Prayer Changes Things

wise seeker · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 5:50 pm Post subject: Prayer Changes Things

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. "For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. "Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? "Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent? "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Matthew 7:7-11

One of the reasons most churches are anemic and impotent is not only that its members hardly ever read the bible but they hardly ever pray. And when they pray they ignore the words of Jesus who told them:

"Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. Matthew 18:19

"And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive." Matthew 21:22

Prayers of unbelief just bounce off the ceiling as far as God is concerned for God doesn’t answer prayer on the basis of need or works or any other thing but faith. Faith is the common denominator that makes all of God’s children equal and enables anyone to get as much as she or he needs from heaven. There is no limit what faith in God and prayer can do except the limits set by men! Prayer changed Apostle Paul from a murderer to a propagator of the gospel. God’s word is unchanging:

Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's elect and the acknowledgment of the truth which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began, but has in due time manifested His word through preaching, which was committed to me according to the commandment of God our Savior; Titus 1:1-3

Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, Ephesians 1:15-20

Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. Ephesians 3:20-21

Yes, the exceeding greatness of God’s power toward us who believe that enables God to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us. And again there is no restriction to God’s power except what men limit God to! God’s power that created heaven and earth can raise the dead, heal the sick, open the eyes of the blind, save a soul, heal a broken heart, and give financial miracles. Nothing is impossible with God or too hard for Him to do!