7 TIPS FOR A MORE EFFECTIVE PRAYER LIFE
(By: Norm Rasmussen) Director, Precious Testimonies Evangelistic Ministries
Having an exciting prayer life is outright fun! Here are seven important tips, I believe, to help make your prayer life more rewarding!
First ... a few thoughts about faith:
A key to having faith for each occasion is to BELIEVE God's written Word and God's rhema word (should He desire to give you a spoken rhema word specific for that occasion, which may be His means to impart sufficient faith to you for that specific prayer to see it accomplish God's desired effect).
Refuse to allow DOUBT to cancel your faith ... which is one of Satan's greatest means of robbing you of your faith.
If you don't believe God's Word ... you won't obey (do) God's Word. God honors obedience to His Word (both His written Word and His rhema word, if He gives a specific spoken rhema word for that particular occasion) as wisely understood and wisely applied by the help of the Holy Spirit.
Obedience to God's written (logos) Word, and obedience to God's specific spoken rhema word ... (if He gives you one) ... is faith in action that God delights in rewarding.
Here are seven tips that have helped me in having a more exciting prayer life:
1) Learn to listen to the Holy Spirit while praying. He knows more about prayer and each situation than anyone else!
2) Grow to pray unselfishly. You'll get more prayers answered!
3) Learn to listen to the Holy Spirit in what you should pray for, and how you are to pray for it.
4) Learn how to receive sufficient faith from God for every prayer you pray. (Some prayers God answers requires very little faith on our part. Others prayers require a great deal of faith on our part when we pray them, to see them answered).
5) Learn the wisdom of persistence and patience. God's timing can play an important role in answered prayer.
6) Presumption and/or assumption are two deadly mindsets that can hinder one's prayers from being answered in a positive manner. Both come usually from selfishness and/or pride. Misapplication of God's Word can be another reason.
7) Purpose to give God glory with every prayer answered. Share it with us, so we can share it with the world! God has all power, yet He's willing to share it with the humble, and who can be trusted with it. God has all faith, yet He is willing to share it with the humble, and who can be trusted with it. Prayer mixed with faith can accomplish the impossible.
Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes." (Mark 9:23 - NKJV)
Dear Reader - are you at peace with God? If not, you can be. Do you know what awaits you when you die? You can have the assurance from God that heaven will be your home, if you would like to be certain. You can even have that assurance RIGHT NOW! Either Jesus Christ died for your sins, or He didn't (He did!). Are you prepared to stand before God on the Judgment Day and tell Him that you didn't need the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the Cross to have your sins forgiven and get in right-standing with God? We plead with you...please don't make such a tragic mistake.
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Remember: All that we do in this life comes back to our God-given purpose which is to serve and glorify God. The money and assets we accumulate, the fame and power we've attained or seek to attain - all of the things of this nature will one day pass away, but those lives of others we impact for Jesus Christ will last for eternity, and we will be rewarded for the part we helped play by impacting those lives ... for eternity. (Matthew 6:19-20 is our assurance)