RESOURCES - STEPS TO POWERFUL PRAYER

1. WORSHIP HIM
Praise brings us into God’s presence and forces Satan to flee. “Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name.” - Psalm 100: 4

2. BE STILL and know that He is God
Take time to clear your mind of everything and focus on God. - Psalm 46: 10

3. CONFESS your sins and cover them with the blood of Jesus
1 John 1: 9

4. SUBMIT to God with your whole being
Search your heart for areas that you are still holding on to. Have you given him everything, including your choice of career, spouse, friends, school, lifestyle? Tell him that you are holding nothing back. “Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time.” - 1 Peter 5: 6

5. BELIEVE that God will hear and answer
“Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” - Hebrews 11: 6

6. DO BATTLE in the spiritual world
Pray on the spiritual armor from Ephesians 6. Take back the victory, joy, and power Satan haws tried to steal from you. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in heavenly realms.” - Ephesians 6:12

7. LISTEN to the voice of the Holy Spirit
We often talk to God and don’t wait for a response. Let your Father talk to you today. “No eye has seen, on ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him’ –but god has revealed it to us by His Spirit.” - 1 Corinthians 2: 9-10

8. ASK GOD to tell you what to pray about
Be willing to put your desires aside and pray about what God brings to your mind. “I will do whatever you ask in My name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask Me for anything in My name, and I will do it.” - John 14: 13-14

9. JOIN TOGETHER in agreement with other believers
Pray with a prayer partner, meeting regularly to pray and share what God is doing in your life. Commit to pray for one another. “If two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in My name, there am I with them.” - John 14: 13-14

10. KEEP ON ASKING until the answer comes!
He will answer our prayers, but He works on His timetable, not ours. “Keep on asking and it will be given to you; keep on seeking and you will find: keep knocking and the door will be open to you.” - Matthew 7:7

11. PRAISE the Lord that He has heard you
And He will answer you according to His will. “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us – whatever we ask – we know that we have what we asked of Him.” - 1 John 2:5

12. ACT ON WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED to you in prayer
God will entrust you with big things only after you have been responsible and obedient with little things. “Do whatever He tells you.” - John 2:5

"Call unto Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things that you do not know." Jeremiah 33:3

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