PrayerThe Doorway to MiraclesWhat is prayer?Prayer is talking to God. Our two-way communication with God opens the door to gifts and miracles. He wants to give us the desires of our heart. (Ps. 37:4) We have not because we ask not. We need to ask God for our needs and desires. We need to ask Him for our miracles. Jesus is our wonderful example. He talked with God many times while He was here on earth. If Jesus felt the need to communicate with God, how much more do we need to. Jesus said, "When you pray." (Matt 6) Jesus did not say, IF; He said, WHEN. God loves us and wants the very best for us. He wants to bestow His blessings and protection upon us. God is love. (I Jo. 4:16) God expects to hear from us.
God answers prayer.God always answers us in His perfect timing, and in the way that is best for our personal circumstances. I love to pray and spend time with God in His presence. It is so refreshing and peaceful in God's presence. As we draw away up under God's wing, He strengthens and protects us. (Ps. 91) God wants good things for us. (Jer. 29:11-12) He is waiting for us to call upon Him. As we seek God, He reveals to each of us His plan and direction for our life. God wants to be our very best friend. (Jo. 15:13-14) He is always there with open arms and a loving heart. He is there for all those who seek Him. He demonstrated His love toward us by sending His Son, Jesus die for us while we were yet sinners. (Rom. 5:8, Jo. 3:16) We become Christians by asking Jesus Christ to be our Lord and Savior.Ask Jesus into your heart, now. Always begin and end with praise.“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.” (Ps. 100:4) Start first by giving God a "sacrifice of praise". (Heb. 13:15) As we come to the Lord, we praise Him first from our mind. Then we will begin to worship Him from our heart. Worship Him and come into His presence. This is very important! God gave us the example in the Lord's prayer. Acknowledge and praise God first before we make any requests. (Matt 6:9-13) After we come into His presence with praise and thanksgiving, then we are ready to pray. We will hear His voice clearly. He will share His concerns with us, and we can share our concerns with Him. The more time we spend with God the easier and quicker we may come into His presence, and the more sensitive we will become to His voice.Prayer is asking.As we praise and honor and glorify God, we come into His presence. Then we may ask Him what we want. We can pour our heart out to Him. God is always listening. He is waiting to hear from us. He wants us to draw near to Him and to call upon Him. We may come with petitions of our personal needs. We may come asking for the needs of others. We may lift up the needs of the church. We may come interceding for the unsaved, our city, state, the nation, or the world. Whatever the need, God is waiting for us to talk to Him about it. Pray and ask God believing in faith, and receive the answer. He is waiting for us to ask. God is all-powerful. He can do whatever He wants to do, but God is holding Himself back because He has given us dominion over the earth. (Gen. 1:26) He is waiting for us to ask Him before He will move. All things are possible with God. But God doesn’t do the possible until we ask Him for our miracles. Praying, talking to God works in two directions. We speak, then we listen to what God has to say.Prayer is listening.We need to listen to what God says. He may speak to us in a still small voice. He may speak to us in His Word, by bringing scripture to remembrance or by making some scripture jump out at us when we read His Word. It is very important to spend time listening to God. DO IT DAILY. Do it throughout the day, as well as during your specific prayer times. God wants to speak to you. God wants to guide and direct you. He wants us to learn His ways and to be His light in this world. “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.” (Ps. 37:23) God will woo us and love us into the person He wants us to be. He does not push or shove or condemn. DO NOT listen to condemning voices. Condemnation is from the devil. "There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit." (Rom. 8:1) Listen to the gentle, loving voice of the Lord. He will direct our steps for any and all situations we face.Seek God's will.Read and study God’s written Word – the Bible. Submit yourself to God’s will for your life. God expects us to follow His commandments and to separate ourselves from sin and from the evil of the world. “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matt. 6:33) What is God’s will for the situation you are seeking Him about? What does God’s written Word say? Make sure your requests line up with the word of God. Is what you are asking God's will or are you asking for selfish ambitions? “You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.” (James 4:3) “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.” (Ps 66:18) “And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” (1 John 3:22) When we love God and obey His commandments we are in God’s will; then He hears and answers us.Walk in forgiveness.It is very important for us to forgive others their trespasses. Don’t hold bitterness and enmity in our hearts toward others, especially toward our brethren. “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” (Matt. 6:12) “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their trespasses neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” (Matt. 6:14-15) “And his master was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors until he should pay all that was due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” (Matt. 18:34-35) When we do not forgive, God allows satan to torment us. We may pray, but God will not answer until we forgive. When we hold unforgiveness in our heart, we are keeping God from working. God commands us to forgive. When we forgive, then God will do His part and work in all of the lives involved. God so graciously forgives us of our sins, so likewise should we forgive others their trespasses against us.Leave your prayers at the throne of God.When we pray - believe, ask, and receive. “Therefore I say to you, Whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” (Mark 11:24) Ask about the situation and then leave it in God’s hands. Don’t take the situation back into your own hands by speaking doubt and unbelief into the situation. Satan can not read our minds. He can only act upon on what we say out of our mouth. The spirit world works with our words, no matter if they are positive (God's world) or negative (satan's world). Make sure your words align with God’s will. Satan can’t stop God’s plan and purposes from taking place, unless we allow him by the words we speak. Speak the Word of God into your situation and watch your mountains move. “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be thou removed and be thou cast into the sea; and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, HE WILL HAVE WHATEVER HE SAYS.” (Mark 11:23)God is faithful.We can have whatever we say. “…Have faith in God.” (Mark 11:22) God is well able to answer us. We can not make godly things happen by our own actions. God is so full of love and grace. He wants good things for us. When we pray, putting our situations into God’s hands, He can intervene and turn them around in miraculous ways. Leave your prayers in God’s able hands. Don’t take them back by speaking doubt and unbelief. But instead praise God for the answer is on the way. Be thankful and bless His holy name.Expect answers from a miriacle working God.
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