What is the Power in your Prayer?

Sometimes, we humans can really miss Truth! This reality should not discourage us, instead it should lead us to be slower in our process of Truth…not jumping to conclusions or arrogantly coming to the conclusion that “we’ve got it!” When God states, “His thoughts are not our thoughts” (Isa 55:8-9) He does not mean “almost!” He is not just a “little” different than us, God is light-years different from us!

Sadly, this misunderstanding impacts our understanding of many issues in our walk with God! Two of them are “faith” and “power.” “Faith” is very important in our relationship with God, but many have gone too far. They take a few verses where the Lord was testing a person’s faith, and come away with the belief that “faith” is the power! Faith is the “channel”, but the power is the object the faith is placed in. You can have all the faith in the world that your works will save you, but in the end they will fail!

When it comes to understanding “power” in your prayer life, the key again is not you. I am not saying we do not have a part in how prayer works, we do. Our ability to trust God (faith) our motive in our prayer and our walk with God at that moment all play into how our prayers are dealt with. However, the Key is Who is your prayer partner? The Power in prayer is the fact that Jesus Christ joins us in our requests. This is the 4^th reason why we should pray! In Review:

            {1} Because of Christ we "are not our own", we belong to                     Him, not ourselves.

            {2} We have the Key that opens the Door - His Name!

            {3} Because we are frail we do not always know how to pray                The Spirit prays for us!

{4} Jesus is already there praying for you - you are just joining Him

This is the Power to Prayer! The One Person in the universe that has the right and the authority to approach the Throne of God is Jesus Christ! His sacrifice of death and His victory in resurrection has given those that trust in Him that same privilege. When we go to God’s Throne, He is there waiting for us! What a Savior!  

Romans 8:34 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died-- more than that, who was raised to life-- is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

Hebrews 7:25 Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.

1 John 2:1 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have one who speaks to the Father in our defense-- Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.

The So What: How much to you talk with the Lord each day on the average? When was the last time you saw an answer to a specific prayer? What reasons do you have for not making it a priority to meet with the family for prayer?