
Empower the believer with revelation concerning prayer and its power to impact life circumstances in order to stay constantly connected to God
Prayer – The Supernatural activity of communing with God, whereby I share my intimate thoughts and feelings and God shares His intimate thoughts and feelings and gives instructions to me.
Elijah was a man with human frailties, just like all of us, but he prayed and received supernatural answers. He actually shut the heavens over the land so there would be no rain for three and a half years! Then he prayed again and the skies opened up over the land so that the rain came again and produced the harvest. —James 5:17-18 (TPT)
Four steps to Praying with Faith
1.
When I do not pray in faith I literally tie God’s hands and hinder HIS ability to supernaturally impact my situation.
And their great unbelief kept him from doing any mighty miracles in Nazareth. —Matthew 13:58 (TPT)
2.
- Faith is critical to the effectiveness of my prayer…
Listen to the truth I speak to you: If someone says to this mountain with great faith and having no doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea, and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done. This is the reason I urge you to boldly believe for whatever you ask for in prayer—believe that you have received it and it will be yours. —Mark 11:23-24 (TPT)
Jesus told him, “You may go. Your eyes are healed because of your faith.” —Mark 10:52 (CEV)
- …and faith is the key that unlocks the supernatural in my life
Those people in the wilderness heard God’s good news, just as we have heard it, but the message they heard didn’t do them any good since it wasn’t combined with faith. —Hebrews 4:2 (VOICE)
This prayer made in faith will heal the sick…The prayer of a good person has a powerful effect.” —James 5:15-16 (GNT)
3. Be convinced He’s already
- God never wastes a hurt, challenge or miracle.
Next Jesus let fly on the cities where he had worked the hardest but whose people had responded the least, shrugging their shoulders and going their own way. —Matthew 11:20 (MSG)
- He will use it all to grow me
So we are convinced that every detail of our lives is continually woven together to fit into God’s perfect plan of bringing good into our lives, for we are his lovers who have been called to fulfill his designed purpose. —Romans 8:28 (TPT)
- ”Respond to God using it to lead you into deeper, more intimate faith relationship with Him”
4.
When we live our lives within the shadow of God Most High,
our secret hiding place, we will always be shielded from harm.
How then could evil prevail against us or disease infect us?
God sends angels with special orders to protect you wherever you go,
defending you from all harm.
If you walk into a trap, they’ll be there for you
and keep you from stumbling.
You’ll even walk unharmed among the fiercest powers of darkness,
trampling every one of them beneath your feet!
For here is what the Lord has spoken to me:
“Because you have delighted in me as my great lover,
I will greatly protect you.
I will set you in a high place, safe and secure before my face.
I will answer your cry for help every time you pray,
and you will find and feel my presence
even in your time of pressure and trouble.
I will be your glorious hero and give you a feast.
You will be satisfied with a full life and with all that I do for you.
For you will enjoy the fullness of my salvation!” —Psalm 91:9-16 (TPT)