Exceptional Youth Group

We live in a generation where men do not pray. We talk about prayer, we read books about it, we desire to do it, but very few people are really investing their life and time into prayer.  For some of you listening to me you don't pray because you are professionals/aspiring professionals and you say, "I'm not called into the 5-Fold ministry, prayer is for Pastors and for zealous brothers have chosen to fail in other aspects of life" . We sometimes take people with vibrant prayer lives as sycophants and we despise them in our inward parts. It is precisely for this reason that prayer becomes the hallmark for true Christian maturity. Sometimes, you may find people who love to study the bible and listen to messages, but the ratio of people who have a consistent prayer regimen is typically lower. Let me explain why when you listen to messages, or study the word, there is often an immediately tangible addition, you come in contact with a new revelation and for man...

Broadly speaking, within scripture the word ‘world’ means two things: 1. The World refers to the physically observable universe and its inhabitants. Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. We see here that God loves the world, it says for “God so loved the world…”, yet another passage 1John 2:15 says, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. This suggests that there are differences in meaning. The world in scripture is also used to mean a complex system of ideologies predicated on the principle of good and evil. The first definition of the word ‘world’ above is simple to understand, but this second definition of the term ‘world’ is where we will focus on today because it is where the devil traps Christians and truncates our journey to becoming like Jesus in all things. It is this ‘world’ that God says in 1John 2:15 says, love not...