We’ve Got A Direct Line To God’s Throne

       The understanding of the authority given back to the born-again man is what gives meaning to PRAYER. In prayer, we are to enforce on earth the laws of God’s kingdom, as it is in heaven. 

       The world we live in is no longer trapped by its limitations; the born again man was given back power and authority over those limitations to rule in life! Rulership, dominion, victory, triumph and conquest is what Jesus paid for. 

We are promised a WINNING life if we’re willing to fight for it. 

       Christians are to ENFORCE the victory of the cross and that’s where we start in our prayer life. Through His resurrection, Jesus has loosed a force that has restructured the spirit world and prayer opens the way to that dynamic victory and shakes and shatters the world of darkness. 

       Prayer shouldn’t be a begging session with God. Knowing that He’s promised to provide all our needs, doesn’t require us to beg Him, but rather to thank Him for His many promises. God has supplied everything through His grace, so prayer takes on a new meaning. 

       In many respects, we are not to beg God for anything that He has already done and provided through His grace, but rather thank Him. And as for anything that He’s already given us the responsibility and authority to do, we are to command those things to be. While we must see prayer as war, we are not fighting against nor begging God, but we are in violent interference against the oppressor. 

       The god of this world has been dethroned by the Son of God and we are the enforcers of that victory. The freed have become the free-ers. 

Prayer is one of the means God has chosen to work through us. 

       In the book of Acts, every invasion of God’s people with the message of the gospel was always preceded by prayer. Prayer is reclaiming the kingdom of heaven by force, “and the violent take it by force” (Mat 11:12b). Prayer oftentimes requires wrestling (Col 4:12). We often have to put our shoulder to the boulder in persistence and perseverance until we get the answer. 

        Faith doesn’t ever give up; or else it wasn’t genuine faith in the first place. Faith has the ability to see the end from the beginning and it never lets go. 

        The devil fights a praying man most because he knows that God has hardwired the universe to work through prayer when He said, “Ask and you shall receive” (Mat 7:7). It is the prayer of faith that brings the end of impossible before us. 

        We sometimes tend to use prayer as our last resort, but it ought to be our first line of offense. We ought not to resort to prayer because there’s nothing else we can do, but we ought to pray before we do anything else. “Everyone that asks receives” (Mat 7:8). That’s the childlike faith that we ought to have. 

        Faith is the fuel of prayer and it brings us before the omnipotence of God. God holds Himself ready to supply exactly and fully all the demands of faith in prayer. “He will have whatsoever he says” (Mk 11:23). 

        The keynote of prayer is “have faith in God” for “he that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Heb 11:6). 

        Prayer is made strong by the Word. Again, God loves for you to remind Him of His promises because it proves your trust in His Word. God has confined Himself and His operations to our faith and to our prayers in the name of Jesus.

Let’s COMMIT to meditating on the following verses and to praying in faith.

Mt 21:22 All things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive. 

Heb 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.

Jam 5:16b The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

Ps 116:1, 2 I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.

2Sam 22:7 In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, and my cry entered His ears.

Isa 30:19b He will be very gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.

Isa 65:24 It shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.

Jer 33:3 Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.

Ps 50:15 Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.

Ps 91:15a  He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him.

Mt 6:6b But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father Who is in the secret place; and your Father Who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Mt 7:7-8 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Jn 15:7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.

Ro 8:34 It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

Ps 22:24 For He has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted; nor has He hidden His face from Him; but when He cried to Him, He heard.

Ps 55:17 Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.

Ps 62:8 Trust in Him at all times, you people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. 

Ps 102:17 He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayer.

Ps 119:10 With my whole heart I have sought You; oh, let me not wander from Your commandments!

Lam 2:19a Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.

Jer 29:13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

Jn 14:14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it

Heb 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

1Thes.5:17 Pray without ceasing.

1Jn 5:14-15 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.

Isa 45:11b Ask Me of things to come concerning My sons; And concerning the work of My hands, you command Me.

Ps 66:18-19 If I regard iniquity in my heart, The Lord will not hear. But certainly God has heard me; He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

Mt 18:19-20 If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.

Ro 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.