Smith Wigglesworth was one of the great preachers of his time. But before he became a preacher, he was a plumber who wasn’t a Christian—nor a very nice man. Fortunately for him, he had a godly wife.
He didn’t want her to go to church, but she went anyway. When she did, he’d lock her out of the house, and when she came home, she’d have to sleep on the back porch. In the morning he’d unlock the door and she’d come in and say, “Good morning, Smithy!” and make him breakfast.
She was a godly example for him. She prayed for him, and God gave her the grace to be good to him in spite of his rude behavior. And because she continued to be so good to him, he eventually came to know the Lord and was radically changed. As a result, he became one of the greatest preachers who ever lived.
That’s the power of prayer.
Most of the time when we talk about prayer, we are referring to one type of prayer which is Prayers to God. As we grow, we will discover that there are 2 other types of prayers which I will talk about briefly later.
Prayer is simply dialoging with God. A dialogue is a 2-way conversation. You speak to God in your natural, authentic language and listen for his response in your heart for spontaneous thoughts and other possible ways.
You can be vulnerable and completely naked to God, tell him anything and everything in your crudest and most natural form of communication. You can cry to Him and shed tears if that’s how you feel. He sees and feels your heart pain.
Prayer includes among many other things:
Hearing God respond back to us through thoughts in our heart may not always be the easiest thing and may take some time for us to learn to differentiate His voice from other thoughts that come to our heart. Don’t let that bother you now. Just keep talking to Him for now in faith and know that He hears you as you train your spirit.
Understand that he speaks back to you through multi-channels:
He can choose to speak to you through any way He feels is good for you at that time. Just stay sensitive and expectant.
When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them. Prayer makes us partners with God. And while we can’t really change people and make them love God, He can minister to their hearts and reach them.
I also believe that prayer is easier than we think it is. And it can be so much a part of our life that we don’t even realize how much we pray – like breathing.
I called this type of prayer. Prayer of Authority.
Matthew 11:23 “Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.”
This verse clearly says that we are NOT talking to God, we are TALKING TO THE MOUNTAIN!
So, you speak to that cancer in your body and command it to dry up. Speak to that ugly situation and command it to straighten up.
As you mature, God expects you to function as king using the authority, he has given us to cast out demons, sickness and every power of darkness.
“Build yourselves up in your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit” (Jude 20-21)
When you speak Gods word back yourself, it emboldens, empowers, and edifies you. For example, when you declare am bold, am strong, the joy of the Lord is my strength.
You are speaking God’s word to yourself. It empowers and edifies you. It is not a prayer to God or to situations. It is targeted at building you up.
The Bible teaches us in James 5:16 that “the earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].” Prayer is passionate. It’s about sincerity of heart and putting your whole heart into it. Spend time with God. Talk to Him sincerely and honestly. Cast your cares on Him. Then find out what He wants to do and then follow His lead.
How to Pray:
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