I thank God for the grace He has given me to be able to write today, and also in this platform as a way to share with you and everyone this journey of mine with Christ. I pray that as you continue to connect and engage with me, you will draw more to Jesus, because it’s all about Him. Jesus gives life meaning and purpose, not our work, salary, friends, family, school level, etc.
What is prayer? before we even get to see and understand the power of prayer if there is any we need first to understand what is prayer.
Have you ever asked yourself that question, what is prayer? what answer did you give yourself? what answers have others given you concerning what prayer is?
Is prayer, all about facing a specific mountain? or tree? or maybe using big and eloquent words? or is it repeating one word over and over and over? or what we say before we eat or sleep or wake up? All this sound good, right?
Prayer to me is a relationship with God, for we prayer to someone who has more power or ability than us. Prayer is conversation with God. And there are different ways we get to prayer, like praying when we get up in the morning, when we go to sleep, when we are about to eat, when we are in trouble, or when things are going on well.
One of the best things I learned in my walk with God is knowing how to pray. For me, I learned that, the moment I gave my life to Jesus, I answered the knock He was knocking in my heart (Revelations 3:20 NLT) I opened up, and He came in. Because Jesus lives in me through the Holy Spirit, I can talk to Him all day long, verbally or through my thoughts. And the good part is that He talks back. Before writing this post, I had taken a step outside my balcone and I was star gazing and I started to think about how God has soo muuuch thoughts about me, think with me, the Bible says:
Psalms 139:17-18 TPT
Every single moment you are thinking of me! How precious and wonderful to consider that you cherish me constantly in your every thought! O God, your desires toward me are more than the grains of sand on every shore! When I awake each morning, you’re still with me.
God is thinking of me, He is thinking of you also constantly through out every second of the day you get to wake up, SELAH !
Prayer is attractive when it yields results. The disciples who walked with Jesus got to experience this first hand with Jesus. Because Jesus spent more time with God in prayer. Jesus is God, and He spent more time praying.
Genesis 1:26 AMP
Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.”
John 1:1-4, 10-11 NIV
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. 11 He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.
Colossians 1:15-17 NIV
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
As clearly shown from these scripture, they tell us that Jesus is God, many people they only think of Jesus as Man, and end up missing it. For Jesus was Fully Man and God at the same time.
My point is this, when you believe that Jesus is God, through Faith, then God gives one the clarity to see and be able to accept Him, and when Jesus comes in you, through the Holy Spirit, He begins to teach you and guide you into all truth.
Prayer is attractive, the disciples were so amazed at how Jesus would pray and things would happen, some of the prayers listed in the Bible of how Jesus prayed were very simple and others short. So we can follow Jesus’s example on this.
When we pray we need to have faith in God that first, He wants to hear us and answer us. And also there is nothing too small to come to God and pray about, nor anything too big that would make God surprised.
One of the major barrier to having faith in God is when we start to reason out everything with logic or as some would say ” Vitu kwa ground ni different” ,”What’s on paper is not what’s at the ground” In order for me and you to have faith, we have to release trust to God compeletly. Trusting God does not have anything to do with understanding. I don’t need to understand fully what God is telling me to do in order to trust Him. Has God every put you in a tight spot of trusting Him without understanding? God told Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, whom He had given to him as a promise? Has God ever promised something to you and asked you to give it up? Abraham had to trust God without understanding, and this is where faith comes in, for faith gives us the ability to trust God without understanding, believing that God has the best intention for me.
I hope this first part has answered some of the questions you may have about prayer. As we look now to the second part we shall explore some of the results others in the Bible have had, when it comes to prayers, and I will finish up with some of the results I have seen in my life through prayers.
