"So I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it,
and it will be yours." (Mk.11:24, NRSV)
We are living in dangerous times and if there was ever a time when we need to pray, it is now. More can be done by prayer than anything else, prayer is our greatest weapon. –Billy Graham
Neglect of prayer is a guarantee that we will not be victors. –Richard Roberts
Prayer is the known as the communication with God. When people are in trouble and find themselves in helpless situations, they call upon God for helps according to their understanding. Prayer is the vital power for God's people and necessary to practice in our daily lives. If we have regular habits of praying in God's presence, we can experience God's power and miracles from God in our day to day lives.
The word of God says that, "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."(Ps.46:1) In the midst troubles and problems we can have access to God by prayer. Prayer is a powerful weapon we need to have in our Christian life to stand against all the schemes of devil. Apostle Paul says that," Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication." (Eph.6:18).
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. (Ps.146:18)
The Definition of prayer:
- It is trusting God.
- It is going for a walk with God.
- It is sharing your needs with God.
- It is opening yourself up to God.
- It is opening your eyes to all that you are and depending on God.
- It is washing yourself of the world and immersing yourself in God.
- It is agreement with others that God is able.
- It is calling out to one who cares.
- It is listening from God.
God Answers the Prayers of His People:
If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (II Chronicles 7:14)
The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their cry. (Psalm 34:15)
Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation. (Psalm 91:14-16)
The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth. (Psalm 145:18)
The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous. (Proverbs 15:29)
It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking,
I will hear. ( Isaiah 65:24)
Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:12-13)
Thus says the LORD who made it, the LORD who formed it to establish it (the LORD is His name): “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” (Jeremiah 33:2-3)
Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? 11 If you then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! (Matthew 7:7-11)
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. (John 15:7)
And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. (John 16:23-24)
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:5-8)
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. (James 5:16b)
And whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight. (I John 3:22)
Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. (I John 5:14-15)
I want to urge you that May the LORD help you to understand more about His word and Biblical basis and principles of Prayer and help you to apply in your life. so that you may experience the Glory of God revealed in you as the result of constant prayers and thanksgiving.
I do uphold you in prayers. If you have any specific prayer requests and you need prayer support, feel free to write and we will continually keep you in our prayers and our Almighty God would answer you in a miraculous way!
God bless you all.
