{"id":2997,"date":"2021-02-10T17:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2997"},"modified":"2021-02-05T21:03:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T04:03:21","slug":"prayer-power-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2997","title":{"rendered":"Prayer \/ Power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We&#8217;ve been observing that God chooses to do his work by <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2992\">co-laboring<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>with us. Sometimes that takes the form of prayer on our part, releasing God&#8217;s power into a situation. Sometimes he wants us to <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2995\">move out in faith<\/a> as the Israelites did in crossing the Red Sea. Other times he may want us to take a symbolic action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to <strong>pray <\/strong>over them and <strong>anoint them with oil<\/strong> in the name of the Lord. (James 5.14, NIV, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a simple illustration involving God&#8217;s power and our prayer. I&#8217;m sitting in my den, and when I walked into the room, I switched on the overhead light. Did the light come on because I threw the switch? No, the light came on because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There is a wire running from the switch to the light fixture.<\/li><li>The bulbs in the light fixture are in working order.<\/li><li>There is electricity coming into the house from the outside. <\/li><li>That electricity is wired to the switch and the light fixture.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, even with all that infrastructure and power, the overhead light won&#8217;t come on UNTIL I throw the switch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is prayer like that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. (Matthew 7.7, 8, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I am the LORD; I have rebuilt the ruined places and replanted that which was desolate. I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it. Thus says the Lord GOD: &#8220;This also I will let the house of Israel ask me to do for them: to increase their people like a flock.&#8221; (Ezekiel 36.36, 37, ESV)<\/em> [God&#8217;s power&#8230;waiting for Israel to ask]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been observing that God chooses to do his work by co-laboring with us. Sometimes that takes the form of prayer on our part, releasing God&#8217;s power into a situation. Sometimes he wants us to move out in faith as the Israelites did in crossing the Red Sea. Other times he may want us to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=2997\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prayer \/ Power<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-Ml","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2998,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}