This is strong prayer [point that can resist the power of devil in your prayer ‘LORD
said, ”If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer”(Matthew
21:22). It sounds so simple: Belief + Prayer = Receive. If it is that simple,
why does it sometimes seem like prayers are not answered? The answer lies in
understanding STRONG key points of prayer.
Key
Points of Prayer
1) - Believe That You
Have Received
In Matthew 21:18-22
and Mark 11:12-24, Jesus was hungry and looked for fruit on a fig tree. Finding
none, He pronounced that the tree would never bear fruit again. Either
immediately or a short while later (the Gospels differ on the timing), the fig
tree withered. It is after these events that Jesus told the disciples to have
faith in God, petition Him in prayer, and believe to receive.
Jesus said, ”Therefore
I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that youhave received it, and it will be
yours.” (Mark 11:24). A key point here is that, not only must you
believe that God exists and that He is powerful enough to grant your petition,
but you must also believe that you have received it. Not that
you willreceive it, but that you have received it!
Part of receiving is actually expecting the answer, even
visualizing it. In Ephesians 1:3, Paul wrote, “Praise be to the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, whohas blessed us in the heavenly
realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.” What if God answers
our prayers immediately in the heavenly realms, when He hears them, and we only
have to wait to see the manifestation of His answer in the natural realm?
2) - Submit to God's
Will
Another key point is
that all prayers must be in line with God’s will, and then we know that a
prayer was answered! (Again, the prayer was answered
because we have received it—past tense, already done!). We know
this because of the certainty given to us in 1 John 5:14-15:
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: 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 what we asked of him.
Just like Jesus in the
Garden of Gethsemane (Matthew 26:39), all prayers must be offered in submission
to the Father’s will, trusting that not only has He already answered
the prayer, but has answered it in His perfect way (not our
way).
How do we pray in line
with the Father’s will? How can we know what God’s will is, so that that we can
pray for it? The answer is the Holy Spirit. We lift our petitions to God and know that the Holy Spirit will
take them and perfect them to be in line with the Father’s will, as explained
in Romans 8:26-27:
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We
do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself
intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. And he who searches
our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes
for the saints in accordance with God’s will.
The Word tell us that,
when we do take the time to pray, the Spirit intercedes and makes our prayer
perfectly in line with God’s will. How can we know what God’s will is for each
person and each circumstance we pray about? When it comes to prayers for
someone’s salvation, we pray specifically, but what
about prayers for someone’s health or upcoming job interview? How do we know
what we should be praying for?
Prayers should have less detail when the details are really just our solution
to the problem or circumstance. More often, prayers should be more general,
simply lifting up to God a person or situation, and asking God for His
presence, comfort, peace, and perfect will to be done. Pray in confidence,
knowing that the prayer is heard and already answered (according to
1 John 5:14-15) because it was fine-tuned and perfected by the Holy Spirit
before it reached the Father’s throne (Romans 8:26-27). There is deep peace in
praying in this manner.
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