Prayer why

God requires His people to persevere in faith through the trials of the Christian life. He gives His people a great reason to press on the saving work of the great High Priest, Jesus Christ.

Prayer is a great resource that God gives His people, one that must not be neglected if the people of God are to grow strong in faith and persevere through difficulties. Prayer brings one to a throne of power and authority, but also a throne of grace, to all who are in Christ.

Mercy focuses on the assurance that past transgressions have been dealt with, while grace points to the inner strengthening to endure the test. In other words, the divine help comes at the appropriate time, not least when believers pass through periods of testing Hebrews Since God is the one who gives the help Psalm , we may be assured that He is aware of the right time when this help is needed. Prayer is communication with God.

It is not only talking to God, but it is listening to God. And we are to pray, first and foremost, because we are commanded to pray.

It is an act of obedience. I may not always understand the process of prayer or the behind-the-scenes work of prayer, but God wants me to depend upon him and to ask him for those things that are needed most in life. Yes, God is going to give us good things. He's going to provide for us.

But it's clear in scripture that we have not because we ask not. And they're just too many scriptures that tell us that we're to pray. And if we don't pray, we limit what God will choose to do in our lives. It is the process. I read a book years ago called The Cycle of Prayer, which indicates that the prayer that starts in heaven is the prayer that gets to heaven.

And that simply means that there's a need that God wants to fulfill, a desire in the heart of God, that by the Holy Spirit he sends it down to my heart as I am sensitive, as I am listening, as I'm reading God's word. About the Book Did you know the ministry that Jesus has in heaven at this moment is intercession?

Author: Corey Russell. Publisher: Forerunner Publishing. Publish Year: Endorsements Corey Russell is one of the most faithful and committed intercessors I know. About the Author Corey Russell served on the leadership team of the International House of Prayer for more than 15 years and as an instructor at International House of Prayer University. Awakening to Our Identity 2.

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Friendship would not be a mutual affair if we were always the ones who gave and never were open to receive. But if we are not totally egocentric, we will have to admit that we do care for others for their own sakes, and not just for what we can get from the relationship. We spend time with our friends because of our mutual care and love. Can we say the same thing about our relationship with God?

Prayer is a conscious relationship with God. Just as we spend time with friends because we love them and care for them, we spend time in prayer because we love God and want to be with God. That desire, we can say, is the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in our hearts, drawing us to the perfect fulfillment for which we were created—namely, community with the Trinity. That desire draws us toward a more and more intimate union with God.

We pray, then, at our deepest level, because we are drawn by the bonds of love. We pray because we love, and not just for utilitarian purposes. If prayer has beneficial effects—and I believe that it does—that is because prayer corresponds to our deepest reality. When we are in tune with God, we cannot help but experience deep well-being. But in the final analysis, the lover does not spend time with the Beloved because of the consolation; the lover just wants to be with the Beloved.

Another motive for prayer is the desire to praise and thank God because of his great kindness and mercy. Jesus loved us even as we nailed him to the cross. I love thee, God, I love thee— Not out of hope for heaven for me Nor fearing not to love and be In the everlasting burning.

Thou, my Jesus, after me Didst reach thine arms out dying, For my sake sufferedst nails and lance, Mocked and marred countenance, Sorrows passing number, Sweat and care and cumber, Yea and death, and this for me, And thou couldst see me sinning: Then I, why should not I love thee, Jesu so much in love with me? What must I love thee, Lord, for then? For being my king and God. Barry, SJ. What Is Ignatian Spirituality? About Contact.