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Hey Blog Fam,

Trust we are all doing great, and following hard after all the Lord has placed in our hearts.

For the last two posts, I have been sharing my thoughts as it relates to one of the many advantages of believers which is prayer; today’s post will be the last in this series for now.

There are a lot of blessings when we pray, but then amidst the hustle bustle of life, it is so easy to allow prayer to get the back seat, so, let us go into practical ways to help you stay on track as it relates to praying.

Before we talk about the practical ways, let’s talk about prayer being a seed that we can sow into our future.

An acquaintance of mine posted on her WhatsApp status how prayer is one thing you can send into your future, and it was as though I was hearing that statement for the first time in my life.

While you might not able to take all the dresses you own now into the future, but one thing you can definitely send into your future is your prayer. 

Just imagine that all that is happening in your life at the moment is as a result of the prayers you have prayed in times past, so it means if you want to see and get more results in five, ten, fifty or a hundred years from now if Christ tarries, then you must be ready to sow the seeds of prayer.

I was reading a book some years back where the author talked about a time she was reading her grandmother’s journal and she saw her name written down in the journal, and the grandma wasn’t only praying for her granddaughter, but she was even praying into the future for the kind of man her granddaughter was going to mary, can anything just beat that?

You are still in 2021, you can start praying about 2031, 2041, 2081.

With long life, the Lord has promised to satisfy us, so if Christ tarries in his coming and doesn’t come till when you are ninety years of age, can you just envisage what you want your reality to be by then and start covering all your dreams in the place of prayer.

Even if you’re not married yet, you can set a day apart every week to pray for that spouse that you will spend the rest of your life with. Can you start to declare those things you want to see in his/her life when you finally meet?

Related: 5 Great Books For The Christian Woman 

Even if you don’t have children yet, can you set a day apart every week to start praying for your children (biologically and spiritually), those things you want to see in their life, can you begin to say them in the place of prayer now. There is so much decadence going on in our world of today, you don’t want your children to be part of that number, so why not start praying for them?

Most times, we don’t pray because we feel we do not have enough prayer points to pray about, but if only we can look well into our lives and families we will see major prayer points from there.

I first heard the above from an invited guest minister and then from my mentoring academy.

Have you been noticing patterns in your family that you feel are not consistent with the reality that you are supposed to be experiencing as a child of God?

Have you checked your family both from the maternal and paternal line and after having looked at it well, you then begin to see trends, the kind of trends that you will not want a repeat performance in your own life. It's time to pray!

Christ already blotted out the handwriting of ordinances that was written against us which was contrary to us, he already nailed them on the cross triumphing over them in victory.

Rather than just wishing them away or accepting them as the norm, why not choose to pray about them, pray about them until you know you have been delivered, pray about them until you see yourself working in another dimension different from what used to be obtainable in your family line.

There is so much God wants to do for us, please pray yourself into alignment.

Practical Ways To Stay On Track

Schedule

Just like you don’t leave anything that is important to you to chance, or when you have time for them, so also should you not leave your prayer life to whenever you have time for it.

If you decide to just leave it to chance, you might just discover that you haven’t prayed in two weeks or even more.

Schedule time to pray, it is that important.

Don’t just wait till when you’re less busy to pray; deliberately create out time out of your busy life to pray, pray like your life depends on it because it actually does. Praying about a thing forms a solid foundation on which you can then build with discipline, diligence, hard work, time management and the list go on, so let your foundation be strong.

Pray About Everything

We established from the last post how important it is for you to bring everything to God in prayer, so pray about everything. From the very important things to the seemingly mundane things of life. Tell it all to the Lord.

Get A Prayer Partner/Join A Team  

Getting a prayer partner/joining a prayer team is such a game changer, while this should not replace your personal prayer time, but it can be a sure good way to start.

Make sure you’re going into this commitment with someone/group of people who can help you and not just someone/people who are struggling to pray.

If you are already disciplined enough to pray on your own and don’t need the discipline involved in having to pray with someone/people, then you can consider having someone who is not so disciplined, but if you are not disciplined yourself, please don’t choose a friend/join people who aren’t disciplined too, both of you will end up not helping yourself.

Never forget that Prayer works!

Cheers to harnessing more of the power of prayer.

See you next week Thursday.

There is so much light***

Hey Blog Fam

Trust we’re all doing great and following hard after all the things the Lord has placed in our hearts.

I apologize for just disappearing like that, it wasn’t intentional, I just suddenly woke up one day to discover that I could not access my blog; it took the intervention of God, friends, and some of their own friends to get this Blog running again.

I shudder to think of what would have happened if they couldn’t do anything about it and then I get to lose close to three years' articles. Help me thank God o. praise the lord somebody!

*Dancing in my mind*

So to the post of today…

The last Blog Post was about one of the many advantages of believers; Prayer.

Praying is beyond talking to somebody somewhere hoping that he will grant unto us what we want or ask for, prayer is a weapon both to defend ourselves and to wreak havoc to the camp of the enemies.

Harnessing the power that is embedded in prayer is what we all must do because there is so much power made available to us when we pray. Little wonder the scriptures tell us that;

The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power].  James 5; 16b AMP

Praying is not just something we do because we don’t know what else to do, or worse when we start treating it like our last card; the only thing we can do after we have tried every other thing. 

Far from it, praying about things should be THE first card, before trying to call others, call God first.

Can we normalize talking to God first about everything? Even before we start leveraging the help of technology or talking to experts, can we first of all talk to the greatest expert ever liveth?

To pray is to show dependence unto God, being fully persuaded that he will grant us all that we are expecting from him.

There are certain times that we might think that praying about things are not so important, but God wants to hear us talk to him about everything. 

As a person, I get a lot of comfort and peace knowing full well that I have talked to God about a certain case, I might not have the answers to my prayers yet, my answer might not even be tangible or relatable at the moment, but just  having told God about it brings so much comfort to my mind.

I learnt this from my mentoring Academy, 'the answer I get about praying about something sometimes isn’t the answer itself, but the peace that follows telling God.'

To get the full gist of the above statement, let me share what happened to me some months ago.

I was having difficulty thinking about a friend’s case, we both could not just think through the next season and how things were going to be, I was anxious, in fact, we were both anxious about how things will play out.

We both knew being anxious couldn’t do anything for us, so rather than being anxious we both decided to pray, after our individual and corporate prayers, we felt so much at peace even though we didn’t know how the scene will eventually play out. We just had the assurance that God gat this.

The season came and went and the Lord did good in my friend's life, and that season even became a stepping stone to more greater height. 

The lyrics from the song on the last post really talked about the needless pain that we bear because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.

And when we talk about carrying everything to God in prayer, it is not about taking some serious specifics to God and then leaving some mudane things that we feel that God shouldn’t be interested in, that lyrics tells us to carry EVERYTHING to God in prayer.

We are told to cast ALL our anxiety on God, if it ever crosses your mind, it might as well be casted on God.

1 Peter 5:7 tells us to;

                Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

We have a God who is able to do all things, and he wants to do all things for us, he desires to make all things possible and available to us, but he needs us to ask him, he needs us to partner with him to get these things done.

God is not only interested in your spiritual life, and you feel he is not interested in your career growth and how well you do in your finances, he wants to be involved in all, tell him about every aspect of your life.

Tell him how you’re crushing on that fine brother/sister.

Tell him about that difficult boss at work.

Tell him how that lecturer is always pissing you off.

Tell him how you can’t wait to hit the seven-digits net-worth.

Tell him how you are looking forward to being a wife/husband and how the delay in this is making you anxious.

Tell it ALL to Him.

One of the benefits that comes from telling him all of these is that, he begins to give you the wisdom you need to navigate terrains you have never walked through before.

You’re crushing on a guy/lady, tell it to God, he’ll let you know if this is something worth pursuing or mere infatuation that you need to let go.

You have a difficult boss at work, talk to him, he’ll teach you how to relate with that boss, remember he is our teacher and he teaches us all things. It won’t be the fault of the teacher when you don’t know something and then you fail to ask questions, ask the questions, and begin to see the answers made available to you.

You have dreams of hitting the seven-digits net-worth, talk to him, gold and silver all belongs to him and he owns the cattle on a thousand hills. He will make wisdom available on how best to manage your finance. He’ll start bringing your financial teachers your way, you’ll begin to hear of credible opportunities at the right time, and before you know it, you’ll have gone way past your initial target, only because you told the Lord about it, and got him on board as your Personal Financial Advisor.

You have this advantage of prayer, use it well, leverage on the good that comes from it.

You’re not an orphan, stop living as one, you have a Father that cares so much about you and he is committed to your all-round growth, cooperate with him to do what he alone can do in your life.

God bless you.

Prayer Works!

See you next Thursday.

There is so much light***