Why You Should Not Stop Praying

One of the most powerful things to do on earth is to pray. In fact, it is not just one of the most potent activities but the most powerful thing to do as a believer! Prayer opens up a whole new realm of possibilities to the believer. Prayer is not a passive activity, where you rush in and list all your needs and wants and rush out; neither is it a monologue where you do all the talking. Instead, prayer is a shared partnership activity, a dialogue, a process of giving and receiving. We must reiterate that our needs are met in prayer, but you shortchange yourself as a believer when all you do is ask God to bless you with things. 

Prayer is one of the primary ways we grow as believers. To increase your capacity for spiritual things, you must pray habitually. 

In James 5:16, according to the Amp translation:

the earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]. 

Prayer makes power, ability, and capacity available. Prayer enables you to walk in the spirit, know God’s will, and do God’s will. It also gives you the strength to fulfill your purpose and destiny mandate. When you stop praying, you will be unable to reach the heights that God wants you to attain in spiritual things.

You can only have spiritual capacity with an active prayer life. Your prayer life is like a womb/ atmosphere that incubates and births possibilities, destinies, visions, and divine encounters. As soon as Zion travailed, the Bible said, she brought forth. Your prayer life ought not to be cold! It must be able to produce the warmness needed for incubation. You cannot joke with your prayer life because destinies are tied to it; institutions depend on it. If you dilly-dally with your prayer life, destinies can be aborted, progress made can be stalled, and lives could be lost. Your prayer life is a life or death matter, an incubator for destinies. Prayerlessness is selfishness.

Prayer births and sustains your walk with God. A prayerless believer has no walk with God. He can be so active working for God but not walking with God. The Bible talks about Enoch, a man who walked with God and was not, for God took him. Enoch walked with God so intimately that God had to bring him closer! God literally took him; he bypassed death. But it all started through prayer and in prayer! 

I love the way ISV translation puts it in Gen 5:24: 

“communing with God—and then he was there no longer, because God had taken him.” 

The man who prays habitually is not subject to what others are subject to. That man escapes death, destruction, and disasters.

Prayerful believers are powerful because they are spiritual policymakers. They don’t bend to the rules; they make the rules! They dictate and enforce change in every institution and situation. God enforces his mandate on earth through an army of believers committed to the ministry of prayer. They employ the weapon of prayer to address complex life battles. 

Will you join that army today? Can God count on you to bring change in your family, church, community, school, workplace, and nation? Then sign up right now! All you need to do is tell God you are ready to partner with him, and he will show you what to do next.

Your friend,

Love N.