The Power of Prayer Revealed

Do you know that prayer is the single most powerful force in the universe?

It activates the power of God.

We are abiding in Christ and living in obedience to his holy will we can approach God in the name of Jesus nearby access all of the infinite resources of heaven. The one who truly prays gets from God that which he has came for. True prayer is not some ceremony or formal obligation but it is a child crying crying out to a compassionate father.

When you lay yourself before him in faith you will touch his heart and the father’s hand will be moved in your life. There are so many try to steal your inheritance by telling you that prayer isn’t really about asking and receiving but rather is about giving you strength to go suffer what you are going through. They will tell you that you should not expect direct answers in response to your prayer but that is a lie and found nowhere in the Bible. Jesus said ask and it will be given to you and the reason you do not have is because you do not ask. Over and over again the Bible makes it clear that God desires for us to ask him for what we want and need and that we can expect to receive. I don’t listen to those who say that you must answer your own prayers. I know there are many who will say that God doesnt answer prayer because they haven’t seen answers to prayer in their own lives or the lives of others.

There are many people who do not believe that God still does miracles like He did in the Bible. They will deny that He still answers prayer in the same mighty ways. They dismiss the great promises of answered prayer. They explain away with clever theology the very words of our Lord when He said that we would do even greater works than Him. I will admit that it is true we don’t see these types of miracles very often.

Most people never see such mighty works in their lives. But my question for them is this. How many people do you know who pray like Jesus prayed? How many people have you known who have spent entire nights on their knees over a great problem or decision they had to make.

Have you?

Yet, Jesus did just that. He prayed all night before choosing his twelve disciples. He fasted and prayed for 40 days before beginning His ministry. Jesus did nothing without first seeking to be filled and empowered by the Holy Spirit through deliberate and persevering secret prayer. The Bible says that he was led into the wilderness full of the Holy Spirit and returned from that season of prayer in the power of the spirit. (Luke 4) How is that we think we can live a victorious Christian life without doing the same? How many times have you attempted to make important decisions or achieve what you believed to be the will of God in the power of the flesh? How many nights have you spent in persevering, agonizing prayer wrestling with God and like Jacob refusing to give in until the answer came? No wonder you keep falling to that same temptation. No wonder you are in bondage to that same besetting sin that alienates you from God. No wonder there is no power in your life. You have not yet agonized over that problem to the point of sweating blood and you have the audacity to claim that God no longer answers prayer. Are you more spiritual than Jesus Christ?

Do you have more faith than Christ so that the same earnestness in prayer is not necessary for you?

Jesus Paid The Ultimate Price So That We Might Have Access To The Throne of Grace I can think of nothing more offensive to Christ than to think that we are somehow stronger or more equipped to deal with our problems without the same intensity of prayer that He required. If Jesus fasted and prayed for 40 days in the desert before returning in the power of the Holy Spirit it is atrocious to think that we can have the same experience of victory in our lives without paying the same price that He paid. And before you say, “Wait a minute, Jesus paid the price for us.”

Jesus paid that price so that we might have access to the great throne of Grace and be given the privilege of coming before Almighty God in prayer not so that we might have no need.