PRAYER FOR A GENERATION -01

The Dynamics of Prayer

God has given the human race great dignity by giving us free will, which means we have been given the ability to make real decision that have both temporal and eternal consequences. While the nobility of choice can be glorious if exercised in righteousness, it can also be perilous if swayed by sin and rebellion.
A failure to soberly recognize the response the word of God necessitates will result in a life of squandered opportunities.
However, the wisdom of a lifestyle of obedience to the precepts of scripture will have dramatic impact on our lives in this age, and will be forever rewarded in the age to come. On of the wisest choices that we can make in this life is to pray. Prayer can be expressed in many edifying forms, raging from:

• quiet devotional meditation,

• Corporate intercessor prayer for revival.

Psalms 2 reveals an astounding facet of the relationship between the father and the Son, bestowing significance to prayer that we can scarcely fathom. In verse 8, God the Father says to the Jesus the Son, “Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for Your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession.”
Peering into the mystery of the Godhead, we see that the man Jesus, as the Second person of the trinity, operates His government through Intercession.

• Throughout His days on earth, He was ever retreating in seclusion to prayer.

Like 6:12
12And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

• In hours leading up to His crucifixion He cried out to God on behalf of His disciples (John 17).

Jesus role in prayer stretches far beyond the bounds of His first coming. He sits at the right hand of God and ever lives to make intercession.

Rom 8:34
34Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Heb 7:25

25Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

When He returns and rules the earth from Zion, his government will function as a house of prayer for all nations.

Isaiah 56:7
7Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.

These are only glimpses into the majestic truth woven throughout scripture: that prayer is the primary mode God has chosen for Jesus to release the Father’s power and usher in His everlasting Kingdom.

As His Bride.

as his bride, when we pray, we are entering into partnership with Him, the eternal intercessor.
As Christ sought friends to watch with Him in the garden of Gethsamane

Mark 14:32-38

32And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray.
33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
34And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
35And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.
36And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
37And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour?
38Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

, forever He invites His people into the intimacy and authority of Prayer.

Our decision to embrace this invitation or to neglect it has profound ramifications. Regardless of what people or demons do, God will accomplish the main events of the plan He has determined for the future: such as

• Jesus second coming,
• His reign over the whole earth,
• Satan being cast out in the lake of fire…

However, He has given us a dynamic role, through our response to Him:

• In prayer,

• Fasting,

• And obedience, in determining some of the “quality of life” we experience in the natural and in the spiritual. He opens doors of blessings and closes doors of oppression in response of our prayers.

• There are blessings God will only release as His people ask for them in the intimate partnership of prayer.

• There are demonic oppressions that only leave as a result of prayer and fasting

Matt 17:21
21Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

Isaiah taught that He longs to release His grace and power, but actually waits until He hears the cry of His people in intercession. “the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore he waits on High to have compassion on you… he will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you”

Isaiah 30:18-19
18And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
19For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.