Old Testament Prayer Warriors
Only very few people were able to
get their prayers through to Heaven in
Old Testament days. Abraham was one
of those people; and when he prayed,
God healed an entire family. So Abraham
prayed unto God: and God
healed Abimelech, and his wife,
and his maidservants; and they
bare children (Genesis 20:17). God
healed people in Old Testament days
through prayer, and you can reach God
through prayer for miracles and healings
today. There is no defeat in Jesus
Christ.
God hears the righteous.
that all of God’s promises are true.
Then when you go before the Lord in
prayer, you can claim any promise you
need.
There are different kinds of prayers.
Some people pray only when they are
afraid or think they are about to die,
but there is no love for God in those
prayers. Then once the threat of danger
or death is gone, they stop praying.
Job said that desperate prayers
are as the wind. Do ye imagine to
reprove words, and the speeches of
one that is desperate, which are as
wind (Job 6:26)?
Some people pray selfish prayers
and are constantly asking the Lord to
give them this or do that when their
prayers should be full of praise and
thanksgiving. The Bible says, Enter
into his gates with thanksgiving,
and into his courts with praise: be
thankful unto him, and bless his
name (Psalm 100:4). The Lord loves to
be praised.
If you want God to hear your
prayers, you must pray in humility and
obedience. The Bible says, The effectual
fervent prayer of a righteous
man availeth much (James 5:16).
You must burn with the zeal, power,
love and grace of God in your prayer
time. Then you will receive the answers
you need; and that will give you divine
strength, confidence in the Lord and
power from On High.
Some of you have no confidence
in your prayers, but I have more confidence
in my own prayers than I do
in anybody else’s. You should feel the
same way if you live right before God
and are plugged into Heaven all the
time. And this is the confidence
that we have in him, that, if we ask
any thing according to his will, he
heareth us (I John 5:14).
King Hezekiah walked uprightly before
the Lord; and the Lord sent the prophet
Isaiah to him saying, Thus saith the
LORD, Set thine house in order: for
thou shalt die, and not live (Isaiah
38:1). When Hezekiah heard that, he
turned his face to the wall and prayed,
Remember now, O LORD, I beseech
thee, how I have walked before
thee in truth and with a perfect
heart, and have done that which
is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah
wept sore (Isaiah 38:3).
Afterward, the Lord sent Isaiah to
Hezekiah again saying, Go, and say
to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD,
the God of David thy father, I have
heard thy prayer, I have seen thy
tears: behold, I will add unto thy
days fifteen years (Isaiah 38:5). The
Lord was going to do Hezekiah a big
favor and take him home, but Hezekiah
wanted to stay. He had great love for
his people, and he didn’t know what
would happen to them if he was gone;
so he prayed to stay, and God heard
him. There is no need to pray to God if
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