God wants prayer to become priority in the lives of His children!

Peace to you, dear children of God! Thank God for the day God has given us! Thank God for the opportunity to abide in His Word, to fellowship with Him through prayer and to draw power, strength and wisdom from it!

Yesterday we talked about how God supernaturally delivered Peter from prison.

“And when Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent His angel, and has delivered me from the hand of Herod and from all the expectation of the Jewish people” (Acts, 12:11).

Everything that the devil has bound up in your life – your miracle, your promises – can be released to you by the supernatural power of God. But for it to happen, prayer must become your number 1 priority.

Take any Bible story and you will see what powerful prayers of believers are able to accomplish. For example, what did Daniel do when he was thrown into the lions’ den? Did he pray? No, it was too late to pray. He had been praying long before he got to this point in his life. It is too late to pray when you are in a den with lions. You must pray before anything like that happens! Daniel prayed three times a day every day.

“..he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days”(Daniel, 6:10).

Since Daniel did not agree to worship anyone else but God, he was thrown into lions’ den. If he hadn’t prayed before, what would have happened to him? Remember, I told you that if you do not practise prayer when you don’t really need a special miracle from God and His intervention, then you won’t be able to pray when you do need it. But praise God for Daniel! He practised prayer on a daily basis. Prayer was his lifestyle.

Remember the time when the nation of Israel was wandering in the wilderness? Every day God gave them manna from heaven. We can read about it in Exodus 16. They had to get out of their homes and collect manna every day and it had to be done by noon. If anyone did not do it, he ended up without his daily provision. It was impossible to collect manna for today, tomorrow and the day after tomorrow all in one day. Everything they could not eat in one day got spoiled. They had to meet with God daily so that their daily provision would stay fresh. Their daily bread was given to them on a daily basis. This principle shows us that our daily fellowship with God gives us our daily provisions. God expects us to come to Him daily! He waits to meet with us!

It says in Deuteronomy 8:3:

 “…man shall no live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD”.

God wants prayer to become a priority in the lives of His children. He desires His children to meet with Him daily. May God help us do it! If He calls us to do something, it means that there is a blessing for us in it. This is God’s word for us today! I really want this word to be embedded in the life of every member of our church and every believer on this earth. And only then will we enjoy the results we have been hoping to achieve for a long time.

Let’s sum up what we have been talking about:

• Prayer brings movement into our lives.
• Through prayer we are filled with the Holy Spirit.
• Through prayer we are filled with confidence and boldness.
• Prayer brings unity.
• Through prayer we receive wisdom in order to manage the resources God has given us.
• Through prayer we are filled with God’s power and grace.
• Through prayer we become attractive for those around us.

May God help us to make prayer a priority in our lives!

Wishing you abundant God’s blessings,

Pastor Rufus Ajiboye