07/11/2024
THE MYSTERY OF ENGAGING PRAYER | SNR PST MBURU | KSF THIKA CITY OF LIFE | SUNDAY MORNING DEVOTION | 3^RD NOV 2024
1. When we pray, we keep our inner man alive and alert.
✓ Prayer accesses you to the oil for keeping the momentum.
✓ Engaging in prayer is feeding our inner man.
✓ Prayer creates a pathway to relating with God.
2. Prayer activates the will of God in our lives.
• Matt 6:10
• Jer 29:11-13
3. Engaging in prayer helps to align us in the will of God.
• Prov 19:21 NIV "Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails."
4. We engage in prayer to unlock the great things God has in store for us.
• Jer 33:3
~ Prayer is a divine transaction that results in divine empowerment to believers.
~ Prayer accesses you the power needed for your mandate.
~ Through prayer, Nehemiah received capacity to build the wall for just 52 days.
5. Prayer activates divine speed.
✓ A wall that had broken down for a century was built within just 52 days.
6. Prayer births out manifestation.
✓ Without prayer, there can never be manifestation of Divine mandates.
7. Prayer releases spiritual strength to deliver.
• Isa 66:8 NKJV Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children.
✓ If you miss it in the spiritual world, you cannot have it in the physical.
8. Prayer activates God's mercy upon our lives.
• Rom 10:13 KJV For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
9. Prayer helps us to be effective and productive.
• John 15:5
✓ Prayer has the ability to activate fruitfulness in a person's life.
10. Prayer keeps the devil away.
✓ Prayer destroys the works of the evil one.
• Jer 1:10
11. Prayer helps people to become focussed unto God and their mandates.
12. Prayer activates your Kairo moments..your season of manifestation.
✓ The children of Israel stayed in captivity exceeding the number of years they were supposed to stay there..However, when a man of God engaged in prayer the captivity was ended.
13. Prayer activates the favour of God upon our lives.
✓ When Esther prayed, she secured God's favour that enabled her to appear before the King and save the whole nation of Jews.
14. Prayer shapes your character.
✓ Through prayer, your eyes open and you begin discerning the areas God wants you to change and grow.
15. Prayer activates the Wisdom of God.
16. Prayer activates spiritual discernment.
17. Prayer changes you to a spiritual powerhouse.
• James 5:16
18. Prayer releases answers.
19. Prayer breaks barrenness.
✓ The only weapon Hannah used to deal with barrenness was prayer.
20. Limitations are broken through prayer.
✓ Through prayer, we are able to clear forests of destiny , find & create pathways.
21. Prayer eliminates weaknesses of your spirit man...it changes you to a strong man.
22. Through prayer, trajectories are changed.
✓ Through prayers, possibilities are created.
✓ There is no limitation a prayerful life cannot breakthrough.
23. Prayer helps us conquer new grounds.
• Matt 17:21
WHAT MAKES PRAYER EFFECTIVE?
a) Living a life of purity & Righteousness Psa 24:3, James 5:16
b) Forgiveness; Matt 5:23-24
c) Wrong motives; James 4:3
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU SLOW YOUR PRAYER LIFE?
a) You begin loosing the grounds you had conquered.
b) Past sins begin to come back.
c) You loose swiftness of fulfilling your destiny.
Shalom
