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Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 22, 2012 at 9:09am

Good morning Lord! Oh how we love You! Oh how we praise You! Oh how we worship You! Oh how we lift up Your Holy and Righteous Name, confessing You and You alone are worthy of all the praise. We thank You Lord for Your love that is illuminating this beautiful day that You made. We thank You Lord for being our strength and shield, without You we can do nothing --this we know! Without You Lord our lives would be meaningless -- this we know! Without You we would be aimlessly wandering --- this we know! Without You Lord we would have nothing to look forward to and our lives would have no rhyme or reason --- this we know! Lord thank You for opening our understanding and causing us to know we've got a reason to praise You. No matter what's going on in our lives right now, we still have a reason to praise You. We can praise You because we have Your promises to stand on. We can praise You because we expect You to do just what You said You would do; So, by faith we look at our situations and call them, "GOOD" and by faith we thank You for doing exceedingly abundantly above all we have asked and thought. Lord, I ask a special prayer for my helpmate, Dr. Claudetta and my sis. Lori, touch heal and deliver if it be thy Holy Will, also help them to realize that it doesn't matter what this day looks like, by faith we thank You in advance for a great day. We thank You that no weapon formed against us shall prosper and that in the Name of Jesus, we have the victory! We give You praise, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 21, 2012 at 12:24pm

Lord, we thank You for blessing us to see another brand new day. Lord, we offer thanks to You knowing it's good to give thanks unto the Most High God. We offer praises to You believing from the rising of the sun until the going down of the same, Your Name is to be praised! Lord, we pray one for another asking that You will draw each one closer to You, that we may desire to know You better. We pray that today be the day that we trust You more. We pray that today be the day we stop fighting Your will and surrender our lives to You. We pray that today be the day we make up our minds to stop insisting on doing things our way and come to the conclusion, Your way is always best and You will always get Your way. We pray that today be the day we realize constantly thinking about past hurt, disappointments and failures is a distraction. Help us to know the more we think about the past, the less we're able to see the good things You have prepared for us today. Lord, help us today to recognize immediately those things that are distracting us and immediately snap out of it. We're excited about today and we praise You in advance for the many victories we will experience, the many smiles we will share and the love we will embrace, we give You praise, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 20, 2012 at 10:40am

Our Father in heaven, we thank You for Your goodness, kindness, mercy and grace. We thank You for waking us in our right mind, a mind that tells us because we're still here today, it's time to praise the Lord!!! A mind that tells us to shout hallelujah to the Lord our God, the almighty King! A mind that tells us to be thankful for our lives, our health, our strength, our family and our friends. A mind that tells us we're not still here because You have forgotten about us, but we're still here because we have not yet fulfilled the purpose for which You created us. God help us to know a mind is a terrible thing to waste and it's time to listen to what our minds are telling us and act accordingly. Give us the wisdom to know when the enemy tries to tempt us to go against our right mind, we can ask our Savior to help us yield not to temptation. We thank You Father for speaking to our minds throughout the day. We confess sometimes we don't listen but rather we go ahead and do things our way; Only to discover doing things our way causes You to have to work our way together for our good. Help us to know often times our struggle is a result of doing things our way, but thanks be to God Who always gives us the victory through Christ Jesus our Lord. Give us the strength and courage to say no to our way and yes to Your way and believe Your way is always the best way. Today is a great day, we purpose in our hearts right now to rejoice and be glad in it, no matter what and we will let nothing stop us from using our right mind, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 19, 2012 at 12:47pm

O Lord our God, You are holy, O so holy! What a privilege and honor to worship the only true and living God. We bow humbly before You worshiping You because You are love, kind, righteous, just, awesome, true, patient, faithful, omnipotent, omniscience, our Shepherd, our peace, our Comforter, our Lord, our Savior and we thank You for being all that You are to us every second, every minute, and every hour of the day. Lord, we've heard people say, "Without God I would be nothing" and we agreed when it was said, but Lord it is the greatest feeling in the world to come to the place in our lives where we know without a doubt, it's because of You that we are. It's because of You our life is worth living. It's because of You no matter what this day holds we can handle it, because You promised to never leave us. We pray one for another asking You to give us the wisdom to take advantage of the fact that the Comforter is with us. God help each one to know we don't have to make a wrong move today, because the Comforter will lead and guide us. Help us to know we don't have to worry about trying to understand it all, all we need to do is trust You. Give strength to our arms today that we may lift them to You in total praise, surrendering our way to You and trusting Your way. We declare the past is over, there is nothing about our past that's new, so we're moving forward expecting our great God to make all things new. We give You praise and we thank You for the victory today, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 16, 2012 at 11:38am

5 Reasons God Permits Problems

The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you--depending on how YOU respond to them. Unfortunately, most people fail to see how God wants to use problems for good in their lives. They react foolishly and resent their problems rather than pausing to consider what benefit they might bring. Here are five reasons God May have Permitted the problems for experience in your life:

1. God permits problems to DIRECT you. Sometimes God must light a fire under you to get you moving. Problems often point us in a new direction and motivate us to change. Is God allowing this situation to get your attention?
"Sometimes it takes a painful situation to make us change our ways. " Proverbs 20:30

2. God permits problems to INSPECT you. People are like tea bags ... if you want to know what's inside them, just drop them into hot water! Has God tested your faith by allowing a problem or two into your life? What do problems reveal about you?
"When you have many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience." James 1:2-3

3. God uses problems to CORRECT you. Some lessons we learn only through pain and failure. It's likely that as a child your parents told you not to touch a hot stove. But you probably learned by being burned. Sometimes we only learn the value of something...health, money, a relationship...by losing it.
"It was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me to pay attention to your laws." Psalms 119:71-72

4. God permits problems to PROTECT you. A problem can be a blessing in disguise if it prevents you from being harmed by something more serious. (example: Someone was fired for refusing to do something unethical that his boss had asked him to do. His unemployment was a problem-but it saved him from being convicted and sent to prison a year later when management's actions were eventually discovered.)
"You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good"... Genesis 50:20

5. God permits problems to PERFECT you. Problems, when responded to correctly, are character builders. God is far more interested in your character than your comfort. Your relationship to God and your character are the only two things you're going to take with you into eternity.
"We can rejoice when we run into problems...they help us learn to be patient. And patience develops strength of character in us and helps us trust God more each time we use it until finally our hope and faith are strong and steady." Romans 5:3-4

** Here's the point: God is at work in your life-even when you do not recognize it or understand it. But it's much easier and profitable when you cooperate with Him.
Our Father in heaven, God we praise You because we know, through it all we're learning to trust You more; we're learning to depend more on Your Word. We thank You Lord because we know, You are working all things together for our good, because we love You and are the called according to Your purpose. We give You praise for a wonderful day today and we thank You in advance for the favor shown to us today, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 15, 2012 at 11:23am

Our Father in heaven, we worship You O mighty God. Lord You are holy, righteous, omnipotent, just, true, loving, kind, faithful; You are all that and so much more and we thank You for being all that You are in our lives. We thank You for taking care of us another perfect Wednesday and for waking us to see another perfect Thursday. Every day that You make is perfect and we thank You for blessing us to be a part of perfection everyday. Lord we thank You for proving to us everyday that You favor us. We thank You for continuing to have mercy on us, for there are many times we place things before You, ignore Your favor and live life as if we're keeping ourselves. Forgive us for being arrogant, forgive us for being selfish, forgive us for sticking our chest out and saying, "I did it" without considering the fact it is in You that we live, we move and have our being. It's because of You that we are and we owe You the praise!! Father, this morning we're lifting those to You whom we personally pray for everyday. We thank You Lord because we don't have to name them one by one because You know all their names and issues. We're asking for a mighty move from You in their lives and that You will draw them closer to You. Lord, each person that we pray for individually is being prayed for right now at the same time and we thank and praise You in advance for a sound mind and clear direction. We thank You for a new determination to live out Your will in their lives. We thank You in advance for Your touch, Your healing and Your deliverance, in Jesus Name. We thank You for this great day that proves to us again, God favors us, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 14, 2012 at 12:23pm

Lord, for waking us to see another beautiful day we say, "Thank You!" For speaking to our lungs and saying, "breathe" we thank You. For speaking to our heart and saying, "keep beating" we thank You. For speaking to our minds and saying, "Praise Me!" we shout out, "Hallelujah!" God we thank You for making us beautiful, we thank You for making us unique, we thank You for making us a perfect fit, a perfect match with You--thank You for completing us!!!! Lord, we're praying for those who believe they're nothing without someone else. We're praying for those who will lose themselves in order to make others happy. God bless each one to know we cannot be who You created us to be, living to be who someone else wants us to be. Help us Father to love who we are because You fearfully and wonderfully made us, marvelous is Your work!!! Help each one to desire a real true genuine relationship with You, and that more than anything our desire be to please You. Father, we're praying for Victoria Carter, asking that You move mightily in her life, touch and heal her body, in the Name of Jesus! We're praying one for another asking that You bless each one with the specific touch they're standing in the need of and grant us peace. It's a great day today and we thank You for assuring us we can make it with Jesus on our side, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 13, 2012 at 10:10am

Oh Lord we thank and praise You for another day of life. Father, we thank You for continuing to supply all of our needs. We thank You for our health, we thank You for our strength, we thank You for our family, and we thank You for our friends. Your Word tells us to give thanks in everything, and because You told us to do it we know it's possible. It's possible because the good in our lives far outweighs the bad. It's possible because our faith is not based on our present circumstances, but it's based on how faithful You have been all the days of our lives. We're praying one for another and make special request for the families of Tawnette Fulton-Gilbert and Johnny Tucker, we know that YOU know their circumstances and exactly what needs to be done, so we make this request and leave in your hands for your good and perfect Will to be done, in Jesus' Name. And, we thank you in advance, help us to know saying "thank You" is good, but living a life that points back to You is being thankful. Living a life that obeys Your command to have love one to another, glorifies You. God, we pray that each one purposes in our hearts to glorify You in all that we do and say today. Today we shall go forth showing Your love. We shall go forth sharing our smiles. We shall go forth sharing the Jesus in us, declaring the Jesus in us makes loving, caring and sharing easy to do. We go forth singing, "The Jesus in Me, loves the Jesus in You! You're so easy to love!" We go forth knowing today will be a better day because we begin this day saying, "I can . . . because Jesus lives in me!" We give You praise, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 12, 2012 at 10:18am

Good morning Lord! It's a great day that You have made and we're excited to still be here. The weekend was great and we so look forward to a great week filled with endless possibilities. We believe we can do all things through Christ Who gives us strength. We believe there is nothing too hard for God to do. We believe no weapon formed against us shall prosper. We believe You're working all things together for our good. We believe without faith it is impossible to please You. We believe You're with us everywhere we go and since You're with us we already know it's going to be a great week. Bless each one to know what they believe, stand on Your promises and moved forward expecting great things. We are children of the Most High God and we shall go forth showing the world our Father is great and greatly to be praised! We win!! We win!! We win!!! Thank You Lord in advance for a victorious day, we give You praise, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

Comment by WILLIE W. WILLIAMS JR. on March 8, 2012 at 7:53am

Our Father in heaven, Lord we thank You for this another day You have blessed us to see. We thank You for our life, health and strength. We thank You for Your Word, full of Your promises that assure us You're always with us and You will always take care of us. Your Word promises nothing will separate us from Your love. Your Word promises You will cause all things to work together for good, for those of us who love You and are called according to Your purpose. In Your Word You told us tribulations would come, but we could be of good cheer because You have overcome them all. God, because of Your Word we can live knowing our life is worth living and we can live expecting great things. Thank You Jesus for Your Word! God, we're taking You at Your Word, we will trust You with all our hearts and we will not lean to our own understanding, but in all our ways we will acknowledge You first and expect You to direct our paths. We lift Kim Jones to You, as she prepares to enter the operating room. God, we're trusting You to move mightily on her behalf, we're believing You for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery. We pray one for another, asking You to bless each one with the blessings they stand in need of and give us the strength and courage to take You at Your Word and keep pressing forward believing Your Word is true. It's a great day today, and we purpose in our hearts to rejoice and be glad in it, in Jesus Name, Amen.

Because of Calvary,

Bishop Willie Williams
The Prayer Ministry

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