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How to Pray and Attract a New Car, House or Anything Else by: Elisha Goodman Last Friday night, I met a Christian at a prayer meeting. He was rescued from war-torn Sudan and brought to the U.S. three years ago. He clearly loves to pray. He gushed facts. For example: I didn't know that George Washington, the first president of the United States used to pray for two hours every day - one hour in the morning at 4:00 a.m. and one hour at 9:00 p.m before retiring to bed. Or, that Christopher Columbus (who discovered America in 1492) was so filled with the Spirit of God that he wrote in his memoirs that he literally felt the Holy Spirit on his shoulder directing him throughout his journey to the New World. And get this: I also did not know that in the book of Genesis, when they brought Rebecca, the wife of Isaac, the very first thing she saw him doing was praying. 'Most people just don't know how to pray,' he explained. 'Since prayer is a spiritual weapon, it needs to be aimed at a specific target and fired, like a gun repeatedly, until you see the results.' He went on to add: 'Christians who have learned that prayer is more than just communication with God are powerful folks. They've learnt to make decrees when they are praying. They've learnt to bind and to loose during prayer. They've even learnt to speak to spiritual mountains such as debt, sickness, and poverty... and caused them to disappear,just like the bible said we would. All during prayer.' Since I am into that dimension of praying and have been teaching people how to pray their way out of debt, I was eager to hear all this. I was so taken by what he had to say that I spent the next two hours after the prayer meeting listening to his story. Here's the really fascinating part... 'You've probably seen people who through unfortunate circumstances in their homelands were brought here as refugees,' he said. 'Would you believe I am one of them?' he asked me. 'Certainly not,' I said. He looked to me more like a successful physician than the image of poverty and wretchedness we all see on tv. 'I didn't think you would' he told me. 'But less than three years ago, when I was rescued from a burning village in the Sudan and airlifted to safety and freedom here, I looked exactly like what you see on tv!' I stared at him in disbelief. After a long silence, I finally asked, 'then what happened?' 'The fact that I'm still alive today is a testimony that God still performs miracles, but I won't go into that here. Instead I'll tell you how I used only one strategy in the bible to get from a non-starter and struggling refugee to the point where I now live in my own home (worth over $'200
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