Step Into The Water

Donna Braman

MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN 2010

     God gives us creative ability through the spoken word.  He wants us to declare his word over our lives and intercede for others as well.  Make this year a journey in prayer.  Write out the things you want to change and let your love overflow onto others in prayer supplication.  It's easy to pray a petition for yourself and for others one time but be committed to seeing manifestation in your prayer life this year. Sit down and make a list of the things you want God to change.  The following is a comprehensive list of things you might want to add to your list.  This list, with declarative scripture was compiled and written by the Rev. Jerry Nelson, Pastor at Westmoreland PHC in Wilson, North Carolina. I promise you if you will take a year and commit yourself to this deep relationship of prayer with the Lord it will forever change your life and you will experience the glory of God in your life and  in the lives of those you pray for. Delight yourself in the Lord and see if heaven doesn't open up before your very eyes.

DAILY PRAYER FOR SELF-EDIFICATION

Psalm 103:2, Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

     Father, in obedience to Your Word, I recall and receive anew today all the benefits Jesus has provided for me:

1. He has forgiven all my sins.

2. He is my healer and I receive my healing and good health today.

3. My life has been redeemed from destruction.

4. I am crowned with His loving kindness and tender mercies.

5. He satisfies my mouth with good things and renews my youth like the eagle's.

6. He executes righteousness and judgment for me against my enemies.

7. He makes His ways known to me. I am His child and I follow Him.

8. I received His grace and mercy to help in time of need.

9. He supplies all my need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Read these affirmations everyday until they are in your spirit and a part of who you are in Christ:

     Father, according to Ephesians 1:16-23, You have given me the spirit of wisdom and revelation to Jesus Christ.  Thank you that the eyes of my understanding are being enlightened to know the hope of your calling and the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.  Thank you that you are revealing to me the exceeding greatness of Your power, which was wrought in Christ, when You raised Him from the dead and set Him at Your own right hand.

     Father, according to Ephesians 3:14:20, grant me according to the riches of Your glory to be strengthened with might by Your Spirit in my inner man.  That Christ may comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height; and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that I might be filled with all the fullness of God.  I praise You, Lord that You are able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that I ask or think, according to the power that worketh in me.

     Father, according to Colossians 1:9-11, I pray that You will fill me with the knowledge of Your will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that I might walk worthy of You unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of You; strengthened with all might, according to Your glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. 

     Unto God be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

THINGS TO PRAY ABOUT -2010

John 17:21-23 (pray for one another as Jesus prayed for us) That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

1. Pray that we may be one and made perfect in Him so that we may experience His glory and that the world will know that the Father has sent the son.

2. PRAY FOR THE HARVEST OF SOULS (Salvation, Sanctification, the Baptism in the Holy Ghost and Discipleship).

3. Pray for our President, governmental leaders at all levels.

4. Pray for your church leadership at the local, conference (if your church is in one) and national level.

5. Pray for your Pastor and his wife, and his family and pray for one another.

6. Pray for a spirit of prayer in your church and throughout the Body of Christ.

7. Pray for REVIVAL in your church and throughout the Body of Christ.

8. Pray for HEALINGS, MIRACLES and MANIFESTATIONS of God's glory.

9. Pray for your church ministries, church board, Music/Choir, Sunday School, children's programs, ushers, Media Ministry, Kedz Church, Nursery, Women's Ministry, Men's Ministry, Senior's. (I would like to add a few more to this list) Pray for the work your Pastor's wife does that no one sees, prayer intercessors, the person that cleans your church, and the workers that make gatherings possible, by cleaning and cooking. Make it a point every week to jot down people in prayer requests and be attentive to the sick and one's who need lifting up and those young in their Christian walk. Pray for your outreach people and that the love in your church will reach beyond it's walls into your community to save the lost. Pray for knowledge, wisdom, discernment and revelation to the leadership of your church.

10. Pray for missions, missionaries (local and world missions).

11. Pray for a spirit of HOLINESS and A HUNGER for God's presence.

12. For a spirit of unity, faith, and love.

13. Pray for people in the body to recognize their spiritual gifts (and the gifts of others) and to use them for God's glory.

14. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee (Psalm 122:6).

15. Pray for the family unit, their unity, happiness, health and prosperity ( that all members will come to the Lord).

16. Pray for local, state and national economy.

17. Pray for the other churches in your community.

18. Pray to have God's vision, wisdom, knowledge, plan and purpose for the growth and desires for your church.

19. Pray for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens and for the peace of the world, "that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty (1 Timothy 2:2).

     Westmoreland has embarked upon a corporate fast from January 10th through the 31st, if your church would like to know more about bringing fasting into your pray life please request a list of the different types of fasts and the purpose and benefits of fasting collectively and individually. I recommend reading Jentezen Franklin's book on fasting, it will release power in your prayer life.

     If you need prayer for you or someone you love please contact me to be put on the prayer list as we come before the Lord with prayer petitions every Friday night at Westmoreland at 7:30 and Pastor Nelson anoints us for the purpose of others. If you are stagnate in your spiritual walk or you desire deeper growth, I encourage you to go visit this wonderful church, where prayer, the word, and love of each other matters. Westmoreland is a church that has some of the most knowlegable, discerning teachers that I have seen. Pastor Nelson is an anointed man of God who walks his talk.  He serves hard, preaches in truth and spirit, and well, he praises hard too and when that unspeakable joy floods him he engages in a rejoicing dance before the Lord.  He is discerning with a fresh anointing of revelation concerning the end time church.  Come and be blessed, you'll leave changed and you'll want some more of God's word he preaches and the choir will fill you with the rejoicing sound of worship that will pull you up out of the pew to shout a praise of your own. They are not shy or ashamed about their altar services, it is a place I have come to love and have a personal relationship with where we pray it through and come before his courts with thanksgiving and praise. You can not be a part of this church and not grow in the Lord, the transparency of the spirits gathered there will draw you into the presence of the Holy Spirit and the Shekinah glory!


Services are Sunday at 11:00 AM and Sunday School is at 10:00
The church is located at 2425 Nash Street NW
Wilson, NC 27896


     To view some of Pastor's Nelson's sermons go to: www.westmorelandphc.org and click on videos. May God bless, enrich and draw nigh to each and everyone of you this coming year!