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Pray And Not Faint
"Men ought always to pray, and not faint." -Luke 18:1
PRAY…IN THE SPIRIT AT ALL TIMES WITH ALL KINDS OF PRAYERS… EPHESIANS 6:18
1) The prayer of agreement: ‘If two of you…agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father’ (Matthew 18:19 NIV). When you’re up against something too big to handle alone, find a prayer partner and agree in prayer with them. A prayer of agreement is part of a lifestyle of harmony with the people around you.
2) The prayer of faith: Be confident when you ask God to meet your needs. Jesus said, ‘…Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.’ (Mark 11:24 NIV). Length, loudness or fancy long words all miss the point; it’s the trust in our heart, towards God, that gets through!
3) The prayer of thanks: When our requests outweigh our worship it says something about us. Self-centred people demand a lot but appreciate very little. God won’t allow us to enjoy the fullness of all He’s planned for us until we become thankful for what we’ve already got. Praying with thanks is like switching your prayer-connection to Broadband! Listen: ‘…Pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks’ (Philippians 4:6 NCV). Powerful living comes through thanksgiving. We can ‘pray continually’ (1Thessalonians 5:17) by thanking God all day long for His favour, mercy, kindness, grace, and goodness.
4) The prayer of intercession: ‘I looked for a man…who would…stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land’ (Ezekiel 22:30 NIV). To intercede means: ‘to stand in the gap’ for someone else. If there’s a hole in that person’s relationship with God due to a particular sin, you have the privilege of placing yourself in that hole to pray for them. ‘The gap’ is the distance between what is – and what can be
5) The prayer of release: ‘Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you’ (1Peter 5:7 NLT). As long as you keep trying to control everything your stress level will just keep climbing. But when you learn to hand things over to God, you’ll wonder why you spent even a single day worrying. "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Matt. 11:28 NIV).
6) The prayer of availability: The apostle Paul encourages us, ‘…offer yourselves to God…’ (Romans 6:13 NIV). That’s like signing your name on a blank cheque. It’s saying, ‘Here I am, I want my life to please you. I hope I like what You choose, but even if I don’t I’ll do it anyway; I’ll live out your plans, not mine.’ Everyday, all over the world, great things happen through the lives at people who have become available to God. Today let God do the work that needs to be done in you, so that He can do the work that He desires to do through you. As the Lord’s Prayer says, Let thy (God’s) will be done. Let thy Kingdom come.
"As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray." - Martin Luther "The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer." - Leonard Ravenhill
PastorJatinder P. Gill
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