Wanna Know the Secret to a Successful Prayer Life?

Wanna know the secret to a successful prayer life?

Stop praying WORRIED prayers!

“Oh, I’m not worried, I’m just concerned.”

“Concerned” is code for WORRIED.

“Oh, I’m not concerned, but I just believe that “if it’s God’s will”…

Also, this will not produce a successfully answered prayer.

“Why? Jesus prayed this way, didn’t He?”

He did, and at only ONE SPECIFIC time and place, in the garden of Gethsemane, just before He was to go to the cross and be separated from God because the sin of the entire world was going to be put on Him.

And WE don’t have that same assignment, praise God!

It’s been said that, “Faith begins where the will of God is known.”

In other words, we cannot release our faith if we do not know God’s will.

But we DO KNOW that we have His Word and His WILL IS FOUND IN HIS WORD.

So, that puts the responsibility on US to GET INTO HIS WORD and find out what GOD SAYS ABOUT THE MATTER we’re praying about, right?

Whenever you find yourself feeling worried, BEFORE PRAYING, ask yourself what the Word says about it.

If you’re worried about your finances, don’t wring your hands and say, “What am I going to do, Lord?” Go to the Word and find scriptures that teach about how the Lord is our Shepherd, our Jehovah Jireh, our Provider, how you’ve been a tither and a giver, and the Word says God will cause those seeds to produce a harvest in your life.

If you’re worried about your child, don’t pray FEARFUL PRAYERS, go to the Word and meditate (which literally means ‘to chew’ and ‘to mutter’) and FEED YOURSELF all throughout the day on what God says about your child. That they “have the mind of Christ” and He’s helping them right now to know the right steps to take, that they have been “taught of the Lord, and GREAT is their peace”, that “God is effectually at work in them, [energizing and creating in them the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure, satisfaction, and delight!”

If you’re worried about your physical body, or that of a loved one, FEED ON THE TRUTH that HEALING BELONGS TO US. Take it like MEDICINE ORALLY (OUT LOUD) many times a day and then RELEASE YOUR FAITH that ‘By His stripes you WERE HEALED’ and therefore ARE HEALED TODAY!

***Pray this prayer with me right now: Father, forgive me for the times when I gave in to the temptation to worry. I will not allow shame because of my humanity, but instead choose to see it as an opportunity to remind myself of what Your Word says. I commit to filling up on Your higher truths in my life, and then when it’s so deep in my heart, I will open my mouth and release my faith so I can HIT THE BULLSEYE every time, in Jesus’ name, Amen! ~Be Blessed, Jenny xoxo