Prayers are key to growing our relationship with our Father God, creator of Heaven and Earth. Prayers being communication with God, includes praises, worship, petitions, prayerful reading of the Holy Bible, meditating on the Word of God (same as Holy Bible), Declarations and many more.
Prayers also include hearing from God almighty. He directs our steps and makes our paths straight.
Declarations are a type of prayer, where we speak God’s will into our life. The Holy Bible has God’s will for our lives. “The tongue has the power of life and death.” (Ref Proverbs 18:21). Thus, in Declarations, we speak aligning our words to the Living Word (same as the Holy Bible as it is Spirit Inspired.
The various posts cover these topics of Prayers and Declarations.
Gleanings from Psalms 1 to 5
We know that prayer is conversing with God. People communicate in diverse manners with God. As Christians, Christ Jesus taught us how we should pray. When you meaningfully recite, ‘Our Father prayer…’ we in a good mind set for praying to our father God. Yet when we seek to explore the prayer life of Jesus, we see a wide range of types of prayers.
We pray, to get answers to our prayers. That’s what God wants. Answers to prayer increase our joy.
Read the whole Gospel portion cited below, then read once again the portions highlighted in blue.
Quoting from the NIV version of Gospel… according to John, chapter 15. 1: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2: He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[a] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3: You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4: Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.”
I love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul, strength and mind. (Luke 10:27)
I hear the voice of the Spirit and I am quick to obey.(Galatians 5:25, 1 Thessalonians 5:19)
I am pure & holy and separated for the Lord.(1 Peter 1:16, 1 Corinthians 1:30)
I choose to offer my body as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God – this is my act of worship.(Romans 12:1)
