Praying Using God's Name

 

    There is power in the name of God.  God did not have a specific name like the pagan gods.  His names were more descriptive in the Old Testament.  Each name was used in prayer for a specific cry out to God.  The original names came from Hebrew.  If you know Hebrew, then you have a certain advantage.  Most of us have to rely on the Bible being translated from Hebrew, to Greek, to English.  Words and how you use them are important.  

    God's does not need your faith for His name to hold power.  You need faith to understand God's power.  When you pray in the name of God you are aligning your will with God's will.  You seek understanding and for Him to meet your needs.  It is an act of faith that signifies the importance of your relationship with God.  

    Praying in the name of God brings God the glory of what He will do in your life.  It is accepting that things will be done His way not your way.  It brings you solace and confidence in your salvation.  He has the power to heal anything and calling out His name acknowledges that fact.  Praying God's name in faith can drive away evil.  He has many names since they were descriptive.  Learn the ones you can, but understand reaching out to Him in faith, love, and devotion is enough.

Psalm 31:1-5, 143:7-12, John 14:12-14, 16:19-24, Romans 10:5-13, & Colossians 3:16-17

Pray Over Feelings

 

    Feelings are strong.  They influence moods, attitudes, and can direct relationships if allowed.  Feelings are meant to be indicators, but not rulers of your life.  The pursuit of happiness only brings discontentment, but the pursuit of contentment gives you a lot of happy moments.  Feelings need to be prayed over, so they hold the proper perspective in your life.

    True contentment and healthy feelings come from a healthy relationship with Jesus.  Loving Jesus and putting that relationship first puts all your other relationships in a healthy perspective and alignment to holiness.  To be content is to be strong emotionally and spiritually.  You don't need support to do what it right.  You are sufficient and independent from circumstances because you rely on God in all things.  Choose loyalty and faith to God over what the world offers you.  

    Pray over your feelings so you can find contentment in all circumstances.  You don't need  more money, time, education, or things.  You need to learn how to use what you have to honor God.  Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.  The closer you get to God the more content in life you will be.  Pray over what is true, honorable, right, pure, good, and loving.  Pray kindness over your life while you praise God for what He has done already.  Pray for strength to apply it to your life to become sacrificial and be humble instead of me focused.

    When you have contentment you can really discover the joy.  You could be going through the worst thing you ever have experienced and still have joy.  Contentment does not come with comfort.  To find true joy you sometimes have to abandon comfort.  Trusting God in this way will make you bold because you don't have anything to loss.  Pray helps you find contentment when your whole world is shifting under your feet.  Change is hard, but prayer helps you accept it better.

    Praying over your feelings also lead to being able to forgive in a way that you can let the past be the past.  You may not forget like God does, but  you don't have to hold onto the pain like a weapon either.  Not everyone you forgive gets free access to you, but God can give you the wisdom to know when to walk away and when to move forward.  The words I forgive you hold great power.  Remember how you felt when you realized God forgave you of yours sins.  Learn how to forgive and you can have really strong relationships.

    You have to be able to love, forgive, and be content in life to be able to approach God on His throne in confidence.  It starts at salvation, but it does not end until you meet Him face to face.  God's Word is our judge in life.  We can see where we stand in there.  Atone now and live free without doubt.  

    When you have control over your feelings you will have true confidence in your relationship with Jesus.  This will give you boldness to change.  You get to understand God's grace the way it was meant to be lived.  Your relationships with people will change.  Some will disappear, but other will get stronger.  Ruling your feelings is a challenge especially if you are hurting, but remember the power of forgiveness.  Stand on the Word of God and you can do anything even if it feels impossible.

Mark 11:22-26, John 17:7-10, Acts 1:12-14, 4:31, 6:2-4, 10:30-33, 13:1-3, Philippians 4:6-20, Hebrew 13:5-6, & James 4:7-10

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