Prayerology- The School Of Prayer

Prayerology TM.

The School Of Prayer

By: Dr. Michael McCain

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Contents

Dedication

Warning

Prayer

Why I Wrote This Book

One: What Is Prayer?

Two: What is Prayerology?

Three: Make Your Request Known

Four: When Leaders Pray

Five: A Time to Hear

Six: Tarring

Seven: Praying In Jesus Name

Eight: Final Thoughts

About The Author

Dedication

I would first like to say thank you to every person that made Prayerology a success in my life. Over the years it has been a blessing to do our annual prayer conference. It is because of people dedicated to supporting spiritual enrichment that I was able to write and share this book with the world.

I dedicate this book to my loving mother, Mary McCain-Moorer and my father George M. Moorer. To my wonderful church family, Kingdom Builders Assembly International Inc. and also my son and daughter churches within The Full Gospel Apostolic Assemblies International Inc. my staff at Kingdom Builders.

My spiritual father and mentor Apostle and mother Gary L. Chance of Queens NYC.

Apostle Walter E. Holmes, Apostle Baize & Pastor Denise Baize, Mother Eva B. Tyler, Prophetess Wanda Howell, Pastor Michael O. Scott and the Spring Forth Ministry church family, Pastor Gwen Dingle and the Pentecostal House of prayer church family. Special and heartfelt thanks to Pastor Maggie Smallwood-Powell and family and so many more…

I would like to personally say thank you for all your days of tireless support and help.

All of your mentoring and prayers, Thank you for the push into destiny!!!

!!!Warning!!!

You must pray before reading this book!

The revelation power found in this book will illuminate your thinking on the lifestyle of prayer and you will need a prayer covering from attacks that may come to prevent you from taking in this knowledge. Satan does not want your prayer life to advance so if you have this book in your hand now is the time to take prayer more seriously!!!

Are you ready for a greater prayer life?

Are you ready to change lives in prayer?

Are you ready to move mountains with prayer?

Then you have the right book in your hands!

Prayer

Kind father in Jesus name, it is my prayer that every person that reads this book is covered under the blood in Jesus name. Also, thank you for the salvation and conversion of unbelievers that will read this revelation of will prayer that you have given me. Father in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ I pray that you forgive both me and the reader of every sin that we have ever committed, known and un-known in Jesus name. Thank you for the power of your forgiveness and taking my sin to remember it no more…

Father in Jesus name; we loose the spirit of revelation and breakthrough in the lives of the readers who shall share the revealed word in this book. We break fetters and chains of bondage off the minds, hearts, emotions and habits of the readers in Jesus name!

We loose righteousness, peace, joy and the power of the Holy Ghost to fulfill his good work and pleasure in all of us.

Father I also thank you for “Transformation” and not change! Anything that we change in ourselves can convert back to it old state, but I pray and decree Lord that you would transform us so much so that our old state of being will no longer exist, but by your power and liberty we will exist in the newness that you have transformed us to be.

Behold, I am new!

What was a hindrance to my walk and prayer life with you before today no longer exists! I am now walking with a fresh start…

It’s a new season and a new day!

Thank you for the grace to approach your throne boldly.

I claim all things to be done in the matchless name of Jesus!

Amen!

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)

Why I Wrote This Book

In my early years of ministry I spent allot of time teaching on prayer, prophetic intercession and corporate prayer. I am not sure if it was starting a church in my late teens that made me pray so much or the fact that I just needed the strength that I gleaned from the presence of God. Year after year our church would hold an annual prayer conference and ministers, pastors, teachers and evangelist would come from all over the country to participate. Our prayerology conference as it is presently known started off as our annual P.O.P conference (power of prayer).

After about 5 years of hosting our prayer conference not only did I and my church grow stronger in the art of strategic warfare, prayer and fasting, but we started to grow a deeper knowledge about our relationship with God and how to communicate with our creator.

I can remember coming out of my office one Friday night during the conference and one of the ministers said to me after being a member of the church for 3 years, said, “Pastor, after all of this prayer and studying the art of prayer we are going to become Prayerologist TM” I laughed when I heard him say that as it had crossed my mind countless times. I had never heard of anyone referring to prayer as “Prayerology”.

In our 5 year we changed the name of the conference from the Power of Prayer conference which was held twice a year.  We changed the name to Prayerology Conference. With the new name started to spark an attraction with local churches and leaders until it began to spread abroad and people started attending from all over. I had never experienced church like this, prayer like this, the anointing like this. Most of all I had never seen the saint come together and pray the way people were praying together.

As I sat down one year I said to myself, after all this studying with prayer and all the sermons and teachings I’ve done year after year it’s time to put something together in writing in a book format.  The first edition of “Prayerology” went into print Dec. 2006 and was made available to attendees of the conference annually. While writing the book I can admit that it was an experience! I experienced every page of what was written in and out of the pulpit, in the corporate and private prayer time God had worked wonders in my life. My mandate was to put this work together to share with the world to strengthen people in the area of prayer and spiritual warfare. I am praying that my divine purpose will be met and fulfilled as each reader takes on his and her personal journey into developing a closer walk with God in studying the art of prayer we now know as “Prayerology”TM.

Chapter One:

What is prayer?

Before we can be privileged enough to dive into the revelation of prayerology, we must first get an understanding of what prayer is and how it can be defined. Prayer defined: talking and listening to God, intimate fellowship with God (I Kings 8:28; Matt. 21:22) a call for faith and right relationship with God (Psalm 66:8; James 5:16). May include praising, thanks giving, adoration, confessing, asking, prophetic intercession, (praying the mind of God), interceding (praying for someone else), and receiving.

Now that we have defined prayer, most of us can honestly say at this point we have not mastered prayer or its attributes. Prayer is not just a few minutes of our day where we are allowed into the presence of God to ramble in utterance our concerns, but the true lifestyle of a praying individual approaches God with his concern, and out of relationship with God, waits for his reply and answer. There is a place in prayer that after we have poured our hearts out at his feet he will also begin to speak back to us. We must take more time to listen!

Are you listening for answers?

Prayer is not optional! Prayer is a must for every human being to express relationship with a divine creator, God and king.  The heart of prayer and a prayer relationship with God is centered in communion with God, unity, love and purpose. Notice how communion has another powerful word in it which is “union.” Prayer is the place where we come into the union of God… that’s the place where man forfeits his thoughts and take on the mind of Christ.

Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Philippians 2:5a

But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof. Romans 13:14

Prayer is the place where I as a human unload all my mindsets and systems of thinking, forfeiting them and making them void and powerless to take on the understanding of Christ. May I ask you what mindsets do you currently hold on to that you are not willing to let go of so Christ can be found in your consciousness in prayer?

Prayer opens you to take in the mind of Christ, that’s what prayer was designed and purposed to do. Prayer is Gods vehicle to download answers into man.

Prayer is the state of consciousness where God speaks to man filling him with his thoughts and what man calls his will.

Do what you hear!

The mind of Christ as we know it is more than just holy and righteous thinking... It’s bringing man from a state of thinking to a state of being and doing the will of God. For to know the will of God is also to do the will of God! God wants us not just to know his will but to do it! “Be ye not just hearers only, but doers of the word!!!” Don’t just hear the answer to your prayer or receive a solution but become the active and living word made manifest by fulfilling the mind of Christ on the earth… make what God is saying in heaven happen here on the earth! Go do what you hear!

In order for you to let this mind be in you, which is the mind of Christ, you must put His mind in you! How do you put Christ’s mind in you, you might ask? By doing something so simple that most people neglect to do on a daily basis…

There are five powerful steps in taking on the mind of Christ.

1. Read Gods word

2. Study Gods word

3. Meditate on God’s word

4. Talk about Gods word

5. Pray Gods word.

Reading Gods word, studying Gods word, meditating on His word, talking about His word in my conversation with others, and praying His word is how I apply the principle of the mind of Christ. To know his word is also to know His mind. What’s on Gods mind is in His word! Some passages are clear to our understanding and others require us to pray, fast and seek out revelation and understanding. No matter what state we find ourselves in, it’s this seek of God that causes us to thirst for the answers to life and our needs. Then now our needs are no longer of our own selfish and vain petitions, but are validly the concerns of God now being expressed out of us.

Prayer also brings us as believers to accountability in our faith…

We can ask for things from God, but, if we don’t do the words behind our asking, it’s all dead!  Everyday believers are in a place in prayer where they want the answers from A-Z in prayer.  It doesn’t work like that! When God speaks His promises into our lives, we must make the first step of action on His word.  Whatever we are praying to Him for He’s going to favor and empower us to do it, but we must take that leap of faith.  God is not coming off the throne to record your CD, write your books, design your clothes, write your songs and poetry, or cook in your restaurant.  We have to get up and do it! Prayer establishes “now faith” within the believer.  Once I have submitted my request I wait for his reply and take action looking for my answer.

What do I do while I am waiting?

While you are in the position of waiting for God to answer your faith request, or what others call a prayer request, we must get into a place of “Thanksgiving”…

Thanksgiving is the place in prayer where we show God our gratitude for the blessing and the things He’s already given us and have already brought to pass…

Thanksgiving is not just a part of our worship within the four walls of the church, but is a place that we reach within our hearts and everyday life in prayer….

When Was The Last Time You Thanked Him?

After we have thanked Him, our next step in prayer is to give Him adoration…To adore God for all He’s done. To exalt Him or extol Him for whom He is, and not just what He gives us!  Adoration brings us to the place where we esteem God in prayer and show Him our humility, honor, thoughtfulness, esteemed love, and reverent homage.  We also take the time to bask in His presence and admire the deeds that He’s worked out on our behalf.

This is a powerful position in prayer.  This place in prayer sounds much like praise but our praise also represents out joyful expressions, tears, and wails that we cannot express with words.

Do You Admire God’s Answers to Your Prayers?

Take some time out in prayer to admire the work of God in your life.  Take time to see how “mindful” God is with you as He works out every detail of our prayer and provides us with the best Blessings, or answers to our prayers.

The Lord has been mindful of us: He will bless us. Psalm 115:12A

What is mindful?  Mindful means that the Lord has been “Attentive and Aware”… When we begin to pray effectively we will start understanding that God’s been there waiting all the time!  He is a God that is “MINDFUL” of His people.  This is why His word teaches us that He knows the things we have need of before we even ask Him.  God is already thinking about what you need before the though can be cultivated or received in your mind.  Can I let you know today that it’s already on God’s mind to bless you...

God Is Mindful Of Us!

It’s already on God’s mind to save you and your families, work a financial miracle, heal your body, make you a millionaire, and bring your creative abilities to the forefront.  Well you may be scratching your head at this point wondering how does God know what I need?  God is an all knowing God, in His word He’s called “omniscient” meaning God is infinite in his knowledge, an all wise, and all knowing God.  Christ is the key who opens all the hidden treasures of God’s wisdom and knowledge (Colossians 2:2-3).

We can see our treasures opened when we get in a prayer relationship with God.  There are gifts inside of us and hidden in treasures that we may never know is there unless we talk to the manufacturer to know what the product contains.

Every gift or product that’s made comes with a list of instructions for using the product.  We can find God’s answers to our treasure in two places, in His word and in prayer.

Mindfulness also reminds us of “Thankfulness” and our position of thanking God in our prayers.  Mindfulness in prayer shows God that we pray with precision and detail.  When we become full of the knowledge of what we are asking God for it will help us better describe the detail to God of what we are asking Him to do.

Are Your Prayers “Mindful”?

When we pray mindful, we reach the measure in the word of the thing, or things we are asking God to grant us.  When we are praying God’s word we need more than two scriptures for financial breakthrough, or to heal our bodies of disease, or to fix our family of long term generational curses. When we pray mindful we are praying “mind filled”… Our minds being filled with thanks giving to God, admiration, honor, praise, glory, repentance, and faith. Praying mind filled causes the believer to pray full of God’s word, which is his will.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matthew 7:2

I want to take this time and talk with you about the measure of God’s word in you. Mete defined is to distribute or apportion by measure; it is a limiting mark or limiting boundary.  I want to ask you have you met, or did you mete the mark of what you are asking God for in prayer?  We need to get to a place in prayer that we are meeting God at His word and learning the answers to our concerns in prayer.  Let’s take more time learning in the word what we are asking for before we ask. Let’s also take the time to look up the scriptures that reveal the spirit and nature of the thing we are asking him for. When we master the scripture on the things we are believing for it strengthens our faith to then take hold of the thing. You must first fill your mind and spirit with the nature of the thing you’re asking God for! You have to envision it, hear it, see it, and smell it! Use your five natural senses to touch in the spirit what is rightfully yours. After we have found the place or the thing we need from God in his word we then take those principles and practice them or pray them in our prayer time with God.

Check Your Meter!

Just like we turn the temperature up in our home with a thermostat we need to turn the volume of our faith higher! Turn up the heat in our prayer walk and life before God. Where does your faith stand with God? Are you prayers hope filled or faith filled?

For to pray out of hope is to say that “God might not do it” but to pray faith filled is to pray in the spirit violently. Knowing that what we have asked for we have the right to receive! You have rights in the spirit!!! It’s the plan of the enemy to keep believers feeling like they don’t understand Gods word. Its also the enemies plan to keep believers feeling like the mistakes they have made in life are so great that God cannot forgive or remove them from us. We then spend years praying over and repenting over things God has moved from our accounts.

The Berean Anointing

It’s powerful when I am given a “Berean (beroa) anointing”.

The Berean anointing is a powerful anointing that was on a specific church found in the book of acts. The Bereans where bible reading, God fearing believers. The More we read and learn about God in his word the more we fearfully, respectfully serve him. As we study Gods word it brings us to a place of understanding in him, the blueprint for our walk, talk and faith.

“These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received in the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, weather those things were so.” Acts17:11

This Berean anointing that I am speaking of empowered this church not just to hear great preaching but to go home and search the answers for themselves!  Can you just imagine in your mind a church that hears the pastor preach on Sunday and then goes home and compares the word for their trial, situation or circumstances, and also searches the word for themselves to see if these things are correct?  Almost hard to imagine right?

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:22

When we come to church we come to be empowered by the word to go back out and change something in out world!  Being a doer of the word makes us known by the fruits we hear after the word is planted in us, or preached to us.  When we are a hearer only, the word is in us but has no power to work, therefore, the word withers away.  How many promises of God are just laid up within our memory but never but never activated when we pray?  The challenge is moving God’s word from just being logged in our memory to being planted in our hearts.  This principal is the key that prevents Satan from coming in our lives and stealing our word or our treasure.

Hide God’s Word in Your Heart, Not in Your Mind!

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Psalm 119:11

Are we going to continue to leave the power of the word in us un-employed? We have to employ the promises of God that we hide in our hearts. It’s far beyond memorizing scripture; when we memorize it; it’s only in our brains and not in our hearts when we pray….

Word + Prayer = Breakthrough

This is the place that God desires His children and His believers to be in. That we no longer come to church and become emotionally empowered, but that we become both spiritually and naturally empowered and motivated to go home and look for our answers in His word.  After looking and finding them learning how to pray His word concerning our problem.WOW!!

It really makes you think now, what has been wrong with my prayer life all these years?! We have been missing the mark and God given principles to shaking the heavens in prayers.  This does not take away from what we have learned from the old days, but it combines the old revelation and the new to thrust the church forward in new revelation and power!

When we apply the Berean anointing to our prayer lives it empowers us with the knowledge of His word in the specific area that we are believing God for breakthrough in. When we read and study His word, it allows God to come in and work on the grounds of our hearts.  When we give God this place in our lives “the grounds of our heart” He can then work on our desires, motives, lust and wills, which are all components that shape the way we pray.

And Jesus answered him, saying, it is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, but every word of God.

Luke 4:4

Give us this day, our daily bread. Matthew 6:11

When we read in the scriptures Jesus often spoke back to Satan stating one particular phrase “it is written”…Man shall not live by natural bread, or food alone, but by the bread of heaven (the word) that proceeds out of my mouth. In our prayer life when things seem to trouble us or overwhelm us when we cannot start walking in fear or worry that’s the time to take Satan to the place where “it is written”…

From there, start naming the promises of God over you trial and situation.

Scripture Promises for Studying Gods Word:

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. II Timothy 2:1

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. Matthew 7:2

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Acts 17:11

And Jesus answered him saying, it is written, that man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

Luke 4:4

Give us this day, our daily bread. Matthew 6:11

But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James 1:22

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Psalm 119:11

Chapter Two:

What is Prayerology?

Prayerology is defined: The study of prayer, the doctrine of prayer and praying to God. Prayerology is mastering the keys to the art of strategic warfare, intercession and prayer. It teaches the attributes and lifestyle of a Prayerologist T.M. It introduces sound biblical doctrine pertaining to a prayer relationship with God.

What is a Prayerologist?

Prayerologist T.M. is defined: Someone who studies and lives the life of prayer, a practitioner of the principles of prayer that are outlined by God’s word. A Prayerologist is an individual who picks up the assignment of prayer.  Someone whose day to day life and corresponding events all start and end with prayer.  Just as everything starts and ends with God, so does prayer, scripture teaches us this Revelation 22:13

I almost want to begin calling prayerology the life study of prayer. It literally takes a life time to build a strong life style of prayer. That’s one of the reasons I’ve wrote this book and it’s in your hands. My vision and as prayer mentor is to cut the distance that it takes to achieve a sound prayer life that yields the fruits of results.

“I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.”

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:2

Jesus is the author and finisher of our faith, meaning he’s the writer of the script! Not only is Jesus the writer of the script, but he’s our “genesis”…. Our beginning, our starting place, our road map, our plan, our instructions; and if Jesus is all of this to us, how can we live our lives without him? How can we pray without him?  My start, my middle, and my end are all wrapped up in him! Give Jesus the honor that’s due to him. Allow him to show you the way to tread out before. Remember that the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord. Its Gods desire to order your steps!

MY START:

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee. Jeremiah 1:5A

The real proof that God has been mindful of us is the fact that he took time to know us before he created us! The word teaches us that “the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord!” I want to tell you to day that as you go in prayer I want you to repent if you ever felt like you” just happened”… as is God didn’t know what he was doing when he made you!

And God said; Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Genesis 1:26A

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he them. Genesis 1:27 Emphasis Mine

God, from the beginning created you to look like him, talk like him, think like him. With that being said man has been created with the unique ability to create like his “daddy”…

You have power in you beyond what you may credit to yourself and actually believe. With your mouth you frame, create and make your world. Isn’t that what we observe that God did in genesis? Before man ever took form he uniquely thought about our craft and design. Mans the only thing that God did not create from his mouth! Everything that God made he spoke it into existence, but what happens with man is that God fashions him and creates him out of the dust!

A Miracle in the Dirt!

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

The interesting fact that we face at this moment is that man was made from the dust of the earth. God prepared everything we needed and placed it in and on the Earth. Everything that mankind has ever manufactured has come from things in or on the earth. The earth is full of things created by God that man uses to frame the world he desires to create.

Our body was formed out of the dirt of the ground. It is a scientific fact that our body contains substances and elements that come from the earth. The plants, vegetables and fruits we eat derive their nutrients from the earth and then we in turn eat them to receive our vitamins and nutrients. There are certain trace elements that our bodies need which also come from the earth. The animals receive their nutrients from the plants of the earth and we in turn eat them and receive nutrients. This is a part of a life cycle that keeps man’s body both energized, healthy and strong.

Even though mankind has advanced scientifically there is still very much that we do not know about our Earth and our body. And, the knowledge that we have obtained did not come from ourselves. That knowledge ultimately came from God.

In the second chapter of Genesis it talks about how God created man. "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being, a living soul." Emphasis mine

You are a literal walking miracle…

If you have never looked at yourself as being one, please note today that you are one! When God fashioned and created you he did it with great detail. Knowing his hearts intent for what he had planned to invest into us. The breath of life is in you. The breath of God and that breath of God we need to use in prayer! Yes… use it in prayer to turn lives around, cities and states upside down! You have power in your mouth and creativity to

Nothing Just Happens!

         You were made for Gods glory and honor!

         You are not an accident!

         God has a purpose and plan for your life!!!

The more we seek God in prayer and develop relationship with him then he can then unfold and reveal his plan for our life… I want you to know that no matter how you came to this earth plane, God already purposed it! No matter who and what your parents are and who your family may be. You may feel inadequate at times due to limits that surround you... it’s interesting to note to you that the limits are surrounding you and not in you! The word of God declares that “greater is he that is in you the he that is in the world!”

There’s greatness in you! God planned you, you or someone you know might have been the product of a one night stand, a rape, they may have come through a drunken parent or drug addict; no matter what way you came here and by whom God had a plan for it all. Some of us are born into greatness because our suffering was great from birth! Gifted people have the ability to do things that others who seem to work less don’t have the ability to do…  I am trying to tell you today that God already knows you!

Too much information premature will kill you!

Sometimes as humans we are often led under the impression that God needs to reveal his total plan for our life before we follow through with our “Yes Lord”…

And that’s so far from the truth. Too much information prematurely will kill a person! You gain knowledge of God’s word and plan slowly… nothing comes in an instant. It takes time to birth out a real plan of God. If we follow his order and his leading, we will find ourselves at the place called “destiny”!!!

At some point we need to conclude in our hearts and minds that our start is in God!

We might have felt like our start happened when our parents made us or when we were born in the various places we were born, but the truth stands sure today that your start is in God. So now that we have come full circle in our understanding, we should also know that we need to pick up our start in God through prayer! There’s direction and order every men and women need in their lives and who better to give them than the man himself who thought of me before I was made manifest!

MY MIDDLE:

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. Isaiah 55:8

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. Romans 12:2

Part of renewing our minds is making sure the world we live in is not part of our decision making process.  That the influences of the world have no infiltrated our thinking and operation on the earth. We are in the world but not of the world as the word says. What other people do is not what believers do. God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, neither are our ways his ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways higher than our ways and his thoughts than our thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8-9)

And bringing into captivity Every Thought to the obedience of Christ.

2 Corinthians Emphasis Mine.

For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. Galatians 6:3

Man should never exalt his way of thinking above God. A man should also never make himself to be more then what he is… or something that he’s not. Deceptions come from the thoughts we won’t submit to God. You may have ideas that are valid. Meaning to the everyday person they are legally right to pursue, but that still doesn’t grant us access to do it. We must reverence God in such a way in our prayer life that we realize our thought life needs to be brought under subjection to him.

Since our thoughts are not like the lords, prayer becomes that place where I unload my human thinking, fleshly thinking, commune with God and develop a right mind for my situation. Allowing God the place in my mental capacity to correct errors in my thinking and give him the place that the devil or the enemy seemly has been trying to fill.

MY END:

Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase. Job 8:7

Now that I have recognized Jesus as my beginning and end, I can now understand what Alpha and Omega really means.  My first understanding should be that it’s not just another name for Jesus, it’s description is not just first and last, or beginning and end, but it is also understood and defined that Jesus Christ is both first and last in time and importance!  There’s nothing that I can put before him or in front of him.  Moses understood this perfectly when God gave Israel the commandments saying”

Thou shalt have no other god’s before me. Exodus 20:3

When God gave Israel that great commandment, what he was showing and teaching them was, “You can’t make it without me!”

Often times, we put other things in the forefront of God, such as our homes, cars, families, and spouses, just to name a few; when our objective should be aligning desires, motives, and lusts with the will and purpose of God.

A Prayerologist is not exclusive to only consisting of clergy men and women, but Prayerologist are made of everyday people like you and I.  You don’t have to be an Apostle to pray, you don’t have to be a teacher in the Lord’s church, nor a pastor, prophet, or evangelist.  All you have to be is a child of God!  It’s high time that the body of Christ begins to position itself and get in the posture of being God’s representative in the earth!

We the children of God need to begin understanding the power of a prayer relationship with God.  Once we come to a liberated understanding of our position and God-given rights we will never again allow distractions or what I personally like to call illusions to keep us form out prayer relationship with God.

Why is it so important to study prayer?

Prayer is man’s lifeline and direct access to God!  Why wouldn’t we want to perfect our connection to reach such a sovereign and divine creator?  Man takes time to perfect everything that pertains to his interest.  Man also takes the time to make improvements to his/her love life with a spouse, or relationships with friends and loved ones.

So where then is our love and focus for our lives in prayer?  Something that is so powerful!!!  We have the ability in prayer to change lives, save souls, heal sick bodies, raise the dead, change continents, and last but not least bind geographical and cosmic hindrances.  What a powerful and tremendous responsibility; and guess what? You can handle it!

Taking the time to understand the power of prayer and its responsibilities also brings us to the place of life changing miracles and blessings. Not only will it bring us the “unmerited favor” of God and it’s blessings, but its having the power and ability to know that when we utter a prayer that we are not praying amiss… Praying amiss is like passing gas in God’s face!

When we pray we want to hit the bulls eye in the spirit. We want to have the God-given confidence that when we have prayed that the Lord has heard and honored what we have asked Him.  We also want the confidence and the faith to know that he has heard us!  A few of the reasons that our prayers go unheard or unanswered is because we do the following:

1.      Ask amiss

2.     Have wrong motives/desires

3.     Have un-forgiveness in our hearts

4.    Have un-confessed sin

5.     We are harboring secret pleasures in our hearts

6.     Are asking for things out of His purpose, plan, and/or will

7.     Living out of the will of God- our life style contradicts the word of God and his divine plan for us.

Last but not least, what we ask for doesn’t compliment Him (GOD) or His Kingdom!

Take some time to think on the hindrances to prayer that are spoken of above.

Taking the time to meditate on those things with a spirit of repentance will radically change the way we pray and how we approach God in prayer!

So what does it really mean to pray amiss? Amiss is defined: out of the right or proper course, order, condition.  It also means to speak wrongly or improper.  This teaches us that there is indeed a way to approach God in prayer to be heard!  This brings us to the purpose and revelation power revealed in this book.  A Prayerologist is not a novice or beginner in the life of prayer but applies the necessary principles and applications to his/her lifestyle of answered prayer.  When approaching God in prayer we must “come clean, or stay away dirty!”

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I John 1:9

Repentance + Confession = Forgiveness

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Isaiah 55:7

This simply means that we first enter into prayer by asking of forgiveness of all sin and debts we owe God and others.  Repentance is a powerful force in prayer that gets God’s attention when it’s applied with a sincere heart and not as gimmick to get a blessing or manifest some heavenly miracle that could not be produced by human strength.  Repentance in prayer means to come clean with God!  Confess to Him our faults and flaws.  Repentance in prayer also means to turn away from sin.  When you make that turn, you’re on a new path and headed in a new direction!  How can we understand that plan and direction if we don’t stay in prayer and in relationship with God?

Real relationship with God in prayer becomes more real as we grow older and in relationship with God through prayer.  Our introductions to God through whatever faith based organization we profess has nothing to do with whether out prayers are heard or not!  God does not answer prayer because we are Apostolic, Pentecostal, Catholic, or Baptist.  God answers prayer based on His word, relationship, and the principles of His word.  This is not the type of prayer life that your mom, dad, or grandparents may have experienced!

Praying in these days requires power!  Each decade and dispensation experiences another level of revelation and knowledge of God’s word and power of prayer or any other topic that God may be dealing with His people about.  It’s time to return to the Lord in prayer with our whole hearts and not religious prayers, or praying repetitiously, but out of His word and out of things that concern God.  In prayer it should be what concerns God…

In these days there are too many distractions to prayer, so many things that consume out time and take our focus away from our relationship with him.  So with very little prayer we do, what are we affecting?  The average Christian spends less than 10 minutes in prayer.  Do we have 10 minutes worth of problems, 10 minutes worth of bills, and 10 minutes worth of heartaches?  So do we think that 10 minutes will affect our world and change our lives with the same expectancy we pray with?  This is why it is powerful to walk in the principles of prayer and become guided by his word in our approach and what we ask for.

As we bring this chapter to a close; let’s look at some powerful scriptures on forgiveness that will change our prayer walk.  We should meditate on “these things” as Philippians the fourth chapter states.

The Power of Forgiveness in Prayer and Scripture Promises:

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. Psalm 66:18

Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

James 5:16

As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us. Psalm 103:12

To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. Ephesians 1:6-7

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah. Psalm 85:2

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold; all things are become new. 2 Corinthians 5:17

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.

I John 2:1

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I John 1:9

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

Hebrews 8:12

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isaiah 55:7

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, it any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. Colossians 3:13

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any; that your Father also whish is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. Mark 11:25

And you, being dead in your sins and the un-circumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses. Colossians 2:13

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. Jeremiah 33:8

come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sin be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah 1:18

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Psalm 32:1-2

Chapter Three:

Make your request known

So far in the pages we have covered we’ve spoken of some powerful components in prayer.  We have covered admiration, thanksgiving, and repentance.  Now I would like to talk about everyone’s favorite part of prayer: and that’s asking.  Just for a moment I want you to picture in your mind a little boy or girl approaching their parents; whether mom or dad, to make a request for an item or things that they enjoy or want.  The number one thing that you will notice about a child in their approach to their parents is that they are not intimidated or afraid.  As a matter of fact, they don’t care how many other siblings or relatives are trying to get the same thing, they are persistent concerning their own answer!  No matter how many times they have heard in the past “NO” or “NOT YET”, within their spirit still lays a confidence that with every approach and petition, they are closer to their answer than ever before.

Same approach every believer needs to take on in coming to God in prayer!  His word tells us that we are to come to Him as humble as little children.  This basically means we have to get to a place humbling ourselves past our lust, motives, and desires and realize who we are approaching in prayer.

HOW DO YOU APPROACH DADDY?

I am not sure what you refer to God as but I personally call him “daddy” and “Father”, just as a natural child would call their father.  This is not too far off from that the children of Israel referred to God as “Abba”, meaning daddy or father.  Israel called God this showing that they served a loving and approachable God in prayer.  So how do you approach God?  Do you just look at him as the blessing giver, the Most High, the Sovereign Creator?  God is a God that seeks relationship with His children.

Let’s make our request known!  Before we can achieve that let’s understand what a request is.  Request as defined by Webster’s Dictionary says: The act of asking for something to be given or done; solicitation; or petition.

Petition is defined as: An earnest request.

So in childlike faith an humility, when I come to God in prayer I come asking, soliciting, or petitioning Him to grant the thing, or things, that I’ve asked Him for.  When I petition Him it’s in earnestness, not passive, or hopeful, but it’s aggressive and with great confidence!

Are we aggressive with confidence in prayer?

I want to let you know today that God only answers prayers and not thoughts!  You can’t think hard enough for God to move anything!  The only ability that God has given us to move anything is prayer.

GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS NOT THOUGHTS!

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be thou cast into the see; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he will have whatsoever he saith.

Mark 11:23

The first thing I want to say to you is that you have to say something! All through Genesis the first chapter we see the word quoting “and God said”, also we “and God called.”  This was the beginning of God teaching his children that in order to see things manifest in our lives, we have to say something!  Not only are we responsible for saying something, but we are responsible for what we call it!  Call is defined as: A summons or appointment. When we pray we are not just in the position of talking or communicating with God, but we are in the posture of calling or summonsing our blessings into existence!  Our appointment is the day of manifestation when the blessing or blessings arrive.

Let’s take the example found in the first chapter of Genesis.  Throughout the first chapter we see God doing a culmination of three important things.

PRINCIPLE #1:

God Said (Gen. 1:3)

A man’s belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.” Proverbs 18:20-21

What is your belly filled with?

Are you filled with the negativity you speak, such as sickness, disease, worry, fear, gossip, and doubt?  How long will sore and withered fruit taste good to us?

How long will we allow the words of other people around us shape and form our lives?

The Bible says we shall have anything that we “touch and agree” when we allow our dreams, goals, aspirations, and plans to be overtaken by the words that other people speak into our lives, we “touch and agree” with what’s being said about us.

When someone says your grandmother had cancer, or your mom had heart problems and you begin living in worry and fear of cancer or heart condition, we open ourselves to that spirit to come in and manifest it’s self.  So how much easier could it be if we “think on these things” and begin manifesting the promises of God.

You Increase Your Life With Your Lips!

Your life will flourish by what’s come out of you.  I truly believe that when you apply God’s to your heart and not just your memory, you employ your mouth to work for you in a greater way.

How so you, you might be thinking. The Word of God comes to correct and cleanse you.  When His word begins correcting your heart, your mouth will begin speaking the things that it needs to speak.

There is increase in your mouth! You can increase the negativity in your life or you can increase the positive in your life.

Empower Your Lips For Increase!

In the example we see before us in Genesis 1:3 “and God said, Let there be light; and there was light” , God as creator and father of his creation was teaching His “babies” or “baby God’s” how to activate the power that’s He’s placed in us.

We have power like God to be able to speak to whatever is surrounding us as well as to the lack thereof.  In Genesis we seeing God create out of nothing; out of the void and darkness!

I encourage you to get in the place in prayer that you prophetically pray and decree things!  Speak to everything in you and surrounding you that is void as well as speaking to the things in your life that appear to be dark.  Prophesy your way out o darkness and into the blessings you desire to have.  Take this for a thought; your bank account is empty because you have not spoken to it!  Your still homeless or renting a living quarters because you have not spoken to your house or mansion!  There’s a message the Lord allowed me to preach in my early years of ministering entitled “Say it now, See it later!”  I was forever changed from that moment of my life!  God had begun to deal with me in such a profound way about the power of words and what words were able to do.

Notice how the 21st verse of Proverbs the 18thchapter starts off by saying “death and life.”  The reason death was placed first was because God knew that man would have a proclivity to gravitate to the negative things first verses the positive.  Man has a remarkable tendency to expect the worse of things rather then look for the good.  In High School we were taught this important life principle and it was called: Pessimistic and Optimistic.

A person that walks in pessimism is a person that expects the bad or the negative to happen and a person who is optimistic looks for and awaits the best.  That’s a place where we need to be in our requesting in God that when we enter in prayer our minds are not full of pessimism.  I am not worried about how bad my circumstances and trials may be, but with great faith and optimism  I see, decree, call, and believe for greater things to come into my life.  When we look at the word “pessimism” the word “PEST” should come to mind.  A pest is a term that is self explanatory in and of it self.  We can all agree that the term for pest is something that is annoying and bothersome.  When we look further at the word “optimistic” the word optic, which pertains to the eyes or sight should come to mind.

So there’s a place in prayer that in my optimism I can begin seeing what I am asking God to give me!  May I ask you a question?  Do you use the power of your mind to see what you are asking God to bless you with? It is time to become optic in our prayers!!

See what you are asking God to grant you in life!

Philippians tells us to “think on these things.”

“Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

What have you been thinking about?

When we learn to condition our thinking around the word of God and God’s promises, then we will begin to speak His promises and have faith in them.  Not only will we begin to speak them, but, we will also start seeing them!  Seeing signs and wonders coming out of our mouths and out of our hands!  It’s time we walk in prayer with manifested glory that as the spoken word leaves our mouths we begin employing our creativity and our angels to perform the works that need to be done.

Principle #2

God Saw (Gen. 1:4)

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee…. Jeremiah 1:5a

God as we know is an “Omniscient” God.  He’s God all seeing and God all knowing.  God in His infinite wisdom foresaw the need for us!  I want to reaffirm to someone today that you are not a mistake!  The fact that you may have never had the privilege of knowing your mother, or father, being raised by them, spending time with them does not make you a mistake!  Maybe you may have been a product of rape, molestation, or teen promiscuity but that does not mean that you are a mistake.  Maybe you feel that because your parents never married or because biologically all of your siblings are step brothers and sister that you are the “black sheep” or the “illegitimate one”, NOT SO!

God is too intelligent to make mistakes!!  I’ll also have you to know that God does not consider you a product of sin; God considers the act of sex (pre-marital and out of sexual perversion) the sin.  Unto every person that’s born God has placed gifts in them that He calls “treasures” meaning that He’s given a divine purpose, a destiny to each child born, each man, woman, boy, and girl walking the earth.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the Excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. II Corinthians 4:7

God hid His treasure in the dirt!  It’s in the trash!  Before you throw yourself away and consider yourself worthless you must understand that anything that is worth looking for or finding in not always obvious.  Who would have thought that out of dirt and trash that He could make someone like me!  The dirt or the trash that I am speaking of is not literally the dirt of the ground or the trash that you find in the garbage, but the dirt and trash that I am speaking of is the dust of the earth the Lord created us from.  Also I am speaking of trash in the figurative sense of feeling rejected, worthless and unwanted.

In order for you to find rubies, gold, silver, pearls, and diamonds that the Lord has placed in you, you must dig deep!  Our God is a deep God.  His word teaches us three powerful things about the deepness of God.

But God hath revealed them unto us by His spirit: for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.  1 Corinthians 2:10

Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of the waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.” Psalm 42:7

Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.” Luke 5:4

The first thing that we observe is that He reveals things by His spirit.  So you can’t find the treasure in you by going to get a CAT scan, x-ray, palm reading, or visiting a psychic.  The only way to get the road map to your individual success is to go in prayer and allow God to work on you and reveal what He intends for you.  As a matter of fact, the way to your treasure and your success is to leave the surface!

What I mean by that is you cannot stay on the surface of things.  You have to dig deep to understand the mystery that has been hidden in God.  You have to leave everything that is “common sense” or “sensible” to your understanding and dive into God’s wisdom.  Leaving the surface will cause everyone around you to think that you have lost it!  Everyone seems to be walking through life having a basic understanding and level of knowledge but no one seems to be tapping deep things!

Aren’t you tired of reading self help books in their hundreds of forms and various topics that are designed to help you reach some prosperous ending that never seems to be reached or concluded.  You need to be liberate3d and that is what this book is all about.  Prayer is the only route that you can take to unlock “is-ness” of God.  The word teaches that the vain traditions of men make the word of God of no effect.  Meaning man has a tendency of trying to do things to the letter, and I am here to tell you that the letter will kill you!  His word says that the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life.

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. II Corinthians 3:6

For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

I Corinthians 3:19

Making the word of God of none effect through your vain tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things you do.

Mark 7:13

If you’re relying on the arms of flesh, you’re still on the surface.  If you’re depending on human wisdom, you’re still on the surface.  If you’re depending on tangible things, such as people, a job, books, and a career you are still on the surface.  As it pertains to a life of success in God, it all stems from the posture of your spirit, which is prayer!  As a believer, you MUST become more prayerful.  God’s spirit will begin revealing all the secrets that will catapult you into riches and wealth.  The dream of prosperous living that some call “the good life” will no longer be a dream, but it will become the reality of prayer and the proof of prayer.

The second thing to take note of is that there is a call to deepness.  You cannot become deep by studying or reading.  Deepness is not by your education and level of scholastic degrees.  Deepness is the wisdom and know-how that God pulls out of you that you can’t take credit for!  Have you ever by way of revelation received a thought and a brilliant way of expression, speech, or idea and found that you had to return the glory and honor to God for making you wise in your speech or delivery at that moment?  People were flabbergasted because they may have been under the impression that they there were your deep and most intimate source of thoughts.  That’s just how powerful God is!  He’ll make you wise when you have no way of finding an answer.

The last thing we observe about God’s deepness is that we must dive into the wisdom of God when the call goes out.  In prayer, revelation is being revealed and too many people are telling God “I’ll do that later!” Doing it later will cause you to miss the opportunities that God seeks to bring into your life. When the presentation is being made, doors are being opened, secrets are being revealed, and truth is being revealed that is the time that your pursuit should follow.  Follow God’s revelation into destiny, perfection, wealth, health, and prosperity.

Talking To God Is Important!

The walk of prayer is a spiritual walk.  Where the communication takes place between God- a spirit and mans spirit.  So understanding can now come to fruition when we make the statement that God reveals things by His spirit.  Seeking the Lord is profitable to your call, your walk, your plan, your day, your life, your destiny!

Principle #3:

God Called (Gen. 1:5)

A man shall be satisfied with god by the fruit of his mouth

Proverbs 12:14a

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: but the soul of the transgressors shall eat violence.

Proverbs 13:2

In our walk with prayer we must be bold, aggressive, and daring in our approach.  We can’t be laid back and easy going.  Repentance is the key that breaks the yoke of the enemy making you feel unworthy, inadequate, and undeserving.  If we plan to accomplish anything with our prayers then, we must SAY SOMETHING! The word of God teaches that we were made in God’s image and likeness which means the same power that it took for God to hang the stars and planets in the cosmos is the same power we have in our mouths to shape even what’s already been formed.

Things Obey Words!

YES!!!

We have the power to speak to the things what are already formed as well as call, beckon, or summons things into existence!  Can I tell you that things obey words!  Did you know it’s already been scientifically proven that words affect the atmosphere that we live in?  Scientists refer to this as “quantum physics.”  This also brings us back to my previous point on studying: through study these truths were discovered. The body of Christ is being empowered with revelation knowledge, and guesses what? The world as the scripture states is ever learning.  They have a measure and portion of the truth but it’s us Christians and believers who hold the fullness of the knowledge of Christ!

In prayer we have the unique ability to be able to call to and summons the heavens to manifest our request here on the earth! Can you imagine calling on heaven to send miracles and blessings your way into your life? Well… that’s exactly what we have been created to do! If you want something you have never seen before then say something that you have never said before! Summons it! Call it! Speak it!

Call defined: a summons or an appointment. To cry out with a loud voice; shout. To command or request to come. To announce authoritatively, to proclaim. To order into effect, to establish. To schedule or call into a time, or of time. To bring under consideration or discussion. To attract or lure.  To name or address. To designate and specify something, to make specific. To think of as something specified. To cause someone to furnish something promised. To demand payment or fulfillment. To forecast correctly.

Summons defined: an authoritative command, message, or signal by which one is summoned. A request demand or call to do something. An authoritative call or notice to appear at a specified place, as for a particular purpose of duty.

Call forth: to evoke or make happen; to cause to happen.

So you have power right in our mouth to cause things to happen. Cause things that never were to become! As you cry out to God in your prayer time you have to audibly make know what you want. God hears your prayers but only if you’re saying something. He wants to bring to pass your decree but you have to say it! You cannot passively sit back praying fancy words with expectation that they will come to pass. You have to get the passivity out of your spirit and become aggressive and assertive to the things you are authoritatively command your day! Your success! Your finances! Watch how things change. You don’t get rich by say money please come to me… you get rich by saying I command wealthy ideas and people to come to me!

Command it! Demand it! Then see it!

When you call to the things and to the change that you want to see happening in your life you announce its coming. In announcing its coming you make room for it in the spirit as well as the natural and establish it! With your mouth you begin placing an order as well as placing it into time and establishing a time for your prayer to be answered.

The word teaches us that before they call I will answer and while they are yet speaking I will hear. When you declare out of your mouth your petition and faith request we bring our prayers under Gods focus and attention. Our prayers are now in consideration and open for discussion. God may sovereignly decide to answer your request or reveal to you the timing you should have it; possibly why your motive for asking for it may not be in your best interest.

The reason we call to our blessings in prayer is that we label them. We name what we want, as in the form of a decree. Then we address it. Tell it where to go and whose it’s for.

I am sure that when we wire money we don’t just randomly walk into a bank or check cashing place and drop money off hoping it reaches its destination or person we intended it to reach. But what we do is fill out a form. And prayer is something that has a form; a way that you come to God; steps that are necessary to make. When you fill out your form you include a name, address, location, and ways to be contacted, and even in some cases ways to be identified. So when the person who picks up will rightly fit the description.

The prophetic forecast

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you but your life looks like your conversation. Your life can’t do no better then what you’re speaking. You will never elevate beyond the conversation you condone in. that’s why many successful people often change their mentors and friend not just to go to a better place of achievement but in some cases to even stay where they have excelled to. You always need people in your life that can mentor you further then where you are and where you’re going.

God is definitely one who has the forecast that’s been fore told on every man’s life on earth. The problem is most of us don’t believe and others don’t apply. The forecast of your life can be found in three very important places.

1.        The word of God.

2.       Your conversation.

3.       In the mouths of people who influence you.

Ultimately the truth remains that with all these things in mind it’s really you that create the currency in your life! Check what’s coming in and out of your life…

         Sickness current in your life?

         Poverty current in your life?

         Lack of education current in your life?

         Lack of resources current in your life?

I want you to know that you control the doors! You control the doors by your prayers, the words you speak and your everyday conversation.

Your mouth is the most powerful weapon you have! Life is in it! Death is in it! It’s all according to what you say and who you’re talking to. Stop discussing your problems with people that are lower than your answer. If the person you’re talking to can help you clear out and fix your problem then there’s no point in discussing it!

Use your mouth the god perfected and intended way. That’s simple calling forth the things of God into your own life as well as the lives of people around you. “Thy kingdom come” a popular fraise we often pray in the our father prayer but do we really understand and know what we are saying. When we pray in that manner we are authoritatively and aggressively calling and summonsing the things of God to manifest in us on the earth. That no longer the thoughts of God will be an imagination in the heavenlies but they will be made manifest in the earth. God wants to work through you but the natural laws of the spirit say that in order for a spirit to have legal operation in the earth they need a body to use. Spirits need a body. That’s why the Holy Spirit is a gift that we willfully receive and invite in to work in our lives. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we are lead to manifest the raw power of God. That’s the raw power we call miracles!

Principle #4:

God Made (Gen.1:7)

And God said; Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Genesis 1:26A

The first thing we must grasp in our understanding if we would like to be effective in producing life changing results in prayer is that your image must die! You have to die! Let Christ live in you. Replace your words with his words; you’re faulty thinking with his thinking. That’s what Christ has been trying to get us to see and do all through the bible.  Not only must we die but the brilliant image we have been working so hard to achieve and to attain to has to end! The only image you need is the image he created you with. That image is him-self.

No wonder we can’t get prayers answered because we look so much like the world and a stranger to God that he can’t identify us in him! There’s no word in us, there’s no relationship in him and with him. Where are we in God? Can we be located? Dose God know us as his children? These are important questions for a person to ask themselves! Have I been operating and thinking like the world so much that the mind of Christ which is the word and which is the mind of God is really far from me?

The image of God is his holiness looking back at him!

That’s what God wants to see in the lives of his children. The power that I’ve put in you; reflecting back to me accomplished! God didn’t invest anointing in us for it to go to waste and lie in waste. What God gave us is an anointing to access all things that pertain to life and godliness…

So Godcreated man in his own image, in the image of God created he them.” Genesis 1:27 Emphasis Mine

And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

You are special in the eyes of God so much so that out of all creation you are the only thing he touch, the only thing he breathed on, and the only thing that mirrors and looks like him! Wow! I was made to look like my daddy! God purposed your life to be just as creative as he was. Your hands should never be found unaccomplished. There’s always something you can be doing to go where God wants you to go. When the vision stops, you stop living! For without a vision the people perish.

And the recompense of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him Proverbs 12:14b

God blesses the works of a man’s hands! What you work for God will bless and honor it. Don’t just pray sitting back waiting for things to happen living so passive. Get up from were ever you are and make your life change! Faith is violence… not passive, timid and shy. You have to know that what you believe God for although you’re imperfect that through his perfect image you have been made righteous! I may not qualify to do it in my own name, husband’s name, wife’s name, mother’s or father’s name, but when I do it the name of Jesus. That perfect man gives me access to what I’ve otherwise been shut out of!

Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established. Proverbs 16:3

Prayer is the palace that my works become submitted to god!

No one can submit your works to God but you. In all that you do you should commit it to God. The word teaches us that he is able to keep what we commit to him. The reason your body has not been kept from sickness and disease is because we do what we want with our bodies. We have not submitted our bodies as sacrifices to God. God’s looking for vessels of holiness. Pure sanctified and set apart for his use.

The works that you commit he will keep and the thoughts that you submit he will establish!

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, wither thou goest.” Ecclesiastes 9:10

I often find that when we come in prayer we are looking for a new way or an easy way out. The easy way out of whatever we are dealing with is to go do the first things and first works he commanded of us! If we are in need of finances and the lord commanded us through prayer and prophecy to write a book, design clothes, write poetry or music. The first things that he commanded us to do will open the door to the blessings we are looking for.

Seems like every door you try to open is blocked and there’s no access. That’s because your books blocking it. Your business is in front of it. Your c.d.’s jamming it!

Whatever Gods commanded your hands to do go do it! You can’t take it to the grave!

You are an answer to someone’s problem. Until you go do what the lords commanded you to do there will always be something within your life that held up.

Don’t wait till you almost dying to talk about what you should have done; how and what you should have and could have accomplished. It will be too late! While Gods giving you ability to see and also to have vision go fulfill it. For some of us we are looking for God to speak to us again in prayer and we feel like he’s not hearing us. That’s because he ordering instructions and we are not fulfilling them or listening.

Do you know how many people are dead today that if they had another opportunity to get out of there grave they would go do everything they once knew they were gifted and called to do! The graves thought them a lesson, which is, I will work while its day… for when the night season comes I can’t work. Work while God has you in his hands. You’re on this earth to accomplish and fulfill his will.

Chapter Four:

When Leaders Pray

I want to solely deal with leaders in this chapter. The types of leaders include Apostles, Bishops, Pastors, Teachers, Elders, Ministers, and Evangelists.  I also wanted to deal with what some churches call “lay leaders” which include Sunday School Teachers, Youth Leaders, Youth Pastors, Altar Aids, Deacons, and Intercessors.  The reason I had to call out titles and positions is because too many in the church are “hiding” behind their titles and positions as if their call or title validates them to a degree that they are absolutely sinless.  Many leaders may not profess this statement or this conclusion out of their mouths but they are certainly attributing in their day to day behavior.

Many leaders as well as lay leaders are in a terrible position in the church today.  We have leaders in positions and pulpits that are praying for people and lying hands on individuals and have habitual sin in their lives.  The term “habitual” means “the nature of a habit” or “fixed by or resulting from a habit.”  Scripture clearly teaches us that “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Emphasis mine).  Therefore, we can never get to a place that even in our leadership we are not examining ourselves for sin.  Also, we must stay in a place of a repentant heart.

The definition for habitual I found in Webster’s Dictionary says that it’s “the nature of a habit” or fixed by”…

The question I would like to ask you leader to leader is this: What is a “fixed” habit in your life?  For those of you that are not in leadership, be careful how you judge lest you be judged!  Everyone has some type fault that we don’t want people to know or see.  Guess what?  Whatever your habit is you can get rid of it.  Habitual sin is the practice of deliberate acts of sin.

Are You Suffering With Fixed Habits?

Today I want to help someone who’s in leadership and can’t break the cycle of “fixed habits” that they have been experiencing.  It does not matter how many times you have done it or who you have done it with, whether it is something that you do as an individual or engage in with another person or with a group.  The point of the matter is your problem has already been nailed to the cross!

You have power and victory to be able to overcome any obstacle in your life.  Sometimes it’s funny to see and notice that the same people that minister the word are the same people that still need to hear a word!  As long as we are in flesh we will never outgrow sin!  Nor will we ever gain enough wisdom, money, fame, or seniority that we are not capable of sinning.  It’s not my objective to make anyone feel like because we have “grace” and “forgiveness” that it’s ok to sin or keep falling.  It’s indeed time that in our personal relationship with God that we come to a place of “accountability” and “holiness” and in this place we will see a greater dimension of glory and powerful manifestations to our answered prayers.

Think of today as if it was yesterday and you will see just how long ago you could have stopped!

Stopped what you might ask??

The Sin!

The Habit!

The Struggle!

Today is your day of forgiveness and a day that you can give your fleshly trial over to God for Good! Jesus nailed those same trials, sins, and habits to the cross for us over 2,000 years ago!  Can you believe that?  That’s powerful.

Can I let you know that even the Lord has called you; He already knew the mistakes you would make and what sins or habits you would endure!  Here’s a powerful scripture that I’d like to share with you:

Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.  Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?  Be not deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.  And such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the spirit of our God.

1 Corinthians 6:8-11

And Such Were Some Of You!

Today I declare by the power of the Holy Ghost that your problem is over! When you breakdown the word “habit” this is what you get:

Remove the “H” and you are left with A.B.I.T.

Remove the “A” and you are still left with a B.I.T.,

And last but not least, when you remove the “B” you are still left with I.T.!

I’ve come to declare to you that there is noting that can cleanse you from sin and shame but the power of God.  Jesus Christ Himself came and died for this.  His death and resurrection is not in vain!  How in the world can we preach this gospel as Paul says and we ourselves be castaways!

At the close of this chapter I’ve listed some important scriptures and promises that will help minister to you as well as remind you that God is serious about our walk and our call in the body of Christ as leaders.  Remember it’s important to keep your hands cleans as a leader!  When we minister and we are ministering, lying hands with unclean hands and sin in us as well as on us, we transfer spirits and that’s no little thing!

The Spirit of the Leader

Lay Hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep yourself pure. 1Timothy 5:22

As common sense shows us in great detail, leading people is not an easy task.  So whether we are Senior Pastor or in the ministry of assistance and helps, (Ministers, Evangelists, Co-Pastors Etc.) we must understand that the lying on of hands in prayer transfers our spirits to the individual or individuals that we are praying for.  So with both the good and the bad, that person now has to deal with the good and the bad that comes out of you!

And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.  And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.  And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him. Leviticus 8:10-12

Is there any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. James 5:14-15

And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. Luke 13:13

And he brought the bullocks for the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the bullock for his sin offering. Leviticus 8:14

Lay hands suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men’s sins: keep yourself pure. Some men’s sins are open beforehand, going before to judgments; and some men the follow after.  Likewise also the good works of some are manifest beforehand, and they are otherwise cannot be hid.

1Timothy 5:22, 24-25

Keep Your Hands Clean!

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

My personal testimony is that in my early years of ministering, I made a lot of mistakes.  The mistakes I made were due to the temptation of my peers, and finding myself at a place where I had forgotten who I was (a leader in the church) and what I had been called to do (lead people).  I found myself involved some of the same things that people around me were doing.  I found myself in house parties (which were popular in my day), smoking, drinking and fighting.  Some people might render these things “normal” due to my age but the call on my life did not allow me to be “normal”!  God had a plan for me.  Not only did God have a plan for me, but He even used the sin as a testimony to be able to help me minister and set others free!  Likewise, this is my encouragement to you today, come out, come out.  We are in the pulpits preaching to others and telling them how to live for God but I am coming to remind you that we as preachers sometimes lose site and likewise need to be ministered to under the same grace we extend to others.

You must wash your face, wash your hands, and wash your feet. The washing of your face changes your look and your image. You then take on the look or the image of Christ.

Washing your hands represents your cleaning your hands from possible works of the flesh; deeds done with your hands. Washing of your feet represents your cleaning yourself from the places your have been.

Checkpoints for leaders:

1.        Am I preaching and slipping?

2.       Do I have secret or un-confessed sin?

3.       What are my secret habits?

4.      I can minister repentance but do I live it?

5.       Am I laying hands in the wrong spirit?

6.       Are the prayers I am praying followed by signs and wonders? If not…Why not?

7.       What’s stopping my flow?

Last but not least, I would like to pray with you that whatever struggle, trial, habit, sin, or temptation you’ve been enduring will be rendered powerless over your life!

Prayer for Leaders:

Holy and righteous Father in Jesus name, I come to you in repentance today asking that you forgive me of all sin; known and unknown in the name of Jesus.  Today I confess to my sin __________ (name it). I render the works and deeds of the flesh powerless over my life!  I renounce them, no longer desire them, and give no more place or room to them in the name of Jesus!  Thank you that I can receive your forgiveness in Jesus’ name.  Thank you that as I minister you will give me power to stay clean, for I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.

I thank you today, Lord, that I am cleansed of every H.A.B.I.T and every fault that has entered and that I’ve allowed to enter that has come to hinder me from the dimensions of God.  Thank you for opening the heavens and raining on my life.  I speak to the north wind, the south wind, the east wind, and the west wind and I command my restoration, healing, and deliverance to come NOW in Jesus name!

Amen!

Chapter Five:

A Time to Hear

If ANY MAN have Ears to hear Let him hear Mark 4:23

Some important questions we must first ask ourselves in our minds are:

What does it mean to hear?

What am I waiting to hear?

Last but not least, can I hear?

As a child, I grew up in the late 80’s.  This was a time before cable television was made to be as popular as is now.  Not only was cable not that popular in the homes of minorities, but it was considered a luxury to have!  Many families could not afford to be able to pay for cable television so what many minority families and neighbors began to do was get together at the homes of friends and families who could afford the benefit and luxury of cable television.  In those days I wasn’t as lucky as some other children with neighbors, friends, and family to be able to visit so what I did was buy antennas to connect to the TV to be able to receive at least general reception.

What that reception began to do was provide a steady current or flow that allowed the television programming to come through clear enough to be seen and enjoyed.  Like unto something as commas as television reception we need “prayer reception”… The ability of having our spirits conditioned and set to take in what the Lord is speaking to us as a people as well as individuals.  Just as the antenna was able to provide clearer vision and enjoyment, that’s what prayer does for us!  It makes our way clear!  It allows us grace to be able to get rid of our sins, faults, flaws, mistakes, and embarrassments and move into empowerment!  Isn’t that beautiful?!

Prayer is that place that the receptors of the my spirit go up to hear what the Lord has to say to my life; it creates this stream where I can now see more clearly, walk more confidently, and move more easily.  My receptors now allow me to see life and enjoy life, just as when I was able to see things naturally by placing an antenna on my television.  I am no longer walking through life like a blinding experience of being in the dark!  Prayer turns the lights on and causes a current, or wave to begin flowing in my direction.  God is my satellite that’s sending out the wave signals that are going to send me into the right direction.  My antenna is what’s picking up what He sent out!

So what is hearing?  Hearing is defined, besides physical hearing: to listen, pay attention, and respond obediently (Ps. 135:17a, Isa. 41:17; Matt. 13:43).  Much like unto the word hearing, there’s another word that’s used quite frequently in the bible called hearken.  Hearken as defined says: listen carefully, be attentive, give ear to, and obey authority (Isa. 28:23, Acts 27:21).

In prayer I need to be in a place of attentiveness, giving God my full and undivided attention, taking time to PAY attention.  Anything that we pay denotes that it’s a sacrifice and it’s something that cost us.  Although in prayer we are not tangibly giving money, we need to learn to give time and space to prayer!  Prayer is something sacred.  Prayer can be something that you do from any place: your car, your bathroom, your kitchen, your office.  It’s not always about a sacred building in terms of a church that we visit but it’s about the posture and the place in our hearts.  Prayer is also a place of obedience because now that God has spoken, when He releases His answers and deals with me and begins speaking to me; it’s important to understand that I am left with a charge to fulfill.  When I leave prayer I become a DUNAMITE, and I place the miracle working power of God on everything that I touch!

Power Point Scriptures For Dunamites:

There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou are a teacher come from God: for no man can do these MIRACLES that thou doest, except God be with him. John 3:1-2

In order to really understand the state of hearing God in prayer, there are four powerful words and meaning that we need to cover:

1.        Reception- The act or state of receiving or the state of being received

2.       Receptionist- A person employed to receive and assist callers, clients, etc.

3.       Receptacle- A container, device, etc. that receives or holds something example (an electrical socket holding more than one socket.)

4.      Receptive- Having the quality of receiving, taking or admitting. Able or quick to receive knowledge, ideas, etc., willingly or inclined to receiving suggestions (instructions), offers, etc. Of or pertaining to the language skills of listening and reading.

Reception in prayer creates the line of communication and the flow I need to reach God.  A receptionist in prayer is man or woman of God that has the ability to knowledgeably see into my life and hear from the Lord (such as a prophet) and point me in the direction I need to take in my life.  He or she (the prophet), literally as the mouthpiece of God, speaks to me what God is saying and thinking about my situation.  A receptacle in prayer is what I would like to call a “dunamite.”  A “dunamite” is a person that walks manifesting the miracles of God.  The word dunamite derives from the root word dunamis: a Greek term used to describe dynamic power of the sort that generates and manifests the miracles of God. (Matt. 11:20, Luke 1:!7, Acts 2:22, Romans 1:16, 1 Corinthians 12:28-29).  Dunamite: defined as a term that aptly describes the official miracle worker ordained to the New Testament church.  (1 Corinthians 12:28-29).  So once again a receptacle is a Dunamite, an individual who holds and contains power and distributes it as well; someone who has the ability to be charged with power and release it to others. Last but definitely not least, to be receptive in prayer is to be or become knowledgeable and teachable concerning the things of the spirit, things that pertain to prayer, and things that consist of living and life.

There comes a time in our personal walk with the Lord that we move past the childlike state of always asking and having our hands out and palms open in the position of reception but positioning ourselves to hear God correctly.  We now need to take the time to reposition ourselves to hear Gods’ answers in the time passing after we have prayed or even in the time we are praying.  We must take the time to place out “receptors up!”

We are in a powerful position already to be able to approach an almighty God, but it’s even more powerful to have the ability to be able to receive from prayer!  Some people are under the perverted deception that when I am praying my answer is the car I just received or promotion on the job and to some fact the Lord has provided us with a mate to marry and become married.  If we continue believing that those are the only answers to prayer our world is both shallow and vain.

We also must move into the place of observing our prayer walk and prayer time with the Lord not just as “prayer time” but “communion.”  The church is stuck on calling communion the memorial “Last Supper” that we observe to remember his death and resurrection.  To a sad degree for many, prayer is a type of “Last Supper” and a “Memorial” in the sense of prayer is practiced in such a religious form.  We only pray at certain times or in certain settings and places.  There is no president on where prayer should take place.  If you’re reading this book and your prayer life is weak, what God is now asking you is this: “When is the last time I’ve heard from you?  Your life is lacking and famished due to the fact that you have no communication with me?”  The last time you had communion or communication you took what you could get and ran!  The reverse effect is what the Lord is looking for!  He’s looking for men, women, and even young teens and children to realize that the same method that got you blessed is what’s going to keep it!

Before I move any further from where I am, let me show you what real communion with the Lord is: Communion is defined: Sharing, participating with, fellowship, communication, having something in common.  Also, another supportive word that can be used is the word “commune”.  Commune is defined: communicate, discuss, think about, and to confer.

Prayer time as present day church calls it, is a place of sharing with God our hearts, experiences, concerns.  This also rightly includes our petitions, requests, and intercessions.  But this process of prayer is not limited to being such things in the totality of experience.  Prayer is communication, reception (receiving or hearing), discussing (talking to the Lord about our concerns with repenting and request), and thinking (meditating, remembering, reviewing, admiring, etc.).  Prayer is also a common place.  The place where you begin to see how much you are like God or how much you have grown in Him, or have now come into commonness  with the Lord!  This place literally means that now talking to God is not anything new to you because you do it all the time.  Experiencing miracles is not a phenomenon, but it’s a walk that you have a type of consistent access and favor that I call common!  This place in prayer can also do the very opposite and can show you how you don’t look like your father or “daddy” and give you the initiative of realigning yourself which, we again, call repentance.

What Do You Have In Common With God?

It’s God’s desire to have His children talk to Him and not just ramble on with requests, petitions and concerns.  It’s His desire to hear His children talk to Him and then take the “priority” to sit and listen or “hear” Him speak back to us.  What are you taking into priority in prayer; the fact that you have something say, or the fact that you have been granted a privilege to be able to hear God speak?

Taking Time To Hear God Is A Priority!

It’s funny because too many believers are praying but not hearing!  We as a body and individuals need to get to a place of hearing.  Te reason we are not seeing God move in our local churches as we should is because not only are we not hearing God, but, we are not hearing the leaders He has sent!

God’s word teaches us that faith comes by hearing, so in hearing the word of God being taught to us, preached to us; we gather from that experience a revelation and mystery of God being revealed to us.  If we are not experiencing the mysteries of faith then we are in a terrible condition as individuals and as a body that we commonly call the church or the body of Christ.  The billion dollar question I am now posing to you is: “Can you hear?”  This last question I would like to propose to you is: “When was the last time you heard God or heard Him speak to you?”

Yes! This book was designed not only to cause you to pray better and become a prolific prayer in the company of people and church settings.  This book was written to get the “hell” out of you so you can see what a real prayer life is!  Most people equate this type of praying to just being prophetic intercession or prophetic prayers.  How about this for a dose of sarcasm, can’t you hear physically?  Can’t you see physically?  Can’t you feel physically?  Can’t you smell?  Much like using all of our 5 senses then if we have all these abilities then we have at least a few ways that the Lord is able to communicate and speak to us!

After I’ve talked to God what is He then ministering to my spirit?  It’s hard to authentically have been in the presence of the Lord and not come out with a word; And to kill someone’s criticism, no that does not make you a prophet!  But all of God’s children have the ability to experience Him speak to them and deal with them personally as he varies and form person to person.  So am I telling you to become a prophet?  NO!  Am I telling you that you are a prophet?  NO!  What I am telling you is that you can hear just as well and as clear as anyone else!  I am called to free you from feeling as if you have to depend on your prayer partner or even some of these television witches and warlocks who are stealing and manipulating your money and not really taking your prayer needs into consideration!  I am not saying that every televangelist is a witch or warlock but you in your spirit already know which ones I am talking about.

The word God clearly taught us in Mark 4:23 if “Any Man” having ears to hear then let him hear (emphasis mine).  That “ANY MAN” is not just your local Apostle, Pastor or ministry leader.  It’s definitely not centered on anyone who can be considered to be prophetic such as prophets, prophetesses, or intercessors but as clearly as it reads, is clearly as it should be understood that it’s open to any man!  Not just concerning the things of but as unto things universal or in totality!  You can apply that same word to other circumstances; there are no limits on “ANY MAN”, so why aren’t we hearing? Why aren’t we gifted the way that we should be?  Any Man includes men, women, teens, and children!

We need to take time to learn how to wait on God and after we have praised Him, thanked Him, repented, petitioned Him; it’s now time to hear the Lord and what He has to say to us as an individual collectively as a body or church.  We cannot move into this realm of prayer until we go back into the foundational principles that so many in this present day have forgotten and even teach against.  And what foundation is that?

Chapter Six:

Tarrying!!!

Yes, good ole fashioned tarrying.  In this chapter I would like to clear a lot of ignorance that concerns the topic; so many in the church have moved away from foundational principles and biblical principles that still hold true to today’s ethics in society.

To first gain a more wholesome and better understanding of the term “tarrying”, we must first clearly understand its meaning.  To tarry is defined: to wait, stay behind, prolong, and delay (Heb. 2:3, Heb. 10:37).

So to tarry literally means to “wait” on the lord; literally sit in or wait in His presence.  Today’s church may not really understand what it means to wait in the presence of the Lord or to “stay behind”.  Learning how to give your-self over in prayer will require times of intimacy and with intimacy come periods of waiting, a pause, and stillness.

And after the earthquake a fire but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a STILL SMALL VOICE.

1 Kings 19:12

So then, in my waiting time and stillness where I bask in the presence of the Lord, I will the hear Him speak in the stillness.  When my spirit is loud and my surroundings are loud it tampers with my ability to hear but, after I’ve prayed and said what I had to say as well as practiced all the fundamentals of prayer, I then need to hear from the creator.  God spoke to the prophet Elijah in a “still small voice”; we need to train our spirits to become quiet at times and listen for Him to speak.

Are you waiting?

Waiting on the lord is taking the time to observe His orders when we are in prayer.  My mom as I grew up had a saying that I never understood until I got older.  She would always say: “God may not come when “You” want Him, but He always comes right on time!” Another old saying is: “You can’t hurry God, you just have to wait!”

The Wait, The Waiter, The Waiting

Wait is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as: to remain inactive or in a state of repose, as until something expected happens: To remain in readiness: To remain neglected for a time: To look forward to eagerly: To work or serve as a waiter: To await (as to wait for a turn): To be an attendant or servant for: To call upon or visit.

Waiter is defined: A person esp. a man (waitress is the female term) who waits and awaits as to being of service to another.

Waiting as defined: A period during which one waits; a pause or delay. Serving or being in attendance.

As we can see and gather, there’s more to waiting or tarrying as they would call it in the King James.  Waiting in prayer brings you to a place where your will has died and your personality becomes inactive.  Now the spirit of the Lord can begin giving orders because your spirit is STILL or what we would call quiet.  In our wait in prayer, we are waiting with eagerness and readinesses for what the Lord has to say, speak, or command of us.  Sometimes in our wait in prayer it may seem as if we have been neglected and forgotten, as if the Lord does not hear us or is possibly ignoring us.

The Father already knows our needs before we ask.  Not only that, He’s already promised us that before we call He will answer and while we are yet speaking He will hear us.  The problem with us in prayer is that we never stop talking to hear God’s answer.  Not only do we never stop talking, but we jump up or move on with our day or concerns without waiting, or tarrying for the voice of God to speak back.  Does this mean that I have to pause every time I pray, even at work or in school?  No!

There should be a sacred time that every believer has that they have dedicated a prayer time to the Lord; a time to seek the Lord, dwell, wait, or tarry in His presence.  When we learn to take our prayer time more serious, then we will see more answers to our desires, petitions and concerns.

Another important attribute that we need to be displaying to God is our service.  Notice how my statement was made in direct reference to God.  Man worries too much about impressing each other or other leaders when our focus should be to respect and honor leaders, but focus on our fulfillment of pleasing and obeying God our creator!  Like a waiter, we should be doing the things that the Lord has already commanded of us, such as duties of our personal call, family, ministry, and gifts.

There’s plenty of work to do but not enough people who will willingly place their hands to work and follow the orders and commands that God will give His people.  Many are walking and operating in spirits of lawlessness, unable to submit to the laws of the land as wall as the laws of ministry, a job, even a system of education.  Yet, we have a mindset that tells us we can enter into prayer and skip over ordinances and important attributes that will help assure that we are walking and living our lives to fullness of our Christian ability and power.

Get Lawlessness Out Of Your Spirit!

There are no shortcuts in prayer, you must come through Jesus!  He is our mediator that enables our prayers to reach the throne of God.  We will cover more of this topic in a chapter to come.  Lawlessness is that spirit that comes through the back door.  We have too many back door saints that think that they can create and make their own rules in prayer and receiving our request.  You have to PAY the price of service to God.  You must serve in prayer, walk in obedience and fulfilling orders.

What Has God Ordered You To Do?

Too many times we are waiting but yet not realizing we have a responsibility.  Are you denying your responsibility?  If God is ordering us to evangelize, it’s not a request, it’s a demand!  If the Lord has told you to write books, then write!  If He’s given you the order to is the same money He’s already ordered. WOW!

Yes!  The order had already been placed.  Listen carefully of the detail that the master is giving you.  While we design clothes, the do it!  Why; because the same money you’re asking Him for to start a business, set up a ministry, travel, become financially stable for marriage or family are busy adding details to our request, He’s speaking the detail of what we ordered back to us in the form of the answer.  So waiting or tarrying is occupying your time and conditions until the Lord shows up!  For a better term of words serving the Lord in prayer and walking in obedience to His demands is occupying until the blessing comes!  In faith, God loves an obedient servant, an obedient son or daughter; moving in the faith of my prayer in remaining in service to the Lord.

Serve the Lord within the fullness of heart.  When I take on an attitude of servitude, I am walking in humility.  Don’t worry about people who are always flaunting what they have because what they have is their reward.  Waiting gets issues out of my heart so when the blessings begin raining and the harvest is coming in; I am not spoiling my miracles and blessings.  Wait on your promise.  Abraham and Sarah thought that they could help God out with the process and wound up getting and Ishmael.

No Ishmaels in My Life!

Ishmael meaning: “The Lord hath heard my affliction”.  So people are under the demented perception that because they went out and made their way or created what they wanted,   that the Lord has heard them! I’ll have you know that any blessing that makes you worry or always has you looking over your shoulders is not a blessing that the Father God would give.  The handmaiden Hagar heard the voice of the angel, which was the voice of the Lord, and heeded naming her son Ishmael (read Genesis 16:1-14, 16:15) and also, watching the succession and favor that followed the name.  Although Ishmael was Abraham’s son, he was not the promise that God had made to him.  God promised Abraham Isaac.  Are you playing with God trying to assist Him in speeding the process of a blessing? Just stay your course and serve.  All you have to do is walk the prophecy out.  You can’t help God!  The work isn’t for you to create the blessing; it’s for you to walk in obedience to the blessing.  How can two walk together except they agree? You have to agree with God’s plan to receive His benefits.

People are walking with their hands up reaching to God when they should be walking with their hands out…don’t live with your palms open, but allow your hands to work.  Work on your assignment.  Also, give to the poor, tend to the things that Jesus himself would do if He were walking with us.  I hear many people say that if I was living in the days of the disciples, I would be doing all that I could do.  You’re lying! You are already a disciple of Jesus now!  You profess Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior and you are a believer.  So we need to rethink our state.  We keep looking for Him to come and walk here with us for us to do right when He’s already set the example and precedence for us to walk after.

When you willingly yield yourself, blessings come with very little effort.  His word says “His yoke is easy, and His burdens light.”  Likewise, it says He will make “easy and successful our way.”  The easy and successful way is obedience.  Heed to the commission of the Lord when He speaks to your gifts, your call, and your works.  Obedience is better than sacrifice!  You can lose time, strength, and age trying to do things your way!  Place your strength in your service to God and watch the trail blaze of blessing that follow.

And, behold, I send the promise of my father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.  Luke 24:49

Chapter Seven:

Praying In Jesus Name

What’s In a Name?

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 14:13

If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. John 14:14

The secret code to prayer is praying in Jesus name! Whether you believe it or not it’s what works! Jesus commanded us to pray in his name in several places we find in the scripture. This is a form of what we so popularly call “standing in the gap”. Jesus is our mediator between creator God and his creation (man). Our approach to God coupled with all of the other attributes we have learned help us to reach to this point.

It’s not enough just to pray but the real question is who are we praying to? Who’s on the other end of our prayer listening. I am sure that when we place packages and letters in the mail we don’t just randomly drop them in a box then sit back hoping that they reach the person we have intended but rather we address the envelope, box, or package to the recipient that is to receive it. Same principal applies to prayer. You must address God though what method he wants to be reached! Jesus is given to man as a mediator, proxy, gap stander, so our prayers will reach our heavenly father, God.

Don’t just pray saying some of the popular quotes commonly used in Christianity. Such as “father God” “to the most high God” “the only wise God” but rather pray using those common quotes but also declaring and decreeing “in Jesus name”!!!

The answer you believe God for is all tied to what you’re calling him. It’s all tied to his name! Jesus declared in the book on John: “I am the door of the sheep”. Jesus is literally the passage way to God in prayer. Before we dive further into this revelation let’s look at some interesting points.

The biblical concept of name-

The first this we must gather in our understanding is the concept of name and naming in the scripture involves much more than a tag or label that identifies a person. It’s more than just distinguishing him or her from other people, though names have the power to do such things it’s much more to it than that. It’s much deeper in meaning. Name in the scripture literally represents the very essence of the person. A person’s personality, character, reputation and authority are all wrapped up in their name!

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. Proverbs 22:1

A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth. Ecclesiastes 7:1

Your name is the most precious possession you have! The word teaches us this fact in the accounts we find in proverbs and Ecclesiastes. A name will follow you from your birth to your grave. Note the extraordinary value of a good name, next to your soul this is your most precious possession. Cherish your name with virtue and integrity.

The importance of God’s name-

Now that we have cleared the air in reference to the power a name holds this brings us to a clear understanding with why god’s name is so often exalted in scripture. Since we now know that the essence of a thing is wrapped in its name then we now understand that when we call or declare Gods name we are declaring the greatness of his person. The greatness of who God is!

God’s name is great, it’s excellent and it’s glorious! We are to exalt the honor of his name in our prayer and in our praise. Jesus taught his disciples to pray, “Hallowed be thy name” found in Matthew 6:9. Romans 14:11 teaches us that one day every knee shall bow at the name of Jesus. Why?

God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name that is above every name. Philippians 2:9

His glorious and exalted name is to be praised and worshiped. Think about it… there’s no other name under heaven that will give you power and access like the name of Jesus! No other name can drive out demons and heal sick bodies like the name of Jesus! There power in his name, riches in his name, healing in his name, deliverance in his name, favor, joy, peace in his name. No matter what you need in your life it’s all wrapped in his name. Now what other name can we think of that holds that power? What other name can perform these miracles?

When I call his name I call on the person of God, not just the image we have created of God in our minds. I call on his person, I call on his character, I call on his reputation and I call on his authority. His name has been invested with that much power! When you call his name he shows up, his attribute show up, his integrity shows up, his power shows up! That’s what’s in his name.

The Praises of His Name:

O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Psalm 8:1

Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me bless his holy name. Psalm 103:1

Praise ye the LORD. Praise, O ye servants of the LORD, praise the name of the LORD. Blessed be the name of the LORD from this time forth and for evermore. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised. Psalm 113:1-3

Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.

Psalm 148:13

Scriptures for Praying In Jesus Name:

And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. John 14:13

If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. John 14:14

Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. John 15:16

And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. John 16:23

Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. John 16:24

At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you. John 16:26

Chapter Eight:

Final Thoughts

It’s my personal prayer that if you have made it this far in your reading that you have been blessed with what you have read so far. I am honored that God would entrust me with such a mandate as prayerology.

I never imagined that over the years my experience with divine communication and prayer would have turned into this. I thank my parents, my leaders, my pastors for bringing me up in the way that they did because it made me the person I am today!

Take what you were able to glean from in this book and apply it to your everyday life and lifestyle of prayer. This is just Vol. 1 of a series of books and revelations the Lord has given me on prayer. Many successful writers say you should never break up your work and put it in more than one volume because people may not follow it. I am one who believes that when God gives me vision to do something what has worked or not worked for others does not apply to me.

I believe that if I write 30 books in this series (which I don’t plan to just hypothetically speaking) people will support it because this is a work of enrichment and substance. I never once thought that at the tender age of 18 I would be pulling together a work like this.

Take prayerology with you in your heart and share it with someone who needs to empower their prayer life with God. I believe that people on all stages of ministry and all stages of life will be able to benefit from what God is saying to the church in this book, thank you for being a part of this process and taking the journey with me.

Shalom!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

THE BIO OF HIS GRACE:

Michael Anthony McCain Sr. (Apostle) was born June 4th 1985 in Union Hospital in the Bronx New York. He was born to the parents, Mary and George Moorer. Michael was always a young man after Gods own heart, and a lover of the church and his faith. He always seemed to encourage his peers with his singing and preaching; at the age of Eight years old, at St. Stevens United Methodist Church; under the leadership of Pastor Johnny L. Ceasar. His first sermon was “What about God?” reminding the people of the importance of God’s word being lived and not just heard, also provoking the hears to become doers and not just hears only.

Michael served as a faithful member of the youth choir, young adult choir, and church mass choir. He also singed at gospel concerts for gospel artist such as, the pilgrim jubilees, 5 Blind Boys, Shirley Ceasar, the Gospel Keynotes and many more. Michael has also won awards at The Gospel Workshop of America In 1999 And 2002. Michael also served radio personality “Deacon Watts” of Mississippi and quartet singer “Big Dan” the gospel man. Big Dan as he’s affectionately known was responsible for causing young Michael getting his break in singing praise and worship for many leading quartet groups, concerts and solo artist.

Michael in his early years had formed several singing groups, such as “One Accord” and the No Limit for Christ Youth Choir. Who traveled the tri-state area singing at local churches and conferences, Michael was raised in foster care by Alice. S. Koon. Who raised him to the best of her ability as God provided the strength. Michael later took his miss fortune and used his testimony to save broken hearted souls, bringing men, women, as well as youth to Christ. Michael grew up taking all the wisdom he had gained from his losses and came home at the age of 16 to be a blessing to his biological family. It was also during that same year that Michael began to pastor his first congregation Morning Star Pentecostal church and lead another congregation a year later chosen generation outreach ministries, under the leadership of Overseer Clarence L Smith. Pastor Michael A. McCain then went on to Pastor Greater Anointing Ministries in 2003. Greater Anointing was his joy and in 2006 the lord birthed another ministry presently known as Kingdom Builders Assembly International Inc. Also in the Year 2006 the lord allowed Pastor McCain to achieve his doctorates in ministry From Trinity Christian Institute. In the year of our lord May 12th 2007 Pastor McCain was then confirmed to his Apostleship by, Apostle, Dr. Walter E. Holmes.

Apostle Walter E. Holmes of Word of Faith Christian Canter in New York, N.Y. has been a spiritual father and mentor in the life of Apostle Michael McCain.

Apostle Michael A. McCain is also the founder of The Full Gospel Apostolic Assemblies International Inc. And The Global College of Apostles Inc. with these two organizations apostle McCain continues to mentor those who ascribe to the vision of both his mentorship program and family of fellowship/ son and daughter churches.

In closing, Apostle Dr. Michael A. McCain continues to make a lasting mark on both his generation and those who are respectfully years ahead of him in life. Through Prayerology as a book and as a network ministry his plan stands to take prayer and the love of his faith, God, and the word to every nation and tongue.

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Table of Contents

Copyrights

Contents

Dedication

!!!Warning!!!

Prayer

Why I Wrote This Book

Chapter One: What is prayer?

Chapter Two: What is Prayerology?

Chapter Three: Make your request known

Chapter Four: When Leaders Pray

Chapter Five: A Time to Hear

Chapter Six: Tarrying!!!

Chapter Seven: Praying In Jesus Name

Chapter Eight: Final Thoughts

ABOUT THE AUTHOR