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Published: May 31, 2020, 10:17 a.m.

PRAYER IS NOT ENOUGH. GOD\u2019S ECONOMY AND THE EMERGING APOSTOLIC CRAFTSMEN PART 19.
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\n1 Kings 18
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\n1 After a long time, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: \u201cGo and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.\u201d 2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
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\nWhat an awesome declaration of truth this morning as the Spirit of the Lord takes us deep into the understanding of the national day of prayer for the nation of South Africa. While this a laudable thing for the government to call the Church and the entire nation to pray even as we approach the level three lockdown easing.
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\nYet, there are questions that need to ask ourselves as a nation before we effectively respond to the call to prayer. Prayer is not something we can take with the levity of heart; prayer, particularly, national prayer or intercession requires we first address critical issues that affect our position of commitment to the ways and will of God.
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\nPrayer is designed to be built on an altar that receives the right sacrifice and offering. When we respond to prayer with correctly responding to the issues of the high places we have allowed the illegitimate leadership spirit Ahad and Jezebel to erect on the land, such prayer becomes an abomination to the Lord. To pray effectively as a nation is to invite and respond to the presence of God back into the sociocultural and economic space of the nation.
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\nThe effects of rebuilding the broken down prayer altar of the nation are the beginning of repairing and restoring the economy and the nation, and that is what the Lord desires us in this hour to do as the Body of Christ represented in South Africa and the rest continent.
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\n1 Kings 18
\n30 Then Elijah said to all the people, \u201cCome here to me.\u201d They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down. 31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, \u201cYour name shall be Israel.\u201d

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