man who is righteous, is a man who is in "right standing" with God ... a man who is in fellowship with the Father, and knows the Father's heart, and knows where he stands with the Father ... "

What the scripture is saying then, is this:  "If we are spending time in fellowship with the Father ... if we seek His face and know Him well ... because of that intimacy with God, "then" when we pray fervently and persistently, we do make tremendous power available, which is dynamic in it's working, on behalf of that prayer and that need!

What does "dynamic in it's working" mean?  You're gonna have to get my message that covers the "dynamo".  In a nutshell, it works the same as what we call a dynamo.  The "dynamo" is a generator that, when power is applied to run the generator, the generator begins to create the power to run itself, which creates more power, which then naturally means that more power is available to make power, when then produces even more power  ... and so on, and so on. 

It's like a exponential explosion of power!  One level provides power to sustain that power and more besides.  When that more power comes, then there is even more power available to self-sustain it, and more with it!  In a nutshell it's like a "cascade power runaway"!   This things get's started generating power, which makes more power available to generate even more power, so that more power is available to generate even more power to that more power, and so on!  "MAN", can you imagine that! 

Now go back to that scripture!  And I will re-word it, to make the point: 

When a man who has been in the presence of and in regular fellowship with, the Father God, enters into consistent, persistent, fervent prayer on a matter ... there is tremendous power that is released on behalf of that prayer ... power that is self regenerating, a power that cascades in on itself to multiply and magnify it's potential so that more and more and more power in this prayer is available ... until the answer comes.

Remember last week, when I discovered the POWER, and the boldness and confidence that also came with that power?  And it was all because I was not just running around seeking His presence, I was seeking "HIS FACE".  I was "in His face" in worship!  I was talking with, and visiting with the Father Himself, each morning!  I was WITH HIM! 

Smith Wigglesworth says, as we discussed last week, that this is "the key"!  Walking in a daily walk and fellowship with God!  He says that from this comes the confidence you need! 

Did you know that Moses, once he had gone before the Father, and got understanding of God's plan, that he no longer needed Aaron to speak to the Pharoah!  He went before his face, in boldness!  He "knew" what the plan of God was!  He "knew" what God's will was!  He was just walking it out. 

You too can have that same confidence, and achieve those same results in prayer ... but it has to come by one thing ...
You have to spend time with the Father!

We'll be teaching on this soon!  Look us up! 
Make me proud!