Prayer the way we have been doing it is like being out in our yard. Suddenly you spot a big, ugly black rat or a cobra. It slips out of sight while you are searching for a tool with which to dispatch it. You beat all the high grass, all the bushes near where you saw it, but it is quietly hiding far from where you are endeavoring to locate it.
This is how prayer has been in our lives. We have not realized that the Father has a plan for us, He has an answer to every dilemma. Instead of seeking Him and His answers we go about using all the tools we have learned in sermons, books, reading the Bible, etc instead of praying according to the Father’s wisdom and His will for that specific situation. Ask Him what He wants us to pray; how simple could it be?
God has already told the Holy Spirit what His heart is on the matter, but now we need to get into agreement with God, Holy Spirit and Jesus and pray with them, not contrary, off on a wild tangent.
Instead of praying trying to wrench the answer from God’s hand we need to switch our understanding and our strategy and pray with the answer in the first place. We’ve been doing it backwards. So, in effect, we have been at odds with both the Holy Spirit and Jesus. Our prayers can’t get the answer when we are out of agreement. A house divided cannot stand. This applies to our prayer life as well as the rest of life.
I John 5
14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.
Romans 8
26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us[b] with groanings which cannot be uttered. 27 Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
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