STRONG PRAYERS

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"...Tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a godly believer!" James 5:16b

We heard the old timers pray, "In the name of Jesus, we plead the blood of Jesus..." and they got results. They healed the sick, they cast out demons! They routed tornados!

You say, only in Bible times did such things happen. I say, we are still in Bible times! What has changed?

Elijah was a man with human frailties, just like all of us, but he prayed and received supernatural answers. He actually shut the heavens over the land so there would be no rain for three and a half years! Jas 5:17  

When we pray in the name of Jesus, like Jesus told us to pray, it is like cashing a check at the bank. Just as a wife can legally sign her husband's name on a note and make a demand on that account, so Jesus gave us legal right to make a demand on His power. 

When we plead the blood of Jesus, our prayers are strong because the blood is a reminder that it is not our own goodness that makes us worthy to ask. We remember that He paid with His blood to purchase us, to purchase the air we breath and the ground on which we are standing. It conjures images of the dying Jesus, which is more than the devil can stand. That forever sealed his fate as a loser. He can't face the truth--he has to flee and leave us with the spoils!