Want to improve your prayer life?
Want to improve your prayer life?
By Jentezen Franklin, Christian Post Contributor
Christian Post
What Christian doesn't want to pray with more confidence and impact? To pray with more power. To move Heaven and earth when they come to the throne of grace for help in time of need. I know I do! When I intercede for myself, for my family, for my church, or for God's plans and purposes for the ministry, I want to know I'm opening Heaven's windows when I open my mouth.
I also know that it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that longer prayers are better prayers. There is a temptation to believe the more we talk, the more persuasive we are in moving the hand of God. But that is not what the Bible shows us.
Your Bible is filled with examples of short prayers that brought break throughs, miracles, deliverance, and heavenly help — Prayers for nearly every circumstance and season of life.
Your Bible declares: "The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much" (James 5:16). Please notice that it does not say, "the long, eloquent prayer..."
You can get a lot done with a short prayer. Let me give you a few reasons why.
For one thing, short prayers often carry a sense of urgency that long prayers don't. I've watched the mother of a toddler running out into a busy street shout the name "Jesus!" and then witnessed every car miraculously swerve or come to a sudden stop. That one-word prayer is as effective as the tongues of men and angels. Even Peter's short prayer, "Lord, save me!" in Matthew 14:30, was enough to bring Jesus to his side when he was sinking.
Secondly, short prayers are powerful because the Bible says that when we pray, even briefly, God moves. Now that phrase, "God moves," may prompt a question in your mind. "Isn't God omnipresent? In what sense does He move? Isn't He everywhere, all the time?"
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