Pray the Price

If you will pray the price then you will be enabled to pay the price. It’s time to get your God given goals for 2010 so you can prepare to persevere. How will you know what God wants you to do unless you ask? Once you know then you will have to count the cost and commit. Commitment is the foundation that you build your dreams on. If your commitment is weak you will falter and fail in the midst of adversity. But if you will take time to establish a permanent decision you will be able to change your life forever.

I believe God is leading us to get fit for our King in every area of life! In order to accomplish we need a plan and a strong will to fulfill. We need to be strengthened by God’s grace to keep the pace and run our race until the end. We need to decide to abide in His presence by being continually aware in the process of prayer. Prayer is simply connecting and staying “online” with the Almighty. Through this connection we sense God’s affection and get divine direction. We are filled with His love and strengthened with His joy His plan to employ. As we receive we’re quickened to believe for it’s our faith that enables us to achieve.

So here’s what you should do, get ready to be ready and follow through. Get the goals and count the cost and commence to commit. Everyday between now and the New Year think about and reinforce your conviction. Take the time to become resolute so you can keep your resolutions. Get the guts to go for it and absolutely refuse to quit before you begin. Then when the time comes you’ll be ready and stay steady and continue to overcome adversity. You have to win within before you win without. But once you get the victory on the inside it won’t be long before it manifests on the outside.

Prayer is like a supernatural arena that we train in so that when we go out into the battle we are fit for the service of the King. Everyday we need to be empowered and instructed before we encounter the enemy. Don’t worry if you don’t know what’s happening when you pray just take the time to do it. It’s like “wax on, wax off” and you have no idea how it’s helping until later. When the time comes then you will see. So in the mean time just put yourself in the care of the Master and trust His wisdom. God knows exactly what He’s doing and your part is simply talking and listening and reading and writing. Then you’re enlightened, instructed and empowered in acting. This is the purpose of PIE that you may pray, plan and perform His will. And it’s amazingly wonderful to walk in His wonders and it just seems to happen super-naturally when you pray the price to access His wisdom.

So here’s the Plan for 2010.

1. Pray - Apply PIE everyday! – Pray the Price!
(If you don’t know PIE see the previous notes or let me know and I’ll send it to you)
2. Get the Goals
3. Count the Cost
4. Prepare to PAY
5. Proceed to PAY
6. Persevere in PAYING
7. Endure to the End until you HAVE IT in hand.
8. Maintain your Gain.

Col 1:9-14 NKJV (caps. added)
“For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to PRAY for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.


PIE90 Scripture:

Here’s your part….

….PRAY for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; 10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11 strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; 12 giving thanks to the Father… Col 1:9b-12aNKJV(caps. added)

Col 1:10-12
10 We pray that you'll live well for the Master, making him proud of you as you work hard in his orchard. As you learn more and more how God works, you will learn how to do your work. 11 We pray that you'll have the strength to stick it out over the long haul — not the grim strength of gritting your teeth but the glory-strength God gives. It is strength that endures the unendurable and spills over into joy, 12 thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us.
MES

Col 1:10-13
10 And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.
NIV

Col 1:9-13
…that you might be filled with the advanced and perfect experiential knowledge of His will in the sphere of every kind of wisdom and intelligence which is spiritual, so that you may order your behavior worthily of the Lord with a view to pleasing Him in everything, in every work which is good constantly bearing fruit and increasing by means of the advanced and perfect experiential knowledge of God, by every enabling power being constantly strengthened in proportion to the manifested power of His glory, resulting in every patience and forbearance, with joy constantly giving thanks to the Father who qualified you for the portion of the share of the inheritance of the saints in the sphere of the light; who delivered us out of the tyrannical rule of the darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we are having our liberation, procured by the payment of ransom…
Wuest

Col 1:11-13
11 We are praying, too, that you will be filled with his mighty, glorious strength so that you can keep going no matter what happens-always full of the joy of the Lord, 12 and always thankful to the Father who has MADE US FIT to share all the wonderful things that belong to those who live in the Kingdom of light.
TLB (caps. added)

Col 1:11-13
11 [We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy,

12 Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and MADE US FIT to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God's holy people) in the Light.

13 [The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,
AMP(caps. added)