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Yeongam Church Prayer School (6) How to Pray - The Grand Principle of the Secret of Prayer
It was the prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ that aroused the greatest longing and wonder of prayer in the hearts of the disciples. “When Jesus had finished praying in one place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray as John teaches his disciples to pray” (Luke 11:1). When God the Son spoke to God the Father with the mighty power of God the Holy Spirit, this was more than all the miracles before He was crucified and resurrected. It was a scene that moved the disciples even more.
If God the Son had found the need for prayer in his life, how much less would we? The disciples, who did not ask to teach them to evangelize, asked to teach them to pray. It can be seen that John the Baptist was not only the greatest of the prophets, but also had power to pray and teach prayer.
See how our Lord prayed on this earth! “Jesus took Peter, John, and James, and went up the mountain to pray.
As he prayed, his countenance was changed, and his clothes became white and radiant” (Luke 9:28-29).
See how our Lord is praying in heaven! “He did the cleansing of sin and sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high” (Hebrews 1:3)
“Therefore, those who come to God through him can save completely, because he always lives to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25).
There is a saying, “Prayer without works is like ashes, and works without prayer are like dreams.” But look at the Lord's balanced life! He lived on this earth for 33 years and half a year, teaching, healing, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom for three and a half years, but since then, he has been praying for us for a whopping 2,000 years!
Alright then, to the one God who has the answer to all our physical, mental and spiritual needs by being eternal students in the School of Prayer, rejoicing in His presence, and making full use of the torn veil and the blood-bought way. Come closer, learn to pray from the Bible.
1. Sixteen important prayer rules
Now let's look at the grand principle of the secret of prayer. I have been testing this secret day and night for over 20 years. Because these secrets are principles from the Word of God, they can live and work.
(1) Prayer must be persistent.
It is not denial that God delays. Every day we come closer to answers to our prayers. For example, the last prayer of the Bible, “Come, Lord Jesus” (Rev. 22:20) has been praying for nearly 2,000 years, and we know that at some point we will see the feet of the Lord as flames of fire when He comes. Don't be discouraged. When Moses prayed and asked, "Let me go through, and see the beautiful land beyond the Jordan" (Deuteronomy 3:25), the Lord answered, "Don't tell me about this again." He didn't say, "No." . Centuries later, in the land we see Moses talking to our Lord (Luke 9:30).
At a meeting in a small town in the western United States, a very small old man was saved. Another old man walked out and, with tears in his eyes, told how fifty years ago 25 young men promised to pray for this man every day. He said, "I am the only survivor who has seen my prayers answered in these two 50 years."
If it is for the glory of the Lord and according to the will of the Lord (and the Lord will show that it is so at the proper time). If you keep praying and keep praying, the light will finally penetrate and give glory to the Lord or answers will come. I prayed for more than 20 years to drive my car well at night, and at the age of 42, that prayer was answered. “As a parable to them, he said to them, ‘We must not always be discouraged’” (Luke 18:1).
We will be deeply moved when we literally put the following well-known verse into practice. “Again I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you” (Luke 11:9).
A person who did not give up in the middle of the night after opening the Bible to know a person who prayed patiently, perseveringly, and patiently (Luke 11:5-8), or someone who did not stop screaming (Mark 10:46-52), a Let's read about the widow who troubled the judge with her plea (Luke 18:1-8), and the woman who received an answer despite the opposition between God and man (Matthew 15:21-28).
Sometimes our Lord waits later than we think he should answer. But at the last moment, he is sure to respond. The Lord came to the disciples by the lake at about four o'clock in the evening. Just as the sun never rises a second before or a second after it should rise, so our Lord is never late. Among the dozens of answers to prayers in my file, I have marked <L-M-D>. This is my biggest iron. <L-M-D> means "Last Minute Deliverance".
(2) Prayer must be persistent.
Even though our modern way of life is soft, our prayers need to be desperate, struggling, frank, plain, brazen, and persistent. Many prayers in the Old and New Testaments are outcries, and the Hebrew and Greek languages are very strong words. Despite the objections of many books and ideas, the Bible speaks of them as prayers that move the heavens. “The prayers of the righteous have great power” (James 5:16b).
In Acts 12, when Herod reached out his hand (for persecution), the church reached out to pray. “O God, let it be done according to your word” is the cry of those who want to receive an answer and cannot back down. We are not conquering what God hates, but rather holding on to God's willingness to give, breaking through principalities and powers to bring the power of Almighty God into our absolute needs.
It is good to hear Hebrews 5:7 if you think you know how to pray. "While he was in the flesh, he offered up supplications and supplications with intense cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence."
Open the Bible and read about Abraham's boldness (Genesis 18:23-32) and Moses' boldness (Exodus 33:12-18) and pay attention to what is most gracious in prayer. "We do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in all respects as we are, yet without sin. Therefore, we must come boldly before the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. it is."
(3) Prayer should be resistant.
Prayer must be resisted because we have ever known it to be self-defeating. If Satan had 10 atomic bombs at his disposal, he would drop them on the most powerful prayer room in the world. “Our wrestling is not with flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, the rulers of this dark world, and the evil spirits in the heavens” (Ephesians 6:12).
There have been times when we spend so much time late at night that we don't get up early in the morning, show the good (the second best) so that we don't have the best, and we get so carried away with one prayer that we don't think about another. This enemy even makes us study prayer or read a book about prayer, but not prayer. This little text is quick to point out clearly that some prayers are not answered by God. This adversary turns our attention to our inertia, to the impossibility of our supplications, making us forget that there is only one God who began and continues to work in the impossible.
God never discourages anyone. It can be seen that <everything is not so> or <everything is a disaster> comes from the devil. The devil turns our attention away from the irresistible name of Christ to the unworthy side of ourselves. He presides over the phone, the tongs, the anger of the dog, the visitor who brings in useless things, and the anger of his wife. He puts his evil and dirty thoughts into beautiful supplications and bursts the smoke screen. He takes our most attentive attention from the Lord God,
directed towards pain and sorrow. When given the opportunity, he excuses answers to prayers and slanders God and his brother. His greatest deception puts us face to face and avoids Christ. He is the author of all books, through which he unwittingly exaggerates his strength and conceals his defeat, though they are intended to teach him how to resist him. He has a church that convenes committee meetings every evening, whips accusations from behind the fervent religious activities of the day, and always ridicules empty prayer rooms. He is the biggest hindrance and waste of time. But our Lord has given him the Word of God, the only way to resist him. "Jesus answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God...and the devil departed from him" (Matthew 4:4-11).
Read often the verses below that speak of <Caution>. Hab 2:1, Matthew 26:40-41, Mark 13:33, Luke 21:36, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Col 4:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:6, 2 Tim 4:5, 1 Pet 4:7, Revelation 3: 3
(4) Prayer should be resigned to its method.
That is to say, we should not try to answer our own prayers unless the Lord Himself leads us in that direction. what? Are you trying to cross the Red Sea with a sieve and scooping water? Will you go around Jericho and advance to it? “Commit your way to the Lord, trust in him, and he will do it” (Psalm 37:5). “If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it” (John 14:14).
Abraham asked for a son from God (Genesis 15:2), and then he obeyed the voice of his wife, Sarai, instead of God, and took Hagar as his wife, and tried to help and complete God's work. How terrible it is to meddle in God's plan and answer our own prayers! To this day, the Arabs claim that they are descendants of Ishmael from Abraham's ungodly union, and they still harass the Jews, descendants of Isaac. <Remove your hand from the ark! (Do not claim your own subjectivity in God's plan)>
Jacob prayed for deliverance from his brother Esau (Gen. 32:11), and then began to sink him with goats, ewes, rams, camels, cows, oxen, and donkeys. Completely surrender your supplications to God. If we were standing in the mailbox clinging to a corner of a letter, when would we get a reply?
(5) Prayer must be secret.
We should speak of our needs only to God. If we put our needs before people, we will get so much more than we ask or think. That is, you will get all that God can do. When we speak to others, we are asking them, not God. There is no recession or summer depression in heaven. We pray vertically and not horizontally. Very few people practice this secret of prayer, but speaking only to God is the only true faith. The Word of God says, "When you pray, go into your closet (which means "storehouse" in Greek), close the door, and pray to your Father who is in secret" (Matthew 6:6).
How can we tell other people if it's a secret thing? The words <Closet>, <Closed door- Shur doors> and <In secret> seem to show that, in human language, we should only tell God our needs. Perhaps because until now you have failed to keep these great truths, God has not provided for your needs or granted the wishes of your heart.