Prayer

hello out there. I hope all of you are doing well today. This evening we will be discussing prayer. There are some things I want to point out about prayer, that when you apply what is being taught, you WILL have a successful prayer life, and you won't have to wait several years to see results. So let's get started.

As gasoline is needed for a car to move, prayer needs faith, in order to do the same. Romans 10:17 tells us that "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God"; If you will notice
that if my prayer is going to reach God, it takes faith, and I must hear something, or shall I say "SOMEONE". Many Christians miss it when it comes to this principle. To have effective prayer,
you must hear from Jesus. In Mat 6:9, Jesus tells the people what to pray; they don't pray what they think they should pray, they are only supposed to pray what Jesus tells them to pray. We
get caught up in our prayers and how we should form them, how loud we will get,what we will say, how long we are going to pray etc. This is the #1 reason why prayers go unanswered, it is because we haven't waited to hear what Jesus wants us to pray.

When I pray, I go to my prayer room, which is in my garage. I have a chair there, and I sit down and wait for The Lord to speak what wants me to pray. Before all of that, I ask Him "what song do you want me to sing for you"? He tells me the song, and I sing it to Him. it doesn't take long before the Holy Ghost quickens my mortal,tired,sleepy body. The next think I know, I'm singing to Him in tongues. What is happening, while all of this is going on? My flesh is decreasing, and my spirit is increasing. A prayer that is prayed in the flesh or out of your intellect, common sense, or anything other that the Holy Ghost prompting you, will ALWAYS
be a prayer that is against the will of God. Once I'm there in the spirit, I wait for Him to say
what I should pray. He might tell me" pray for the churches of NC", He might say" pray for the missionaries in tibet", He might say "pray for your pastor, leadership" etc. The point is HE will tell you what to pray. If you don't have the Holy Ghost, you may not understand this next part.
When I get my prayer instructions from Him, Then I say " Holy Spirit, pray the perfect will of God concerning that issue. The Holy Ghost then takes over my mouth and prays on that issue.
I know if the Holy Ghost prays about it, there will be no mistakes, and He won't have to pray about it again. I don't know what "HE" is saying, but I know that it is the right prayer. Romans Chapter 8 talks about this issue[ search it out]. The Holy Ghost is the spirit of truth, not the spirit of " I guess this is right, maybe, I think so".[john 14:17]
I was up praying early one morning, and I was praying in the spirit[tongues]. Once I was done, I got up and continued on with my day. It just so happens that it was the day of "THE NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER", in Winston-Salem. The event was held downtown at the millinium center. The service started at 1pm, I was the musician for the event. I had to take my piano,stand,chords and amplifier. All the parking spaces around the center was full, except
the one that I needed to unload at. That parking space was in the perfect place for me, because the door to where I was going in, was right behind it, and it made it easy to unload my equipment. I asked myself" How did that happen"? The Lord said "you prayed for it"! I said
"when"? He said" this morning". You see, I wasn't praying about it in english, I was praying about it in tongues, and I didn't even know it. I would that every person who calls themselves "saved", be filled with the Holy Ghost!

I john 5:14 says" if we ask anything according to His will, He heareth us. How do you know if you are praying his will? Did He tell you what to pray? Are you going to guess at it? A
prayer that is prayed in accordance to His will, will always come up to His ears. According to
Isaiah 1:15, a prayer that is prayed against His will, doesn't come up to His ears, it comes up before His eyes, and He puts His hands over his eyes, so He doesn't see that prayer. God
is playing "peek-a-boo" with some of your prayers.

In Mat 6:30-33, takes about "seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you". There are some things He told you not to pray for. Don't pray for food,clothing,housing,neccesities etc. Many christians pray about these anyway, after He told us "NOT " to. Now we need to know what is the kingdom of God[vision] is. Search the gospel of Mark, and you'll see many times where he says" The kingdom of God is like". Matthew talks more about the Kingdom of Heaven [provision]. I can talk about this issue in a later blog about the kingdom, I would rather you study it out. "And His righteousness"; it is not your righteousness, it is His. study about this subject too.

In the next blog , we will study Pauls' prayer when he prayed about the "thorn" in his flesh[2nd cor 12:7] and we will deal with Daniels prayers in {Daniel 10] take care for now.