Confessional Prayer

 

    Confession is hard because you have to admit that you were wrong, at fault, the one responsible, or guilty.  Confession is vital, but God also wants repentance.  You can confess what you did and never feel bad or guilty.  Until you do, you will never repent and change.  God wants you to turn from your sin(s) toward Him and a righteous life.

    Confession in a prayer can lead to a repentant heart that can be used by God to do some wonderful things in the world.  When you confess your sins in prayer you release them to God.  When you do so with a repentant heart you find forgiveness.  God will forget your sin ever existed because He is merciful and He loves you. 

    God's justice is truth.  Sin will be punished, but only the unrepentant heart will suffer eternally.  Jesus showed us this truth in his short life as a human.  He endured and showed us how to love like God.  He was nice to spare feelings.  He was kind by speaking truth.  He never lied.  He called sin sin.  He forgave those who were repentant and held those who were not accountable.  Repentance leads to forgiveness and acceptance from God.

    A confessional prayer with a repentant heart leads to atonement then a life change.  It is powerful.  It is beautiful.  It leads to refreshment in your life.  There is nothing bad or negative about confession with a repentant heart.  The end result may not be what you want in life, but it does set you free.  Confess your sins to God, then those that love you if needed, lastly those that you may have harmed or hurt.  Take responsibility for you own life and the choices that you make.  

Psalm 51, Proverbs 15:7-9, Isaiah 1:10-20, 56:1-8, Acts 3:17-23, & 1 Peter 2:21-25

Impactful Prayer

 

    The most impactful prayer you will ever make is the prayer of faith inviting the Holy Spirit to live in you.  After salvation is when your prayers can really have impact.  You need to know who Jesus is and how he impacts who you are for your prayers to become productive.  When you put your faith in Jesus and choose to walk life with him your prayers are empowered by the Holy Spirit.  

    You have a direct line to God where anything holy, pure, and good are possible.  Prayer becomes a part of your life.  Your sins are forgiven by God's grace.  It is His grace that changes your life driving you toward prayer.  It helps you see life from a different perspective.  It transforms your heart to love what you were not able to love before.  It gives you strength to be bold and impactful in the world around you.  

    Prayer helps you prune your life to transform you to look more like Jesus.  Pruning is important because it shapes the person you are and will be.  You choose to turn away from your sinful nature to embrace being someone you never would be without God.  Your prayers lead you toward humility, facing and repenting your personal sins, grace, forgiveness, and other attributes that you need.  

    Prayer impacts you and those around you because it aligns you with God's will.  You pursue being in His presence.  When you do that you can't help but have it impact and change your life.  Prayer endures and helps you stay close to Jesus and his purpose for you.  Prayer produces fruit that enriches your life and those you pray for.  

John 1:10-13, 15:1-8, Romans 6:20-23, 10:5-15, Galatians 2:17-21, 5:22-23, & Colossians 1:9-10

Joy in Prayer

 

    True joy comes from Jesus.  You get it when you communicate with Him.  You communicate with Jesus in prayer.  It sets your heart and soul free even when life is very bad.  Satan may make life hard.  If you keep your mind set on God, then you can see a bigger picture and hold onto your inner joy.

    Joy is delight in your relationship with God and the overall life He has given you.  The current circumstances do not overshadow your overall life.  Life consist of many moments.  If you follow Jesus, then you are more likely to take advantage of the moments given.  This gives your life purpose and joy.  Being able to trust God even when nothing around you makes sense can give your soul an inner calm.  That calm can contribute to your joy in life.

    When you turn everything over to God in prayer, then you are able to let go of what weighs you down.  This provides a level of joy.  Give God thanks in prayer even when life is not perfect and it sets your mind to accept joy.  Life will give you plenty to worry about.  Reject the worry and embrace trust.  It may require to you to go to God a lot in prayer and turn to scripture for comfort, but you can hold onto your joy.  It may be a battle, but it is a fight worth having because it improves the quality of life.

    When you pray for joy ask God to reveal what is true, lovely, pure, excellent, and how to be honest with yourself.  He will give you what you ask for.  Have a praiseworthy attitude toward God while you wait.  Take inventory of what your mind focuses on during the day.  Reckon, measure, and be deliberate in where you allow your thoughts to take you.  This requires endurance that will produce complete joy in your salvation.

    Things will float into your mind that you cannot control, but you can control on how much you dwell on it. Nothing in your life will give your mind peace and joy like prayer.  When things that are not of God come into your mind reject them and turn to prayer to get rid of them.  Do not allow doubt, anger, or anything else that will lead to sin and steal your joy take root in your mind.  Honor God with your mind and you will discover joy.

Psalm 21:3-7, 71:22-24, 119:9-16, Galatians 5:22-23, Philippians 4:4-9, Philemon1:4-7, James 1:2-4, & 1 Peter 1:8-9

Pray for Your Mind

 

    When Satan gets into your mind he reeks havoc.  You can take control of your thoughts when you focus on things that are true, holy, and pure.  You can read scripture, stop and find a place to pray, or move through your day in meditation.  Satan causes a lot of harm to you and others that starts by planting a seed in your mind.  You can do something about it though.  You do not have to allow him to pollute your mind with lies.

    When you know your mind is under attack pray.  Go to God and beg for help.  Ask Him for what you need to be able to fight.  Surrender your mind to Him.  Go over scriptures that speak truth into you and use them to pray.  Read it as if it were written to you and only you.  If you can't focus to read God's Word, then pray to be able to focus.  

    Praying God's Word is ammunition in your life.  It empowers you to go out the door in confidence because you know God will take care of it.  Satan wants to steal, kill, and destroy.  God wants to build abundantly, strengthen, and give a satisfying life.  Fasting and focusing on scripture and prayer is a great way to prepare for battle.  It will strengthen you spiritually and empower your prayers.

    To fight Satan you have to understand him.  You don't need to know him or go into dark places.  You just need to know who you are dealing with.  You need to trust God to fight what you can't fight on your own.  Then you need to submit to His will so that you don't get into your own way.  It is simple, but not easy.  

    Praying over scripture gives you confidence to live boldly for God.  After all this is all about glorifying God.  Life is meant to be lived abundantly, but you can't do that truly without God.  He gives life purpose, value, and truth.  Filling your mind with Scripture is something active you can do to prepare and fight Satan's attacks on your mind.  Your mind is a battlefield that Satan takes advantage of.  It is time to take that advantage away.  

Matthew 4:1-11, John 10:6-10, Romans 12:1-2, Ephesians 6:13-17, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5, 2 Timothy 3:14-17, & James 4:7-10

Pray to Resist

 

    Prayer is a conversation between you and God.  The words you use does not matter as much as your heart.  However, as you become a prayer warrior you do learn how to use your words to fight in prayer.  You use scripture to empower your words.  Your prayers become victorious because they help you resist Satan and his temptations.

    When you apply God's Word to your life it gives you strength, courage, boldness, humility, and a closeness to God that you can't understand until you experience it.  Satan hates God.  People are God's most cherished creation, so that means that Satan hates you.  He wants to kill, steal your closeness to God, and destroy your joy to hurt God.  You can only fight this by resisting Satan and in prayer.

    The closer you get to God the more Satan will come after you.  You have become dangerous to him.  You leading people toward Jesus is taking people away from him.  If your life is constantly close to perfect, then you may want to look into your salvation.  Satan isn't going to bother anyone who he has control over.  He thinks he has already won.  He is wrong.  Salvation is your choice.  You were made to belong to God, but you have the right to stay in Satan's clutches.

    To pray to resist all kinds of evil, Satan, or temptation then you need to know who you are fighting.  You can't properly pray for protection if you don't know who you are fighting.  Satan can't read your mind, so watch your words.  He understands people and concludes you are fairly predictable, but you can fortify your mind and emotions where he no longer can influence you.  You are in the world more than God's Word, so you can memorize scripture to speak truth when you feel attacked. 

    Jesus came into this world to give your life.  Satan wants to destroy your life.  Who is the better one to follow?  Be candid with God in prayer.  Be honest with yourself.  Ask for clarity where there is confusion, but be willing to face hard truths.  The Holy Spirit will reveal the truth to you, but that doesn't mean that you will always like it.  Truth often requires you to make changes in your life, but you become stronger as you accept the truth.  The truth is you have to submit to God to be victorious.  You have to lean into Him and walk with Jesus to be strong.  

Matthew 7:24-29, John 8:42-47, 10:6-10, 2 Corinthians 4:3-4, Ephesians 2:1-3, 6:10-12, James 4:7-10, 1 Peter 5:8-9, & Revelations 12:10-12

Victorious Prayer

 

    Fighting your battles through prayer takes more than knowledge and conceptually understanding.  Spiritual warfare takes faith and application.  You really do need to rely on God and communicate openly with Him.  You plead, pour out, repent, thank, request, and honor God in your prayers.  When you do this you deny the enemy power over you.  You resist Satan by turning to God who gives you victory.

    Victorious prayer comes from knowing what the problem is and turning it over to God in prayer.  You trust the Holy Spirit to use what you say and fill in the blanks to advocate for you.  He is the one that empowers your prayers.  You have the Holy Spirit living within you if you are a true Christian.  He knows and understands what you need better than you because He is not distracted by outside sources.

    Victorious prayer can happen when you ask God to remove distraction and you take a real hard look at your life.  You see what the problem is and you decide to do something about it in prayer.  You trust God to handle the details, so you can let go of certain aspects.  Pray over your own heart condition.  Pray to close the door that Satan has access to your heart or mind.  Seal them closed with kindness, mercy, forgiveness, and love like Jesus.  Never stop praying for God's will.

    You pray over the people in your life, your issues, and the ability to be consciously aware.  The Holy Spirit will lay certain things on your heart to pray over, but you also need to be aware of what is happening in life around you.  The battlefield is real, but you can be victorious in God's name.  

1 Samuel 15:20-23, Acts 19:17-20, Romans 8:26-30, 1 Corinthians 6:15-20, 15: 56-58, Ephesians 4:30-32, 6:18-20, 1 John 4:4-6

Victory in Prayer

 

    To have victory in prayer you have to claim the truth and lean on the power of God.  You learn the truth in God's Word.  You learn who Jesus is in the Gospel.  The old and new testament work together to show you the truth and who God is.  When you decide to walk in truth, with Jesus, then you walk in victory because Jesus has already won against the enemy.

    As you see God's grace expand you start to understand how to fight your battles in prayer.  When you pray you can do so in confidence because the creator of all that is good and purely beautiful is fighting for you.  This confidence in God is what sustains you when Satan comes after you.  The stronger you get in your faith the more Satan will come after you.  You are a threat to him because you speak the truth boldly.  Do not let him silence you.

    Satan comes after families, your ministry, your mind, and everything else that God uses in you to spread the good news.  If Satan can destroy what is holy in your life, then he can destroy you.  That is why you have to fight in prayer.  Do not deny Satan's existence, presence, or influence.  It would be foolish to downplay your enemy.  Just remember that God is stronger  and Jesus has already won.  Satan is dangerous in every aspect, but God is more in every way.

    You cannot hide behind ignorance.  Deep down you know the truth.  You accept it or deny it, but ignorance will not save you.  If anything it only makes you a pawn.  You can find your victory in prayer.  Pray for wisdom, understanding, grace, mercy, and the armor of God.  Pray to be able to forgive so that Satan doesn't get a foothold in your mind or heart.  Pray to be covered in all that is holy.  God will give you what you pray for even if it doesn't come in the form that you were expecting.

Luke 10:18-20, 22:31-32, John 8:42-47, 2 Corinthians 2:9-11, 1 Peter 5:8-9, 1 John 4:4-6, & Revelations 12:7-12