Daily Devotional

GOD’S GIFT OF POWERFUL PRAYER

February 22

hild of the King, do you know how fast light travels. It's amazing! Well, your prayers to your Father in Heaven travel even faster than light. In fact, before you even think about praying the words, I am already in the process of answering your prayers. I created prayer as a gift for you to use to reach the very presence and mind of your Lord in Heaven. It really does come to me and I hear every thought and spoken prayer. Some prayers are mingled with the will of the flesh. These I hear but prefer for you to pray thoughts which are touched with love, compassion for others, selflessness, praise and joy! When you really get outside "yourself" in prayer, then the Holy Spirit whisks away that prayer and deposits it instantly in the presence of your Father in Heaven. That kind of prayer rejoices the heart of God and He rises with that joy and searches for the best response available to you. This is very good. When you pray in the name of Jesus, you are saying to your Father, "it is all because of His precious sacrifice on Calvary and the love expressed through that gift that I make this petition before you, Lord." This again is very pleasing to your Father in Heaven. Also, when you enter the "Spirit" of prayer, many things happen about which you are not aware. In other words, even though you may say certain things and include certain items in your prayer, the Holy Spirit may carry hidden requests which lie within your heart to the Father. You may speak one thing, and other things of greater importance which lie hidden within you may also be "carried" to your Father without your knowing it. After all, you truly want to pray your heart when you go to prayer, don't you? Aren't you glad that I am not restricted just to what comes to your limited human mind? Therefore, you need to learn "free yourself up" as some would describe it, when you pray. Allow the Holy Spirit who "searches all things, yes the deep things of God" (I Corinthians 2:10 NKJV) as you pray and as an old hymn says, "be lost in wonder, love and praise" before your Father in prayer. This is good for you. Never restrict your prayer to the "obvious" but pray, as the apostle tells you, "with the Holy Spirit and with the understanding." (I Corinthians 14:15) If you trust Him, the Holy Spirit will carry you in prayer to places that you could never carry yourself. This is good for you! Above all, enter prayer whether you feel like it or not. Don't say, "I don't feel like praying." Push past that feeling and offer praise and thanksgiving to your Father whether you "feel like it or not." A reward is waiting to those who pray in faith, and not just according to their feelings. Beloved, I think highly of you! I love and bless you as you live and pray to your Father!

Prayer

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Father, in the name of Jesus I will always seek you and seek to be brought into your holy presence by the Holy Spirit in prayer. It is my life-bread. It is my pleasure! It is my great joy! It is so wonderful to know that you hear me when I pray! For this I feel safe and peaceful and happy for the privilege of being your beloved child. In Jesus’ name, amen!