Our prayer group meets every Wednesday
to pray over our city. Pastor asked me
to bring a short focus prior to praying over our city. The Lord gave me some interesting thoughts.
Immediately your thoughts
went to food when you saw that question, am I right?
Actually there are appetites
for other things besides food.
Let’s be real? And consider some appetites that are
misguided desires for - - -
1.
Fame and Fortune
2.
Fornication
3.
Homosexuality
4.
Pornography
5.
Gambling
6.
Drugs smoked,
ingested or injected.
7.
Alcohol
8.
Narcotics
9.
Tobacco
If a person
looses their appetite for food, they fail to eat and eventually will die.
Today I want to
speak about Reversing and Losing appetites for the things that do NOT please
God, so that the appetite will die (and not the person.)
We are here
today to pray over our city – many of our citizens are bound with appetites
that are sending them to hell. They received
an appetite curse when they took their first hit, and this curse is destroying
them.
Today we are praying
that the Curse will be REVERSED - - and a new appetite for God will come.
We will pray
that sinful appetites will be REVERSED and REMOVED- - and a desire for Jesus
and His Righteousness will replace the old.
We sing the
chorus: Break Every Chain. Chains are appetites and addictions. Jesus will break every fetter and every
chain.
Many have been
to “Recovery” programs and I am thankful for the work they are doing. Yet many are clean but are struggling because
- - hidden underneath - - the appetite is still there; even when the person is
doing a good job at ‘controlling’ the desires.
Reversal and Removal of the appetite is needed.
AA and others
use the term “Higher Power” because it is more palatable and each person can
chose what ever god they want. Let it be
known that the Higher Power that will deliver completely is Jesus Christ.
Some will call
their addiction “a Disease.” Calling
addiction a disease; means it is not your fault, and again this is more
palatable than calling addiction “a SIN.”
I realize the
next verse is speaking about physical healing and is not referring to disease
as sin, but let us claim this verse for this occasion to heal the appetite of
addiction.
Psalms
103:3 He is the one who forgives all
your sins, who heals all your diseases
When new
converts who have been involved in Witchcraft and Spiritism it is important for
them to include a prayer of renunciation and a declaration that they renounce these spirits and no longer
want these spirits in their life.
The empty house
must be replaced with the Holy Spirit of God.
Before we can
pray for others, we must pray for ourselves.
Can you pray
this prayer with me? (This is a prayer
of declaration and dedication.)
“I acknowledge
there are some hidden appetites that I no longer want in my life. I renounce every controlling spirit of
addiction and command it to be removed and reversed. Lord, replace the emptiness within me and FILL
my spirit with an appetite for More of God and His Holiness. I ask this in
the precious Name of Jesus who shed His blood and died for me.”
Jesus spoke about appetites
of hunger and thirst in Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after
righteousness! For they shall be filled.
David declared in: Psalms 107:9 For He has satisfied the thirsty soul, And
the hungry soul He has filled with what is good.
Pray first for ourselves and
then for our citizens that there will be a change in our appetites - - to Hunger
and Thirst after Jesus and to seek His Righteousness.
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