THE POWER OF PRAYER:: Shared By Arms

Matthew 6:6

The bible says.....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.

What is Prayer?

To a Christian, the meaning of prayer is to communicate to the Lord about everything. It is a daily part of life, just like breathing or walking. It's not a necessity, but a desire to talk to the Lord, praise Him, thank Him, and ask His Blessing on us or others. There are many ways one can pray - silently, publicly, privately, and in meditation. Each of them has their own purpose, whether it be for rejoicing, praising, asking blessing, or confessing.

A Christian looks to the Lord as a friend who is there for them day or night. The belief is that He is their companion and therefore involved in every aspect of their life, good or bad. A Christian also then has the desire to please God in their service to Him, whether it be in helping others physically or spiritually, or asking God to help them through prayer.

Prayer is like talking to your best friend, someone whom you trust and can tell anything in confidence without the fear of it being repeated to anyone else.

A true friend is one you don’t fear to face day or night….

It is the ability to honestly let go off your inhibitions and feel comfort, knowing that no matter what, God is listening and will be there for you. Therefore prayer is many things, including peace, security, fellowship, guidance, worship and love.

I requested several people to engage into a midnight prayer for Kenya n the President from
yesterday night btwn 12 and 3am.

I personally set my alarm for 1.30am and i was up in prayer...

God never sleeps so anytime u can knock and enter.

Jesus did not say, "Dream about your Father who is in the secret place," but He said, ". . . pray to your Father who is in the secret place. . . .
Prayer is an effort of the will, and we must be willing to pray.
After we have entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray.

We cannot seem to get our minds into good praying order, and the first thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts.

The great battle in private prayer is overcoming this problem of our idle and wandering thinking.

We have to learn to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful, deliberate prayer.

We must have a specially selected place for prayer, but once we get there this plague of wandering thoughts begins, as we begin to think to ourselves, "This needs to be done, and I have to do that today. ....wandering.

" Jesus says to "shut your door.

" Having a secret stillness before God means deliberately shutting the door on our emotions and remembering Him.

God is in secret, and He sees us from "the secret place"

He does not see us as other people do, or as we see ourselves.

When we truly live in "the secret place," it becomes impossible for us to doubt God.

The bible says "All things are Possible to them that believe"
Believe what? That God is able to perform a miracle.

We become more sure of Him than of anyone or anything else.

Enter into "the secret place," and you will find that God was right in the middle of your everyday circumstances all the time.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

Unless you learn to open the door of your life completely and let God in from your first waking moment of each new day, you will be working on the wrong level throughout the day.

But if you will swing the door of your life fully open and "pray to your Father who is in the secret place," every public thing in your life will be marked with the lasting imprint of the presence of God.

Remember that every day we are praying between 12midnight and 3am.

Schedule your sleep and set time in btwn to pray for PBN, Kenya, Family n church in the world.

May God bless His word today...

Shared by Arms At the Mwafrika chatroom on Friday Mar 19, 2010