Why Prayer Works

Prayer works because it is based upon the eternal Word of God and the promises it offers because of the finished work of Christ Jesus our Lord and Savior and the presence of the Holy Spirit!

We are living in a time of a great need of a move of God. Our current world is different in many ways and in need for God’s people to stand in the gap with prayer/supplication/intercession so that the glory of God will be revealed in our world.

2 Chronicles 20:12-14

V13 informs us that at this prayer gathering was men, their little ones, wives and children. There is a need for today that all ages and members of the multi-generations have an experience of hearing people call upon God and see the results that God brings when we pray in faith!

As we continue with the prayer meeting that occured with King Jehosaphat last week I emphasized that prayer is to be based upon Who God Is and On God’s Covenant.

Why Does Prayer Work?

It Is Positioned On God’s Power

It Is Positioned On The Finished Work of Christ

It Is Positioned On The Eternal Word of God

1000 years before Jehoshaphat’s prayer- the promises of God to Abraham from the very beginning of his walk of faith & final demonstration of his faith, when Abraham proved his right to be called the Friend of God by his willingness to sacrifice his son1

1 Wilcock, M. (1987). The Message of Chronicles: One Church, One Faith, One Lord. (J. A. Motyer & D. Tidball, Eds.) (p. 194). Leicester, England: Inter-Varsity Press.

100 years before the prayer of King David

11 Yours, O Lord, is the greatness,

The power and the glory,

The victory and the majesty;

For all that is in heaven and in earth is Yours;

Yours is the kingdom, O Lord,

And You are exalted as head over all.

12 Both riches and honor come from You,

And You reign over all.

In Your hand is power and might;

In Your hand it is to make great

And to give strength to all.

The New King James Version. (1982). (1 Ch 29:11–12).

Solomon’s Prayer at the time of Temple Dedication

whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; 29 whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows his own burden and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this temple: 30 then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone know the hearts of the sons of men), 31 that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.

The New King James Version. (1982). (2 Ch 6:28–31). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

God’s 2n Appearance to Solomon

14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.1

1 The New King James Version. (1982). (2 Ch 7:14). Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

New Testament Believers

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints

1 The New King James Version. (1982). (Eph 6:17–18). Nashville: Thomas

Closing

Be Engaged In God”s Word- build faith-Reveals God’s Heart-Renews Mind

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