A More Effective Prayer Life

More Power In Prayer

1)         Get alone with God. Gen.32;1-12- And Jacob hath gone on his way, and messengers of God come upon him; and Jacob saith, when he hath seen them, `This [is] the camp of God;' and he calleth the name of that place `Two Camps.'And Jacob sendeth messengers before him unto Esau his brother, towards the land of Seir, the field of Edom, and commandeth them, saying, `Thus do ye say to my lord, to Esau:

Thus said thy servant Jacob, With Laban I have sojourned, and I tarry until now; and I have ox, and ass, flock, and man-servant, and maid-servant, and I send to declare to my lord, to find grace in his eyes.'And the messengers turn back unto Jacob, saying, `We came in unto thy brother, unto Esau, and he also is coming to meet thee, and four hundred men with him;'and Jacob feareth exceedingly, and is distressed, and he divideth the people who [are] with him, and the flock, and the herd, and the camels, into two camps, and saith, `If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it -- then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.

 

'And Jacob saith, `God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee: I have been unworthy of all the kind acts, and of all the truth which Thou hast done with thy servant -- for, with my staff I passed over this Jordan, and now I have become two camps. Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me -- mother beside sons; and Thou --

Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.' Get alone with God. Get away from all distractions. Gen.32:24- And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn;
Whenever we get alone with God, we’ll wrestle with God. So the flesh will be crucified. When we feel God withdrawing His presence, He does that so we will hang on and build our faith. Wrestling with God will produce dependence on God.

 

Learn to use the word of God when you pray. Pray the promises. Gen32:12- and Thou -- Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.'
Exodus 32:1-14- And the people see that Moses is delaying to come down from the mount, and the people assemble against Aaron, and say unto him, `Rise, make for us gods who go before us, for this Moses -- the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt -- we have not known what hath happened to him.'And Aaron saith unto them,

`Break off the rings of gold which [are] in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring in unto me;'and all the people themselves break off the rings of gold which [are] in their ears, and bring in unto Aaron, and he receiveth from their hand, and doth fashion it with a graving tool, and doth make it a molten calf, and they say, `These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of EgyptAnd Aaron seeth, and buildeth an altar before it, and Aaron calleth, and saith, `A festival to Jehovah -- to-morrow;'and they rise early on the morrow, and cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and bring nigh peace-offerings; and the people sit down to eat and to drink, and rise up to play.

 

And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Go, descend, for thy people whom thou hast brought up out of the land of Egypt hath done corruptly, they have turned aside hastily from the way that I have commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and bow themselves to it, and sacrifice to it, and say,

These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `I have seen this people, and lo, it [is] a stiff-necked people; and now, let Me alone, and My anger doth burn against them, and I consume them, and I make thee become a great nation.'And Moses appeaseth the face of Jehovah his God, and saith, `Why, O Jehovah, doth Thine anger burn against Thy people, whom Thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a strong hand?

Why do the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He brought them out to slay them among mountains, and to consume them from off the face of the ground? turn back from the heat of Thine anger, and repent of the evil against Thy people. Be mindful of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou hast sworn by Thyself, and unto whom Thou speakest: I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and all this land, as I have said, I give to your seed, and they have inherited to the age;'and Jehovah repenteth of the evil which He hath spoken of doing to His people.

 

 

We must get to a point where our minds are not distracted when we pray. Satan knows how to distract you. Don’t give him a chance. Exodus32:13- Be mindful of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou hast sworn by Thyself, and unto whom Thou speakest: I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and all this land, as I have said, I give to your seed, and they have inherited to the age;'

 

Acts 4:24-31- and they having heard, with one accord did lift up the voice unto God, and said, `Lord, thou [art] God, who didst make the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all that [are] in them, who, through the mouth of David thy servant, did say, Why did nations rage, and peoples meditate vain things? the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Christfor gathered together of a truth against Thy holy child Jesus, whom Thou didst anoint,

were both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with nations and peoples of Israel, to do whatever Thy hand and Thy counsel did determine before to come to pass. And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings, and grant to Thy servants with all freedom to speak Thy word, in the stretching forth of Thy hand, for healing, and signs, and wonders, to come to pass through the name of Thy holy child Jesus.'And they having prayed, the place was shaken in which they were gathered together, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and were speaking the word of God with freedom, God will shake the place around us when we use the promises.

3)         Pray prophecy into fulfillment. Dan.9:1-4- In the first year of Darius, son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, who hath been made king over the kingdom of the Chaldeans, in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, have understood by books the number of the years, (in that a word of Jehovah hath been unto Jeremiah the prophet,) concerning the fulfilling of the wastes of Jerusalem -- seventy years; and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek [by] prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. And I pray to Jehovah my God, and confess, and say: `I beseech Thee, O Lord God, the great and the fearful, keeping the covenant and the kindness to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands;

 

Daniel prayed prophecy into fulfillment. Specifically Jer. 25. Zechariah prayed for the coming of the messiah. A greater power and presence will come upon us when we pray prophecy. God anoints word prayers.

Begin praying for others. Ezekiel 22:30-31- And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found. And I pour out on them mine indignation, By fire of My wrath I have consumed them, Their way on their own head I have put, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!' Start praying for others. Quit praying selfish prayers. Selfish prayers are not anointed. God withholds His judgment when we pray for others.

 

 

Gen.19:1- And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing [them] rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; The gate is the place of authority. Lot was an elder. He didn’t influence anybody. Because he was prayerless. Gen.19:29- And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt. God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out.

His son-in-laws were homosexuals. Gen.19:8,14- Behold now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray you, bring them out unto you, and do ye to them as [is] good in your eyes: only unto these men do nothing; for therefore came they under the shadow of my roof. And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

Lot walked by sight. Gen.19:16- And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.

 

 

He lived in fear. Gen.19:19- Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:
His wife was so attached to the world that she looked back. Gen.19:26- But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

His daughters were so wicked that they laid incestuously with their father. Gen.19:34- And it cometh to pass, on the morrow, that the first-born saith unto the younger, `Lo, I have lain yesterday-night with my father: we cause him to drink wine also to-night, and go thou in, lie with him, and we preserve from our father -- a seed.' God curses incest. Lot had a-lot going for him in Sodom and Gommorah. But, because he was prayerless, he came out naked in a cave with no blessing.

Get a prayer partner. Deut.32:29-30- If they were wise -- They deal wisely [with] this; They attend to their latter end: How doth one pursue a thousand, And two cause a myriad to flee! If not -- that their rock hath sold them, And Jehovah hath shut them up? Someone who will pray in unity with you. Matt.18:19- Again, I say to you, that, if two of you may agree on the earth concerning anything, whatever they may ask -- it shall be done to them from my Father who is in the heavens.

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