Prayer That Moves The Hand Of God | Inspirational & Motivational Video

as individuals we are often blinded to the dangers of prayerlessness praying is not easy praying should not be casual it's spiritual warfare however a prayerless Christian is completely powerless because there is no relationship with God have you ever noticed that when you need the Lord to intervene in your life when you need a miracle or a breakthrough no one has to tell you that you need to pray no one has to tell you that you need to have a prayer life oftentimes when we are in need there is an intensity about our prayers however the difficulty we all face is that once our personal needs are met once the battle has been won once the Breakthrough has come fire that was once in our prayers it seems to fizzle out and we need to be aware of this we need to guard against this now I understand that in life there will be days where you find that you can easily capture the spirit of Prayer you can pray effortlessly you can pray and feel as though an hour is just 10 minutes however you will also encounter days where prayer will be nothing other than a fight and it's when you encounter those moments that you should push through praying is fighting you have to fight to pray and on the days where you struggle I want to encourage you to be resilient and remember that the size of your prayer must match the size of your opposition and your opposition is the devil your opposition can be found in Ephesians 6 verse 12 where the Bible reads for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against the rulers against the authorities against the cosmic Powers over this present Darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the Heavenly places all of us should know that we're fighting the kingdom of darkness the enemy will try to infiltrate our homes he will try to cause division in the family and in the church if we become prayerless Christians I encourage you to pray because some of you need strength to defeat strongholds some of you need Grace to overcome insecurities some of you need the hand of God to move within your family and restore damaged relationships Jesus says in the Book of Matthew 7 verse 7 ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be open to you for everyone who asks receives he who seeks will find and to him who knocks the door will be opened this is Jesus effectively telling us to pray until something happens keep seeking the Lord until you find your answer carry on knocking until the door is opened now a child of God recognizes that you cannot fight a battle and get away with a weak prayer life but I would like to inform you perhaps encourage you to look at prayer as a means to Victory you see we are built and equipped for spiritual warfare so we shouldn't be afraid of a fight we shouldn't be afraid of fighting through prayer a lot of people shy away from being intercessors they shy away from being prayer warriors they would rather pray nice there are Christians out there who do want to pray but they are intimidated at the prospect or thought of warfare but I would like to remind you that the Bible says for the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal But Mighty in God for pulling down strongholds the weapons of an intercessor the strength of an intercessor is derived from God Alone that's why the verse says the weapons of our Warfare are not carnal But Mighty in God meaning they are divinely powerful they are Supernatural in their effectiveness cannot fight the devil with your natural fists but you can fight him through prayer you can fight him by calling out to the Lord you can fight him by going to Jesus in prayer so I encourage you today to keep pushing in prayer don't be intimidated by the thought of spiritual warfare don't be afraid but rather be prayerful be resilient and Relentless knowing that prayer is a fight Exodus 17 presents us with a powerful lesson on prayer in verse 9 we are told Moses said to Joshua choose some of our men and go out to fight the amalekites tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands so Joshua Fought the amalekites as Moses had ordered and Moses Aaron and her went to the top of the hill as long as Moses held up his hands the Israelites were winning but whenever he lowered his hands the amalekites were winning when Moses's hands grew tired they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it Aaron and her held his hands up one on one side one on the other so that his hands remained steady till sunset so Joshua overcame the amalekite army with the sword there are several lessons to be learned from this passage of scripture Moses went to pray away from the battle to a quiet place he didn't start praying from the front line but he backed off some distance and goes up a hill to pray and this is the perspective that a child of God needs to have we have to fight our battles in private no need for an audience or Spectators no distractions it's simply them in their prayer closet and that's enough a prayer closet allows intimacy with God it becomes your war room God acts in response to prayer each time Moses lowered his hands in tiredness the amalekites began to win and I believe this was God's way of teaching us that the battles we face as children of God are won and lost by prayer or a lack of it we need to rely on prayer and not on anything else the spiritual war against the devil is an ongoing one for us as children of the Lord so we need to remain under the blood of Jesus and in prayer if we are to overcome now once again whenever Moses held up his hand Israel prevailed and whenever he lowered his hand amalek prevailed when we pray things happen people are healed situations are altered the broken are made whole again and spiritual battles are one but if we get distracted and let our guard down the enemy has an opportunity to attack us when we cease praying we inhibit the power of God at work in our lives more prayer more power but the opposite is true no prayer no power the beauty of the story of Moses is that it shows him to be human not this giant of Faith who seems untouchable Moses demonstrated that he is like us in prayer he gets tired he's frail vulnerable and weak the same feelings that we experience Moses got tired but he persevered and this is what we must do we must persevere in prayer we must keep pushing in prayer the Lord still answers prayers Jesus Christ is faithful and merciful if you call unto the Lord his word says I will show you Great and Mighty things which you do not know desire to be a prayer warrior in your own right a prayer Warrior who is dedicated and committed to maintaining a close relationship with the Lord [Music]