Can prayer reach anything? I would say that prayer can touch everything except what is outside the will of God.
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Category Archives: How to Pray
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.
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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.
Thy Words Were Heard – Answered Prayer
Daniel 10:12 Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard: and I am come for thy words’ sake. 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days; but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me: and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
Look at answered prayer here, a humble prayer from Daniel yields results from God in spite of opposition from the enemy. The enemy may slow prayer, but he cannot stop the answers. God is God, He created the earth and the universe, eventually He will in every place in the universe be the LORD. So don’t worry about a tiny little spot in the universe called earth where the enemy appears to have some temporary victory, eventually God will win. At the end of the Bible God is on the throne and fully rulling in the universe and on this tiny earth.
Don’t ever forget in Psalms 24:1 The earth is Jehovah’s, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.
Prayer is blessing
The chief and most blessed part of my work is to ask and receive from my Father what I can bring to others.
A life abiding in Christ and filled with the Spirit, a life entirely given up as a branch for the work of the vine, has the power to claim these promises and to pray “effective prayer that availeth much” Lord teach us to pray.
from The Ministry of Intercessory Prayer by Andrew Murray.
Prayer in Daniel, just the verses
| Daniel 9:3 | Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. |
| Daniel 9:13 | “”As [it is] written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; yet we have not made our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth |
| Daniel 9:17 | “Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate. |
| Daniel 9:21 | yes, while I [was] speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, reached me about the time of the evening offering. |
Its great to just look at the verses related to prayer in the Old testament book of Daniel.
Wonderful Fellowship in the Word
As we come to read the Bible, which is God’s Word, allow our spirit, our human spirit join with God’s Spirit, the Holy Spirit in wonderful fellowship.
John 4:23 “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
John 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
The New Covenant Encourages Prayer
Here we have one of five passages in the Bible on the new covenant.
Ezekiel 36:26 “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 “I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
Notice the phrase “cause you to walk in My statutes” Surely God wants us to pray, and here God helps us to pray.