GOD has strategically arranged for you as HIS representative of HIS world to be positioned here on earth at this time to make a difference!
Each of us has gifts and a calling Divinely appointed by Our Heavenly Father. HE co-labors with us to bring forth HIS Kingdom on earth as it is in Heaven. We have been placed here for such a time as this.
Prayer is an essential part of our lives in receiving our dreams and desires from FATHER. I wrote about praying for our daily needs yesterday. We need not use vain repetitions as though we can persuade FATHER to provide our daily needs.
In Matthew chapter 6, Jesus spoke of this type of prayer. In Matthew chapter 7, He speaks of another type of prayer:
7 “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 (gifts) to those who ask Him!
In other Words, “Ask, and the gift is yours. Seek, and you’ll discover. Knock, and the door will be opened for you. For every persistent one will get what he asks for. Every persistent seeker will discover what he longs for. And everyone who knocks persistently will one day find an open door.”
Why must we be persistent in this type of prayer? Our persistence changes us so that we can properly steward the gift we are requesting.
When Jesus gave us the assignment to pray, He never told us to pray to keep us busy. He did not create prayer as a Christian activity to occupy our time, to occupy our thoughts, or to engage us emotionally knowing that we’ll never see the fulfillment of what we’re praying.
James wrote by The Holy Spirit in his Epistle, James chapter 5:
13 Are there any believers in your fellowship suffering great hardship and distress? Encourage them to pray! Are there happy, cheerful ones among you? Encourage them to sing out their praises!
14 Are there any sick among you? Then ask the elders of the church to come and pray over the sick and anoint them with oil in the name of our Lord.
15 And the prayer of faith will heal the sick and the Lord will raise them up, and if they have committed sins they will be forgiven.
16 Confess and acknowledge how you have offended one another and then pray for one another to be instantly healed, for tremendous power is released through the passionate, heartfelt prayer of a godly believer!
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much!
The design of prayer comes out of this place where HE says, “Come up here.” It is an engagement with the Heart of THE FATHER. We have already been blessed with every Spiritual blessing in Christ in Heavenly places.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 1:
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the Heavenly places in Christ,
In other Words, every spiritual blessing in the Heavenly realm has already been lavished upon us as a Love gift from Our Wonderful Heavenly Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus. Those spiritual blessings are already in my account. However, it’s not all in my possession. Prayer facilitates possession!
The Christian life is learning to make withdrawals. As we mature, we will effect change on the earth and bring forth HIS Kingdom.