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Apostle Dr. Richard Udoh

Thursday, August 27, 2020

HEARTFELT PRAYER 1

Prayer is the Spiritual breath of the Christian. Prayer is communicating with God. It means to entreat in the Hebrew and in the Greek it means to ask for, want or demand for. It is pouring out our heart to the Father. Prayer is seeking the face of the Lord and waiting upon Him.

According to Bishop Charles Agyinasare, prayer is the only thing that can quench the yearning of our souls – man has an insatiable desire that can only be filed by God. Luke 18:1 “And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.” (ESV) The early church was given to prayer Acts 2:42 “And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.” (ESV)

According to Nelson Bible Dictionary, “Christians recognize their dependence upon their Creator. They have every reason to express gratitude for God's blessings. But they have far more reason to respond to God than this. They respond to the love of God for them. God's love is revealed through the marvelous incarnation and life of Christ, His atoning provision at the Cross, His resurrection, as well as His continuing presence through the Holy Spirit.

Prayer cannot be replaced by devout good works in a needy world. Important as service to others is, at times we must turn away from it to God, who is distinct from all things and over all things. Neither should prayer be thought of as a mystical experience in which people lose their identity in the infinite reality. Effective prayer must be a scripturally informed response of persons saved by grace to the living God who can hear and answer on the basis of Christ's payment of the penalty which sinners deserved. As such, prayer involves several important aspects.”

Only prayer can deliver, only prayer can defeat the purpose of Satan in our lives.

Confession: I declare that I will dwell in the shelter of the Most High God, I declare that I will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty, I declare that God is my refuge and my fortress, I declare that You are my God in whom I trust and with great confidence in whom I will rely. Jesus is Lord.

Further Readings:

Ezekiel 22:30;

And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none

Psalm 84:2;

My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Read through the Bible: 1 Samuel 19 & 1 Corinthians 1