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What is prayer?
Prayer is not sending God to run on your arrogance. A Christian can see more on his knees than he can from his feet. Prayer is not getting God prepared to do your will; prayer is getting you prepared to do God's will.
Prayer is the only way to release the supernatural power of God in your life, in your marriage, in your business, to show you great and mighty things that you know not. Prayer is the key that unlocks the gates of heaven and closes the gates of hell.
Prayer has the power to cure sickness and disease. Prayer can shatter the shackles of misery and habit that are tormenting your life, or the life of your son or daughter, or the life of your husband or wife.
Prayer does not need proof; prayer needs practice. Intellectuals are now jabbering that God in heaven is far removed and far away. God is as close as your next prayer.
If your marriage is under attack, pray. If your children are being tormented by the prince of darkness, pray. If your business is failing, pray. If you're fighting a deadly disease, pray. If you're lost and without God, pray. If your life is empty, if it's meaningless, if it seems to be hopeless, pray, pray, pray, because God answers prayer.
A prayerless Christian is a weak Christian. A prayerless Christian is a miserable Christian. A prayerless Christian is a Christian who always lives in defeat. A prayerless church is a weak church. A prayerless nation is a defeated nation. A prayerless family will be a divided family.
It has been said and bears saying again: the family that prays together stays together. God expects you every day of the week to pray for the people in your house. Somebody prayed for you; who are you praying for?
Why pray? Because God answers prayer. As powerful as God is, God cannot answer prayer until you pray it. The Bible says, "What you bind on earth, I'll bind in heaven." The book of Isaiah says, "Command ye me." This is God speaking to man because in prayer He has given you the authority to launch the initiative.
Quit walking around in circles, wringing your hands, saying, "I wonder when God is going to do something." God in heaven is looking down at you and saying, "I have given you the authority of my name. I have given you the power of my word. I have given you the sanctity of my blood. When are you going to use the power that I have given to you to blast the kingdom of hell off of the ground and announce that Jesus Christ is Lord?"
The initiative rests with you. Ask for things that are impossible because with God, nothing is impossible. Ask Him to defeat the giants in your life because our God is a giant killer. Ask Him to divide the sea before you and to bury Pharaoh, and watch Him turn your enemies into fish food.
Ask Him to send fire from heaven as He did for Elijah, and He will. Ask Him to walk with you in the fire of the fiery furnace and be the fourth man in the fire, and He will. He said you will walk through the fire, and the fire will not burn you. He will walk through the water, and the water will not drown you.
Ask Him; He's the God who cannot fail. He's waiting to show you great and mighty things. Pray, pray, pray. God in heaven wants you to have that power.
Ask according to my infinite power, and God is saying, "I want you to ask big. I want you to make me slide to the edge of my seat and say, 'Wow! Listen to what they're asking for!'"
To move mountains, to heal incurable diseases, to restore dead marriages back to life, to send a financial harvest that their minds cannot fathom. I want you to know God wants to do that.
God is in heaven saying, "What do you need? Do you need healing? Ask in faith believing, and I will give it. Do you need supernatural wisdom to make a tough decision? Ask of me, and I will lead you in paths of righteousness for your name's sake. Do you need peace that surpasses understanding? Ask, ask, ask, for nothing is impossible with all that believe. No good thing will He withhold from those that diligently seek Him.
Do you need the impossible? Then open your mouth. Open your mouth in faith believing. You're not talking to the President of the United States; you're not talking to Bill Gates. Both of them together can't control their next breath. You're talking to the Creator of heaven and earth.
He holds the cattle on a thousand hills. He uses gold for asphalt on the streets of heaven. He moves mountains; He divides seas. He'll give you wells you didn't dig and houses you didn't build. He will make you the head and not the tail because nothing, nothing, nothing is impossible to you.
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