Are Your Prayers Effective?
Author: Pat Aman
When we abide in Christ, our prayers are effective, we glorify our Father God in our fruit bearing we demonstrate our discipleship, and our joy become full through experiencing Christ’s own joy with us.
Also, when we obey the Lord and align our will with His will we receive understanding of His Word, and many other areas of our lives.
I know, some of you are saying, “Oh, that name it and claim if stuff.” Well, in away yes. When you spend time with Father God daily, and read His Word, then your will, shall become His will for your life.
But notice, that little but big word, “if.”
“If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.”
John 15:7
In other words, plainly written, the more you know of your Father God, the more you will know of yourself. For we are made in His image and His ways.
“So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Genesis 1:27
As you commit more to God and His Word, then you will soon find out that you are only asking Him in prayer what you know that He has promised you that He would do for you, by and from your obedience to Him.
Learn to do it God’s way.
Let’s look at Moses.
Moses was told the first time to strike the stone with the rod and water would flow. He did what was asked of him, and God gave them water.
The second time around, Moses did not listen too well. God told Moses to speak to the rock and water shall come out, but instead he decided to strike the stone twice with the rod to get water instead of following God’s direction.
Well, we know what happen then, the people disobedience caused them not to be able to enter the Promise Land.
You cannot always do something the same way all the time. Sometimes you must take a chance. Dare to try a new idea.
We must learn to listen to God and do what He requires for us to do. If Moses had just spoke to the rock as God said, everything would have been okay, but instead he wore himself out by hitting the rock twice and doing it his way. Speaking would have taken less time and energy than picking up the rod and hitting the rock. That took a little muscle on Moses own part. It would have been much easier if he had just obeyed God in the beginning. So, his disobedience lost him the goal, plans, and ministry God had for him to do in the Promise Land.
Now the question, are you ready to listen to God and enter the Promise Land, or do your own thing the hard way?
If you decide to do it your own way you may succeed just as Moses did after hitting the rock twice and doing it his own way, but he lost his Promised Vision, and he became tired and weary.
How about asking God what He wants for your life. I promise you that it will be better than any plans that you have come up with on your own.
Get in God’s Word, Pray, and study to show yourself a workman, then you can ask what you will, and it shall be.
“Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”
II Timothy 2:15
Do not let your own stubbornness keep you from receiving Father God’s blessing from Him.
Proverbs 29:1 He who is often reproved, yet stiffens his neck, will suddenly be broken beyond healing.
Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Psalm 81:11-12 “But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
John 5:30 “I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Father God wants the best for Hus children….
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