The Purpose Driven Prayer Life

Dr. Michael A. McCain

The Prelude to Prayerology TM

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The Purpose Driven Prayer Life

Dr. Michael A. McCain

The Prelude to Prayerology TM

Dedication:

By the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ I first dedicate this book to the only wise God! The true and living Lord of my life, Jesus Christ!  I also dedicate this book to the loving memory of “mother Romeo” Congregation El Beth El in the Bronx New York. I want to dedicate this work to as well as thank God for, Pastor Maggie Smallwood-Powell, for being an endless support and back bone to my ministry. I dedicate this work to my New York church and family, all of Full Gospel Apostolic Assemblies International Inc. Also I dedicate this work to The Apostolic Institute of Mentorship’s students, faculty and The Global College of Apostles.

Sincerest regards to all my mentors, intercessors, and prophetic watchmen, thank you for your endless support, prayers and encouragement. Heart felt thanks go out to, Prophetess Denise Baize and Apostle Baize and the Gifted Life Family church, Apostle Gary L. Chance of Peace Power and Faith Ministries, of Queens New York.

Special thanks to the two most special people in my life my mom and dad Mary and George Moorer. I love you! Thanking God everyday for the life you have given me that now I can touch the lives of many. Thank You.

The Purpose of This Book:

Iam excited to say that the Lord has shared with me an abundance of revelations on the power of prayer. The purpose of this book: to bring the hearts of men everywhere to the importance and life changing power of prayer. Teaching how God can use our prayers to move heaven and earth! The purpose drive prayer life goes further to increase the quality of prayer along with the quantity of prayer. The purpose driven prayer life will teach those who are willing to learn to pray reverently and effectively, bringing each believer who reads this book to the place where they will have more power to the degree where your prayers will have more substance as well as character.

While I know each book on prayer has its own unique features this book was designed to talk about prayer from an apostolic, prophetic and revelatory basis. This book from an apostolic point of view shows the oneness of God with his creation, man, his desire for intimate relationship and “communion” with man. The prophetic point of view of this book, to point out and uncover errors and truths of Gods word bringing them to a new respect and a new light in the eyes of believers who read as well as share this book. By the grace of Jesus Christ I am sharing these revelations with the spirit of God backing me to clear errors, which in that self same respect is an apostolic dimension of the apostleship coming to light. The revelatory aspect of this book speaks from the dimensions of my gift of revelation but also can be defined as a dimension of an apostolic flow.

This book intends to pull man out of the selfish state of prayer. Bringing man into being a true and living sacrifice in the life and lifestyle of prayer, teaching how the power of God provides deliverance and miracles through effectual prayer. The purpose driven prayer life is then teaching men how to effectively pray the Kingdom of God into manifestation here on the earth. This breaks the strong holds of religious systems of prayer and praying, erroneous teachings on prayer that have somehow infiltrated the church and pulpits across the world.

So by divine commission of God, I humbly present this gift to the body of Christ known this day as “Prayerology” TM and The Purpose Driven Prayer Life.

Foreword

After meeting with Dr. Michael McCain some years ago, I knew that God had selected him to receive many revelations through inspiration to chasten, build up, and encourage The Body of Christ. His intellect and forward thinking has allowed him to tap into spiritual realms that countless others have asked for but never received.

In this book you will find just a small portion of the wisdom God has downloaded into his very spirit concerning prayer. Christians everywhere are always seeking to know how to have answered prayer. In this book you’ll come to know the truth of prayer. Likewise, you’ll be able to fine tune and know how to properly pray. The results will lead to better communication with God and bring you to another level of intimacy with God.

The movement of the book reminds me of a great architect building a skyscraper. The book works its way from foundational truth, and then builds level by level each floor until you reach a completed building. After fully grasping the concept of prayer, you’re prayer life will be transformed. You will understand the grace of God and make the sacrifice of prayer daily and continually.

In these days we can expect the full manifestation of God’s power. Yet this will only occur through those who understand the power of prayer. You’re life will never be the same through the book, The Purpose Driven Prayer Life.

Dr. Var Kelly, B.S., B.R.E., M.R.E., D.R.E.

Founder of Var Ministries

(www.VarMinistries.org)

Contents:

One:  What Is The Purpose Of Prayer?

Two:  What Is Intimacy?

Three: The Disciples Prayer

Four: Real Prayer

Five: Effective Prayer

Six: The Purpose Driven Prayer Life

Seven: Gethsemane Prayer

Eight: The Priority of Prayer

Nine: The Purpose Driven Prayer Life Part II

Ten: The Prayer of Jabez

Eleven: A Prayer For Hard Times

Twelve: Wash Daily

Thirteen: A Prayer From A Cave

Chapter One:

What Is The Purpose of Prayer?-

What Does Prayer Accomplish?

What’s God's Idea?

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer: nor those who can explain prayer: but I mean those people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is very important--very important and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer.                       S. D. Gordon

Some people are still debating the power and the truth of prayer in the lives of people today. Yet so many world religions and people trust the power of prayer and know that it accomplishes great results. Life it self shows us that man was created for worship, man tends to find himself following something and seeking some power other than the power of God that is within him. Every born again believer of Jesus Christ understands that “greater is he that is within you, then he that is in the world”. Should every man and woman begin praying and seeking God in Gods true design we would start to see miracles and blessings unfold. Man has been taught through religion and religious tradition to seek God outside of him but never tapping into the spirit of God which dwells in each of us. Its my prayer that the delivering power of God would come through with the revelation in this book and teach the body of Christ the looking for God out side of you makes you’re a slave to spirits that come to attach themselves to you and give you’re a purpose. Yielding yourself and breaking yourself in prayer brings you to the place of allowing God to stand up on the inside of us bring us into dominion and the power that the Lord has promised his people. Come take this journey with me in prayer and renew a purpose driven prayer life into your life.

The Purpose Driven Prayer Decree:

Prophetic Decree:

I decree and declare that every person who reads this book and soaks in this revelatory teaching will experience a spiritual drenching and renewing.

I decree and declare that there shall be a divine ordering of my steps from this time forward, father in Jesus name Order my steps.

I decree and declare that times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and the people of god will arise and be strengthened with all might.

I decree and declare that the oil of restoration and deliverance will over take each reader and carrier of this book.

I decree and declare new mercies, new victories, new doors and great provision into the lives of those who ascribe to the teachings written in this book.

I decree and declare that marriages and broken families will be restored in fullness, the faith to fight for the family will be renewed and the victory will be evident on every side.

I decree and declare that husbands and wives will be challenged to grow in prayer together, that sons and daughters lives will be changed to grow in the knowledge of Jesus Christ and yield peaceable fruit.

I decree and declare that dead ministries who take on this mantle of prayer will receive a double portion anointing and resurrection power that comes through our Lord Jesus Christ.

I decree and declare the state of cities and states to be transformed, that the power of prayer will begin to shake governments and politics.

I decree the oil of Joy for the spirit of heaviness the loosening of the bands of Satan.

I decree and declare deaf ears to be opened, blind eyes to see, minds that are dull of understanding to become fruitful under the power of God and the mantel of prayerology. TM

Now father open our understanding that we can receive what you want to pour into us. Have your way in our hearts and minds as we renew our daily commitment to prayer and communion with you.

In Jesus Name,

Amen.

Why does God call us to pray? Through prayer, God invites us to come into a relationship with Him, commune with him, to know Him, to walk close to Him, to be like Him, to partake of His divine nature. This is what Gods looking for from his creation, man. For man to grow into the divine nature of looking like their daddy! Isn’t it human nature for a mother and father to desire there children to be like them or become like them? Same thing with our father in heaven! God already made us in his image he’s wondering why we haven’t utilized the power that’s in us.

The purpose of prayer is to foster an intimate relationship between our Heavenly Father (Abba) and us. Prayer brings us before the Throne of Grace; the presence of the Lord. We enter into his Holy presence, in the name of Jesus Christ His Son, with the help of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Prayer as we know it should not be handled as a mere bargain table were we make deals with God and see what great plan we can get away with next. The true purpose of prayer is relationship. Yeah, as simple as that may sound that’s really what the father wants from his creation, Relationship. A chance to be important enough in your life that you share the very life he gave you back with him.

God’s Big Idea for Prayer Is Intimacy!

Prayer is God's idea, part of God's plan for His people. The plan of God in prayer is to bring man in to union with him. Prayer becomes the place where creation and creator become one! God is calling His people unto Himself. God is calling His people everywhere to pray and seek His face, to come to know Him, to walk with Him each day, to abide in Him, so that He can abide with us and in us. God wants to walk with you and be with you everywhere you go. Much like our earthly parents, we are trying to be so busy being grown when Gods trying to guide us and be a father to us. God wants a personal relationship with His people. God wants us to know Him intimately. The call to prayer is the call to know him!

God has promised that He will be found by us, when we seek Him with all our heart. What a promise! When I seek God with all my heart he’s already promised me that he will show up! God wants to show up in your life but he’s looking for your heart. God is everywhere and continually reveals Himself to us in every circumstance of life. God has done and continues to do everything necessary for us to know Him, but until we seek Him with all our heart, He will not be found by us. We will find satisfaction in Him, if we hunger and thirst for Him. We must desire a closer relationship with Him; we must spend time with Him, if our relationship is to grow. We cannot pray today because we need something and then don’t pick up prayer till next week or when the next event happens that forces us into prayer. No! That’s not how it works. Prayers a daily habit and as I call it it’s a life habit!

God wants us to grow to the point that we are one with Him no longer two, but one. He wants us to know Him as He is. He wants us to be transformed into His likeness. He wants man to pick up his image. The perfect image that God created for us is Christ. He wants us to be made complete in Christ. He wants us to be of one mind with Him. He wants us to make His ways our ways, His thoughts our thoughts. God wants his ways his actions to become the very thing we find ourselves living and doing.

The Sacrifice of Prayer

I can admit to you that there’s not enough hours in a day for me to accomplish all that I may want to do. My life is very demanding, obligations here and there, people to mentor and teach, a ministry that I Pastor, People I cover and counsel, Businesses that I run, meetings to attend. Not to mention the average demands of family and love ones, devoting time and attention to personal matters with the people you love. Between work and private life the list of demands and needs never stop, they keep growing. Our need for prayer and creating a time to talk to God is just as important as our next breath. As a matter of fact, prayer is your next breath.

When we sacrifice a time to pray we carve out a meeting place, a place where God knows it’s just him and you. Do you a meeting place? Do you have a set time with God? See, the set time of prayer is just as important as when we wake up in the morning to clock in at work. Or when we make sure we arrive home on time to be attentive to our children or marriage partner. Prayer is not just the sacrifice but it is commitment. It teaches this undisciplined flesh how to be disciplined and attentive to the power of God and his leading and guiding in the earth.

S.D. Gordon says, “They have not time. It must be taken form something else.”

If we are going to follow the leading of God, grow and mature spiritually as we need to then the very basics on a life style of prayer and the discipline that comes with it is so vital and important to every believers walk. Prayer is not just something for people with great titles and positions. Your office of ministry or service in the kingdom of God does not determine the greater or the lesser power or authority you have in prayer. What determines the power you have in prayer is the “Sacrifice”.

Many are chasing public prayer meetings at 5AM, Noonday prayer and Midnight prayer vigils but the truth of the matter is God needs a private move in you first before the public demonstration comes. I am going to share with you a passage of scripture to shed light on this point one in the King James Version, the one we should all know, the other in The Message Bible Version.

“And when thou prayerst, thou shalt not be as the Hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou, when thou prayest, enter into THY CLOSET, and when thou hast shut thy door, Pray to thy father in SECRET; and thy father which seeth in SECRET shall reward thee openly.” Matthew 6:5-6 KJV Emphasis Mine-

"And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat?

Here's what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won't be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace. Matthew 6:5-6 The Message Bible

Please don’t get the wrong impression when I mention people attending prayer conferences, revivals or services that are set by the church. Understand that those meetings have there place and there purpose. The problem in the church is that we have saints that are on all levels, some are babes, some in the middle and some are mature heavy weights. The point I am making here is that you cannot benefit from the corporate prayer and the blessings you reap for your attendance and compliance with what the local church is doing or the body of Christ until you first have a private move of God going on in you.

We have to be careful that we are not turning prayer into a theatrical production as the message bible states it. Where we put on a show with how elaborate we can pray and our vernacular of vocabulary we use to frame words. None of those things become important to God or the people watching or in attendance. When people experience real prayer something begins in their spirit. The spirit bears forth witness to the prayer, God moves in the prayer from person to person and everyone is blessed. When the King James Version says “they have their reward” it simply means that show they put on to show off how they can pray or how knowledgeable they are on certain things is the reward. The attention they get from it, the people the boost them up on how great they are in their pride is as far as the reward goes. The difference is when real prayer breaks out you don’t need any ones compliments or accolades to let you know you have accomplished a great work. God will move and prove himself in his work and in the prayer made through you. Your position is to remain humble allow God to complete the work and move on to your next assignment.

When you begin to build a place of sacrifice in prayer you find you a quiet peaceful place where you can talk to God, cry out and wait for him to communicate back with you. Often we run into prayer with our grocery list of things we need God to do and never ask God what he wants for us. What do you want to do through us? What’s your plan and will for our lives? What is the Lord saying about the state and condition that you’re presently in? What does he want you do next? As a matter of fact, God can give you some direction on what to do before you begin speaking. The problem we have is with our discipline in prayer. We come and utter out all of our mind and heart and never allow our father to tell his children what he has to say. God can give you a plan, but will you wait for him to speak?

That’s where the sacrifice of prayer becomes real. First you start of chasing God because you are in love with him and know that this level of closeness is needed to enrich your life and bring you to a place of strength and blessing. As the sacrifice goes on, you learn that its more then just making time to pray, its how I pray, what do I do when I am waiting on God to move in my life. These are the first steps where people divert into there own plan, skip the plan of God because their spirit can’t discern what the Lord desires nor can they hear him speaking.

Now what does prayer accomplish?

Prayer is the starting point, the meeting place in the spirit where everything else you see and don’t see begins. Prayer is a spiritual tool, a spiritual thing that renders spiritual and natural results. People who have consistent prayer lives understand that hindrances and road block are moved because of prayer. Likewise you gain the strength and momentum to do “the greater works” the word of God tells us we are capable of.

Let’s set the record straight on what prayer accomplishes. According to our faithful walk or our faith filled walk we will send various results in accordance to our faith. The word speaks often in the gospels of the miracles Jesus preformed was according to the faith that the people had in them. The word of God says in another passage of scripture “according to the power that works in you”. According to the faith in you, the word in you and the spirit of God working through you determines the measure of how God moves.

What prayer accomplishes for each man is different, for some it is divine healing, for another; wisdom, to another strength, for another mental stability or peace of mind and the list continues. Yet the real foundation of what prayer does for everyman no matter where you are in the stage of life, prayer accomplishes WISDOM. The result of prayer is wisdom. Prayer brings you into knowing, knowing your God and knowing your surroundings. Prayer brings you into knowing your conditions and how to overcome them if you should choose to. Prayer divinely opens up a road map, blue print, avenue, highway, door way, entrance for answers to come through.

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” James 1:5 King James Version

“I f you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves. Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.” James 1:5-8 The Message Bible Version

I can’t begin to assure you more that prayer is our help! People have so many ideologies of what prayer is and about why it works and don’t work. What it accomplishes and doesn’t. I’ve heard people speak from the understanding that God is sovereign and it doesn’t matter what we pray he will do what he wants. I’ve heard others speak and say that if we pray we can “change Gods mind”. Then there’s the third group of people who just believe that there’s no God, no purpose to prayer at all simply because “God” does not exist.

The truth of the matter is this; God accomplishes his greatest work through those who do pray. You can come to God with a problem and as I fore stated he will give you the wisdom needed to carry out a strategy or plan to reach your goal Or the father will assure you by his presence that when you move he is with you. By example:

You can come to God, praying, trusting, decreeing and demolishing strongholds and barriers all to say God I need “Money” God I need “Finances” and the Lord will say “I agree”, he will begin downloading to your spirit ideas, things you can do to attain your goal and meet your needs, but what we tend to do is over look those things and beg for the manifestation or transfer of funds from one person to another and to us. However God may not always move like that. When it comes to prayer what we need to begin doing is listening and waiting for the answers God is divinely giving us. Often we don’t want to do the work, we try to avoid the process something’s will take to be fix or dealt with but the end result is that we will be more blessed then what we were when we went into the situation.

When it comes to prayer the more people praying the better, when people come together to pray it moves God. God then moves on our desires, not so much that he has changed his mind on things and conditions but in his sovereignty he has the ability to turn any situation around.

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14 King James Version

“As you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.”  2 Corinthians 1:11 N.I.V

More powerful than anything else the truth about what pray accomplishes is that prayer changes us! Yes you maybe dealing with outward situations and circumstances but the true change that needs to take place is within us. When we change, submit our lives to Gods plan and Gods will God then moves in our lives like only he can, turning things around accomplishing what seems impossible. When you join with others in prayer who have needs the more people praying for a situation determines its out come, God may have a plan to allow a life to end or extend it. We have trust and know that our prayers are not in vain. When we learn to pray in the spirit, the spirit will pray for us and through us revealing what the plan is and the changes that are to come. Part of what people are not accepting about prayer is that the Holy Spirit is essential to having an effective prayer life.

Having the Holy Spirit is like having GPS, God can down load the way, the road map and answers directly to your spirit. What your natural understanding does not comprehend the spirit will begin to teach us and give us the understanding that we need. The Holy Spirit is also prophetic in its nature, showing us things in the past, present and future, giving us spiritual wisdom and insight on how to pray and what to pray for because in our natural or human understanding we know not what to pray for.

Chapter Two:

What Is Intimacy?

Intimacy is defined as: a close, familiar, usually affectionate relationship.

A close association to or knowledge of.

Loving God is Knowing God and knowing God is serving God, fulfilling his wishes and plans in the earth. God is looking for a people to dwell with and work through. God just wants to be familiar with me and common. A place where he knows the real me and I am giving him the real me as I learn who I am to be and become in God. My association with God cannot be without intimacy. It’s impossible to know God and not be intimate with him. Relationship with God is a romantical worship that is a private experience with God.

When a person has real intimacy with God you are dedicated to the time you spend with God in prayer. The same way you would be dedicated to assuring that you spend time with your spouse. God is looking for a people who keep their appointments with him and take their relationship seriously. Because of my affection for God no matter the ordeal I am facing presently in life I know that I can come to God with the cares of my life, but intimacy goes further. Most people stop at just at wanting to talk to God about their cares and problems.

What real intimacy with God is when we can get into prayer, praise and worship him just because of who he is. When you start developing a relationship with the creator it’s no longer about what he can do for you, but you worship and spend time with him because it’s what you love to do.

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek, inquire for, and insistently require; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord (in His presence) all the days of my life, to behold and gaze upon the beauty (the sweet attractiveness and the delightful loveliness) of the Lord and to meditate, consider, and inquire in His temple.

Psalm 27:4 The Amplified Bible

When it all comes down to it above all else in heaven and in earth our ultimate goal should be a close relationship with God. I promise you that if we would spend more time getting to know God there will be very little that we need. Why; because God’s word promises us that times of refreshing come from the presence of the Lord according to Acts 3:19.

Repent you therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord. Acts 3:19

Repentance is level one to your restoration. Repentance is a vital part of every person’s prayer life no matter if you’re already a believer or a sinner experiencing conversion. True repentance brings you closer to God, he restores you, and he blots out your sins. The thing I love most about God is that when he forgives, he forgets! He takes away our sins to remember them no more. Its people in our life that we have sinned with or that knows us by association or relationship that digs up our past and throws it in our face.

Times of refreshing come from spending time in the presence of God, not just with our cries and request; refreshing comes from intimate adoration of God, honoring him and forsaking our cares. The law of strategic prayer is what you do in private you will be rewarded with openly.  So the time that you spend with God in that intimate time with God he rewards you for openly. Your outward life is a mirror and reflection of our private intimate relationship and prayer time with God.

Prayer of Intimacy:

Father, my love and everything, teach me today the importance of relationship with you. Teach me how to romance you. How to please the whims of your heart, give me the ability to passionately thirst for your presence and bask in the glory of being one in you. Show me how to seek after your face and not just your hand. Show me that as I know you then I’ll always have you. Help me father to become so intimate with you that I forget about one shot deals. The times where I wander off in life and forget you then come back when I need you. Father today’s the day I lay down my image! I take up the mind and the image of Christ that I may be and will be one in you!

In Jesus name,

Amen.

Chapter Three:

The Disciples' Prayer-

Our Father Who Is In Heaven

Pray, then, in this way: Our Father who is in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Matthew 6:9-13

Although this is often called the Lord's Prayer, it was not a prayer prayed by Jesus. It was a model for prayer that Jesus taught to His disciples. It could therefore more rightly be called the "Disciples' Prayer" or the "Model Prayer."

As His disciples we should give every effort to better understand what Jesus wanted us to learn from this model for prayer. Our goal should be to pray as Jesus taught us to pray, to understand the purpose of prayer.

Read this prayer as a whole. What aspect stands out to you the most? How do your prayers compare to this pattern for prayer? Your prayers are to become more and more like this model prayer that the disciples learned to pray. This was never a prayer that was intended to be prayed as an actual prayer or in the form of a religious prayer. This is a biblical account and example from Jesus himself teaching us how to pray to God, for ourselves, for the world and for others.

As I look at this prayer two things strike me immediately. First, there are no personal pronouns used. No "I." No "me." No "my." Unlike most prayers, Scripture teaches us that our prayers are not to be self-centered or self seeking. God will not answer positively when our praying is for "self." Instead, we see that our prayer should be "we", "our" or "us." Our praying is to be for the common good of all. Your prayers should not always be about you. Most biblical accounts of prayer, prayers that were being prayed were usually on the cause or behalf of others. We call this intercession. Our prayers must reach the selfless mark. When it’s not about us and our stuff, but our prayer becomes about our families, our church, our city, state and country. Now that’s the level of prayer the Lord desires to see in his people.

Secondly, prayer needs to be God-centered instead of self-centered. From beginning to end, the focus is to be on God. We need to ask ourselves, "Will this prayer advance His Kingdom?", "Is this prayer according to His revealed will?", "Will God receive glory through this prayer?" The questions I need to be asking myself in prayer is “am I praying in his will”, better yet “am I praying the will and plan of God to be manifested in the earth?”

"And if you ask for anything in my name, I will do it for you so that the Father's glory will be shown through the Son." John 14:13 Jesus instructs us to pray to The Father in His name. God wants to answer our prayers. He will be glorified by answering prayer that is according to His will.

Lord Teach us to pray!

Kind father in Jesus name, we approach you today a holy God! We reverence, honor and bring glory to your name today. We say thank you father for all the things that you have done and you’re yet going to do.  We command what’s in heaven to manifest in us and in the earth through us. Use us for the purpose of your will. Teach us how to forgive, forgive ourselves, forgive others and most of all our enemies! Teach us today your word; reveal to us the message for our lives today. Give us today a revealed word. Lead us not into traps of the enemy but lead us into paths of righteousness order our steps with the light of your word. Father allow your saving grace to reach our cities, or state, our community and our family in Jesus name.

Amen!

Chapter Four:

Real Prayer-

How Would You Describe Prayer?

There may be many ways to describe prayer, but what would you say is the single most important aspect of prayer? What is the true essence of prayer? What does God want to accomplish through prayer? What is the purpose of prayer in our life?

Prayer is not about getting our requests from God. Prayer is first and foremost about an intimate relationship with our loving heavenly Father. Above all else, I believe prayer is the key to the heart of God. Richard J. Foster describes this aspect of prayer in his book Coming Home - An Invitation to Prayer. He says, "Coming to prayer is like coming home. Nothing feels more right, more like what we are created to be and to do."

Among on the places I could be on this earth, there is a peace that comes to me when I enter into prayer that I generally do not get anywhere else. I am able to communicate with my heavenly home and hear all the news heaven is saying about me, the earth, God’s purposes and plans and I embrace them and walk them  out in the earth the more I learn to submit to God’s purposes and plans.

Real prayer is when you know your creator and he knows you. When you’re able to operate in that fact that God wants you to look like him and be like him and you don’t mind doing it. Real prayers that place where you’re not being chased to God by troubles or sorrows of heart! It’s the place in your heart where he’s your number one priority and there’s nothing that comes neither before him nor after him. Real prayers that place where you connect back to heaven, back to the place we came from. It’s my way of paying home a visit. We affectionately use the term theres no place like home.” That statement holds a tremendous amount of truth when it pertains to prayer life and relationship with God.

I want to tell you today that there’s no place like prayer! No place like being refreshed, revived and replenished in the presence of God! The power of Gods refreshing in prayer is very similar to our forth coming expectation of heaven. It’s just a glimpse of what it would be like to bask in his presence for all eternity in heaven. When you get in real prayer you problems, troubles and cares all seem to fade and disappear. All because your focus is not on what has happen to you or what’s currently going on in your life. What’s taking place is that we have placed our focus on our love! When God is your love and you magnify and adore him in prayer it makes your trials and troubles fade and disappear.

If the key is prayer, the door is Jesus Christ. How good of God to provide us a way into his heart. Jesus, the Christ, lived a perfect life, died in our place, and rose victorious over all power so that we might live through Him. This is wonderfully good news. No longer do we have to stand outside, barred from God by our rebellion. We may now enter through the door of God's grace and mercy in Jesus Christ.

When we experience real prayer, it causes us to come off our knees testifying of our experience and love for God. As we learn we teach others don’t we? I am encouraging you that as you learn of God and through God that you bring others into the love and experience of Christ.

Prayer of Sincerity:

Father in Jesus name, we come to you today thank you for your endless goodness and blessing toward us. Thank you father for your unchanging love and consistent ability to show us that we are important to you! Father, place a burning within our hearts to be real for you. Father, enable us to share your goodness and the love that we have grown to in you. Father, unveil to us the importance of communicating with our heavenly home and with you. Father, today we pray for your purpose, will and plan to be made manifest in our lives, in our bodies, in our families, in our cities, towns and countries. Kind father today we pray that you would make us agents of your divine purpose and change in the earth in Jesus Name,

Amen-

Chapter Five:

Effective Prayer-

Relationship With God!

Effective prayer comes from our relationship with our Heavenly Father. I would encourage you to take some time to examine that fact and as a result strengthen your relationship with your Heavenly Father. Through the revelation and truths in this book one can build their prayer life to a more effective level.

David expressed his special relationship with God as his shepherd in the 23rd Psalm. Psalm 23 has six verses. As we read the psalm we notice how each verse expresses the following:

         Verse 1: Who God is in relation to us-two phrases

         Verse 2: Where He places us-two phrases

         Verse 3: The walk we have with Him-two phrases

         Verse 4: Potential danger and His protection-three phrases

         Verse 5: God's provision for us-three phrases

         Verse 6: Our future in this special relationship with God-two phrases

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restores my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” Psalm 23

“The Lord is my shepherd to feed, guide, and shield me, I shall not lack. He makes me lie down in fresh, tender green pastures; He leads me beside the still and restful waters. He refreshes and restores my life (myself); He leads me in the paths of righteousness (uprightness and right standing with him- not for my earning it but, but) for his name’s sake. Yes, though I walk through the (deep, sunless) valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for you are with me; your rod (to protect) and your staff (to guide), they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my (brimming) cup runs over. Surely or only good, mercy, ad unfailing love shall follow me all the days of my life, and through the length of my days the house of the Lord (and his presence) shall be my dwelling place.” Psalm 23 Amplified Bible.

The first conclusion in prayer that we need to arrive to is who are we praying to? Not that we don’t know him and are in search of him, but know who he is this means we already trust what he’s capable of doing. That’s the difference when we are in intimacy with God in prayer. It’s the power of knowing him unto his works. When we are confident of whose leading us then we know that if it is he that’s leading us then “The Host” “The Pilot” has to do the providing! You would dare not bring someone into your home or on a trip and not do the providing. Our Gods relationship with his children is that he wants us to know that with him you will never be in want or lack.

“He makes me to lie down in green pastures.” he makes me to walk, live and lay in prosperous places. Prosperity is the abundant living that God promised his believers. When we follow after the guidance of the Lord and allow him to lead our life. We must give up our control and allow the Lord Jesus to be our pilot. The scriptures call him “our shepherd” meaning he wants to protect, lead, guide, watch over, tend to, pastor us! Yes! The Lord our God wants to pastor you! Guide you with the protection and oversight of his hand. This pastor-ship that I speak of is not a re directive for an earthly pastor but yet is a revelation into the deeps of how far God intends to lead us. God wants to lead you to prosper! Meaning as you allow the Lord to lead you and give direction to your life, giving him oversight of your decisions by his final word. You have no further choice but to prosper at his leading! There’s no possible way that you can be lead by the Lord and end in mistake!

As God shepherds and leads you he takes the charges. He takes full responsibility for what takes place and happens in your life. As he’s leading us he restores, revives, and replenishes our life! That’s powerful! When I have intimacy with God I begin to know him as a reviver, the places in my life where I died, places where I gave up and gave in. God comes and through his Holy Spirit and intimate relationship with me through prayer, worship and the word, he brings and breathes fresh life into our lives!

Not only do I learn the Lord as a reviver but I learn him and know him a restorer, energy, time and things that I’ve lost God restores! Have you ever lost out on an opportunity? Have you ever lost money? Have you ever lost a job? Then God steps in immediately and shifts our life into an even grater place then where we were before. People, places and things we somehow thought we couldn’t live without God blesses our life so much we tend to forget! I laugh at the thought of that, because I’ve been there too many times to account for! What ever you have lost in your life Gods able to give it all back! As a matter of fact, what ever you have had to let go to serve him, he’s able to give it all back, but the correct way!

God will give you a successful marriage, family, career, business and friendships. I want you to know today that if you are serving God in a life of holiness and relationship with him, he’s about to restore you! He’s about to bring you from the back skirts of nothing into the presence of royalty and influence. People who are lead of God are influential people. The word says that your gift will make room for you and bring you before great men. Prayer is Gods gift to men for divine relationship! God doesn’t want a mediocre relationship with his creation. We serve a divine God who wants a divine relationship!

How about this fact, just was we serve a divine God he will cause us to meet other people who are like him! My god! I feel like running off of that one. When we dive into our intimacy with God and get lost in him we come to the surface meeting and rubbing elbows with royalty! People places and things that you would normally never have access to you have access to them in prayer. Where’s the proof of that? The proof is that the word says that ‘the earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein.” Everything and everyone on this earth that you need to be connected to God knows how to get you to them! He knows were to find them! That’s one of the many strengths and benefits of intimacy and relationship with God through prayer!

“He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name sake.” Its Gods desire to lead man into righteousness. God will open ways for you to live and be holy. God will open ways of “escape” for you as the word says. God wants you holy and upright before him the way to achieving that is through prayer and the word. If you are already praying and already in the word you can admit to me today that you’re not doing it as often and as much as you should! 2 Timothy 2:15 says, “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a work man that needs not to be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth.” God wants to bring man into a state where relationship with him in prayer and in the word that would lead you to a place of never being ashamed. Meaning it’s a shame to come to God in prayer and not get what we asked him for when his word says we can have “whatsoever” we ask for. Isn’t that ironic?

The message of righteousness that Gods delivering to us says, that through right standing with him, right standing in his word and in prayer, we then lean how to rightly ask God for things that don’t just please us or our flesh but please the will of God. When I read the word I gain understanding of what I am asking God for and believing him to do, that’s where the power of God transforms my life. Now what ever you ask him for he will give it to you! You’ve rightly learned what his mind is about what we have asked for and give him now the authority to bring it into your life. This authority that I speak of is the divine will of God, his plan for all men, families, marriages, and other cases. This authority cannot fulfill desires which are not out line by Gods premeditated thought. The word of God is the mind of God of which we are lead to righteousness. Your desires have to be tamed by the word. Which means the word will cut the flesh out of what you’re asking God to do! Wow!

Through this truth this is what gives us the divine access to God that what we ask him for he brings to pass! Reading the word and praying the word is what gives us the divine ability to not pray amiss, or as the word calls it “ a work man not ashamed.” I am here to tell you today if you get in the word and learn the mind of God concerning what we are praying for we will not be ashamed. God will grant and give us the very decree of our mouth, why? Because God can now see, hear and observe him-self thinking through you!

“His names sake.” When we learn the power of a name we will have a greater prayer life. What I intend to bring to your attention in this statement is there’s power in what we name. Names carry the spirit, character and nature of a thing. So when we pray to God and call on his name we are asking for the visitation of Gods character, and integrity to come visit us. God teaches us in his word that “his mind will not come back un-manifested!”(Emphasis mine). What the holy bible says is, “His word will not come back void.” When you fill yourself with the mind of God or the word of God its theoretically impossible for what you have asked God for or to do to come back void!

“His Mind Will Not Come Back Un-manifested!”

“Yea do I walk.” I don’t know about you but when you have relationship with God you come to a new place in your understanding that as you walk and what ever you walk into that God there with you. Whatever state you find yourself in Gods there with you and working through it with you. When you have intimacy with God you have “love”, the word teaches us that perfect love cast out all fear. Meaning that my perfect love for God and in God causes me not to fear in what I am experiencing and undergoing. As we walk, we know that Gods there comforting us, leading us, guiding us and protecting us!

“Thou preparest a table.” When you begin to pray effectively God matures you to deal with things you can’t stand! God will bring you to a place of dealing with people, places and things we have ran from in our past. God lays it out on the table before you, and then gives you the strength to do what’s right. God will give you not just the ability to face your enemies but to sit with them, eat with them, laugh with them, and in the process of you doing this he’s anointing you!

I want you to know today that what ever your going through in you life his anointing you to deal with it! Gods anointing you for people you can’t stand. You have the strength of God in you, and because of your prayer life you have a glory on your face while you’re doing it!

Last but surely not the least Gods goodness, beauty, glory, honor, grace and mercy shall follow you for the rest of your life. Through the love of God in your heart and relationship of intimacy with him you will learn to live to love and dwell in him house (the church), and his presence (the spirit) forever.

Psalm 23

A David Psalm

GOD, my shepherd! I don't need a thing. You have bedded me down in lush meadows; you find me quiet pools to drink from. True to your word, you let me catch my breath and send me in the right direction.

Even when the way goes through Death Valley, I'm not afraid when you walk at my side. Your trusty shepherd's crook makes me feel secure. You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies. You revive my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing. Your beauty and love chase after me every day of my life. I'm back home in the house of GOD for the rest of my life. (The Message Bible)

A Prayer To Our Shepherd:

LORD, because you are my shepherd I do not want. Thank you father; for causing me to walk in prosperous places. Thank you for causing me to drink from the truth of your word. Thank you for restoring, revival and replenishing my soul every day. Thank you that you load me with new benefits day by day. Thank you for your leading and your direction, you guide me day by day.

Even though I walk through dreadful and deadly places I will fear no one and no evil, for I know that you are with me. You lead guide and comfort me. With you and your staff at my side I feel secure. You load me with plenty right in front of my enemies. I sit eat and dine in front of them. You anoint my head with oil. My cup brims over with blessings that overflow. Your glory, your beauty, your love, grace and mercy follows me all the days of my appointed time, and I find myself dwelling in the house of the Lord forever and ever.

In Jesus Name,

Amen!

Chapter Six:

The Purpose Driven Prayer Life-

It’s not about you!

He must become greater; I must become less.

It’s not about you. You were made by God and for God. Life is about letting God use you for His purposes. Do you know God's purpose for your life? Do you understand how all the pieces of your life fit together? Have you become what God created you to be? God made you for a reason and your life has profound meaning. Nothing matters more than knowing God's purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not knowing them. There are eternal consequences to what you do with your life. Major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, underserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies will test you.

Our time on earth, our energy, intelligence, opportunities, relationships, resources and prayer are all gifts from God that he has entrusted to our care and management. Ask God to help you see life on earth as He sees it. It's all for Him. When we fulfill our purpose, it brings glory to God. Life is for His glory. To worship God is to bring Him glory. Worship is a lifestyle of enjoying God, loving Him, and giving ourselves to be used for His purposes. He wants us to grow to spiritual maturity (becoming like Jesus in the way we think, feel, and act). The more you develop Christ-like character, the more you bring glory to God. We bring glory to God by using our talents, gifts, skills, and abilities to serve others and help them to know Him.

Living your life for the glory of God will require you to change your priorities, your schedule, your relationships, and everything else in obedience to His will. Do whatever God asks without reservation or hesitation. Obedience will teach you more about God that anything else. You were made to live in God's continual presence. God wants to be included in every activity, every conversation, every problem, and even every thought. The more time you spend reviewing what God has said, the more you will understand the 'secrets' of this life that most people miss. You are as close to God as you chose to be. Ask God to give you a passion for Him. Don't miss the most important thing in life-knowing God. Give God your time. Give God yourself. The more you become God's friend, the more you will care about the things he cares about, grieve over the things he grieves over, and rejoice over the things that bring pleasure to Him. Adopt the way God thinks-about yourself, sin, God, other people, life, you future, and everything else. Take on Christ's outlook and perspective. Be like Jesus. Every day God wants you to become a little more like Him.

Life is not about you. Prayer is not about you. Prayer was made by God and for God. Begin each day with God. Ask God for wisdom. Ask God to direct your steps. Prayer has a purpose in bringing about God's will in the world. Prayer is the key to knowing and accomplishing God's purposes for your life, the church, the world, eternity. There are eternal consequences to your prayers. Will you persevere in prayer? Prayer is for God's glory. Look for God in all of life, every event, every day. Pray that His will be done in your life. Pray for a passion and commitment to God. Live for the glory of God. Pray for the glory of God. The smile of God is the goal of your life. God is with you all the time; no place is any closer to God than the place you are right now. Enter into His presence with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Continue praying throughout the day about all the things you see going on around you.

Life's events are reminders of who God isHis promises, and His will for the world-reminders to pray. God always acts in your best interest, even when it is painful and you don't understand it. Every time you trust God's wisdom and do whatever he says, even when you don't understand it, you deepen your friendship with God. Serious reflection on God's truth is a key to answered prayer and the secret to successful living. It is during suffering that we learn to pray our most authentic, heartfelt, honest-to-God prayers. Problems force us to look to God and depend on Him instead of ourselves. Let us have confidence, then, and approach God's throne, where there is grace. There we will receive mercy and find grace to help us just when we need it.

A purpose driven life is nourished by purpose driven prayer--prayer that seeks God's glory, the reign of God in our lives and God's will to be done on earth just as it is in heaven. I pray that God will be glorified in our lives and in His church, both now and forever.

Everything comes from God alone. Everything lives by His power, and everything is for His glory.   Romans 11:36

Chapter Seven:

Gethsemane Prayer-

Not my will

One thing we notice about the early church is their devotion to prayer. Acts 1:14 tells us that as the apostles awaited for the promised Holy Spirit, "These all with one mind were continually devoting themselves to prayer . . . " As they contemplated Judas' replacement, Acts 1:24 tells us "they prayed . . . " As the church began to grow, Acts 2:42 tells us "they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer." If we want to see the kingdom advance today, we too must pray as Jesus taught his disciples, and as He Him-self prayed.

As we study the early church, we are reminded of the importance of making prayer a part of everything we do today. We too have undertaken to do more than we can do in our own strength, if we have purposed to let Almighty God work through us. To accomplish His purposes we must have His power, that power which is available to us through prayer. Prayer strengthens the believer to arise and accomplish in the earth God’s divine purposes and plans. Prayer is that place where we lay aside our agenda and take up the agenda and mandate of heaven. Which is why the word say’s thy will (not yours) God’s will be done on earth (the physical and geographical plane of the earth as well as the land of your physical body) as it is in heaven!

I want you to form the image of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane and Jesus' prayer. Allow this prayer to be your theme when you pray. "Not my will, but yours be done." God has promised that if we ask anything according to His will, He will do it. May we daily claim His promises and make this the model for all our prayers. May His reign come and may His will be done, in our lives, in His church and in the whole world. This is the kind of prayer that God is looking for. People that pray like this God will anoint and put special favor and grace on to be able to arise and accomplish greatness. Will you be one of them?

Consider all the church activities you are involved in  Sunday-morning worship, Bible studies, training sessions, choir practices, committee meetings, dramas, service projects, Small Group meetings; Evaluate the focus on prayer in each one. Is there little or no attention to prayer? Is prayer mostly a habit? Is prayer time brief but meaningful? Is prayer given much attention? Is prayer a priority? Whether or not you are a leader, you can influence prayer in the groups to which you belong. Use your influence to encourage prayer, a seeking after God. We cannot pray too much. God's Word tells us to pray without ceasing, for this is God's will for us in Christ Jesus.

May we continually devote ourselves to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer; May Christ be glorified in our lives and in His Church, as we make His thoughts our thoughts, His ways our ways, His prayer our prayer. Not my will, but yours be done!

Prayer: Not My Will

Kind father In Jesus name, I lay aside all my worries, complaints, problems, opinions and hang-ups. Father, I rid myself of excuses, fear and procrastination that keeps me from obeying and fulfilling your will in the earth. Father; pour out your anointing on me with favor and grace to arise and accomplish what you have set before me to do. Allow me to represent your purpose as an ambassador in Christ. Father this day, I give up my will, I take on the mind of Christ that I may fulfill my life’s calling, destiny and purpose in the earth.

In Jesus Name,

Amen-

Chapter Eight:

The Priority of Prayer-

There Is No Substitute For Prayer!

The destined end of man is not happiness, nor health, but holiness. God's one aim is the production of saints. Oswald Chambers

Christ's Church exists to introduce people to Jesus, to help them become like Jesus, to teach them to care for, nurture and shepherd others. These are our core values. We exist to fulfill this God-given mission. This is what being a Christian is all about. This is what prayer is all about.

We each have the privilege, protection and power of prayer as a gift from God to use to accomplish His work. I pray that we may each fully understand the principles, purpose and priority of prayer in every aspect of our ministry.

There is no substitute for prayer. There is no success without prayer. James reminds us that we do not have because we do not ask. Jesus says in John 15:7-8, if you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given you. This is to my Father's glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples. Prayer glorifies God. Just as prayer was the foundation for Jesus' ministry, it must be ours as well.

2 Chronicles 7:14 says, If my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. We must come humbly before God and sincerely seek Him in prayer. To be true to God in prayer we must give up evil. We have to give up our evil ways and ways of the flesh that do not promote holiness and a holy lifestyle of which is outlined in the word of God.

Prayer is a continual dependence on God, commitment to God, walk with God and service to God. Through prayer we discover the heart and mind of God and become like Christ.

“Prayer does not prepare us for the greater work. Prayer is the greater work.” Oswald Chambers

Everyone can pray, everyone must pray, everyday. When we pray, we come to a Holy God who cares for us, provides for our needs and helps us to finish the work that Jesus began to do during His time on the earth. The purpose of prayer is to help us know God, know His will and do His will. The purpose of prayer is to enable men to partake of the divine nature.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other. E. M. Bounds

Chapter Nine:

The Purpose Driven Prayer Life Part 2-

Kingdom prayer!

Kingdom prayer is prayer that pleads for God to do what he wants. What does He want? He wants all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Jesus was slain and purchased for God with His blood men from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. Rev 5:9

Kingdom prayer needs a holy burden about the way things are. Do we as His church have a burden for the lost around us and throughout the whole world? Are we crying out to God to work supernaturally in peoples lives? Do we see that Christ is the only answer for people's deepest needs? Do we understand that God has promised in His Word to work when we pray?

Kingdom prayer needs a real balance between our hands and our knees. We are in a spiritual battle. We cannot change men's hearts by what we say, but God allows us to have an influence on them by what we say, when we pray. We need to pray for boldness in the lives of Christians to share the Good News about Jesus. And we need to take every opportunity to share Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit with those He brings into our lives. We must plant the Word of God in people's lives and regularly water it with prayer until it springs up and produces a harvest for The King.

Kingdom prayer needs a firm belief that the King will show up. Do we have faith in God Almighty? Do we believe He will do what He says? We must demonstrate our faith in the promises given by God in His Holy Word. We must pray big prayers if we want to see big answers from God.

Kingdom prayer deeds are so awesome that only God gets the glory. The result of our praying kingdom prayers will be God supernaturally displaying His divine power to transform the lives of men.

Will you pray for God to use you more? Will you pray for the transforming power of Christ's kingdom to be evident in our lives, for a sustained movement of united prayer among us, for God to pour out His Spirit upon all mankind, for relationships to be transformed by His power, for God's purpose for families and children to be seen, for the nations to hear and answer the voice of God, for the faithful courage of His people to live their faith before men, for Christ to bring healing to lives, for the fulfillment of God's promised blessing among all peoples and for His glory to be over all the earth.

The Purpose Driven Prayer:

Kind Father in Jesus name, Unlock to me the depth and the certainty of my calling. Show me my purpose. Father, move anything that is blinding me from seeing what you have called me to do, who you have called me to be, and who you have called me to help. Lord, open my eyes, my heart, and my mind to your understanding of me. Allow me to understand and see myself as you see me. Reveal to me my Kingdom purpose and allow me to not just behold it but to actively walk in it. Transform my ways to your ways. Purge out of me all selfish acts and mindsets that hinder me from being completely free and active in my purpose and calling. Let all that I do be a testament to glorify you.

In Jesus name,

Amen.

Chapter Ten:

The Prayer of Jabez-

Extraordinary blessings!!!

“Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him in pain."

And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!" So God granted him what he requested. 1Chronicles 4:9-10 Emphasis Mine

What does it mean to be blessed indeed?

Indeed means: in fact, in reality, in truth. This is a powerful statement when we place it under the microscope of prayer! When we pray we are not asking God to passively bless us but we are asking God to make what we are asking him a fact! Pray till he blesses you with the facts! The reality! The truth! Pray till the Lord makes your every prayer manifested glory, till its fact, reality and truth!

The truth is the reality of your life is whatever is in it you spoke it or the lack thereof. Speak blessings miracles glory and honor into your life and the lives of people who surround you and you meet. You have the power to create and form the world that you live in with the words you speak. That’s how powerful prayer is down to the very atomic level. Prayer is a seed that goes forth out of our mouths creating and forming.  The atomic level of prayer practiced in your life on a daily basis will reshape and reform your entire world.

Enlarge My Territory

Jabez not only asks God to bless him, but to enlarge his territory. When I think of this prayer my heart immediately say’s “Lord, make me a blessing”. To some that may sound selfish off the surface but warped in that prayer is a definite request not far from the prayer of intent that Jabez had. The questions I want you to ask yourself is, how big is your sphere of influence? Whose lives do you impact and why? Do you just touch the lives of family or are you’re reaching beyond?

When you think about the questions I just outlined to you, Jabez’s prayer is request to God for more territory, a plea for God to enlarge your life so you can make a greater impact for him. In today’s language Jabez prayer might of sound a little like this:

By the power of God I decree I am blessed indeed, God is enlarging my territory, my sphere of influence, my impact on the world and the nations. I decree and declare that the hand of the Lord is with me, and the power of God is keeping me from evil, that I may cause no one pain. For God shall grant this decree. (Emphasis Mine) 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

When we observe the prayer of Jabez it teaches us a very important lesson about prayer and communication with God. Our prayer should be “Lord make me a blessing” instead of praying for a blessing. “Lord enlarge my territory”, not for your own personal gain but so that the hand of God can be seen in your life, your region, your family and your nation. God raise me up so that people can see that you are real, that you are still in the miracle working business, that you are still a deliver and a restorer. “Lord bless me indeed” bless me with undeniable facts, with proof and evidence that you are with me, that your favor and hand is upon everything that I do and touch. This is the heart of Jabez prayer.

Jabez’s prayer is a desire for more influence, more responsibility, and more opportunity to make a mark for the God of Israel. Jabez isn’t content with a little plot of ground for himself and his family. He has dreams of something much bigger and offers yet another bold request. Jabez is wise in asking God for something no human assistance can grant him with. Jabez is asking for blessings that only God can grant him. Ask God today, to enlarge your wisdom, and your understanding, to enlarge your love and your joy, or how about your peace. Ask God to enlarge your charisma, your way of thinking and your character. Ask the God of Israel to give you more influence to help others, your family, your church, your city, the nation, the world. Pray that God will reveal to you your place in ministry or that he will elevate you to another level if your already in ministry.

Your prayer should be that God will take the limits off of you! No limits, no boundaries, that you will have a level playing field to achieve all that your heart desires to achieve not for your own selfish reasons, but that God be glorified through your work and influence in the world. “Lord enlarge me”, so that the nations of the world may see your glory in my life. Enlarge me, that I may have influence with people in the business world, politicians, ambassadors, kings and queens.

God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause Your face to shine upon us-That Your way may be known on the earth, Your salvation among all nations.      Psalm 67:1-2

The Lord is always ready to show us something new and fresh. God wants to bless us. The Lord’s promised his people all throughout the word his plan and decree to bless his people. Its Gods plan not just to bless you but to bless you and your generations, your children’s children. This form of commanded blessing is call “posterity”. The blessing from you to your generations! God is waiting and wanting to use us to make Him-self known. And we will be blessed when we allow Him to work through our prayers. Its Gods desire not just to manifest the desires of our hearts by the form of answered prayer, but it’s the purpose of God that he manifests his kingdom and himself in us! God wants to use you to be his manifested glory!

Its Gods desire that every where you go you bring the kingdom of God there. That’s the plan of God. Every place where you go you must understand that your not there just to be there. You are sent to where ever you go to impact the people, places, cities, states, and countries that you enter. God needs you just like you need him. In order for the spirit of God to fulfill his plan here in the earth he by the laws of the earth and natural things needs a body and a man to use.

It’s by us; man, that the plan of God gets carried out. When we begin to operate as the sent gifts that we are this shifts our interpretation and understanding into the apostolic. The Holy Spirit is a gift and a sent spirit once we gain that in our understanding then we know that our God moves and operates apostolically. A sent spirit needs a sent people; which we call ambassadors or representatives of the kingdom of God by their various titles and offices.

God needs you to spread miracles in the earth. He needs you to spread his word and the glorious gospel of his salvation and saving grace in the earth. Our prayers need to reach the degree that we are praying how we can bring the kingdom to nations, to people who don’t know him and have not heard; most definitely what about the people who we see every day that we never tell about him. Signs and wonders should follow your prayers. Signs and wonders are not for the believer but rather for the conversion of the lost. The wonders as the world calls it is the demonstration of God used to win the lost into the kingdom. Showing just how good, merciful and loving our God truly is.

The miracles and revival that the world is crying out to see must come through you! You must build yourself in the area of prayer that where ever you go the miracles of God follow you. Even the ordinary saints as we call them in the scripture were casting out demons and laying hands. Telling family friends and love ones the miracles the Lord preformed in there life. What’s wrong with us?

May we continue to seek the face of the Lord in prayer so that He might be known as Lord and Savior to everyone, everywhere! We have God’s promise that He will give us our request when we pray according to His will. God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause your face to shine upon us-- That your way may be known on the earth, your salvation among all nations.

The Bless Me Prayer:

Holy and miraculous father we come to you today in the name of Jesus asking you to manifest yourself in us. Manifest in our life in fact, in reality, and in truth. Father in heaven, break off of my life any and all limitations. LORD, bless me, keep me and make your face to shine upon me, father be gracious unto me, LORD lift up your countenance upon me and give me peace. Cause men to see the light of you within me. Let the nations behold your hand of blessing in my life. Let me be satisfied with favor, and be filled with blessing.

LORD I command your blessing on my life. Give me the power of your revelation. LORD, give me revelation and let me be blessed. I am the seed of Abraham through Jesus Christ and I receive the blessing of Abraham. LORD, in blessing bless me, and in multiplying multiply me. Father make me as the stars of heaven, and as the sand of the sea shore. Turn ever curse sent my way into a blessing. Cause showers of blessings to be on my life. LORD, let your blessing make me rich and add me no sorrow. LORD, empower me to get wealth. Let all nations and generations declare me blessed. I am the son of the blessed. All my sins are forgiven of me and I am blessed.

LORD, daily load me with your benefits. LORD, bless my latter end, greater than my former. LORD, let me drink from the cup of blessing and let your presence bless my life. LORD, bless me, and cause your face to shine upon me that your way may be known upon the earth, and you’re saving health among all nations. Let my land yield increase and let the ends of the earth fear you. LORD, favor my land. Let me inherit your favor. LORD, be favorable to my land, grant unto me life and favor. Father let your favor be on my life as a cloud of the later rain. LORD, let your blessings rain in my life. Let my latter rain and former rain meet. Father I receive today your extraordinary favor.

Today LORD, break off of me all limitations and restrictions placed on my life by evil spirits in the name of Jesus. Bless me indeed and enlarge my coast, let your hand be with me and keep me from evil. Cast out all my enemies and enlarge my borders. Father enlarge my steps so I can receive your wealth and prosperity. Father I decree that you shall increase me more and more. Let me increase in the knowledge and wisdom of God. LORD, increase my revelation. Let my faith grow exceedingly. Let my giving and tithes increase. Let my latter end greatly increase. LORD, increase the years of my life. With long life shall I be satisfied. I shall live and not die to declare the works of God, to proclaim the expectable year of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In Jesus name,

Amen!

Chapter Eleven:

A Prayer For Hard Times-

The Power of Suffering

Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory He will give us later. - Romans 8:18 (NLT)

Isn’t it funny how when we are going through a hard time and seem to be suffering in the worse season known to our life we find ourselves in state of depression. If we don’t find ourselves depressed we are often stressed, with drawn, moody, and frustrated. Some how or other we find ourselves in one of those conditions I just named. However our suffering becomes the catalyst to bring us into a new glory of which we have never been nor seen. So before we move further let’s take a glance at what it really means to suffer.

Suffer-to under go or feel pain or distress. To sustain injury, disadvantage or loss. To endure pain, disability, death. To tolerate or allow.

I want you to know today that out of all that you have gone through and experience that the majority of the pain you endure in your life is self inflicted pain! Some time we go through things because it’s a season of our life where the lords allowing the suffering to make us. This suffering will develop our character and mold us into the perfect image and that image is his son Jesus. We all are familiar with the blows of pain and suffering. We all know what if feels like to be distressed, depressed, hurt, and disengaged. The interesting fact is that with all this suffering we experience we some how build up a tolerance to suffer. Tolerance in suffering may not be all bad as it may appear to be. What tolerance does would be the room we create in our hearts, minds and spirit that teach us how to cope with suffering.

It’s most factual that suffering is inevitable! You will suffer in life. Life’s not a Forest Gump movie with boxes of sweet chocolates. Within that same movie he quotes: “life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get”. There’s experiences that come in every mans life that no matter who we are and seem to be we find ourselves unready, not prepared, not mentally capable, and spiritually frustrated. Day to day trying to understand the weights of life and the blows that life dishes us.

We build our tolerance for life through the word of God and prayer. The word provides us with the wisdom we need to handle the occurrences. A prayer life and relationship with God creates the room in our hearts and spirits to unload some of our pains and frustrations and allow God to come in and heal us. As the word teaches us “if my people, which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray”. 2 Corinthians 7:4 emphasis mine.

Suffering as we know it is also a humbling experience that happens in people’s life to create a Godly humility and reverence for life and the things of God. Also what it dose is bring us to a selfless state of life where we know that life is indeed more than the “us” or “about us” that we try to make it to be.

One more interesting fact that we need to come to grips with in the area of suffering is that although we build “tolerance” which is life’s way of teaching us how to deal with it. We also neglect to hold true to the truth that as the word is defined we “sustain injury, disadvantage and loss”. To sustain something is to hold to it, support it, keep up, and hold in possession. How ironic is that? The very thing we say is making us ill in our bodies, in our thoughts and spirit it’s really us that continue to hold it! I want you to know that there’s a difference in a season of suffering vs. someone who’s always suffering; or always “going through” as we call it in the church.

Prayer is the place where we need to examine ourselves check the status of your heart. How many injuries are you sustaining? Why are you holding on to them? What has hurt you so bad that you cannot let go? You have a serious problem if you’re in a state where it’s easier to stay in pain then to love and trust God! What I intend to convey to you in saying that is that if we love God then we do what his word teaches and tells us to do! Are you a hearer only; or a doer of the word?

His word teaches us that we are able to do all things because he provides the strength. It also tells us to forget the pass and press toward him, his image, that’s the mark every believer’s goal is to reach. His word also states that we should cast our cares on him because he cares for us! Wait a minute…!!! You mean to tell me that the sufferings I am carrying I can give them over to God? Yes!!!

Stop harboring hurts and past pains in your heart from worthless experiences and some time valid experiences. No matter the level of the experience and the degree of its severity we have a God who’s willing to take them! What’s wrong with us as humans that we desire to carry such pain in us? What a God that we serve who’s willing and well able to take and turn over and around what we are dealing with.

Just give up!

Prayer is the place where we give over to God! Yes, it’s the place where we are broken to the degree where what we have been trying to sustain and keep together we learn that we give that over to God as well as the memory of it. Some times we hold to things and memories that bring us more pain then they do enjoyment.  Unload your troubles in prayer. Just give up! When you let go of what you’re holding on to, then God can let go what he’s holding for you!

Don’t you know that the ways of God are not like ours! His thoughts are not like mine and yours. This is the purpose that we are to pray as well as renew our minds with the word of God! You need word from god daily! In accordance to Matthew 6:11 “give us this day our daily bread”.

A Prayer For Suffering:

Kind Father in Jesus Name, you are the Lord of all life; I lift up my heart to YOU in my suffering, and ask for your comforting help. I know that YOU wouldn’t withhold the thorns of this life; it is the thorns you use for our making. Kind Father, give me wisdom how to manage my life and the trails they bring. Renew the Joy of my life when I feel depleted. Ease my mind when I become overwhelmed in my thinking.

So, I throw myself on your mercy, resigning myself to this suffering. Grant me the grace to bear it and to offer it in union with your sufferings. No matter what suffering may come my way, let me always trust in YOU.  I confidently rest in your grace, your word and your promises. Never the least, not my will be done but let your perfect will be made manifest in my life.

In Jesus name Amen.

Chapter Twelve:

Wash Daily!!!

Wash you, make you clean; put away evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil.” Isaiah 1:16

Prayers the place where we unload daily! The word says that every day the lord loads us with new benefits daily. We can’t operate off of yesterday’s bread, yesterday’s strength. You need a today word for today’s situation. You need strength for your right now season. Your suffering births a humility in you where you realize who you love and who you serve. The water figuratively also represents the word. The word is often called “the water of life”. The water that God gives will cause us to never thirst again!

Are you thirsty?

If you find yourself in a thirsty situation, seems like you’re always in want, always have your hand out. You haven’t been in the word! The word says it’s he that gives us power to get wealth. Wealth simply means abundant living. We find our abundance in the word! Power for living and life are in there. The answers we neglect to believe are true and they are all in the word. When we wash with the word we take off our thinking. The world’s way of thinking and conducting, washing with the word cuts the sin in us. For the word of God teaches us that his word is sharper then any two edge sword. The word will cut you going in and coming out! The words the water that washes out the impurity in us, causes us to walk with new focus and even a right focus when we approach God in prayer.

Don’t just drink the word, but wash with it! Take your life to the next galaxy in God. As you wash you’re dying to the flesh as well as things of the world and becoming who he, God wants you to be.

“Wash you, make you clean; put away evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil.” Isaiah 1:16

“But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash they face.” Matthew 6:17

“And the lord spake unto Moses, saying, thou shalt also make a laver of brass and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not: or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the lord: so they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations”. Exodus 30:17-21

In the Old Testament accounts we see that the Levites, which were the priest of the temple where required by the law of the old testament to wash! This account shows us an actual physical washing that took place before entering the presence of the Lord. What we need to observe is that this is not just a story. This is not just something that happened in the old testament but what the Lords showing us as a people from the old testament till now is, that before we enter the presence of God we must wash our hands, our face and our feet!

A Threefold Washing:

1. Wash your hands

2. Wash your face

3. Wash your feet

This is what I call the tree fold washing. The Old Testament account of washing was to the Levites, the priest of the temple. As leaders it was a requirement to be clean before God in service and in worship. Nothings changed even in today’s world. People change, but our God has not changed. God has not changed his mind about holiness! Holiness is still in order. You must wash your hands, for wherewith the hands are the tools we use to build, to plant, to grow our life. The hands are what we use to the deeds of life whether they become good or bad. For this purpose do we wash our hands. We just may have done something with our hands that’s out of the plan and will of God. Therefore we wash!

There’s a scripture in the word of God which says “what so ever he doeth, shall prosper”. That’s the works of your hands! This is why it’s important that our hands are clean. This is what causes what we do to prosper! When our hands are clean! Clean hands clean life.

We are to wash and anoint our face! Relationship with the Lord is something every man has to develop their best effort to work on. I remember growing up going to school in the morning we of course woke and washed and brushed our teeth but before we left we prayed and anointed our face. As I grew older I can admit those habits went out the window but from my observation in my life when I would go to job interviews, when called out to minister in different conferences and states I could tangibly feel the presence of God on my face after I had anointed myself in the morning. It was the Lord sign to me that he was with me, that he was favoring me.

It’s time to wash your face. When you approach the Lord in prayer take the time to take of your image and put on the image of his son.

“But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not Provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.” Romans 13:14

When you wash your face you take of your image. You lay yourself down and become nothing. You take up the image of Christ. The image of Christ as we know it is a perfect spotless and unblemished image. Christ the perfect man wants you to come through him in prayer so in your approach to God, God sees not you (flesh) but what God sees is Himself! His image! His holiness! The washing of your face and anointing yourself causes God to now see himself in you. Less of you and more of him! Put ye on the Lord Jesus.

God be gracious to us and bless us, and cause Your face to shine upon us-That Your way may be known on the earth, Your salvation among all nations. Psalm 67:1-2

If you can put him on it’s indeed an obvious fact that you can take him off! After being out of the presence of God how ever long the time, there has been some wear and tear on your spirit and on your flesh. Washing and getting in the word refreshes and re-energizes us. When you wash your face and anoint yourself there’s a glory that hits your face. With this glory even the most unattractive person becomes attractive. The glory of God is not about its brightness and its heavenly aura but it’s about who has it! The presence of God needs to be on your countenance. When God gets on your face it’s more then just getting our prayers answered. Its grace and mercy following you, you become marked with a mark of excellence and people observe and see it! As a matter of fact they want it too! There’s people that wonder why you get what you get, how you live like you live. The answer is, I’ve learned how to wash! I’ve learned how to take my image off and put on the image of Christ!

You must wash your feet! Think about some of the places you have been, places you have gone, places that your really don’t speak about or share with others. When you wash your feet you are doing what the word speaks of when it says that the steps of a good man are ordered by the word of God. Your steps are ordered by God when you wash your steps with his word. There are some places that you have been that God wants to change. Then change will never come till we grow in a right standard and understanding of his word. As we grow in our understanding of his word our steps become ordered. That with the provision of God we can carry out the plan and receive the blessings that are ahead of us to inherit.

In the Old Testament the removal of sandals and the washing of one’s feet upon entering a house or a holy place was a token of respect, similar to our custom of taking off the hat when we enter a home, church, or governmental facility.

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.” 1 Samuel 2:9

Washing your feet says to the Lord I respect you enough that in pursuit of your presence I am taking off everything I was and every place I’ve been before this moment. I am putting on holiness that God may not just keep me for a moment but for my life time!

The word teaches us that what we commit to God he will keep. The commitment you need to make to God today in prayer is that you will not go anywhere that will dishonor him or bring shame to the kingdom of God! The true commitment is learning to pray about places where we intend to go even if there common places that we may visit daily such as school, work, and a relative or close friend. Commit your feet to him and watch the Lord order your steps!

Prayer for washing:

Holy and matchless father we pray to you in Jesus name, we bow at the extraordinary excellence of your grace. Your word promises us dear Lord that you would keep the feet of your saints. We call ourselves saints today Lord for our righteousness is not of us but from you. The Excellency that we are covered in and gifted in is not of ourselves but totally of you Lord.

Sovereign father we ask you today to wash the reigns of our heart. Cleans out our hearts from stage to stage, level to level, create in us clean hearts and renew your holy spirit within us. Lord make clean our hands. we repent for anything we may have done out of the will of God with our hands. Most of all our prayer is that we be found innocent and without blame Jesus name.

Father we ask you today to wash our face. Take the sadness and cares of life off of our countenance. Fill us with the glory and joy of the Lord.

God, give us peace in our hearts and minds, peace that surpasses all of our understanding. Cause us to feel the glory of God on our countenance. Make our faces beautiful with salvation. Let the light of holiness be in our faces that men may see the mark of your beauty in us.

Kind father, order our steps with direction from heaven. Show us you’re more excellent and perfected way. Light the path of our feet through your word. Make us to walk upon the high places through the power of your word. Cause men and women to lay and heap up blessings at our feet.

Cause men to sit at our feet to hear our testimony. Cause men to sit at our feet to be taught of the things of God. Cause us to fall as dead in your presence in reverence to your power and glory. Slay us through the demonstration of your weight and power.

We say thank you today Lord for cleansing us. We say thank you to day Lord for your purifying power. We say thank you today Lord for the power of your blood. Thank you for making us clean in you and allowing us to live in your manifested glory.

In Jesus name,

Amen.

Promises of God on feet:

“He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail.” 1 Samuel 2:9

“He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and sitteth upon my high places”. 2 Samuel 22:34

“Having lands, sold it, and brought the money, and brought the money,and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” Acts 4:37

“And when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last.” Revelation 1:17

Chapter Thirteen:

A Prayer From A Cave-

You’re coming out!

“I cried unto the Lord with my voice; with my voice unto the Lord did I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee; O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. Attend unto my fry: for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors: for they are stronger than I. Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.” Psalm 142

Have you ever been to a place in your life when you approached the Lord in prayer you wept and cried so much where it seems like you had no power left to weep? I must admit that I’ve been there myself. Have you ever been hurting so bad that the pain your carrying seems to wail with cries that no one around you or near your seem to hear? I’ve been there. This cry that I am speaking of is the silence of depression and isolation. The spirit of Lo-debar, Lo-debar is the place of isolation, no communication, no growth, no life, and no pasture.

The ironic thing about being in isolation is that it’s not always because the creator is punishing us for some wrong that we have done. In fact, I personally believe that seasons of isolation is necessary to regroup, revive and reprogram ourselves to authentically live out our calling and purpose. Isolation brings about revelation. When you are in a place of isolation it’s just you and the creator. Isolation allows you to evaluate where you are in your life and then take action with the plan the creator gives you without hindrance or distraction.

“And the king said unto him, Where is he? And Ziba said unto the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.” 2 Samuel 9:4

“Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel, from Lodebar.” 2 Samuel 9:5

Then there are those of us who have done nothing to end up in the state that we were in. There are those of us who have depended on others in at different stages of life as Saul’s grandson had to and ended up lame. The boy’s lameness came upon him when tidings of Saul’s death and his father’s death had reached the palace. In haste his nurse was fleeing their home and dropped the boy in her ambitious attempt to escape and assure they remain alive. While she succeeded in saving the boys life, she failed in the moment of trouble and he was damaged now for life.

Can you imagine the mindset that this boy now had to adjust to? Can you imagine growing into adulthood wondering what would like be like if I could just walk? There are plenty of people in the world today that have been dropped at some point in their lives. Maybe it’s a mother or father who walked out on you, maybe a relative you were close to died suddenly on you or without warning. Maybe you were one who put too much trust and confidence into your surrounding friendships and relationships and those things left you empty and void. Or could it just be the fact that the people you decided to trust where not always worthy of your trust and honor.

Let’s take a closer look and go a few steps further, how about being drop sexually? Yeah, trusting people with your body thinking they will love you back. I am sure someone reading this book has been there. How about the people, who should have protected you, like family members let your predators come in and you ended up being a victim of molestation, rape or abuse. These are some of the lame people that I am talking about, people who are trying to get up from a place in life that has devastated them and left them broken. People who may or may not have deserved what they had coming to them. When I began doing counseling I spoke with both victims and abusers and found that most abusers were just repeating the behavior they learned at some point in life because someone wrong them. They were never able to process “their story” and found that the only suitable way for them to manage it would be to do it to someone else.

The list goes on and on with what happens when you feel isolated, depressed, when you feel like life has singled you out. As a matter of fact when you’re going through trails you feel so unique, as if no one else on earth has the same problem your facing. You build up walls and build up frustrations and tons of emotions that are not always good and you end up emotionally drained and start withdrawing from things. You being to withdraw from life and loose the passion you once had for your work, living, love life, marriage, family, ministry and etc.

I want you to know that depression is a dark cave. There are times when we go through things in life loose things, get afflicted by people, circumstances and some of the pain and trials we experience are inevitable, meaning there will be common trails and loss in our life, pain and death that we will experience but we can ball yourself up in a corner and stop living as a matter of fact at the point of your pain is when you will discover that’s when you start living the most. That’s when you discover the strength, the joy, the creativity, the ideas, the passion and the love that you have come to appreciate. If you find that you have lost that in family, relationships, people, ministry, marriage it’s all the more a case for prayer and putting yourself on the altar to empty yourself out and start finding your true purpose again.

I want you to know today that you are coming out! Out of every situation that has overwhelm you. All you have to do is apply faith and the word of God to your situation and meditate on it and the promise of God found in his word says that if you do these things you will have good success! (Joshua 1:8)

A Prayer From A Cave:

Kind Father in Jesus name, I come to you praying from a dark place. Not knowing everything, not having all the answers, not understanding everything that is before me and that has befallen me.

Father I ask you today to renew my joy, my passion and my strength, raise me up with new might that I may fulfill what you are calling for me to do in this very day and hour. I put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. I cast all my cares upon you for you care.

Father today I forgive any man, woman, boy or girl who has ever done anything to offend or hurt me. The people who have dropped me in my life I release them and forgive them.

Father please forgive me for the areas where I have dropped myself and let myself go.

Father today release your angles to minister to me to bring times of refreshing that only come from your presence.

Father I desire a new oil to burn within me today as I shake off my yesterday and embrace today and every day with new mercies. I thank you for your love and compassion toward me, thank you for uplifting me and completing me in Jesus name.

Amen.

From The Authors Desk:

I am in awe of God to entrust me and assign me to write about his word, share with the world revelations that he has given me regarding prayer and intimacy with him. Through many of my personal struggles in my life it has been prayer that has been the back bone of how I made it through which is why it is so important for me to share my revelations and stories with you. This is the first book I have ever written on prayer and most people will not believe how young I am when they are reading it. I am only 18 years old. I have been praying and fasting much of my known life and I thank God for developing the discipline of prayer in my life. Over the years I have taken my sermons and messages God has given me and placed together what I would like to call a school of prayer or Prayerology.

Today I am sharing my message with the world how God has inspired me and impacted me in prayer. Please share this book with others you may know who needs to be both uplifted, encouraged and strengthened to become better at the art of prayer and divine communication with God. I pray The Purpose Driven Prayer Life has blessed you and will continue to bless you as you grow closer with Christ.

Michael McCain-

Other Books By The Author:

1.        The Purpose Driven Prayer Life:

2.       Prayerology V.1- The School of Prayer

3.       Faith Walkers- Co Authored

4.      Called To Affluence

5.       The Transfer

Table of Contents

Copyright

Dedication

The Purpose of This Book

Foreword

Chapter One: What Is The Purpose of Prayer?

Chapter Two: What Is Intimacy?

Chapter Three: The Disciples' Prayer

Chapter Four: Real Prayer

Chapter Five: Effective Prayer

Chapter Six: The Purpose Driven Prayer Life

Chapter Seven: Gethsemane Prayer

Chapter Eight: The Priority of Prayer

Chapter Nine: The Purpose Driven Prayer Life Part 2

Chapter Ten: The Prayer of Jabez

Chapter Eleven: A Prayer For Hard Times

Chapter Twelve: Wash Daily!!!

Chapter Thirteen: A Prayer From A Cave

A Prayer From A Cave

From The Authors Desk

Other Books By The Author: