Do You Expect Your Prayers to be Effective?

James 5:16-17

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years.

EFFECTIVE PRAYER:

 
1.___Transparent: 

•  Do you talk to God as if He was a friend, spouce, conselor, sibling or parent? Or is our language NIV or King James when we pray? 
• Are we addicted to counsel? Who do we turn to first in our times of need? God or loved ones? 
• Ok to want and to ask for favor.

 




2._____Selfless  

• Every religion has a cross to bear or self denial. The Gospel has resurrection that must be lived out. Self has to die and must be reborn. 
• Areas in our livees must die, so that we can be reborn.
• Prov 27:²¹ The purity of silver and gold is tested
     by putting them in the fire;
  The purity of human hearts is tested
     by giving them a little fame.
  

3.____Know it's Authority: (See previous blogs on the Kingdom.)

 

 










4.___Indignant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhFbkfGYq90

• Be dogged  in prayer! Don't give up, don't give in. Insist on blessings and indignant towards the enemy, don't allow Him to steel, kill and destroy.
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  "If I don't take my prayers seriously, why should God?"

   

Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers. (3John 1:2 NASB)


That simple prayer discloses a profound truth. John tells us that both prosperity and good health flow from a prosperous soul. Every one of us hopes for prosperity and health. Perhaps we are closer to those things than we realize. Perhaps we should “attend to our own minds, and so proving what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect” (Rom 12:2).

Prayer for impartation. (grace transferred).  God distributes gifts. Give God our failures and success.

Come before the Lord???? abandonment? Addicted to the counsel of others? Milk?

Baggage defines how we pray.
Can you feel a depressed person when they walk into the room?

The worst sin is unbelief.