Fervent Prayer: Life Breathing Prayer

By True E. Readywriter

Fervent Prayer presents an eclectic, penetrating and poignant prayer book. Many of the words used in these prayers are taken from the Word of God and therefore carry with them the powerful anointing of Almighty God, our Creator. These are Christian prayers written in the first person to be prayed to Almighty God through Jesus Christ. This collection is a guide for anyone who wants to pray but who may not have, as yet,developed the habit of praying or talking to God. This helpful guide brings testimonies to life and stands as a witness to the power of prayers prayed to our Father, God, illustrating how the power of fervent prayer has turned the problematic situations into praise. Fervent Prayer does not promise fairy-tale ending to the harsh realities of life, but it does explore the importance of always having a prayer in your mind for any situation. There are prayers for many occasions, including healing, evil situations, relationships, and faith. Fervent Prayer reflects the knowledge and passion of author True E. Readywriter, and her real-life examples can inspire and empower you. The prayers offered in this volume serve as an authoritative witness to the necessity and facility of prayer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Oct 3, 2016
• ISBN: 9781512719406

True E. Readywriter

TRUE E. READYWRITER is a friend of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, wife, mother, grandmother, and a minister of intercessory prayer. Her desire is to give the Gospel of deliverance, freedom, and healing to every hurting soul.

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ISBN: 978-1-5127-1939-0 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5127-1940-6 (e)

WestBow Press rev. date: 09/28/2016

To my Mother

Mrs. Ruth E. (Foster) Scott

March 9, 1913 - March 4, 1984

Your tender love, your kindness, and miles of patience brought me into the safety of His care. I will always remember your strict diligence to prayer. The words I cannot duplicate, but the actions I will and prayerfully pass it through the next two generations. Your teapot sits on a high shelf collecting dust but reminding all of us about the wisdom shared over a comforting cup of hot tea. It took a lot of hot water, and so did you. I am sure you would say that it was well worth the prayers and the patience.

See ya soon, Mom.

Your only daughter,

Ruth Ella

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

James 5:16 (KJV)

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: Healing

Chapter 2: Thoughts

Chapter 3: Evil Situations

Chapter 4: The Structure Of Prayer

Chapter 5: The Prayer Of Agreement

Chapter 6: Sinner’s Prayer

Chapter 7: Relationships

Chapter 8: Fear

Chapter 9: Faith

Chapter 10: Heaven

Acknowledgments

Afterward

Conclusion

About the Author

Scriptures Used to Write These Prayers

References

Bibliography

Foreword

Fervent Prayer is a book that I feel is like no other. My words, at first, will sound predictable in that my wife authored it, but I know that you are like any other individual who sits down to read any material, you desire to believe in its reality. I can truthfully, as well as honestly, encourage anyone to read it contextually, fervently, and prayerfully, and come up with your own conclusions.

I could not easily put the book down once I began to explore the things that I have seen in my wife’s experiences, as well as in some of my own. The comfort and satisfaction that I believe my wife and I share is that after reading Fervent Prayer, people will come to realize some new truths and will form their own perceptions.

Pastor Samuel L. Coleman Sr.

Just Like Jesus Christian Fellowship Church

Atlanta, Georgia

Preface

The author had a penetrating desire to write of the glory of God and how through many situations He has answered prayers in her life and in the lives of many people whose lives she has been blessed to encounter. In her career as a registered nurse, she realized the power of God in many crucial situations, and saw and heard His penetrating guidance in hundreds of lives. She was a Bible student for two years with part-time status, and she did not feel qualified to write a reference book or to delve into Greek meanings and/or Hebrew interpretations.

Fervent Prayer is easy to read with its larger print and its effortless vocabulary, making it available as well as accessible to everyone. It is informative and verbally illustrative concerning the prayer in Christianity prayed with fervor and knowledge to Creator God.

Truth is the dominant theme throughout this book. It is the sincere prayer of the author that the reader will desire a closer walk with Jesus after reading the book.

Fervent Prayer is a sigh of relief to a hurting world in need of a Savior. Anyone can find something in Fervent Prayer that he or she can relate. It is very important to True E. Readywriter that readers understand that she is still climbing and attempting to achieve that oneness spoken of by Jesus in John Chapter 15, verses 1–27. Her desire is to portray a struggling Christian who seeks God for answers in this walk of clay. She takes the reader into the very depths of the thoughts of that struggling Christian. Some thoughts are hard for Christians to admit, because they have worldly measurements of spiritual truths. (This is an excellent design for failure.) The mirror that True Readywriter gives is a mirror, not of the outer appearance, but a mirror of the soul.

This is a book of encouragement. Don’t give up. Get up and try again, no matter how many times you fall. God has given us the power to overcome. Overcome by the Word of God and the Blood of Jesus Christ. To give up is to succumb to the onslaught of the enemy, and there is nothing good about being under the authority and the rulership of the Evil One.

Instead, do the following:

Look to Jesus as your standard.

Look to the Holy Ghost to guide you.

Trust God’s infallible Word.

Get all of your principles from God’s Word.

Fervent Prayer was in my heart, and occasionally I would pen a few words about events that I did not want to forget.

My aunt Frances Ralls played a big part in helping me decide to write my first book, Fervent Prayer. (You can read about it in the first edition of this book.) Since the first edition, many things have taken place. One of the most caustic has been the loss of my son, Scott. He was tragically killed in August of 2010. Going through such devastation one will either destroy a family or bring it closer together. In our case, I believe it has been the propellant of our ascension into relationships, which once were distant and lacking. This tragedy revealed our faith, it strengthened our love for God, it taught us how to forgive our enemies, and it opened my eyes to the absolute power of God, and allowed me to feel the love of God in a manner that I had never experienced.

Fervent prayers were prayed for my son the day he was murdered and while he fought for his life in the hospital. God makes no mistakes, my son died early in the morning. The tempter came immediately and asked me, Do you still love God? Look what He did to your only son. My answer was, I love God! I’m not mad at Him. In truth, I’m working at forgiving my son’s attackers as it is written in God’s Word.

He continued, People are going to wonder about your relationship with God if He allowed your only son to die. Is this the right way for you? God didn’t answer all of those prayers that you prayed.

I picked up my electronic Bible and turned to Romans 8:28 KJV: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."

Is this good? It is not the good that we have been taught to expect? This good is the good of God. His good is peaceable, it is joyful, and it will not fail you. Job said, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

"He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him" (Job 13:15–16 KJV).

(Don’t be a hypocrite!)

In terrible conditions, we must turn our face to Him. We must have a real relationship with God through His Son, Jesus Christ. You must know whom you have faith in and how you trust Him to bring you through in His will and in His time. This knowing will give you peace in the midst of a storm. It will carry you through grief, mourning, depression, sickness, and all manner of illness. It is not magic; magic results in everyone being happy. This truth yields a peaceable good, a good that gives you a hiding place with the Master. It brings you into the arms of faith in love.

In this revision of Fervent Prayer, permission was granted from the surgeon who performed the repair of brain aneurysm surgery on my husband, Pastor Samuel L. Coleman Sr. In the first publication, I named him Dr. Blank. After requesting permission to use his real name, which is Dr. Antonio Yuk, he said it might be difficult to realize a brain surgeon by the name of Yuk. Well, Dr. Yuk, my readers may not believe it, but my husband and I are mighty grateful that we didn’t shrug off your skill because of your name. I personally thank God that you, Dr. Yuk, took him as your patient. My husband is well and tells everyone he encounters about the love of God through His Son, Jesus Christ. Our gratitude and prayers continue to remember you and your family. Once again, so that the whole world can see, Thank you, Dr. Antonio Yuk!

Another fictitious name and one that gave me little rest until I found her and placed her real name into this work, was Barbara Norvell RN Wound Care Specialist. Barbara was the person who risked her position to take me to the emergency room of another hospital and stayed with me until I succeeded in getting my husband transferred. One thing not mentioned in either book is that while I wrangled with the staff in the hospital, a knife-wielding, supposed-to-be robber was threatening my daughter who worked at Pizza Hut. (All of this happened in one day.) When Barbara told my daughter what had happened to her father, she became as bold as a lion, and out she came swinging her book bag and screaming, In the name of Jesus! The next time I saw her, which wasn’t very long, was in the emergency room of my home hospital. Barbara Norvell, I thank you. I have never forgotten you and have kept you in my prayers, remembering the good, the bad, and the appalling moments we stumbled upon together. Barb, you will deny this label, but I choose to call you a Good Samaritan. Why? You stopped in a dangerous place (she could have lost her job) and physically took me in her own car (or on her own donkey) to the hospital where my husband was dangerously sick and helped me to find him and agreed in prayer to get him transferred to our home hospital. As if this wasn’t adequate, Barbara accepted the phone call from my hysterical daughter, communicating valuable information between the two of us, which eventually delivered my daughter from her calamity and potential disaster.

Yep! You are he Good Samaritan and I do thank you, Barbara Norvell, and I want the whole world to know that there are still people like you alive and well.

Fervent Prayer is dedicated to my mother, and so it will be, however, I’d like to acknowledge the extensive Internet help that was given to me by my son, Scott Coleman (6-27-77 to 8-15-10). He always told me that my books needed to be marketed, and in his own way, he placed the books in strategic positions on the Internet. Scott never had a bad day, even if it seemed to be. He never complained unless someone took his tools. (He was a master carpenter.) He told me he wanted to have a baseball team. I thought that was a pretty good idea, until I realized that he meant he wanted all of the players to be composed of his own children. He had five children and his sister had two, so I guess he almost reached his goal.

Was he saved? Yes! He called on the day he was murdered and requested that I lead him again in the Sinner’s Prayer and I did. Every prayer that everyone and I ever prayed were grasped and recognized as this gentle giant realized his time was short, and he needed to have no doubts about his own salvation. Looking forward, Scott, see ya soon!

Heavenly Father, I thank you for blessing everyone who reads Fervent Prayer, filling them up with your love and kindness. I thank you, Dear Lord, for hearts changed to know you and desire your presence in their lives. Dear Lord, please allow them to feel your presence as they read about your mindfulness of them. Let them understand and feel the care that only you can give them. I pray, For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone (Psalm 91:11–12 KJV).

Readers:

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God" (Romans 12:1–3 KJV).

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God (Philippians 2:5–6 KJV).

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus" (Colossians 1:27–28 KJV).

Please enjoy reading, using, and praying Fervent Prayer.

May God who rules and reigns from heaven, forevermore bless you and keep you, in His Son Jesus’ name. Amen.

~True E. Readywriter

Introduction

Fervent Prayer is my first published book. It was important to me that the prayers contained would reveal the heart of the writer in grace and sincerity. It was also extremely critical that the prayers would be of a type or feeling that I had previously prayed and/or experienced. With my own personal repute in tow and the presses rolling for Fervent Prayer, I poured out my heartfelt anointed prayers.

I did not attempt a few prayer types, and I am so glad that I didn’t. One was the loss of a child. The partial revision had already been attempted when I lost my only son to a cruel and evil situation, and it is not my intent to use this book of prayer for a platform to discuss my tragic loss, my husband’s loss, or my daughter’s loss, and certainly not the loss suffered by his five children, niece, and nephew.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the Right Hand of God (Colossians 3:1 KJV).

My personal belief is that there is no other loss as heart wrenching as the loss of a child. It does not matter whether the loss was expected or unexpected. What mother looks forward to the demise of her child? What father or what older sibling looks for the death of a sibling younger than he is? I could say that it is a slap in the face, but that would not come close to the power punch that is actually felt, both in the spirit and in the emotions, and in the nagging flesh. He will not come when you call him, your arms are permanently empty for his comfort, and everyone gets off the school bus, except him. You are not tripping over his toys and calling him to pick them up; the little doll lays limp in the corner. Gone.

This was not supposed to be this way, but who said there is a certain way? Who said that you, the Christian will not experience or suffer this loss? Are we, as Christians, only supposed to look on as others whom we think are not Christians, suffer? I pray that is not our mindset. It is not easier, however, to think that those who suffer certain types of calamity are not related nor have even the slightest resemblance to us in any way. After all, we go to church, brush our teeth, give willingly to the offering, and faithfully tithe, so all of our good should place us in a position of security, imperviousness, a place of untouchable aloofness, maybe even detachment from these occurrences, a place of superiority, possibly even favor. Right?

Wrong!

As born-again Christians, we should never remove ourselves from the rigors of suffering, persecution, and of course, not FROM death. We are subject to suffering. We serve the suffering Savior, and He tells us as He told His disciples.

…If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.

Matthew 16:24 (KJV)

And Jesus said unto him, why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God. Thou knoweth the commandments, do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, defraud not, honor thy father and mother. And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth. Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and said unto him, One thing thou lackest: Go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou salt have treasure in heaven: and come, take up the Cross, and follow me. And he was sad at that saying, and went away grieved: for he had great possessions (Mark 10:18–22 KJV).

In his heart, this young man felt he was willing and able to be set aside with