WHEN WE PRAY

Post date: Aug 9, 2012 7:41:32 AM

Prayer brings God’s effectiveness to play in our daily lives. It weakens and destroys the hands and instruments that hold us in bondage. The more we pray the more our spiritual freedom is brought to bear in our physical life. The more we give ourselves to prayer, the more we enjoy the fruits of our salvation and exercise God’s divine nature and authority in us. When we pray, we set up the stage for an open reward from God, because God reward everyone who prays openly. Matthew 6:6. When we pray unimaginable things happen in heaven and on earth. 

Prayer is never a fruitless exercise for the people of God, though unbelievers may think so. It is not a show of our strength or ability or godliness; it is a divine call in a physical world to show God’s unfailing faithfulness towards us, His immersed love, His tested and proven strength, His ability to turn things around, and to receive divine help in all things. Prayer needed at all times in all things; do not wait until there is a need before you pray. Before you ever notice a need, the devil had finished his wicked works. The devil takes advantage of believers when our knees are too weak to pray, when our mouth are closed in times of prayers, when our heart are fixed on the needs rather than on our God, and when our thoughts are compromised by the enormity of the needs. Your needs may be big, but your God is bigger. His presence is more than enough to scare away the devil and all his cohorts around you. Praying ensures we will receive a reward from God, a deliverance from the power of darkness, health in times of sickness, and restoration in times of denials and delays irrespective of the number of years the devil had taken captive of our dreams, our life, our children, our spouses, our marriage, our family and our finances. The devil took all from Job, and God restored far more than what the devil took “And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning” Job 42:12a. That is the kind of reward I expect from God as we persist in prayer. Prayer helps you remember your dreams and makes them effective.

Prayer is not immunity from the devil, but it fortified you against his attacks and keeps you ahead of his plans. Job is our good example here, as Job kept praying, God kept building impenetrable hedges around him, while the devil kept trying without success to get to him. It only took a permit from God for the devil to get Job, but God placed a restriction on his activities in Jobs life. I am convinced; our Lord will never abandon us when we pray. 

A praying Christian will experience challenges in life like everyone but will not suffer defeat in them all, will be confronted by the men in various ways but will not be overrun by them, will be frustrated by men, but will not be confused about the ability of God to make a way, and may be sick, but will surely be healed. Prayer commands a divine presence with grace, shields, keep, and preserve; brings victory and overturns the contrary plans of men against the will of God.

Without prayers, the devil seeks to secure his bondage, but in prayer God breaks them asunder.       

“Do not fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in every circumstance and in everything, by prayer and petition (definite requests), with thanksgiving, continue to make your wants known to God. And God’s peace [shall be yours, that tranquil state of a soul assured of its salvation through Christ, and so fearing nothing from God and being content with its earthly lot of whatever sort that is, that peace] which transcends all understanding shall garrison and mount guard over your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. For the rest, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of reverence and is honorable and seemly, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely and lovable, whatever is kind and winsome and gracious, if there is any virtue and excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on and weigh and take account of these things [fix your minds on them]” Philippian 4:6-9.  Please join me in our “Tear down this wall” second phase prayer, August 8-10. Someone is here to pray with you. Submit your prayer request. Click here