Part 5 in our Introduction to Prayer Series
The three keys to prayer that she mentions in her second chapter are humility, confession, and faith.
Humility means that we should make more room for God and less room for ourselves. I still remember the prayer that one of my seminary professors would pray before every class: “Lord, help me to diminish so that you may increase.”
I like to think of the following question when wondering if I need to confess something as a sin: Is this thing interfering with my relationship with God? We need to get out of our system everything that takes us away from God and hinders our prayers!
A lack of faith can stop miracles from happening. If we do not believe in God’s power to change something, it may not be changed. If we do not believe in it, why are we even praying for it? We need to pray with faith, and if we have trouble doing that, we can pray, “I believe, help my unbelief” (Mark 9:24). We can also pray, “Lord, break me of this thing that is preventing my full belief in your power to make this change.”
