When we lived in Dover, Delaware from 1988-1993 a gospel singing group of ladies would get up to sing and they would proceed to sing about knowing what prayer could do! What a testimony from these ladies. All these years later and the statement is even more real today - I know what prayer can do!!! The Lord is leading His people to a return to prayer!
I know what you might be saying, "There are churches everywhere praying. In fact, the church hasn't really stopped praying." I would respond by saying that I am not talking about more prayers, I am talking about more prayer. There are churches all over the world that can say that someone has been praying every hour of every day for years, and I commend them for it. However, what has been the structure of their prayers - are they praying for something, a deliverance, revelation, anointing, revival, harvest, healing, etc., or are they really just conversing in a relationship with Jesus?
His desire in this day is that all people everywhere would fall in love with Him so much that they would just want to spend time with Him. He yearns for our fellowship, we are the part of creation that chooses whether to be with Him or reject Him.
David prayed a prayer in Psalm 86:11, "Unite my heart to fear you..." He is looking for people that are consumed with being close to Him. He is looking for people who desire to converse about their days with Him. He may even share part of His day with you! So while prayer can do many things like open blind eyes, unstop deaf ears, raise the dead, restore the broken and a host of other "things", what I have found prayer to do best is draw me near to Him in a relationship that is closer than any other relationship!! How about you? Do you know what prayer can do???
"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."
Saint Teresa of Avila
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