The same climax level a sexual intercourse takes a man and woman is what prayer will give you with God. The climax is getting to that secret place where the heart beat of God dwells….when you get to that realm you hear God speak with you, just like the way your partner mourns when he or she is satisfied.
So you must abide in him. Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Psa 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. The secret place here is open to very one who want to discover it. And prayer is that act that will take you there. But how do you get to that place? The Big question? No, we just have to know how.
Mind you, you don’t have to be intimidated by beautiful and big words of others; there are certain things God expect to see in your prayers for things to happen for you. So how do you know your prayer is been answered and you are not just blabbing. It is an act you need to learn.
Do we really know what prayer is?
Ask yourself this question first? But I think the key word in prayer is ‘Relationship’. Prayer gives that intimate relationship with God; it will make your conversation with him effective. John 15:7.
Prayer is an attitude of deep dependency on God. Prayer is a means of having intimate communication with God the father, who has promised to walk in and through us.
Ok, do we know the Genesis of Prayer?
What I mean is how come prayer came into existence? How come we need to pray at all? We will find this in Genesis 1:26-27. Where God said “lets make man in our own image after our own likeness” the ‘us’ here is God the father asking God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. Let us create a physical version of us. (God the father is the performer, God is the son is the word and God the Holy Spirit is the executor). Then he said, “Lets man have dominion” and at that very minute, God lost dominion over Earth, he sold Earth to man, and that means he can not just come and take dominion again like he did when he was creating the world.
In verse 28, God empowered man to be faithful. He gave man the power to exercise dominion. There is nothing going on in your life that he can not do, but he won’t do it until you invite him and that can only be done through prayer. Take Noah for instance; when God wanted to destroy the world, he needed somebody to help him carry out some instructions. He had to show Noah what he planned and how the good ones can be saved. The same is applicable to Moses and the Israelites in Egypt.
So you see there wouldn’t have been any need for prayer if he had not sold the dominion of Earth to man. So with Prayer, God will have access to come down and intercede for you. But don’t get it wrong, God can do anything, but I feel just being a man of principle that he is. If he intervened, things would have been more predictable, life won’t be balanced and man will be lazy.
So I really wish we can really see ourselves how God sees us. He wants us to take charge over everything he created….they are there for us to command. So from now on, you need to believe in yourself and God that you are a controller of the Universe and nothing can stop the flow of your day because the elements in life are there for you to command. Even God can’t have control over you except you invite him to.
So what are the things we set to gain if we pray?
God’s help: Like I said he can only help when you invite him. So his help through the power of prayer is available for all kinds of request and issues. Philip 4:6-7
The power of prayers overcomes the enemy Psalm 6:9-10. It conquers death. It brings healing
It defeats the demons. It opens eyes and changes heart. By this I mean, it open your eyes to things in the spiritual realm, it gives you power to see with your third eye. It also draws on the glory and might’s of the powerful God of the universe.
When I was young I felt the ‘Lord prayer’ is an alternative to prayer if we don’t know how to pray. But do you know what I just discovered? The Lord prayer is a guild to how we should pray. Luke 11:1-4. Let me try and break it down as I was taught
“Our father” here, he is talking about the relationship. Most of us don’t know that God is our father. If you want to enjoy him more, see him more as a father. But most of us still see him as a God - a strict old man with a stick in his hand. He is strict quite alright, but not as a God but as a father. Jesus said, “Our Father which art in heaven” here, he wants us to experience the fatherhood of God. And as long as you continue like he is just a God you can not enjoy the relationship. Like a father he feels your pains and weakness and no matter how grievous your sin is (the devil may want to worsen your case) don’t ever be afraid to go back to his throne of grace.
“Hallowed be thy name”. And mind you, God head swells when you acknowledge him as a father( for who he is, for what he has done and what he is going to do), when you pray call his names lovely, when you start like that, he will always want to hear you.
“Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth”, here you are inviting him to come down to Earth, and be lord over your life. Consciously, you are submitting your will to God to come and intercede for you.
“Give us day by day our daily bread”. After you have express your love and worship him, then you can now ask him for things you need for the day. Just for that day…..take your step one-by-one
“And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us”. This is a conditional statement. Forgive me if I forgive others. So remember when you ask for God’s forgiveness, you will be forgiven if you have forgiven all that offends you. One major hindrance to prayer is forgiveness.
So what are now the ingredients of prayer?
Faith, have talked about this previously, this is what prayers and your relationship with God thrives on
Humility, god resists the proud. Remember that.
You must yield yourself to him. Completely abandon your will to him
Facing reality and no pretence, tell God the way things are, remember, he knows about it before you come to him. Tell him how you fee
Facing reality and no pretence, tell God the way things are, remember, he knows about it before you come to him. Tell him how you feel, if you feel the burden is too much, let him know he will surely help.
Compassion for other people or people with lost souls. Most of us are in the habit of praying for themselves alone, but no it shouldn’t be. Pray for your friends, identify with their pains, success in your prayer. Heb 13:3
Be expectant
Your state of mind must be right. Every sin, known or unknown must be dealt with
Finally, how do God answer prayers?
I guess I will that for us. I don’t want to make this a one-way talk anymore, am imploring you to share your individual experience with us. Will love to hear about it
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