When We Pray

[Clarence R.O'Neal]

When we pray as children of God, We most always ask God to forgive us of our sins before we pray for someone else. My Pastor has thought me that in prayer, to always put others before yourself in prayer. When we pray seek God for what we are praying for. And staying focus on what you are praying and not letting your mind being everywhere but on what you are praying for.

"The Lord's Prayer,"

⁹ In this manner, therefore, pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name.
¹⁰ Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us this day our daily bread.
¹² And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors.
¹³ And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Matt 6:9-13 (NKJV)

Read also :Luke 11:2-4 : 2 So He said to them, "When you pray, say: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.

3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

4 And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one." Luke 11:2-4 (NKJV)

      This is a basic form of prayer for those who are starting out for the first time in prayer. Once you have learned how to use the pattern which our Lord and savior Jesus Christ has laid out for you, try praying for someone in need of prayer.  This all for now. May the blessings of Jesus Christ be with you this day. 

Let us talk about our daily pray with God the father. When we do not pray on a daily basis, we miss the blessing of God. We must in order to grow in Christ Jesus. Jesus was a man of prayer. He showed us the way and how to pray to the Father, with the Our Father Prayer. You should Know how to pray if have been in the House of God by now.

     When I was a Baby in Christ, my Pastor told me that she was not going to pray for anymore. She said if she would continue to pray for me she get the glory and not. Don’t get me wrong still prayed for me until I was able to pray for myself. Sometime it seems hard when our Church leaders put you out there to pray for someone and it look as if they are picking on you. They are not picking on you, but they are getting you ready for a prayer life.

In our Daily Prayer life we must learn how to pray in many different way to God, at all times of the day and night. Prayer is learning to make time for God as the saints of old. Here are some daily prayers to read and study.

Daily prayers to read and study:

1).   In the morning: Ps. 5:3; 88:13; 143:8; Isa. 33:2.

2).  Twice Daily: Ps. 88:1

3).  8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You. Psalms 143:8 (NKJV)

4).   All Night Prayer: Luke 6:12.

5).  Without Ceasing/or Stopping: 1 Thess. 5:17.

6).  Secret Prayer: Gen. 24:63; Matt. 6:6.

7).  Silent Prayer: Ps. 5:1.

8).  Weeping in Prayer: Ezra 10:1.

9).  The Prayers of Jesus Christ: Matt.26:39, 42, 44-75 and Matt. 27.

This only some of the daily prayer we do every day of our lift before God.

Daily prayers to read and study:

a)  In the morning: Ps. 5:3; 88:13; 143:8; Isa. 33:2.

3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. Psalms 5:3 (KJV)

 

Let us look at the prayers of David. As David prayed to God the Father, he prayed to a God who hates sin. Yet he is a God who hears our prayers, His ear is always open to hear us in prayer.

 

[God is a prayer-hearing God. Such he has always been, and he is still as ready to hear prayer as ever.—Matthew Henry Concise]

 

But to You I have cried out, O Lord, And in the morning my prayer comes before You.

Psalms 88:13 (NKJV)

 

Sometime you have to cry out to the Lord because lift it-self can get so hard because of hurts and pain cause by friends, coworkers, famley and those who you go to church with can hurt you so much until you want to leave the House of God. And this what the devil want you to do. This is the reason we must cry out to the Lord in prayer not just for yourself but also for all of household of faith. 

[Come to thee before the dawning of the day, or the rising of the sun.—Wesley's Commentary]

 

 

 

 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. Psalms 143:8 (KJV)

 

Here David prays for the comfort. When your soul is in so much because you been through so much heart so much pain until there is no one who can comfort you but God, even in the heardist times of your life. When your trials come, you can always go to God the Father for comfort.

 

He also prayed for the guidance of God. Sometimes our pathways are not always clear, as it should be. Whenever David went war, he sought God guidance before each battle. If the Spirit of the Lord said does not go, David would not go. If the Spirit of the Lord would say yes, you will in the battle David would go and he would the battle. We as children of God need the guidance of the Spirit of God in our Spiritual walk with Jesus Christ. He will lead guild and us rightly before God the Father. Remember to always seek the guidance of God in all that we do before God.  

 

Remember to pray always for your deliverance form this sinful world and the things that is a temptation to such as anything that is unholy in the eyesight of God. Such lust, adultery, lieing, fighting with one another etc. etc.

 

 

 

 

[David prays that God would be well pleased with him, and let him know that he was so. He pleads the wretchedness of his case, if God withdrew from him. But the night of distress and discouragement shall end in a morning of consolation and praise. He prays that he might be enlightened with the knowledge of God's will; and this is the first work of the Spirit. A good man does not ask the way in which is the most pleasant walking, but what is the right way. Not only show me what thy will is, but teach me how to do it. Those who have the Lord for their God, have his Spirit for their Guide; they are led by the Spirit. He prays that he might be enlivened to do God's will. But we should especially seek the destruction of our sins, our worst enemies, that we may be devotedly God's servants.

—Matthew Henry Concise]

 

 O LORD, be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. Isaiah 33:2 (KJV)

 

In this verse Isaiah is interceding for the people, which we as Children of the Most High God should always be praying for church family and those are sick, and going through in Christ Jesus. Just as David cried out in the morning before God Isaiah is doing the same thing before God. Only thing is asking God to be gracious with the people, and he seeking salvation in there time of trouble. When trouble come into your lift are lives of seek God for the salvation of them and yourself.

Because in your walk with Christ Jesus people can be very treacherously with you at any time in your life. You must cay out to the Lord for salvation. Get up in morning and cry out to the Lord ty God let Him what is happing because trouble will always be in your life one way or another.  

 

[When we offer the morning sacrifice, and call upon thee: which yet is not meant exclusively, as if he did not desire God's help at other times; but comprehensively, the morning being put for the whole day. The sense is, help us speedily and continually.—Wesley's Commentary]

 

b)   Twice Daily: Ps. 88:1

1 O Jehovah, God of my salvation, Daily I have cried, nightly before Thee, Psalms 88:1 (YLT)

 

¹ A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. To the Chief Musician. Set to 'Mahalath Leannoth.' A Contemplation of Heman the Ezrahite. O Lord, God of my salvation, I have cried out day and night before You. Psalms 88:1 (NKJV)

 

When it gets to a point in your life and all hope is gone. There are times when praying once a day is not enough, you have to pray and lean on Christ more than anything more than once a day. There times when a situation comes up an ordinary pray will not do. Just as you cry in the morning before the Christ, you have cry out in the noonday and in the evening before Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. There was a situation in my children’s life when the Spirit of the Lord told me to pray there mother. I did not understand why God wanted me to pray for her. I begin to pray for until the Spirit of the Lord release her from my spirit, I found myself praying for her two to three times a day. When I talk to my children they told me that mother boyfriend pull a gun on her to kill her. Praying two to three times a day help. As Daniel prayed three times a day even though it causes him to put in the lion den, God still watch out for him.   

 

c)   8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You. Psalms 143:8 (NKJV)

 

If you have God in your life and He is your leader, then it should easy hear Him and to know his lovingkindness not only in the morning but all day, then it should easy to trust God.

As a woman and man of God you should already know the way in which to walk. We as children of Christ should know how to lift up our soul to the Lord, we do it praise and worship.