6 October 2011 Prayer
For us, prayer should be like breathing. we do not think to breathe because the atmosphere exerts pressure on your lungs and essentially forces you to breathe. That is why it is more difficult to hold your breath than it is to breathe.
Similarly, when we are born into the family of God, we enter into a spiritual atmosphere where God's presence and grace exert pressure, or influence, on our lives. Prayer is the normal response to that pressure.
Similarly, when we are born into the family of God, we enter into a spiritual atmosphere where God's presence and grace exert pressure, or influence, on our lives. Prayer is the normal response to that pressure.
Some times we utter thousand words as a prayer, and yet never pray; on the other hand, we may cry into God's ear most effectually, and yet never say a word. Silence is as a healthy form of devotion.
It is good to pray on one's knees which expresses humility, but, at the same time, we can pray, flat upon our faces, sitting, standing, in any posture, and the posture does not enter into the essence of prayer. God sees the heart and its content.
The place is not essential to prayer, God has made the world and HE is Lord of heaven and earth, dwells not in temples made with hands. HE is Omnipresent
Nothing, can be a barrier between a praying heart and God. The road of angels and of prayers is ever open.
- Never abandon prayer: Never for any cause or reason cease to pray. As we breathe without ceasing, so must we pray without ceasing.
- Never suspend the regular offering of prayer: Set aside a time to offer your requests be made known to God. have your own daily devotion time.
- Constant touch with God: While your hands are busy with the world, let your hearts still talk to God
- Have a spirit of prayer. Our heart, renewed by the Holy Ghost, must be like the magnetized needle, which always has an inclination towards the pole.
- insulate your heart with peace : have faith in God and walk with Him.
Let all your actions be consistent with your prayers, and be in fact a continuation of your prayers. Have a dynamic prayer in all circumstances pray –in gratitude, in trouble, lack of wisdom, stress. closed doors- Pray .Always be willing and ready to pray.
We do not have to lift the receiver off the hook to talk to God. NO need to dial; we can just place our requests under God’s feet.
We do not have to lift the receiver off the hook to talk to God. NO need to dial; we can just place our requests under God’s feet.
- “Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud,And He shall hear my voice” (Psalm 55:17).
- “Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart…” (Luke 18:1).
- “…but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word” (Acts 6:4).
- “Peter was therefore kept in prison, but constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church” (Acts 12:5).
- “…rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer…” (Romans 12:12).
- “…praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—…” (Ephesians 6:18).
- “Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving…” (Colossians 4:2).
Continued prayer is a state of steady communion with God.
He takes interest in the small areas of our lives.
Never got out of the sight of God and His communication with the throne of grace.
He takes interest in the small areas of our lives.
NB: TAKEN FROM WEB COLLECTIONS.
