Sharper Than a Two-Edged Sword by Andrew Wommack

Author:Andrew Wommack
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Spiritual Growth, Christian Theology, General
ISBN: 9781606831922
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 2010-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

A Better Way to Pray

At one of my Gospel Truth Seminars, I asked anyone who believed in the power of prayer to raise their hand. Nearly every hand in the audience went up. Then I asked everyone who sees all of their prayers answered to keep their hands up. Just about every hand went right back down. It demonstrated a common problem among Christians today: very few people are seeing consistent answers to prayer. But the Bible teaches that everyone who seeks, finds and everyone who asks, receives:

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Matthew 7:7-8

Clearly, there's a problem somewhere—and we know it isn't with God. I believe that there is a better way for us to pray, a way that leads to finding what we seek and receiving what we ask. It's not the only way to pray, and God isn't mad at you if you pray differently. I just think there is a more effective way for us to pray that gets better results.

I should add that I have prayed in every way I'm about to advise you not to pray, so I'm not saying that you aren't saved unless you pray like I do now. I have prayed in a lot of "wrong" ways in the past, but I loved God and I was doing it with a pure heart. Over time, however, I have discovered that the Word of God teaches a better way to pray. By following it, I'm getting better results than I have ever gotten before.

When Jesus taught on prayer, He spent time identifying the wrong ways to pray. So, before I get into the better way to pray, I want to talk about what prayer is not. One of the first things Jesus taught His disciples about prayer was:

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Matthew 6:5

The Lord made a startling statement here: He said that hypocrites love to pray. Therefore prayer, in and of itself, is not that valuable. All of the world's religions pray. Some groups bow down on mats multiple times a day in prayer, and then they get up and go kill people in the name of God. They are devout, yet their life is contrary to everything that the true Word of God reveals. They are praying, but they aren't in contact with God. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of religious Christians who pray all of the time, but they aren't connecting with God. Prayer is no good unless you are connecting with God. Communication requires interaction, so God needs to be speaking back to you.

Prayer also needs to be real.

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