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PRAYER THE ACCESSIBLE WEAPON OF ALL CHRISTIANS!
WHAT IS PRAYER?
PRAYER
is the deepest, quite the most profound, activity that any of us – child, man,
woman – is capable of. Nothing we do, think, say, or feel is more authentically
itself than when it is prayed. Two pillar truths support this: God is the defining
reality of all that is, including us; two, God is personally present to us in
all that we are and do. This is what Christians and Jews have always believed.
It follows that when we pray, receiving God’s personal presence and responding
in kind, we are most in touch with reality – the Real World, the God World –
and most ourselves, our true Image-of-God selves.
But this is not an
understanding of prayer current in our culture. The modern world, at least when
it gets down to what it thinks of as serious business, is suspicious of prayer.
Sometimes it is downright hostile. Much of this suspicion derives from the
“masters of suspicion” of the last hundred or so years who have treated prayer
variously as a narcotic that dulls our sensibilities, in capacitating us for
dealing with the hard task of living (Marx); as wishful fantasy, a childish
escape into a dreamland where we never have to grow up and take on the
demanding responsibilities of adulthood (Freud); and as a sieve into which we
pour our powerful energies of will only to have them dissipated useless in the
dirt (Nietzche). Whether as narcotic, fantasy, or sieve, these are not images
of designed to bolster confidence in prayer.
Prayer is not a method of
using God; rather prayer is a mean of reporting for duty to God. Beloved prayer
is never a “magic”. But prayer is within the laws of the universe, and the
spiritual laws of the universe are as certain and sure as the physical laws.
Physical and spiritual laws work together, they are never in conflict. As Pierhal states it, “Although prayer is
supernatural, it is not anti-natural.”
Prayer is never a substitute for effort. A certain college student
failed in his examinations. He was very much surprised. When his lecturer/
counselor inquired how much he had studied, he replied, “I did not study at
all. I thought that if you asked God to help you that was all you had to do.”
On the other hand, prayer is something beyond our efforts. Prayer is speaking
or thinking or feeling with the belief that there is somebody who cares and who
will respond. Prayer is a means of contact with God. Prayer is opening our
lives to the purposes of God. As earlier stated prayer is not a method of using
God; rather prayer is a means of reporting for duty to God.
CAN ANYBODY PRAY?
The answer is, everybody
can and does pray. Some people think they are self sufficient and do not need
help. Some people scoff at the value of prayer, calling it a silly waste of
time. Some people lack faith; others are ashamed to face God in prayer because
of some sin; some are afraid to pray because they do not want God telling them
what to do.
But at one time or
another, in one kind of crisis or another, everybody prays. Need becomes
stronger than doubt, and sometimes we will turn to God in spite of ourselves.
There is a hidden hunger of man’s spiritual self that cries out to be
satisfied. Sooner or later that hidden hunger asserts itself and makes the
demands felt. It was just as Victor Hugo said, “There are times in a man’s life
when, regardless of the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees in
prayer.”
Have encountered several
Christians of such experience, some was due to terrible sins they had
committed, while others was due to sorrows, trials, criticisms, troubles etc.
GOD IS AVAILABLE FOR YOU ALWAYS!
Beloved if I should ask
you a question, my question would be how often do you maintain a quiet time
with God, asking Him to guide and direct your ways toward the accomplishment of
His heavenly will; to reveal the plans and desires He has for your life? God
has already created, blessed and destined you with abundance wealth and riches.
I commend those who have earlier discovered this blessing in them. They are
those who sincerely complied with the laws, and rules that God the master has
codified down for all sincere believers. Jesus disciples are encouraged to
spend enough time with God in prayer. Pray to God, confess all your sins, seek
the grace for doing His will, declare and claim all the blessing He has for you
through prayer.
Prayer as commonly known
to be a means of reporting duty to God, but still there are many questions that
our minds will never stops asking ourselves or other people of the same faith
on prayer; the mystery, value and power of prayer.
Why
some believers pray as though God is reluctant to answer their prayers? Why
some believers doubt the power of prayer? Why
some believers cry and beg God as though he can be coerced (forced) in to
obliging their request?
Dear brethren these are
some of the blockage problems that I studied in the limited believers I have
ever come across in my ministry.
ANSWER
Some times a bridge
falls, but that does not mean that the law of gravity has failed, some times
lines are short circuited, but that does not mean that the law of electricity has
failed. And some times a disciple betrays his Lord, but that does not mean that
the law of love has failed. Some times a prayer is seem to be unanswered, but
that does not mean that the power of prayer has failed. Do you know that the
scientist does not quit when the lines are short circuited, or when the bridge
falls? Then why should you quit your prayer life? Just think of what would
happen if all Church people united in prayer with a great faith in the laws of
God as scientist have in the laws of nature. But instead Christians are
fighting, searching and consulting for a perfect denominational Churches here
on earth, instead religious leaders have left the substance (God) and following
the shadows (the ripped fruits of other denominational churches). “Churches are
in conflict.”
Science is showing us
that the smaller and more invisible a thing is, the more powerful it is.
Pasteur proved to an unbelieving world that bacteria which is tenth-thousand
(10,000) times smaller than flea could kill a man. Physicists are proving that
the tiny cosmic ray is far more potent and penetrating than the visible sun
ray. Radio operators are proving that the short wave length carries a message
farther than the long wave length. And love is invisible, but all powerful love
is more potent and penetrating than cannons, submarines or airplanes ever can
be. What I try to explain here is that, prayer in the inner room, invisible to
the eyes of men, is still as potent as in the days when Jesus said, “Pray to
thy Father who is in secret and thy Father who seeth in secret shall reward you
openly” let’s me conclude by saying “who riseth from prayer a better man, his
prayer is answered.” That is really the best result of prayer, but prayer
brings definite tangible results. However, we must keep in mind that we
ourselves must become part of the answer to the prayer we prayed.
“Keep
on asking, and you will be given what you ask for. Keep on looking, and you
will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened. For everyone who
asks, receives. Everyone who seeks finds. And the door is opened to everyone
who knocks” __ Mathew 7:7-8. (NLT)
Don’t be relent in asking
God for the secret key to His heavenly treasures; for the Bible says “pray
without ceasing.”
A PRAYERFUL LIFE IS A GRACEFUL LIFE!
Prayer
as it has been previously defined is
a key of communication between man and God.
Praying is the act of communing or
conversing with God as manner of an intimate relationship between man and God.
Despite the fact that there are different channels to which blessing and favor
could be access, and irrespective of this, suppose as man to man often hold a
conversation for a better understanding and the expression of the inner
feelings as way of seeking for any possible solution or way out. So likewise
man needs to commune with his creator as manner of developing a close and
mutual relationship between man and God. And the only accessible channel for
that is called “Prayer.”
“Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto: For every one
that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be
opened.” __ Mathew 7:7-8.
The
servant isn’t greater than the master, so we obtained the root and likewise the
foundation of a praying lifestyle from Jesus Christ, who does nothing on his
own without first of all consulting (praying to) the Father for the right direction and
guidance. “But I do nothing without
consulting (praying to) the Father.” __ John 5:30a.
Hope
you could again remember the song that says, “Prayer is the key/2x Prayer is
the master key, Jesus started with prayer and conquered through praying; Prayer
is the master key.
The
above exposure shows that the entire life of Jesus Christ was spent in praying,
consulting the will of the Father on his given assignment. Jesus often felt
impress while seeking the divine guidance, so as not to go astray from doing
the will and accomplishing the work of the Father. The same thing which I and you
ought to be doing for our daily successful living.
PRAYING IN THE NAME OF JESUS
“The name of the LORD is a strong
tower: the righteous runs into it, and is safe.” __ Proverbs 18:10
Every
answered prayer is the prayers laid and prayed in the name of Jesus. The
uniqueness of the name of Jesus prevails in our praying lifestyle and the
method which we adopt while praying. There’s no any other name which we can use
to tender our requests and desires before God, except by the mentioning of the
name of his Son (Jesus Christ) in attachment to our tendered requests and
desires. “I appointed you to go and
produce fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you
ask for, using my name.” ___ John 15:16b.
“You can ask for anything in my
name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father:
Yes, ask anything in my name, and I will do it!” __ John 14:13-14.
The
real believers of the gospel of Jesus Christ ought to pray in the name of
Jesus, not through the name of Jesus. For instance, assuming you pray a prayer
point as this; “all you strange Spirit of sickness inside of me, I cast you out
through the name of Jesus.” My dear, surely know that, you have not yet pray to
cast out that spirit. But when you pray as this; “I cast you out in the name of
Jesus,” surely know that they are out already!
THE POWER OF PRAYER
“Yea have not, because ye ask not.”
____ James 4:2.
A
message from God is combined in those seven short words. Six of the seven are
monosyllables, and the remaining word has but two syllables and is one of the
most familiar and most easily understood words in the English Language. Yet
there is so much in these seven short, simple words that they have transformed
many a life and brought many an inefficient worker into a place of great power.
You
will find these seven words in James 4:2, the seven closing words of the verse,
“Ye have not, because ye ask not.”
These
seven words contain the secret of the poverty and powerlessness of the average
Christian, of the average minister, and of the average church. “Why is it,” many a Christian is asking,
“that I make such poor progress in my Christian life? Why do I win so few souls
to Christ? Why do I grow so slowly into the likeness of my Lord and savior
Jesus Christ? And God answers in the words of our text__ “Neglect of prayer.
You have not, because you ask not.”
“Why
is it,” many a minister is asking, “that I see so little fruits from my
ministry? Why is there so little conversation? Why does my church grow so
slowly? Why are the members of my church so little helped by my ministry, and
built up so little in Christian knowledge and life?” And again God replies: “Neglect of prayer. You have not, because you
ask not.”
THE EFFECTS OF PRAYER
1. Prayer
Will Promote Our Personal Holiness as Nothing Else Except the Study of the Word
of God.
But
what specifically, will prayer do? We have been dealing in generalities; let us
come down to the definite and specific. The Word of God plainly answers the
question.
In
the first place, prayer will promote our
personal piety, our individual holiness, our individual growth into the
likeness of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as nothing else but the study of
the Word of God; and these two things, prayer and study of the Word of God,
always go hand-in-hand, for there is no true prayer without study of the Word
of God, and there is no true study of the Word of God without prayer.
Other
things being equal, your growth and mine into the likeness of our Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ will be in exact promotion to the time and to the heart we
put into prayer. Please note exactly what I say: “Your growth and mine into the
likeness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will be in exact proportion to the
time and to the heart we put into prayer.” I put it in that way because there
are many who put a great deal of time into praying but they put so little heart
into their praying that they do little actual praying in the long time they
spend at it. There are others who may put so much heart into their praying,
that they accomplish vastly more by their praying in a short time than the
others accomplish by their praying a long time.
God Himself has told us in Jeremiah 29:13: “And ye shall seek me, and
find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.”
2. Prayer
Will Bring the Power of God Into Our Work
But
not only will prayer promote as almost nothing else our personal holiness,
prayer will also bring the power of God into our work. We read in Isaiah 40:31,
“They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up
with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk
[plod right along day after day, which is far harder than running or flying],
and not faint.”
It
is the privilege of every child of God to have the power of God in his service.
And the verse just quoted tells us how to obtain it, and that is by “waiting
upon the Lord.” Sometimes you will hear people stand up in a meeting, not so
frequently perhaps in these days as in former days, and say: “I am trying to
serve God in my poor, weak way,” Well, if you are trying to serve God in your
poor, weak way, quit it; your duty is to serve God in His strong, triumphant
way. But you say I have no natural ability; then get a supernatural ability.
The religion of Jesus Christ is a supernatural religion from start to finish,
and we should live our lives in supernatural power, the power of God through
Jesus Christ, and we should perform our service with supernatural power, the
power of God ministered by the Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ. You say, “I
have no natural gifts.” Then get supernatural gifts. The Holy Spirit is
promised to every believer that he may obtain the supernatural gifts which
qualify him for the particular service to which God calls him. “He (the Holy
Spirit), divideth to each one (that is, to each and every believer) severally
even as He will” (I Cor. 12:11). It is ours to have the power of God, if we
will only seek it by prayer, in any and every line of service to which God
calls us.
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