Your prayers can do mighty things Although God can do anything, He has limited Himself to work through you and your prayers. It’s not how long you pray or how much you pray, it’s how much you believe. Jesus said that if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can move a whole mountain (Matthew 17:20). If you believe, every prayer is heard and answered. But if you don’t pray or don’t believe, it is not done. An awful lot depends on you. God said to Israel one time that bad things were happening because no man stirred himself to call upon God (Isaiah 64:7). God leaves a lot up to us and our concern and prayer. If you only cry with half a heart, you only get half an answer. But if you cry with your whole heart, you get a wholehearted strong answer. He says, “You will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart” (Jeremiah 29:13). When you determine you’re going to pray more and then desperately cry out to God—Boom! Boom! Boom!—the Holy Spirit goes to work and it probably won’t be long before you begin to see some results. God always answers when we stir ourselves to call upon Him with a whole heart. So pray! — Mark 11:24 ESV - Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 1 John 3:22 ESV - And whatever we ask we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do what pleases him. 1 John 5:14-15 ESV - And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:16:02 +0000