Powerful Prayer: Mighty in Its Working

When we approach God in prayer we are to offer up our very best, never robbing Him of the glory which is His due. He is a great and mighty God, Amen? And before Him every knee will bow (whether forced or not) in heaven and on earth and under the earth. Certainly, yawning prayers are not fit for the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Neither are dead hearted distracted prayers suitable for the Lord of hosts. Indeed, our fervency in prayer is to be as gas is to fire. He, Who is all life in its fullness, cannot possibly enjoy our languid, listless and limp petitions. Formal, repetitive praying is not fit posture for the child of the King either. His desire is for us to figuratively crawl up into His lap, resting our heads between His all-powerful shoulders and pouring out our hearts to Him. He can take all that we bring and He will never turn us away. If we remain cold and rote in our prayer lives as if marking it off a “to-do” list, we remain unfit to receive His promises as our prayers lack power and they are putrid rather than pleasing to Him.

When we are faithful and fervent in our prayer lives, it keeps us from diversions and distractions, enabling us to deny the entrance of thoughts that take us from our sweet communion with the Lord Jesus. Would we have earthly plans and agenda’s flowing through our minds if we were in the presence of mere earthly kings? We can be so easily distracted from what is best, Amen? Also, we can oftentimes be praying fervently and perhaps wild and crazy distracting thoughts pop into our minds leading us on a pithy path which gets us nowhere fast. The sooner we take captive these thoughts the better – running back to His feet for forgiveness. 

Fervency in prayer unites both the soul and the thoughts we think to the hard work of prayer. In accomplishing great works for the Lord, we can certainly discover ourselves praying without acting but we cannot act without praying. Elijah was enabled to call down fire from heaven because he first sent fire to heaven. A mere picture of a fire does not give warmth. Neither do our cold, repetitive, thoughtless prayers. Fervent prayers move the mighty Hand of God. Sadly, our thoughts and drifting minds can take us away from what is the most important and that is always Him – His will and His way. We are not to let the tyranny of the urgent distract and rob us from Gods best. God deserves our greatest zeal in our work for Him and prayer is the great work as apart from Him we can do nothing eternal.