Prayer is the act of communicating with God (Philippians 4:6). Have you ever prayed and you feel tired to continue, sleepy or your mind wavering to and fro with different thoughts while still paying? This is because you’ve not mastered the keys and secret of effective prayer life.

First, to pray effectively, you have to maintain a clear conscience between you and God. Maintaining a clear conscience has to do with having no hidden sin in our life or sinful thought within us. The scripture stated it categorically that the prayer of a sinner is an abomination to the Lord but the prayer of the righteous is His delight (James 5:16; 1 Peter 3:12; Psalm 34:15).

To have a clear conscience and to blot out every hidden sin within you, is by confession and accepting Jesus into your life. Confess your sin to God because He is faithful and just to forgive (1 John 1:9). You won’t be held ransomed for your past sins when you confess your sins, seek pardon and accept Jesus into your life because old sins will be blotted out by the blood of the Lamb and behold all things will become new (2 Corinthians 5:17; 1 John 1:7).

Prayer is a spiritual warfare between the kingdom of light and the kingdom of darkness (2 Corinthians 10:4). Satan and his minions wage war against the prayers of the righteous to be answered by God (Daniel 10:12-13). For this reason it is written in the scripture that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers in high places (Ephesians 6:12). In prayer, we wrestle with principalities and powers preventing our prayers from being heard and answered by God.

A case study in the scripture is Daniel in Daniel 10, where the prayer of Daniel was rattled by Satan and his demons. Daniel prayed and fasted for three weeks but the angel sent to deliver his prayer was withheld until angel Michael came to the rescue (Daniel 10).

To pray effectively, at the beginning of your prayer, cover your prayers with the blood of Jesus. There is power in the blood of Jesus because it is with the blood of Jesus that He shed on the cross that Satan was overcome (Revelation 12:11) and all his evil works destroyed (1 John 3:8 ).

Bound Satan and all his agents that may want to hinder your prayer in high places (Ephesians 6:12). As children of God, the authority has been given to us to bind and loose because it is written whatever we bind on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever we loose on earth shall loosed in heaven (Matthew 18:18; Revelation 20:1-2).

Always pray in the name of Jesus. Satan and his agents can’t just withstand the name because at the mention of the name Jesus, all knees bow — including the knees of Satan and his agents and all tongues confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord (Philippians 2:9-11).

Finally brethren, put on the whole armour of God that you may be able to withstand the wiles of the devil while praying (Ephesians 6:11). As stated earlier, prayer is a spiritual warfare and no man of war goes into the battlefield without first putting on a protective armour or covering and having a sword in his hand. With the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God destroy all works of Satan in prayers that you may please Him (Jesus) that choose you to be a soldier (2 Timothy 2:4).

Source: http://www.gospelandtruth.com/2017/11/the-secret-of-effective-prayer.html?m=1

GOD bless you. Keep up the good work.

Logicprojects1:
GOD bless you. Keep up the good work.

Thanks brother. The good works comes from God because only Him is good and without Him, I can do nothing (John 15:5; John 3:27).

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sweeswirt:
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