Prayer has a manner, just as
Jesus said in Matthew 6 from verse 9 to 10. Everything we do has a manner;
there is a table manner which regulates how we eat, there is a manner of
approach which helps us to be on our best behavior when we go to meet people, there
is also manner of dressing which tells us how to dress and the kind of clothes
to wear to different functions.
In one of our previous articles,
we defined prayer as a spiritual exercise through which we communicate with
God, our Heavenly Father. It (Prayer) is a bridge between Heaven and earth. It
is a bridge that connects our spirit man to Heaven. Since God is a spirit, the
only way we can communicate with Him is also to be in the spirit through the
use of Prayer.
Each time we pray, there are
certain things that happen in the spiritual realm. Though we may not be able to
see those things happening physically immediately, but some things are
definitely happening spiritually.
The Bible teaches us that without
faith, it is impossible to please God. Now, what is faith? I will like to
define faith as an act of believing a thing even when there are no evidence of
those things. The Bible makes us to understand that even if we have faith as small as that of a mustard seed, we would
tell the mountain to be uprooted and be buried deep in the sea.
Whenever we pray, we have to have
faith that God will, and have answered our prayers. With such a conviction,
God’s hands will be moved into actions. God already knows everything we are
passing through, so our prayers are not to inform Him of the happenings but to
invite Him into our situations.
The hosts of Heaven moves into
actions each time we pray. Some of the reasons why most people do not get answers
to their prayers is because they do not pray in accordance with God’s will.
They pray with the ignorance of God. No wonder Jesus taught us Christians how
to pray; using TheLord’s Prayer
as a practical template of how a prayer should look like.
Things That Happens When we Pray
- We invite God into our situation.
- We acknowledge that God is our only source of strength and help.
- We communicate with God, just as we do with our earthly parents.
- We are rest assured of a divine answer and encounter.
- We become war generals, because heaven sends in troops on our behalf.
- We have the upper hand in the battle of our lives.
- We end up becoming victorious.
- We exercise our power and authority in Christ.
- We are sure of victory.
- We become light-hearted and less burdened.
- When we pray, we subject the enemy to frustration.