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February 2, 2019 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 3 Comments

21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer Series Now Live on YouVersion!

Hey everybody, guess what? I have an exciting gift for you today!

Many, many of you sent in testimonies of huge answered prayers during our 21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer series. And since the Lord used it so powerfully, I wanted to make it even easier to rinse and repeat!

So … drum roll, please … that entire series of breakthrough prayers is now live as a Bible Reading Plan on YouVersion (the Bible app)!

21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer just went live on YouVersion yesterday.

If you need breakthrough in any area, please, run don’t walk to go on your YouVersion app, select it, and pray it through with me again. 🙂

For those of you who didn’t go through the series the first time, it’s super-simple. Each day has:

A short Scripture passage to read (usually a verse or two); and
A detailed, specific, bullet-point list about how to claim that Scripture as you pray for breakthrough.

And that’s it!

Here’s the direct link to 21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer if you’re using the Bible.com website:

https://my.bible.com/reading-plans/14084

And if you’re accessing it via the YouVersion app, you can find it by searching under “Find Plans” for the word “breakthrough,” “21 days,” or “21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer.”

This plan is full of prophetic Scriptures that will freak you out as you pray them.

And since God’s Word always does what God sends it to do, I believe you will see huge miracles as you pray these Scriptures and prayers back to God. So, please run don’t walk to get it today–free on the YouVersion app!

Love in Christ,

Jamie

January 29, 2019 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 21 Comments

What’s the Difference Between Prayer and Intercession?

Have you ever gotten confused when people talk about prayer and intercession like they are two different things? Have you wondered what’s the difference between prayer and intercession? If so, stick around; this article is for you today!

Prayer and intercession have a lot in common, and they often overlap one another.

Think of a Venn diagram showing two different things. Each of the two things has its own characteristics, but some of them overlap in the middle like this: [Read more…]

January 20, 2019 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 2 Comments

7 Prayers for When You Feel Afraid

Do you struggle with fear? Whether that fear is situational or long-term, you can get rid of fear.

Fear is a demonic spirit. When you feel afraid, it’s because that demon is harassing you with thoughts of fear.

The good news is that Jesus paid the price with His blood for you to be completely delivered from ALL harassment by the spirit of fear. You can be delivered and walk in freedom because Jesus died to set you free!

A lot of people try to get free from fear by exercising faith, but faith is not the antidote to fear. Faith is the opposite of doubt and unbelief, so faith cures doubt and unbelief. However, 1 John 4:18 tells us what cures fear:

“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love” (1 John 4:18).

So if you struggle with fear, you can be healed by being made perfect in love.

If you feel afraid today, I wrote seven super-short prayers that will help you get free from fear and be made perfect in love.

I wrote these prayers for this month’s article on iBelieve.com, and it was posted there a few days ago.

Click here to read all 7 Prayers for When You Feel Afraid on iBelieve.com.

After you read 7 Prayers for When You Feel Afraid, if you’d like additional resources that will help you get free from fear, check out my testimony about how God delivered me from fear, panic attacks, and more. Here are the links:

And enjoy!

Jamie

January 13, 2019 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 14 Comments

Your Prayers Are THIS Important To God!

Have you ever felt like your prayers didn’t matter? Have you ever wondered if God even heard you at all?

Maybe you’ve prayed and prayed and nothing seems to be happening. Maybe you’ve gotten discouraged. Or, maybe you’re brand new to prayer and so you’re just trying to figure it all out. Prayer might not feel comfortable to you yet, and you might not be certain it even does any good.

Oh, but it does, dear friend.

Do you have any idea how much good your prayers do?

Do you have any idea how important your prayers are?

Your prayers are so important that God gives His promises over and over in Scripture that He will answer them.
Your prayers are so important that God says that His house–His temple, His church building–shall be called a house of prayer.
According to Daniel 10 and 11, your prayers are so important that they shake Heaven and earth. Your prayers move angels and vanquish demons.

But most moving of all… [Read more…]

January 3, 2019 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 77 Comments

5 Prayers To Increase God’s Glory On Your Prayer Life

Do you struggle with prayer? If so, today’s post is for you. It’s going to give you the keys you need for GOD to turn your prayer life into a supernaturally-anointed flow of power encounters with Him and His glory.

Here’s the backstory:

When I first got saved, I could not pray. I just could not tolerate prayer. I had no appetite for it, no inspiration for it, and no supernatural flow in prayer. Even trying to pray was difficult; it felt like very hard work.

But I wanted to know God better. I was so hungry for Him, and I wanted to be intimate with Him.

I wanted to pour out my heart to Him and hear Him talk back to me.
I wanted to be His friend and have Him tell me His secrets.
I wanted romance and intimacy with the Lord.
I wanted to carry weight in Heaven.

I knew prayer was a huge key to that kind of relationship, but I could not pray. So in my desperation and from the desire of my heart, I cried out to the Lord for help. And He answered. (Isn’t it amazing how God helps us in our weakness?) 🙂

God heard my cry. He began to teach me how to pray. Seemingly out of nowhere, I started encountering God in prayer.

As I asked the Lord to teach me to pray, I started having an actual desire to pray. (Shocking, I know.) 😉 So I’d sit down with God, and all of a sudden words would just pour out of my heart to Him. (Usually silently, but God hears silent prayer.) 🙂

And all of a sudden, things worked. Prayer flowed. It was for very short periods at first, but it still started working! I was amazed. [Read more…]

January 1, 2019 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 17 Comments

How to Become an Intercessor

Would you like to experience incredible levels of intimacy with Jesus? Do you want God to reveal His secrets to you? And, do you want to shape history, shake heaven and earth, and influence nations with your prayers? You can do all these things and more if you learn how to become an intercessor.

Notice: The link below to the book Rees Howells, Intercessor, is an Amazon affiliate link. This means that if you decide to purchase the book and you click on my link to do so, Amazon will pay me a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you in advance for helping support this blog in this way!

Today’s post begins a new, month-long teaching focus on intercession here on From His Presence (R).

Throughout this month, we will discuss essential questions like:

How to become an intercessor;
Why are intercessors necessary?
What can you gain by interceding?
Why doesn’t God just move without people having to pray?
What makes an intercessory prayer different from an ordinary prayer?
Are there multiple ways to intercede? If so, what are those ways?
How to win in intercession;
Should everybody become an intercessor? Or is the intercessory role for a select few in the Kingdom?
What kind of sacrifice is required for you to become an intercessor?
And so much more!

I believe this month of teaching and activation in intercession will bless and encourage you.

First, I want to start with my story about how I became an intercessor:

I gave my life to Jesus when I was 21 years old. Shortly after that time, someone I knew recommended that I read a book called Rees Howells, Intercessor (Amazon affiliate link). When I began reading the book, I was floored. [Read more…]

December 29, 2018 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 20 Comments

5 Ways To Protect God’s Favor On Your Life

So you’re in a new season. God is doing great things in your life. He’s giving you favor. Things that didn’t work in the past are now working. Ideas you’ve wanted to implement for years are taking off. God is giving you new relationships. Awesome things are happening.

Ever get concerned that it might not last?

I’ve been having fun discussing this subject with a pastor friend of mine for awhile now. Specifically, we’ve been pondering this question: “When God gives you favor, it is possible for the enemy to steal it?”

I think it is certainly possible. The enemy of our souls always wants to destroy what God is doing. However, God is so much greater than the enemy! Therefore, I don’t want to dwell on the negative. I DO, however, want to talk about how God can protect the favor He is giving us. God is always greater, and we serve a big God that will perfect all things that concern us!

So how do we protect what God is doing? How do we make sure that we won’t mess up the favor He is giving us when we enter a new season?

Here are 5 ways to protect God’s favor on our lives:

(And just because I love you, I made you a 5 Ways To Protect God’s Favor On Your Life free printable bookmark that you can download and print if you’d like to!) 😉

1. Pray specifically for God to protect the favor He has given you.

My friends, we need to be proactive in our praying. Favor is a beautiful thing. It can turn your life around in one moment. So we need to be specifically praying about favor:

that God will give us favor with Himself;
that He would give us favor with specific people (and I pray for favor with people by name); and
that God would protect the favor He has given us.

Favor is a commodity. It can be bought, sold, invested, or squandered. [Read more…]

December 21, 2018 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 10 Comments

Day 21: He Only Does Wondrous Things

Welcome back to 21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer! Today, we are asking God to do wondrous things in our lives!

Are you ready?

A couple of reminders:

This is a very simple series; I am not expounding on each Scripture very much, except through a bullet-point list to share some prayer pointers. I also am not writing out sample prayers, as I believe the Lord wants you to exercise your prayer muscles and make these Scriptures your own vocabulary for prayer.

But, even though it’s a simple series, I believe it’s a POWERFUL one … and I want to hear your testimonies as the Lord answers your prayers, okay?

See the 21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer series table of contents here.

And now, for Day 21 of 21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer:

[Read more…]

December 20, 2018 By Jamie Rohrbaugh 11 Comments

Day 20: Lord, Increase My Greatness!

Welcome back to 21 Days of Breakthrough Prayer! Today, we are praying a shocking prayer taken directly from the Scriptures: “Lord, increase my greatness!”

Are you ready?