Praying the Right Way

First thought to be established in your mind in other to pray effectively is this: God wants to hear and answer your prayers. If He had planned it any other way He would never have required you to pray. Reference: 2chronicles7:14.

Jesus always had answered prayers and we are no different from this answered prayers.

Many Christians don't spend enough time in studying the word, So they don't enjoy a personal relationship with God.

Luke5:12( the leprous man didn't question the power of God; "doubt" he knew Jesus 'could' but didn't know if he 'would'.) A lot of people are like that, they don't know the will of God

Philippians2:13; That desire for good things is a reflection of God's desire in us. No father wants his children to go through the same problem he went through.

It doesn't matter your prayer needs don't make vain repetition.

Expect Answers when you Pray:

To have those answers consistently, you must pray according to God's word revealed concerning prayer in the new testament.

John16:24.

Through prayers we can prevail on circumstances. God has shown us in His Word that we can change anything, including things that were divinely destined to be. This may sound incredible to you but it’s in the Bible! God may have said you’re going to have it one way, but if you discover you don’t want it that way, you can change it, It’s amazing but it’s true. 

The only reasons something can happen to you as God said it would are when:

I. You want it to happen

II. You don’t know it’s going to happen

III. You know it’s going to happen, but you

 don’t know what to do to change it

IV. You don’t do what you should do, even

 though you know it’s going to happen.

God doesn’t run our lives the way we think

He does. Whenever He wants to do something nobody can change, nobody gets to know about it until it’s done. Moses said the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children, but the things that are not revealed belong to God (Deuteronomy 29:29). So when He doesn’t want any human influence on it, and when there can be no human influence on it, He doesn’t reveal it! But if He reveals it to you, He is telling you if you want to change it, you can! And you can only change it when you pray, and pray the right way!

There are several accounts in the Scriptures of men who changed the mind of God from what He had determined to do. One of such accounts is in Exodus 32:7-14, 2 Kings20:1-7.

There are certain things we see provided for us in God’s Word, but we need to do more than merely confessing to possess them. Someone may say, “I’m full of the spirit of wisdom and revelation,” but it doesn’t come just by confessing it, otherwise Paul wouldn’t have prayed for the Ephesian church that God would grant them the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him (Ephesians 1:17). You’ve got to pray for that Word to take root in your life.

Jesus also said in Mark 9:23, “...all things are possible to him that believeth.” So the big question is: Do you believe, and what do you believe? If you believe God’s Word and put it to work in your prayer life, then anything is possible!

God hasn’t called us into religion; Christianity is not one of the religions of the world. Christianity is the pulsating life of the resurrected Christ in the spirit, soul and body of a human person. It’s the divine life of God imparted to a human spirit here on earth. It’s God’s life at work in a man.

In 1 Timothy 2:5-6 Paul says, “For there is

one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time.” This is talking about the whole world and God, and someone standing in the gap. Jesus is man’s Kinsman-redeemer, Mediator and Umpire. But for us who have been born again, He’s not our mediator because we don’t need a mediator anymore. This is why it would be absolutely wrong and ineffective for us to pray to the Father through Jesus Christ our Lord.

As long as you keep praying to Jesus or

through Jesus, or you keep asking Him for things, your prayers will remain unanswered.

There’s a great difference between praying

through Jesus and praying in His Name. To pray through Jesus is to pray through a medium to God, and that’s unacceptable, because that makes Him a medium, and He is no medium to the Christian.

However, when you pray to the Father in the

Name of Jesus, you’re exercising the power of attorney He gave you to use His Name. This means you’re operating the full legal powers He gave you to act in His stead and on His behalf. When you pray in His Name, it’s as though Jesus Himself were speaking and everything responds to you the same way they would to Jesus.

“And in that day ye shall ask me

nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto

you, whatsoever ye shall ask the

Father in my name, he will give

it you”

 (John 16:23).

Here the Lord Jesus lets us know there’s a new kind of prayer for a new kind of people the New Testament folk! And he tells us, “You’ll not have to pray to Me, because whatever you ask the Father in My Name, He will give it to you.” So in this new day what we do is pray to the Father in Jesus’ Name. Notice He didn’t say, “You shall pray to the Father through Me.” He said, “You shall pray to the Father in My Name.” The next time you hear somebody pray “through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen,” just know that prayer didn’t have an answer because it didn’t work!

Jesus isn’t praying to the Father on your behalf. Instead He says, “Don’t come through Me, go by yourself, because the Father loves you. All you need is use My Name because My Name is in charge of the New Testament.”

“And whatsoever ye shall ask in

my name, that will I do, that the

Father may be glorified in the

Son. If ye shall ask anything in

my name, I will do it”

 ( John14:13-14).

“And in that day ye shall ask me

nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto

you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the

Father in my name, he will give

it you. Hitherto have ye asked

nothing in my name: ask, and

ye shall receive, that your joy

may be full”

 (John 16:23-24).

These verses of Scripture clearly express the differences in the believer’s employment of the Name of Jesus. The one (John 14:13-14) talks about establishing a thing, making a demand or a declaration in the Name of Jesus; the other (John16:23-24) talks about making a request to the Father in the Name of Jesus and the Father’s obligation to grant your request.

The statement in John 14:13-14 doesn’t refer to praying to God the Father, but using the Name of Jesus to deal with situations in our daily lives. Here, Jesus is saying, “When you make a declaration, I’ll cause it to happen, I’ll back you up!” When we speak or make declarations in the Name of Jesus, we’re taking His place and standing in His stead as Master over all things. This is not the same as using His Name to ask things from Him, which I have already shown you is unscriptural.

The Name of Jesus Christ has been given to us as a blank cheque completely endorsed with our name on it. You can fill anything in that cheque because your Father’s bank is a big one. You want divine health? Then fill it in! You can say, “In the Name of Jesus, I walk in divine health from this day forward. They’re not taking me to that hospital again!” That sickness will have to leave when you use the Name of Jesus!

The disciples came to Jesus and asked Him,

“Master, teach us how to pray as John taught his disciples” (Luke 11:1).

Jesus answered and said, “After this manner pray ye.” In other words, “I’ll give you a guide line.” Then He started, “Our Father, which art in heaven. Hallowed be Thy Name…” Now, at that time, this prayer was okay. It said, “Thy Kingdom come…” because at the time He was teaching them, the Kingdom hadn’t yet come. But now the Kingdom has already come. Studying in the epistles, you’ll discover this prayer has actually been abolished. (Jesus gave them a format not to pray that way, he said after this manner pray ye, you have to study the format to know what things to say when Praying)

"When a man makes a will it can only come into effect after his death. As long as he’s alive, you can’t execute it. You’d be wrong to do that. “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth”

 (Hebrews 9:16-17)

Notice that when He taught them to pray this prayer before His death, His Name was never used. In the New Testament, we’recommanded to pray in His Name. Back then they couldn’t have used His Name because it didn’t yet have the power for salvation. Jesus Himself said, “In that day you shall not pray to Me, but whatever you shall ask the Father in My Name, He will give to you. Until now you haven’t asked anything in My Name; ask that your joy may befull” (John16:23-24).

"understand that in prayer, we begin by worshipping and praising God"

“Thy kingdom come.” But we’re in His Kingdom now. Colossians 1:12-13 says, “Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet (qualified) to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son.” Did you notice this is in the past tense? It didn’t say He shall make us meet, but He hath made us meet. He has already qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. It also says that He “…hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son.” It doesn’t say He shall translate us into the Kingdom of His dear Son, He has already done it! We’re in His Kingdom now. So the prayer, “Thy Kingdom come,” was answered a long time ago.

David said, “The earth is the Lord's, and the

fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein” (Psalm 24:1). But now we own it all together with Him. So now we don’t pray, “Father, give us our daily bread,” or “Give me a house,” “Give me a car” or “Lord, I need new clothes….” Don’t pray like that anymore because you have arrived in the Kingdom – the land of plenty. You’ve been brought into a large place and all things are yours now, glory

to God!

“And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil...”

 (Matthew 6:13).

 Now, if we pray ‘deliver us from evil’ then it

means we’re still subject to the devil. We can’t accept that because He already told us in Colossians 1:13

But now He says, “These signs shall follow them that believe: in My Name shall they cast out devils...” (Mark 16:17). To be able to cast out devils surely means you have authority over them, praise God!

 When Jesus came out of the grave, He said, “...All power (that is, authority) is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore…” (Matthew 28:18). What this means is, “I’ve got all the power and authority; now go in My Name, in My power

and in My authority!” This is not a promise. Moreover, the Father has declared that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow (Philippians 2:10). So all the devils are aware; they know they’ve got to bow at the Name of Jesus, because it’s the Name above every Name. Hallelujah!

(John 17:1-5).

In just the same way, you should declare, “Father, I worship You today. Let Your Name be glorified in me that I also may glorify You, as You have given me authority to function in the Name of Jesus.