The Power of Prayer

Over the course of the next few weeks, I am going to attempt to explain the power in prayer. It is my goal that you will never see prayer the same way again. This is no easy task. However, the Scriptures have given us pieces to this vast painting. Like a mosaic, we are going to assemble them and what will be revealed is something that will change our prayer walk.

Prayer is the most powerful tool given to God's children and yet it is often the most neglected aspect in our life.

As I mentioned in an earlier blog, our goal through prayer must be to....Know God Better - to experience the fullness of relationship with Him. Through prayer we honor Him. We must break out of the routine and get into the blessing. If we fail to praise Him, to cry out to Him, the rocks will (Luke 19:40). I don't know about you, but I have no intention of allowing rocks to take my joy of praising the Father.

Paul tells us in Philippians 3:10 AMP: "For my determined purpose is that I may know Him - that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His person more strongly and more clearly. And that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection; and that I may so share His sufferings as to be continually transformed [in spirit into His likeness even] to death."

Again he tells us, "I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better." Ephesians 1:17

"Oh God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you, my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water." Psalm 63:1 NIV

God designed us to thirst for Him. It is a thirst that many try to quench with physical desires which is a never-ending quest with no resolve. Only Jesus can fill the void and he wants to have a deeper relationship with us. When you seek him, he will answer.

"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." John 4:13-14

What if this is the last generation before the coming of Christ? How would you live today? When you stand before the throne, do you want God to know you - really know you as he did Enoch? Or, will you be a stranger? Prayer and devotion are the keys to having this relationship.

Paul tells us again, "I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ." 2 Corinthians 11:3

What is Prayer?

Here is a simple acrostic: Praise, Repent, Ask and Yield

Over the next few weeks we are going to explore each of these areas. It is going to be an exciting journey.