Daily Devotional

POWERFUL EFFECTIVE PRAYING

August 15

eloved, there are many other good reasons for you to grow in a powerful, effective prayer life. One reason that your prayer life must increase in its effectiveness and strength is because it helps you to make the necessary transition from the life in the "flesh" (doing things with human thinking only) to the life in the Holy Spirit (doing things, and receiving information from your Father in Heaven which will bless you and encourage you that you are hearing from God and learning day by day how to follow His Holy Spirit rather than just your own humanly flawed judgments and decisions). Do you need this transition to happen in your life? Are you making choices that sometimes turn out to be sorrowful or indecisive and even, at times are destructive to your daily walk? Then, you need to get very serious about what some folks call "going to the School of Prayer." Declare openly to the Lord God that you intend to learn how to pray effectively and powerfully! Tell your Father in Heaven that you are tired of worn out expressions of prayer, and you need for Him to renew your mind and spirit with a "fresh wind of the Holy Spirit" in your prayer life. He wants you to have a renewed spirit and joy over answered prayer in your life. That is a major part of your Christian walk--- that you get happy and joyful in the Lord, and that you believe in the prayers that God has you praying. Keep searching and you will find it! Keep knocking and "the door will be opened unto thee!" (Matthew 7:7) Keep asking, and you will receive from God the deeper and more powerful levels of prayer that will carry you quickly and joyfully in to the very presence of your Father in Heaven. If you will not waver or shrink back, you will find that your Father is more excited about your prayer levels going deeper than you are! Ask those who have powerful prayer lives, and to the last one they will tell you that they grew in prayer gradually, day by day moment by moment. It was weak at first then it became slowly but surely more deep and joyful as the years passed. You are heading in that good direction, beloved Christian!

Prayer

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Father, every day in prayer is a gift from you. I don't have years and years to develop a good prayer life. I need one now to walk in the Holy Spirit’s power and grace on the level that I need. Help me to pray "with the Holy Spirit and with the understanding" (John 16:13) in Jesus’ holy name, amen!