There is power in prayer, but the hard part is finding the
time to pray. As I have shared with you
before, this has been a very hard year for me, filled with many challenges and growing
times. During some of those times,
prayer was the only thing I could do. T
he circumstances were out of my control.
All I could do is pray, but there were days I was so broken that I could
not pray.
In many ways, reading Evelyn’s books have kept me trusting
and believing that God was still there working everything together for my
good. Through the ups and downs of this
year, I feel like I am ready to turn the corner. I want to pray, pray, and pray. To be more specific, I want to pray, pray,
pray, for myself and my relationship with God and my family.
Dear God,
Thank you for this challenging
year. You have taught me so many things.
One this day, October 22, 2013, I give
my life and my family to you. I want prayer
to be the number one focus in my life.
As we begin a new book by Evelyn called, What Happens When Women (WE) Pray,
I want to use the power of prayer in ways I have never experienced before. Teach me all that I need to learn, and
unleash the power of prayer in my life.
Thank you for what you are going to do.
In Jesus Name, Amen.
Our New Book: What Happens When Women (We) Pray by Evelyn
Christenson.
Quote from page 17
Prayers, Not Plans or Programs
We learned that things could
happen when we didn’t plan at all, but just prayed.
Quote from page 18
Pray First, Plan Afterwards
Even if you are plugged into God’s
will and know we’re going in the right direction, we may be going at a snail’s
pace. God says, “Look, you see only a
tenth of what I have for you. There are
nine-tenths that you’re not seeing that you don’t know anything about.”
Good wants us to make ourselves
available to Him and to say before we start to plan, “Lord, tell me what You
want me to do, where You want me to go, how You want me to do it.” Then our omnipotent God, with all the
abundance of heaven at His disposal, will pour out His power upon us. Instead of following our tiny, tiny, plans,
God wants to open heaven and flood us.
It’s exciting.
This sounds so refreshing to me. I need to pray and not plan, but let God lead
me. Oh, how enlightening this is for me
today. I feel released from me doing it,
and at peace giving God the controls in my life. I am here to do whatever he wants. I don’t want to plan my life, I want him to.
Set FREE from planning.
Released to let go and let God work his plans for me.
Quote from page 19
In six months we had learned that
“the effectual, fervent prayer” of a righteous person avails much—not plans or
programs, but effectual, fervent prayer.
Yes, PRAYER is powerful, but what will happen if I don’t use
it.
Quote from page 28-30
A Prerequisite to Answered
Prayer
Do you wonder why your prayers
aren’t answered? We’re going to learn
many reasons why they are not, in the chapters that follow, but here is the
first one: sin (or sins) in your
life. It is “the effectual, fervent
prayer of a righteous person that availeth much.” If your prayers aren’t availing much, this
many be the reason.
Your problem may not be sins, but
sin. And this is a very important
point. When our Lord was talking to His
disciples just before His crucifixion, He told them that He was going to send
the Comforter, the Holy spirit, who would convict the world –those who
were not Christ’s followers—“of sin, because they believe not on me.” (John 16:9)
This is the sin that will keep God from hearing intercessory prayer—the sin
of not believing in “Christ as your person Savior. If this is your sin, the only prayer from you
that God promises to hear is one of repentance and faith as your invite Christ
into your life.
Dear Father,
Bring to my mind that sin or sins
keeping You from hearing my intercessory prayers. I
confess whatever You have brought to my mind as sin.
Thank you, Lord, for cleansing me
as You promised in 1 John 1:9 and qualifying me for effectual, intercessory
prayer.
1 John 1:8-9
If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is
not in us.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our
sins a
nd purify us from all unrighteousness.
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