A Shift in Leadership

Prayer and Deliverance

beyond the limitations of our understanding. We can pray beyond our limited understanding of what God is releasing and restoring. Those who operate in the gift of diversities of tongues can release much through the various utterances of the Spirit. The apostolic prayers of Paul are important to open the eyes of believers and cause them to know their calling. Paul prayed that the eyes of the Church's understanding would be enlightened. He prayed for the believers to have the spirit of revelation (Ephesians 1:17-18). He prayed that they would walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God (Colossians 1:10-11). Apostolic churches must labor in prayer that the saints would stand perfect and complete in all the will of God (Colossians 4:12). Prayer neutralizes the powers of hell that would hinder believers from breaking through into new levels of revelation and grace. Deliverance - Increasing the Level of Freedom in a Church And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out. Matthew 10:1 The first thing Jesus gave the twelve before sending them forth was power over unclean spirits. Deliverance is a major part of the apostle's equipment to break through and establish the Kingdom of God. The apostolic ministry

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