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PASSION PRAYER OFJESUS THE CHRIST

PASSION PRAYER OFJESUS THE CHRISTTHE 7 SECRETS REVEALED!Elisha Goodman

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CONTENTSPART ONE: THE EYE OPENERA ForetasteThe 7 Principles—An OverviewThe Passion StoryCHAPTER 1: PRINCIPLE ONE . 27Position Your Prayers for AnswersCHAPTER 2: PRINCIPLE TWO . 45Launch Escape PrayersCHAPTER 3: PRINCIPLE THREE . 59Swing For The GatesPART TWO: DISCONTINUITYCHAPTER 4: PRINCIPLE FOUR .79Intervene Between Heaven and Earth

CHAPTER 5: PRINCIPLE FIVE . 100Fire Rapidly And RepeatedlyCHAPTER 6: PRINCIPLE SIX . 113Sweat ItPART THREE: AGREEMENTCHAPTER 7: PRINCIPLE SEVEN . 125Release the Power of AgreementAPPENDICESBEFORE YOU PRAY . 135APPLICATION ONE . 137The CoverAPPLICATION TWO . 145The Millionaire’s PrayerREFERENCES . 158

DEDICATIONTo all the present and futurePassion Prayer Practitioners

DISCLAIMERThe advice contained in this material might not besuitable for everyone. The author designed theinformation to present his opinion about the subject matter.The reader must carefully investigate all aspects of any spiritualdecision before committing him—or herself. The authorobtained the information contained herein from sources hebelieves to be reliable and from his own personal experience,but he neither implies nor intends any guarantee of accuracy.The author is not in the business of giving spiritual, physical,or any other type of professional advice. Should the readerneed such advice, he or she must seek services from acompetent professional. The author particularly disclaims anyliability, loss or risk taken by individuals who directly orindirectly act on the information contained herein. Theauthor believes that the advice presented here is sound, butreaders cannot hold him responsible for either the actionsthey take or the result of those actions.9

10ELISHA GOODMANMost Biblical quotations herein are from the New KingJames Version (NKJV) 1995 Word Publishing, used bypermission. Others are from the traditional AuthorizedVersion (KJV)

ThisJesus of NazarethWithout Money and ArmsConquered More Millions ThanAlexander, Caesar, Mohammed, and Napoleon;Without Science and Learning,He Shed More Light on Things Human and DivineThan All Philosophers and Scholars Combined;Without the Eloquence of Schools,He Spoke such Words of Life asWere Never Spoken Before or Since,And Produced Effects Which Lie BeyondThe Reach of Orator or Poet;Without Writing a Single Line,He Set More Pens in Motion,And Furnished Themes for More Sermons,Orations, Discussions, Learned Volumes,Works of Art, and Songs of PraiseThan the Whole Army of Great MenOf Ancient and Modern Times.Philip Schaff, “The Person of Christ”American Tract Society, 1913.11

PART ONETHE EYE OPENERWould you like to pray and have your prayer answered?Would you like to pray and have your prayeranswered . . . Quickly?If so, you’re in the right place. I am about to introduceyou to secrets that will allow you to pray and receiveanswers faster than you may have ever dreamed possible.Let me warn you. If you’re expecting high sounding,complex religious concepts, you’re in for a surprise. All theprayers of Jesus were extremely simple; but they got results!Forget all the theories you learnt about praying. Prayer isnot a theoretical thing. The message of this book comesdirect from the firing lines of the “real world”; It uses hardhitting, straight talk to pinpoint the critical elements thatmake the difference between success and failure in prayer.

14ELISHA GOODMANPassion Prayer is the currency of the unseen world. PassionPrayer is the secret of the amazing success that Jesus enjoyedduring His short, but explosive, ministry here on earth.A close examination of the prayer that Jesus prayed in theGarden of Gethsemane shortly before His betrayal andcrucifixion reveals a proven system that worked for Him andcan work for you too—if you work it.There are 7 secret principles in that prayer as revealed bythe Holy Spirit. Get the knowledge, master the principles,study the strategies, and in just a few months you will neverhave to worry about praying without answers again.Right now, can you truthfully say that your prayer is gettingthe results you desire? If it isn’t, you’re not the only one whosuffers: your career, your finances, your loved ones, and yourchurch, even your community could be adversely affected!In this age of terrorism, the way you’ve prayed up to nowwill not nearly be enough for what lies ahead.Unfortunately, many people are still living under the grandillusions of religious tradition: “Go to church, claim to beborn again, sing and dance to fine praise and worship songs,leave all the praying to the pastor and everything will beO.K.”You don’t have to be a prophet to recognize that methoddoesn’t work and never did. Notice, 95% of churchgoersnever see the manifestation of the many blessings they“receive” or “claim” in the church.That overwhelming number should give you pause. There’ssomething they’re missing. A key? A secret? A body of hiddenprinciples?

PASSION PRAYER OF JESUS THE CHRISTIt is called Passion Prayer; the oxygen of the spirit.Jesus taught, lived and breathed the fire of Passion Prayer.His disciples observed that His success could only be tracedto the way He prayed. They asked Him to teach them topray the way He prayed, so they too could succeed the wayHe succeeded in spite of anything.15

A ForetasteThe first experience the disciples had of Passion Prayercame on the Mount of Transfiguration. There, Jesushad gone to pray in the company of His three inner circledisciples, Peter, James, and John. This was eight days afterPeter had accurately identified Him as the Son of God.Before this time, they’d watched Him feeding five thousandmen, not including women and children, with just five loavesand two fishes.They’d even gone out on His instructions to preach thegospel and heal the sick. They’d witnessed the wind andwave obey His command; a demon—possessed man healed;a girl restored to life, and a woman dramatically healed of atwelve-year-old sickness.They’d seen the son of the widow of Nain raised to life onthe way to the cemetery. They’d learned so many beautifulparables and received so many teachings, and the news oftheir exploits was spreading like wildfire. The messengers17

18ELISHA GOODMANof John the Baptist, the hotshot prophet in the country, hadcome visiting, and even Herod the king was dying to meetHim. So the disciples had seen it all. Or had they?Let’s take up the story from Luke 9: 28-31,“Now it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings,that He took Peter, John, and James and went up on themountain to pray. As He prayed, the appearance of Hisface was altered, and His robe became white and glistening.And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Mosesand Elijah, who appeared in glory and spoke of Hisdecease which He was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.”This was a new dimension for the disciples. Jesus prayedand even physical objects such as His clothes began to change!One can even say His prayers were so powerful that two ofthe most renowned prophets who ever walked the earthwere magnetized from Heaven to the scene of this profoundevent. And that was not all. Even the voice of God thunderedfrom Heaven to confirm what the disciples had alreadyfigured out themselves:“This is My beloved Son. Hear Him!”Mark 9:7bLater, the disciples were to learn more about the aftershockof that prayer on the Mount of Transfiguration. Apart fromattracting heavenly visitation and altering physical objects, ithad also released great power to accomplish things that hadseemed impossible for them before.The very next day, they were suddenly confronted by asituation, which had stumped them in the past. A man

PASSION PRAYER OF JESUS THE CHRISTbrought his demon-possessed child to the disciples forhealing.In times past, the disciples had successfully faced up to thiskind of assignment, having received power previously to castout demons and heal the sick. This should have been a nobrainer. They knew all they needed to know about castingout demons. But this case proved stubborn. They tried allthey knew. Nothing worked!Coming down from the mountain, they were faced againwith this situation. But things were a little different now—Jesus was in the house! And this matter was quickly disposedof, to the amazement of all present.They now began to think: What could possibly account fortheir failure here? They had preached, cast out demons,healed countless number of sick folks and learned at thefeet of the Master himself. Yet, there was something missing.They could tell. He himself told them that some difficultcases needed to be addressed by the combined weapons ofprayer and fasting. They now remembered He neverattempted to start His ministry until He’d gone into thewilderness to fast and to pray. They remembered that He’dcome down from a long night of prayer to choose twelve outof the many that followed Him to be His disciples. They alsoremembered how He told them to pray even for theirenemies! Not to mention the experience on the mount.Clearly, prayer had something to do with this.At the next opportunity, as He was praying yet again in acertain place, they mustered up enough courage to makethe request that had been on their mind for some time:“Lord, teach us to pray.”And so the teaching began. And it continued. In words and19

20ELISHA GOODMANin action He taught them. And He continued right up tothe very end. At the Garden of Gethsemane, on what iscommonly referred to as the Night of His Passion, Hecompressed all the principles He had been teaching theminto one final prayer and left us an enduring legacy, whichhas continued to be used in dramatic new ways through theministry of the Holy Spirit.He confirmed this in John 16: 12-13,“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannotbear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth,has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He willnot speak on His own authority, but whatever He hearsHe will speak; and He will tell you things to come.”At last, the disciples were beginning to fully realize theuniversal significance of all that the Lord had taught themabout prayer, especially after the Holy Ghost, the promisedSpirit of truth, came on the day of Pentecost. They weresoon to discover that the Lord’s teachings on prayer hadday-to-day practical applications, and as they were controlledand led by the Spirit, new areas of opportunity began toopen up and they found themselves doing greater worksjust as the Lord had promised them.At the Beautiful GateThe biggest revelation that the apostles had was therealization that everything depended on prayer! Their entirelives, their entire ministry, all depended on prayer! Afterthe Lord’s crucifixion, they’d re-assembled at the UpperRoom, broken and afraid. Then they began to pray. Afterthe resurrection, the Lord met them here and instructedthem to wait for the coming of the Holy Spirit. Then it