FAF June 18 Closing The Gap pt 3

The speaker discusses the importance of prayer in closing the gap between the prophecy and the promise. They emphasize that it's not enough to simply believe, but one must also live out their faith. Prayer helps align oneself with God and manifests dreams and visions. The speaker encourages listeners to meditate on the word of God and discover their calling or ministry, which can be in any profession or endeavor. They remind listeners that they have the power to triumph over challenges and temptations through prayer. The episode ends with contact information and a reminder that the choice to answer the calling is up to the individual. Welcome to Faith Alive in 5, the 5 minute gospel. Now here's your host, Dr. Faye. This is part 3 of closing the gap between the prophecy and the promise. As you've listened to this over the past couple of weeks, you've noticed that I honed in on prayer as one of the instruments or the tools that God has graced us with to close the gap between the prophecy and the promise. We can only spend so much time dreaming about something until we activate it and begin to manifest it. You can only go to so many schools and classes. It's time to get a job and do something with your learning. Do something with your education. You can only sit in training so long until it's time to leave the training and go actually put it into action. You see, there must come a moment in our lives that we're no longer sitting under the tree or on the front porch or in the office dreaming about what we want to be and what we want to do and what we want to have. There comes a moment you've got to put some legs to those thoughts, put some feet into action. The book of James teaches us that faith without corresponding action is dead being alone. We've got to show that we do have faith. That means it's not enough to believe. It's something else to be living it. Did you follow that? It's not enough to believe. It is another thing to be living it. And when you are be living it, that means that you are manifesting the thing that God has sent you here to do, to be, to do, and to have in that order. You see, prayer opens the door for us to remember who we are from within. This constant communion with God, it aligns our spirit, the spirit that we are. It's not even actually true to say our spirit. We are spirit. We have a soul and we live in a body. So as we align ourselves, our true self of ourselves, with God, we find ourselves beginning to manifest those dreams, beginning to manifest the vision, beginning to manifest those ideas. That creative energy, that creative flow will truly begin to flow. If you've ever felt stuck in life, then go back to prayer. That's what I do. That's what the psalmist said that we should do. We've got to meditate on the word of God day and night. As he told Joshua, that's what you do. And I'm going to talk about that as we continue in this series, closing the gap between the prophecy and the promise. I thought it was going to be a short series, but it's going to be long. I taught it years ago, and I don't know, it lasted for weeks. Because there's so much in this that I want to bring forth now in this post-pandemic rebirth of the earth, this post-pandemic rebirth of you. This is a new you. This you that you know had never been through a pandemic. So it's time to get to know yourself again. It's time to awaken to the bigness, the greatness. You're still here because there's a calling on your life. There's a ministry God has for you. And ministry is not necessarily always in the pulpit or that kind of setting. Ministry is your calling. Your calling could be open a new business downtown. Open a new whatever it is, a new salon or whatever it is for you. Whatever that desire is. That is your ministry. Ministries, ministers are here to serve. And we're all being called to serve, to serve him first. And then we serve each other. Because you can't serve each other until we know how to serve him. And prayer helps us to fall into alignment with service. It helps to engage us, the true self of ourselves, our spirit selves that we are, into alignment with who God is on the inside of us. Remember, we are created in his image, after his likeness and after his kind, to have dominion over anything. The fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and over everything that creeps on the earth. So whatever is creeping around you, we can have some creepy stuff around us. But whatever is creeping around you, you've been given the grace of dominion. Yes, to triumph over it. And as you align your tongue in prayer, start talking to God like he's real. Because he is real. You just say, our father. Jesus taught us in Matthew 6 to say, our father. He brought us into that prayer. Our father, as he was speaking to the disciples. Not his father. He didn't say, my father, which art in heaven. He said, our father, which art in heaven. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. In earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Do you hear that? This is the prayer. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Thank you for tuning in to today's broadcast. Dr. Faye would love hearing from you. Contact her today at 870-860-9758. Or email coach at drfaye.com. And remember, the calling is a gift, but the choice is yours.