Oops!! Been Praying Wrong All Along, Haven't I?

I could not sleep, I was tossing and turning most of the night and I could not figure out why. While all that drama was going on, I kept hearing something from the voice of God’s Spirit. I knew he was trying to get my attention, but I was too tired to respond, eventually he won as I realized that it is better to listen to him to say what he wanted to say for my benefit, and of course, so I can go back to sleep.

Anyway, as usual, He started by  the following question/statement:

“Do you know how people pray amiss? NOT why, but HOW?”

To tell you the truth, as interesting as that question was, I really wasn’t interested in discussing that, my interest at that time was more in sleeping than having a dialogue with God and besides I had no clue what he was talking about.

I know you must be saying …. this dude is crazy, he has an audience with the Almighty God and all he wants to do is sleep. Well, to answer that, it is partly because I KNOW that whatever we discuss, I can’t win with him and so out of my foolishness, I figured out I should sleep, we can have our discussion later. After all, God does not sleep, so why should he take time away from my sleep.

In a funny kind of way, he reminded me that I should not forget that he’s the one that gives his beloved sleep. At that point, I gave up. Told you I know I can’t win, but the Lord knows I needed the zzzzz’s :-)).

Anyway, he repeated the question to me. “Do you know how you pray amiss? NOT why, but HOW?”

By this time, I was already up. I said “Lord, I guess BECAUSE….”

He jumped in and said, “I did not ask you for the WHY, I asked you for the HOW.”

So, I said, Daddy, you know too well that I know nothing except what you want me to know by your grace, so please explain. I responded that way because I truly did not know the answer to that question and since God asked, it’s because he already knew that I have no clue whatsoever.

So, he continued. “When you pray, you do so for 2 reasons. All prayers can be summed up into 2 categories.”

I have learnt not to interrupt when Daddy is talking and besides, this was becoming interesting to me

“The first category deals with prayers that you offer when you want to PREVENT something from happening and the other category is when ALL else has FAILED and you want to correct what has already gone wrong. Both of these categories of prayers are based on unfounded fear as they are faithless and powerless. Remember, prayer is simply communication between you and I, nothing else. It is communication to effect something in your life through my power which I have embedded in you and you can only do these things by speaking my language which is my word, which and whom I have already given to you.”

I realized God was talking about both the law, WHICH is the word and Jesus Christ, WHO is the word, manifested.

He continued. “In the first category, fear that something negative, that has not happened yet, will happen. So you keep praying faithless and powerless prayers. A lot of my people are buying into this because the son of perdition told them a lie in the form of a picture he paints in their minds that what they are seeing in their minds is going to happen to them and guess what? He is right, because he knows that what they SEE, THINK and SAY will eventually come to pass because I made them with the power to create and manifest through the things they SEE (Gen. 13:14-15), through the things they THINK in their hearts (Prov. 4:23) and through the things they SAY (Mark 11:23).

They are made in my image and likeness. I have made them co-creators with me. You have to realize that, contrary to what you might have believed, in the beginning, I too saw darkness (Gen 1:2), but I chose to ignore it simply because that was not the end result I desired. What did I do? I SAW what I desired in my heart (THOUGHT) been LIGHT and I SPOKE it into existence (Gen. 1:3-4).

What you failed to understand is that the enemy cannot bring anything to pass unless you agree with him by believing and taking ownership of the pictures he paints in your mind.

Remember, his pictures cannot be good since he came to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). You have to wake up from your slumber and realize the game he’s playing with you and nullify any picture he is painting on the canvas of your mind. You need to remember my word that I will not withhold anything good from you if you walk uprightly (Psalm 84:11). When you listen to the voice of a stranger and do his bidding, then you are NOT walking uprightly, how then can I fulfill my promise? My sheep suppose to follow my voice, I have told you many times that the voice of a stranger you must not follow, but you seem to have forgotten that. I have told you that I have not given you the spirit of fear, but that of power, love and a sound mind.

So when you, my people, see these pictures, you begin to immediately pray and ask me not to allow that to happen while you have already claimed ownership of what you don’t want and nursing the fear secretly in your heart. Before long, you begin to get your friends and families in a chain of powerless prayers, all giving your powers to the manifestation of the very thing you are trying to prevent. I have answered your best prayer, even before you asked them. Look at Luke 10:19. Nothing has any power over you….. unless you agree with them. The enemy has no power to exercise over you until you give him your power.

In the second category, my people only come to me in prayer when everything else has failed. This category usually follows the first category. When they pray, their hearts are full of fear that they might not receive the answer to what they are requesting and so, their prayers become prayers of fear as opposed to prayer of faith. I have said that even if the first category occurred, I will hear the prayer of faith and the prayer of faith will save the sick, not the prayer of fear. Don’t come to me in prayer with your mind full of fear and doubt, if you do this, you have already received your answer; that which you have in your heart.

Do not forget my words to you in Mark 11:23-24 that you will HAVE what you SAY, but all I hear you SAY in your prayers is what you already HAVE, which is exactly what you are trying to get rid of. The more you SAY what you HAVE, the more you’ll have of the same, rather BELIEVE that when you pray, KNOW that what you SAY will be done, then you’ll HAVE what you SAY. So stop SAYING what you HAVE, but SAY that which you desire to come to pass, and you shall HAVE what you SAY.

You cannot violate any of my commandments and still expect the fulfillment of it.

One more thing, Jesus is my word, my manifested word. You can only come to me or communicate with me through my word. Now hear this. Jesus told you that if you deny HIM (The Word) before men (That includes your prayer) that HE will deny you before me, since he intercedes on your behalf, it means he cannot present your powerless words before me, because he knew those words are not part of him and he cannot present anything less than him before me. A total violation of my spiritual laws.”

Then He kept quiet for a brief moment, I started to wonder whether he was gone.

Then he said the followings, which I recognize in the book of Philippians 4:6-8

“When you stop worrying about what will be, live in the moment and just be thankful for what you desire, then and only then you can have my peace that passes all understanding. You will then be in a position of true power and become one with me. This will help you to truly manifest your heart desires. From this point on, I desire you to think on things that are true, noble, just, pure, and lovely and of good report. Since the issues of life come from the heart and out of the abundance of a man’s heart, his mouth speaks, you’ll begin to decree the right things with no fear and they will be established unto you and light will shine upon your ways.”

For some reason which I could not and still cannot explain, I fell asleep. I woke up this morning to share this with you my friends, families and all. To God be all the glory who is merciful enough to lovingly correct us in our own errors.God bless you.



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