Effectual Prayer Life
Topic: Introduction
Greetings Sons of God:
In maturing in Christ as a son, one of the hard aspects to
growth is a effectual prayer life. Many
of us, including myself, have found ourselves frustrated at one time or another
with our prayer life. Most of the
frustration centers around God not answering our prayers and of course watching
others pray and seeing God answer their prayers. Through the carnal lenses we can easily
interpret and feel that God has abandoned us or He does not care but we as
believers should know better because the Word says “He will never leave us nor
forsake us”. So if that is the case, why
does it feel that God does not answer our prayers? And how can I mature my prayer life to be
like Jesus where every prayer was answered?
Simply put the answer is in the Word of God. Now I will not leave you with that answer
solely as a mere statement but I desire to dig deep and share some wisdom,
knowledge and understanding that will help us all in maturing our prayer
life.
Prayer is not optional for any believer! Without prayer we leave ourselves vulnerable
and subject to the continuing deterioration of our the world and ourselves to
Satan. We know in the end that the
Kingdom will win, that is guaranteed but the question posed to you is are you
going to be a part of the advancing of the Kingdom or sit on the sidelines and
suffer in many cases unnecessarily the oppression of a defeated enemy? Let share some Scriptures that I want to use
for the base of this study:
James 5:16: Confess your faults one to another and pray one
for another that ye may be healed. The
effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Luke 18:1: And he spake a parable unto them to this end,
that men ought always to pray, and not faint;
Here are simply two Scriptures that we all know but the
problem is they are full of wisdom into maturing into a effectual prayer
life. Jesus tells us that we ought to
always pray but then through Paul Christ tells us that the effectual and fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
In the next message I want to dig into our Scripture here in
James and to be honest I do not know how long this series will be but I know no
matter how long, it is necessary for us as sons who are called to be
fellow-labourers with our Father in advancing the Kingdom.
Peace, Love and Grace,
Calvin Calhoun, Jr.
