The Things That Make You Effective 4

1 Cor 16:9 A great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries. NKJV

A Mega door called effectiveness has been set before me. There is much warfare and many enemies in opposition, but I'm pressing on. Kent Angeloff Translation

Jesus sets before us doors of opportunity; wide open doors that will give us success and make us effective. This is my fourth message on the things that will make you effective.

The first thing the Lord had me talk about was, our need for authority.

Matt 28:18 And Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth." NASU

The second thing I talked about was - Every Christian must be filled with the Holy Spirit and operate in the gifts of the Spirit in order to be effective.

Acts 10:38-39 "You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him." NASU

The third thing that Jesus has given you to be effective is, the word of God.

Jesus was a man of the word. Matt 24:35 "Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away." NASU

John 14:10 "The words that I say to you I do not speak on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works." NASU

We are doing a study on the Greek word that is translated "effective" in order to find out what is behind that great door called effectiveness.

The Greek word is, "Energeoo, Energee". It is the word we get our English word, "energy" from. Energy is, exertion of power, it is the capacity to perform a work.

John 14:12-14 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13 " Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it. NASU

Ever since I read this scripture I have desired to see this promise fulfilled in my life. I want to do the same works that Jesus did. I want to even do the greater works He spoke about.

What I have been talking about are the things that will enable us to do the works; the things that will give us the capacity to perform the signs and wonders, that Jesus did; things that will cause us to have the same effects that God's people have had throughout time.

The capacity to perform a work is the energy it will take, better known as the anointing in Christian terms.

We can be anointed with the Holy Spirit and power the same way Jesus was. We can go about doing good and healing people that are oppressed by the devil because God is with us, the same way He was with His son Jesus.

There are simple principles that if we put them to work, they will enable us to reach into heaven and receive supernatural energeoo to carry on the mission of Christ.

In honor of it being Easter Sunday, let's look at a scripture about resurrection power.

Rom 8:11 ...If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. NASU

Rom 8:11 It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's! MESSAGE

Now the fourth thing that will make you effective is, PRAYER.

Jesus was a man of prayer.

John 14:12-14 "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father. 13 "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 "If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it."

James 5:16 The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. NASU

James 5:16 The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. KJV

James 5:16 The ...prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]. AMP

The effective, powerful, energeoo prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available. Kent Angeloff Translation

When you pray an energeoo prayer, you will be empowered to do the works that Jesus did. You will be empowered with effectiveness by the effectiveness of prayer.

Let me explain this to you through another scripture.

The Apostle Paul said in Phil 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. KJV ["I Can do" is the same Greek word translated, "makes tremendous power available" in James 5:16]

The power of prayer gives you an, I can do all things through Christ impartation of strength. The Greek word translated strengtheneth is "Endunamoo" = To be endued with power, or strength.

Prayer is effective, to make the power of God available to you; to endue you with tremendous power to do the works that Jesus did and the greater works that He talked about.

Jesus taught us to pray, "Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

The church is empowered when the kingdom of God is in our midst. We become empowered because we want God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven.

When all we want to do is worship God and our desire is to see Him reveal His beauty to the people on the earth, then we are connected to God and His power will flow out of heaven and flow through us to do the works that Jesus did.

1 Thess 5:16-22 Rejoice always; 17 pray without ceasing; 18 in everything give thanks; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not quench the Spirit; 20 do not despise prophetic utterances. 21 But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; 22 abstain from every form of evil. NASU

Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness. NASU

2 Chron 7:1 Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the LORD filled the house. NASU

Acts 16:25-26 But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; 26 and suddenly there came a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened.

Rev 5:8-9 When He had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one holding a harp and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. NASU

Rev 8:3-5 Another angel came and stood at the altar, holding a golden censer; and much incense was given to him, so that he might add it to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand. 5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the altar, and threw it to the earth; and there followed peals of thunder and sounds and flashes of lightning and an earthquake. NASU