Your heart and Word preparations must be followed up with a proper presentation of your request, if you must see your desired results in prayers.
In 1 Kings 18, Elijah completed all the preparatory processes of repairing the broken down altar, laying the wood in order and digging the trenches. After that, he put the burnt sacrifice on the altar and then lifted up his voice in communication with heaven and the fire fell.
Also, when David was going to face Goliath, he prepared himself by going to the brook to pick five smooth stones. But he didn't stop there. He approached the giant, cursed him in the name of the Lord, and while the giant was still wondering if David was actually coming to fight him or not, the stone from David's sling had gone into his forehead, and he was brought down (1 Sam. 17:40-50).
Effectual prayer begins with Word preparation, but it delivers through a sound-connection with heaven.
Faith
After locating the will of God concerning your situation, the next thing to be done is to build up faith for effectual communication. Faith is a potent force without which prayer will be absolutely unproductive. The Bible calls faith "The substance of things hoped for..." (Heb. 11:1). That means it is the ticket on which you take delivery of anything from heaven.
After Jesus healed the lunatic child His disciples couldn't heal, they came to Him later to ask why they couldn't cast the devil out of the child. Jesus' response is very revealing:
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?
And Jesus said unto them, Because of
your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye
shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and
nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Matthew 17:19-20
Until faith is in place, prayer will only end up in frustration. As powerful as the Word of God is, it can only produce when faith is present....READ MORE
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