Phil continued his preach about praying.
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I guess it’s would be easy if there were some simple formula or step by step simple guide to prayer to follow and if you do that all your prayers will be answered
Just check off the steps and we’ve done our duty
Prayer doesn’t work like that though, God wants us to engage with him, it’s about relationship and our hearts been in tune with him.
Praying was never meant to be a duty or a chore, it is a privilege and essential to our developing and strengthening our relationship with our father.
God loves to answer our prayer, he doesn’t ignore he’s not being difficult or awkward, he wants us to find him to know him to partner with him.
He wants us to know his heart that we might pray with faith and expectancy.
We need to:
(1) pray faithfully
(2) pray decisively
(3) pray forcefully
(4) pray lovingly
(5) pray truthfully
(6) pray earnestly
(7) pray authoritatively
Conclusion
Prayer is a journey that is unique for everyone. Just as each of us has a different calling or job to do for God, each of us will travel a slightly different road in understanding what prayer
really is. God will speak to each of us in different ways, and the way God speaks to one person can be markedly different from the way He speaks to another.
God isn't interested in getting us to learn rules and requirements and living life merely by
following the dictates of a rule book, but He wants us to come to Him that we might know
Him for ourselves. He wants a unique relationship with each of us just as He created each of
us as unique individuals.
He wants to partner with us in our journey and live it out with us day by day. It's why He
created humans, and it is His great joy when we come to Him without doubt or compromise
to wholeheartedly get to know Him and let ourselves be fully known by Him. God is all
about relationship, and the key to it is masterful prayer.
Faith filled payers are needed for seemly impossible tasks
For our nation to turn back to God
To see the Gospel penetrate every tribe tongue and nation
To see strongholds pulled down in the Name of Jesus
To see his kingdom rule and reign in every sphere of society
God majors in doing what is impossible with man
He loves to break through when all hope seems gone
So what are we going to do with prayer ?
If this is a new day for us then it has to be in prayer and through prayer
Questions
• What’s your prayer journey?
• What’s been your best prayer success and your worst?
• How would you like to see your prayer life grow?
• How can we be more effective in our praying ?
• What are the breakthroughs you are praying for at the moment?
