We pray to have fellowship with God, to receive spiritual nurture and strength to live a victorious life, and to maintain boldness for a vital witness for Christ Jesus. Prayer releases God’s great power to change the course of nature, people, and nations!
According to Oswald Chambers, in his book Utmost For His Highest, we read: There is nothing in which identification with the Lord Jesus is more real to us than in prayer. “Your Father knows the things you need” (Matthew 6:8). Then why should we ask?
The point of prayer is not to get answers from God but to have perfect and complete oneness with God. If we pray only because we want something, we will become irritated and angry with God. We receive an answer every time we pray, but it does not always come in the way we expect, and our spiritual irritation shows our refusal to identify ourselves truly with our Lord in prayer. We are not here to prove God answers prayer, but to be living trophies of God’s grace.
“I do not say to you that I shall pray to the Father for you, for the Father Himself loves you..” (John 16:26-27)
Have you reached such a level of intimacy with God that the only thing that can account for your prayer life is that it has become one with the prayer life of Christ Jesus? Has our Lord exchanged your life with His vital resurrection life? If so then “In that day” you will be so closely identified with Jesus that there will be no distinction.
When prayer seems to be unanswered, beware of trying to place the blame on someone else. That is always a trap of satan. When you seem to have no answer, there is always a reason – God uses these times to give you deep personal instruction, and it is not for anyone else but you.
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