Prayer Cards - Prayer Closet

 

Prayer is not a public spectacle. 

Nor do we need flowery phrases

 and loud speaking voices. 
God is not deaf: He can hear our hearts speaking

 even when our tongues cannot carry words. 

God knows what we are thinking, that's why our thoughts 

need to focus on Him and His ways. 

Psalm 94:11 "..The Lord knows the thoughts of man.."

Philippians 4:8 "...think on these things.."

Jeremiah 17:10 "I, The LORD, search the heart;

 I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, 

by what his deeds deserve."

Our hearts, our thoughts and our actions need to line up 

alongside God's Word, with God's Spirit

leading us and guiding our steps, 

whether in our minds (the unseen actions),

or in our hearts (the emotional actions),

or in our daily actions/activities (the seen actions). 

Luke 11:1-4 is an example of how to pray.

  First to acknowledge Him, that He is Holy; 

that His kingdom - His Way of Life and Living -

and His Will is more important than ours. 

We pray for daily bread. Not just that food 

would be on our tables and in our bellies, 

but that The Bread of Life would be ours daily.

Which means we need to be ready to receive

what God is going to give us in His Word. 

We pray for forgiveness of our sins,

and ask God to forgive the people who have sinned against us.

We pray for the power to overcome temptation, 

that we might be delivered from evil:

evil thoughts, evil actions. 

We need the power of God's Holy Spirit 

residing in us, transforming desires of the flesh

into desires of The Spirit. A hunger for holiness

should be rising up within us. A desire 

to live a righteous and holy life/lifestyle

in accordance with God's Holy Word. 

    Only then can we begin to pray in earnest, 

in our prayer closets, for the things which lay heaviest on our hearts:

 the salvation of those who still do not know Jesus Christ 

as their personal Lord and Savior. 
We pray for healing on those who suffer.

We pray for strength of mind, body and spirit 

for those who wander; who are distressed and discouraged;

for those who are mentally unsound or drained. 

We pray for workers to be added to God's Kingdom:

planters, waterers, and reapers

of God's Word. 

We pray for whatever The Holy Spirit has laid on our hearts to pray for. 

We pray for you who read this.

And we close out our prayers in The Name of Jesus, 

because The Word of God tells us:

John 14:13 

"And whatever you ask in My Name, 

that I will do, that The Father may be glorified in The Son."

AMEN