Many prayers in the Bible are alone with God. Jesus teaches us to pray in secret. Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. But understand the context; here the religious leaders liked to be seen praying, not so God would see hem, but so man would see them (and look spiritual). So public prayer especially in our churches is wonderful, see Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.
Category Archives: How to Pray
Faith and Prayer…
In that great faith chapter of Hebrews 11, the writer says: 39 And all these, having obtained a good testimony through faith, did not receive the promise, 40 God having provided something better for us, that they should not be made perfect apart from us. So what is faith? Faith adds its “yes” to what God has already spoken. Faith lets God finish the work that He started. Faith says “I believe” and patiently waits for God to do His part.
Commanding Prayer of the Lord Jesus
| Luke 8:25 But He said to them, “Where is your faith?” And they were afraid, and marveled, saying to one another, “Who can this be? For He commands even the winds and water, and they obey Him!” |
Follow Jesus
Luke 4:36 Then they were all amazed and spoke among themselves, saying, “What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out.”
Luke 5:5 But Simon answered and said to Him, “Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing; nevertheless at Your word I will let down the net.”
The theme is simple “Follow Jesus”, He, that is Jesus, has the power and He knows where the fish are. So don’t follow someone or something else, just follow Jesus.
Heard Because of His Godly Fear
Hebrews 5:7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,
Can Prayer reach Anything?
Can prayer reach anything? I would say that prayer can touch everything except what is outside the will of God.
Amen
Someone Help Me Pray – the Spirit
Someone help me pray when I don’t know how to pray. I need words, but I only have a few feelings. What do I say, what do I pray. Sometimes the best and most honest prayer is to put ourselves before God just as we are, just the way we feel. And then just count on the hidden Spirit of God to come to the rescue. Let the Spirit figure out what to pray. He knows. When words appear cold and feeble we need to just count on the hidden and quiet Spirit of God working in our human spirit. He has words, He has accurate words.
Now that I have said all this, look at these two passages in the Bible.
Zechariah 12:10 “ And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for [his] only [son,] and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. He, that is the Spirit of God gives us a Spirit of grace and supplication, that is gives us “prayer”.
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Amen
Why Pray when God Already Knows
In Matthew 6, Jesus teaches us to pray “Let Your will (God’s will) be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
A great mystery is right here, why should we pray when God already knows what we need? God is ready to fulfill his will and purpose, but waits for His people to cooperate with Him in prayer. God will not move until somebody prays.
With the example of Elijah in 1 Kings 18, God wanted someone to show to the unbelieving world that He, the Lord is God. It took the obedience and prayers of Elijah to fulfill this. God could easily have shown the world who He is, but He, that is God, waits for a man on the earth to cooperate with Him. God loves to work with men in the fulfillment of his will and purpose.