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*How to Pray*
 
Many of the blessings God wants you to enjoy, blessings that potentially could be realized in the lives of others, will never be realized and will never be enjoyed unless we pray.
I think all Christians know they are supposed to pray, all Christians want to pray, but many of God’s people, if they are completely frank and transparent about the issue, would have to admit that their prayer life is anywhere from mediocre to non existent.
If you can spell the word “pray,” hopefully it will help your prayer life become more effective and inspire you to pray more consistently.
Psalm 100 brings us to the first letter in the word “pray,” which is PRAISE.
That’s the way we should start.
Psalm 100:1,Now in verse 2 it says, “Come before His presence with singing.”
In verse 4, I like the words “enter into.”
In other words, this is how you start.
This is how you enter.
When you want to come to God, you start with thanksgiving.
You start with singing.
You start with praise, or as the Message Bible says, “Enter with the password, ‘Thank you.’”
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.”
It begins with a note of praise, a note of glorifying God and blessing His name.
Several things happen when you start to praise God.
It puts your focus in the right place.
It takes your focus off of yourself, off of your problems, and off of the circumstances that surround you, and it puts your focus on God… where it should be… Who is your answer.
It also brings God’s presence.
Psalm 22:3 says that God inhabits the praises of His people.
In Isaiah, chapter 64, it declares that God meets the one who rejoices.
In the Book of James in the fourth chapter, we are given the principle that God draws near to the person that draws near to Him.
I don’t know a better way to draw near to God than through worship and praise.
It brings his presence.
Sometimes when His presence comes, it comes in a tangible, discernible way.
God always comes when you praise Him.
He always comes.
He always meets the one who rejoices.
He always draws nigh to the person that draws nigh to him.
He always inhabits the praises of His people, because He says that He will do it.And when you praise during those times when you feel nothing and nothing looks different, praise may become a sacrifice, and it may be a test of your faith.
But, my friend, it does bring the presence of God, which causes something else to happen: It makes the devil shut up, which I think is a great fringe benefit.
Look with me at Psalm 8:2, Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, That You may silence the enemy and the avenger.
Now Jesus actually quoted this verse of Scripture in Matthew 21:16.
The children were praising Him, and the religious leaders said, “Tell them to be quiet.”
And Jesus said, “Haven’t you read…” And He quoted Psalm 8:2, “Out of the mouth of babes…” But when Jesus quoted it, He interpreted it.
And being the Living Word, He has the right to interpret the written word.
He said, “Out of the mouth of babes You have perfected praise.”
That’s the way Jesus interpreted this verse, telling us that praise is the ordained strength of God.
And when you begin to praise God, it
says it will silence the enemy.
That Hebrew word “silence” doesn’t mean to just make quiet.
It means that, but it means more.
It means to desist from activity.
Here’s how it works: You start to praise God, God shows up, and the devil has to shut up and shut down.
I think that’s wonderful, but listen carefully: That is not the focus.
What it does to the devil is just a bonus for us.
That’s a fringe benefit.
The focus of our praise is God.
R” in the word P-R-A-Y.
“R” stands for REPENT.
This is where you search your heart and repent of anything that has come between you and God.
The Bible says in Psalm 66:18, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear.”
So if there is known sin in your life, you should repent, and do it quickly.
Don’t remain in broken fellowship with God, and God will certainly forgive you and cleanse you.
But having said that, that’s not exactly the type of repentance I’m talking about here.
The kind of repentance I’m talking about has more to do with the type of sin mentioned in Psalm 19:12.
It opens up with a question.
It says, “Who can  understand His errors?”
In other words, you won’t always know when you do something wrong.
You won’t always know sometimes when you get into an area that is not right.
Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults.
13 Keep back Your servant also from presumptuous sins; Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless, And I shall be innocent of great transgression.
Even though it may not be something you’re totally aware that is wrong, secret faults and presumptuous sins can still have dominion over you.
Sometimes we allow attitudes to get into our heart that at the time we don’t realize are really not consistent with God’s character.
Sometimes all of us do and say things that are detrimental not only to us, but they harm others.
Yet at the time, we don’t realize the effects of our words and of our actions.
It’s something that you don’t readily recognize that you’ve sinned, and yet it still taints us.
It’s during that time that I’m actually speaking of here where you wait before God and say, “God, put the spotlight on anything in my life that has raised a barrier between You and me, and I will repent of it.”
And it’s not as if you had committed some great premeditated sin; but either through ignorance or just a lack of sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, you’ve sort of allowed this road dirt to cling to your soul, and it’s caused a barrier to come between you and God.
I think sometimes that home can be the worst area for us where presumptuous sins or secret
faults take place, because we’ve become so familiar with one another.
We can become short with a wife or hostile towards the husband or short with the kids or take one another for granted and not really realize it.
Sometimes I see husbands and wives and, there is this hostility just under the surface.
All the time it’s popping out, and they’re reacting to one another with this underlying hostility, and they speak in a tone of voice and they say things they would never dream of saying to a co-worker, but there is just this familiarity.
It’s not that they’re consciously doing it, but they have just slipped into this area.
They may not realize it, but it’s affecting their relationship with God.
It’s affecting their communication with God.
We need to come before God and say, “God, show me any area of my life.”
You will be surprised at some of the things He will show you.
Now just by way of an example, and there are many we could use, verse 13 here from the Message Bible says this: “Keep me from stupid sins, from thinking I can take over Your work.”
That’s an area it’s very easy to slip into.
Start off in the spirit, wind up in the flesh; start off trusting God and relying on Him.
You’ve got a little bit of experience under your belt now, and you know
how to do this thing.
So instead of praying and truly relying on God and trusting in Him, you’re just sort of doing it yourself.
I know that a lot of ministers can fall into that, almost taking over God’s work.
And it’s not so much an utter reliance upon God, but just unconsciously they sort of know how things work, and they don’t realize it can affect their relationship and their prayer life with God.
It affects communication.
“R” is for REPENT.
You just search your own heart and ask God to put the spotlight on it, and repent of anything that He shows you.
And, friend, when your heart is clean, as it says in First John, chapter 3, Beloved, if our own hearts do not condemn us, then we have confidence toward God, and whatever we ask we receive from Him.” Then you can pray with confidence; then you can ask with confidence.
“A” is for ASK.
Look at Matthew 7:7.
I love these words of Jesus.
Jesus said, “Ask, and maybe you’ll get it.”
He said, “Ask, and maybe you’ll get an answer one-fifth of the time.
Anymore than that would be abnormal.”
“Ask, but don’t expect anything.”
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