To see your prayers answered, enter God’s presence with thanksgiving and worship. Then rest in your secret place, and meditate on His Scripture, and words to you. Ask the Lord what HE wants to do in the circumstances you are walking through. Remember, it’s not about what you want but you are seeking His perfect will. The prayers that get answered are the ones you pray in agreement (unison) with Jesus. Pray: “Father, I praise You for this situation. I know You have a plan and a purpose for me. I give You thanks that You are with me and that You are for me. I ask you to show me Your ways, teach me Your paths, show me Your will, oh Lord, that I may become conformed to the image of Jesus in the situation. Show me Your will that I may confidently and joyfully co-operate with You.”
Now, simply sit still and listen. Meditate on God, waiting for Him to speak. He will give you key words and phrases and a sense of His objective(s). He might supplement with Scripture(s) or pictures (visions). Write everything down as it comes to you. As you do, a peace will fall on you and a confidence will begin to rise.
It is when we are planned, purposeful, rehearsed and have written our revelation(s) down that we are released to truly be spontaneous. If all we have is off-the-cuff spirituality, we will never mature in our faith. True spontaneous spirituality arises out of a heart that is soaked and prepared by a relationship with the Holy Spirit. God is intentional. God is prepared and well-planned; we should do the same.
Prayer done correctly will stir up a spirit of boldness in our lives: there’s nothing like the rush of faith and adrenaline that happens when a person is praying and suddenly shifts gears into proclaiming. It’s as if they have hit the mother lode and have begun to prophetically proclaim God’s will for the situation they are praying for. This spirit of proclamation is part of our DNA as a Christian. When we know God’s will, we enter into a certainty of the outcome. The confidence of the Holy Spirit fills us, and we become God’s voice in a specific situation. We are no longer praying to get an answer, we are praying WITH the answer.
It is time for God’s people to use prayer as a weapon. We must grow up in our intercession and become the joyful and confident “Bride of Christ” God destined us to be. Our prayer lives can be the richest and most rewarding part of our lives. If we will just take the time to enter His presence with thanksgiving and to still ourselves until we can rest in His secret place. Then we can ask Holy Spirit to reveal to us what the conversation in Heaven is over our situation, and we can craft a prayer, which will be answered because it IS the (God’s) answer.
Ask the Lord to show you what He wants to accomplish first “in the situation,” and second, “IN you” through this time. In the place of stillness, craft a prayer that includes the key elements (words, ideas, phrases, visions) that God has made known to you. Take your time. Take your crafted prayer back to the Lord. Ask for confirmation or alteration, if necessary, until you are as confident as you can be that you have the mind of God on how to pray. You will FEEL THE PASSION, with every word, with the right prayer: that is your litmus test as to whether you are praying His Heart or not. Remember, your prayer is organic and will change with time, as prayers are answered, and what the Lord wants through your life changes.
