Aug 21 - Day 233. Pray and Obey God. Acts 5.29-

“Peter and the other apostles answered and said: “We ought to obey God rather than men.” (Acts 5:29)

Prayer is effective. When you follow God’s guidance instead of people’s expectations, you’ll notice the outcomes. 

Transcript

Good morning, good morning, good morning.

I hope everyone is doing great, and we want to give God thanks for another day, and another opportunity to pray, and just fully surrender to Him. I want to welcome each and every one of you to another episode of our EBC Prayer Podcast. Remember, I am your host.

I am Dr. Victoria Haddad, the First Lady of Elyon Bible Church Apostolic in New Jersey. Today, we want to join with the song of Change Me, O God, and Make Me Ever True. We want God to create in us a clean heart, renew our right spirit in us, and give us the strength we need to persevere each and every day.

Today's August 21st, 233 day of the year, and God is still blessing us, still reassuring us that there is power in the name of the Lord to break every stronghold and to give us strength. Our scripture today will be taken from Acts 5, Verses 29, and it reads, Peter and the other apostles answered and said, we ought to obey God rather than man. Today, I want to encourage all of us to obey God.

“Obey God rather than other people. Don't put no one ahead of God. Let God will be accomplished in our life.

So let us pray. Father, here we are before you. We're grateful heart.

Thanking you Lord for another day, another moment to pray, another moment to fully surrender to you. You are our everlasting father. You are our King of King and our Lord of Lord.

You are our Redeemer. You know more about us than God and we know about ourself. So help us Lord God to fully surrender to you and pray God with assurance, give you thanks and Lord God honor and glorify your holy name.

Father, let your will be accomplished in our life, Lord. Let us not give up on you. Let us not get caught up in the things of this world.”

“But help us, Father God, to get caught up in you. Father, you are encouraging our heart and reminding us that we ought to obey you rather than men. Father, at times we get cumbersome, overwhelmed.

Lord God, at times we don't seek your wisdom. At times we don't seek your knowledge. At times Lord God, we feel Lord God, that Lord God, we can obey others because of the physical visibility of life, because of the issues of life, because of those around us.

Sometimes Lord God, we obey others even when we know they're not perfect. But Lord God, you are reminding us Lord, that even if we're not visually seeing you, we need to obey you. We ought to understand that you are God and that there's nothing impossible with you.

We ought to trust you, depend upon you, surrender to you, let your will, Father God, be accomplished in our life. We ought not to give up on you, not to get cumbersome with the issues of life that will lose focus on you. So today, God, we are praying, you know what this day have in store, and God, we are coming to you “for direction.

We thank you for waking us up, God, with a desire to pray. And now, Lord God, we are asking you, God, to mold us and make us and fashion us according to your will. Lord, as we go through this day, help us to obey you, to do, God, the things that you have in store for us.

Help us, Lord God, not to get cumbersome with the issues of this life, distracted with life, distracted with issues, distracted with disappointment. But help us, Lord God, as we go through this day to find joy in the God in whom we serve and seek you wholeheartedly, turn to you, God, with everything we have, God. And Lord God, help us not to be dragged away with the things of this world, not to expect, have greater expectation from the world than we have in you.

But help us, Lord God, to fully, God, put our trust in you, fully surrender to you. Fully, Lord God, allow you to be the God of our life, the Savior in whom we serve, the mighty God. Oh, Father God, the one who have the power to grant us God, “Lord God, grace, to grant us strength to God as we go through this day.

Help us to live holy and live right and please you in everything that we do and say. To put you first, to obey you fully, and to let your will, God, be accomplished in our life. May it let us not distract you, God, but cleanse us, Lord God, from every unrighteousness, every unrighteous thought, everything that's not pleasing to you.

Cleanse us, God, mold us, fashion us, and help us to be holy, and walk in the newness of life in which you have set for us to walk. Father, we thank you for this day. Remember everyone who are praying.

See the need of everyone who are reaching out to you, God. Lord, you know everything that are taking place in our life. And Lord God, we need your direction as we go through this day.

So help us, Lord God, not to do anything that distracts us from you, but help us to continuously pray, continuously surrender to you. And Lord God, so your will can be accomplished in our day as we go through this day. Lord, we thank “you.

In your holy name we pray, Amen. Thank you, Lord. I want to encourage each and every one of you to surrender to Lord and let God wash us and make us more like him.

Obey God and don't do anything that will discourage the Lord. Have a wonderful day and we'll pray again tomorrow. God bless.

Bye bye.”