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He simply did what the prophet Habakkuk had done: “I will stand upon my watch, and station me within a circle.”
What would happen if you focused your prayers on one thing for one person for one month or one year? There’s only one way to find out: do your own prayer experiment.
Prayer isn’t a sentence that begins with “Dear Jesus” and ends with “Amen.” In fact, the best prayer doesn’t even involve words at all; the best prayer is a life well lived. All of life is meant to be a prayer, just as all of life is meant to be an act of worship.
prayer journal:
on 1 Timothy 2:1: “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people.”
If you want to experience a supernatural breakthrough, you have to pray through. But as you get closer to the breakthrough, it often feels like you’re about to lose control, about to fall apart. That is when you need to press in and pray through.
But if you pray through, God will come through and you’ll experience a supernatural breakthrough.
Even Jesus said that some miracles are not possible via prayer. Some miracles are only accessible via prayer and fasting. It takes the combination of prayer and fasting to unlock some double dead bolts.
“The moment you began praying, a command was given.” This one revelation has the power to change your perspective on prayer.
Do you realize that the victory has already been won? We’re still waiting for its future tense revelation, but the victory has already been won by means of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is finished.
Destiny is not a mystery. For better or for worse, your destiny is the result of your daily decisions and defining decisions.
Stephen Arterburn’s book Every Man’s Battle.
Daniel 1:8.
Can you keep the resolution for a day? Sure you can. That defining decision will lead to a daily decision, and together, these defining decisions and daily decisions will lead to a different destiny.
The first thing they did was celebrate Communion. Because of a lawsuit filed by Madalyn Murray O’Hair, when NASA aired the reading from Genesis by the astronauts of Apollo 8, it decided to black out that part of the broadcast.
With a vision, people prosper. The future is always created twice. The first creation happens in your mind as you envision the future; the second creation happens when you literally flesh it out.
Mental rehearsal is just as important or more important as physical practice. It’s mind over matter.
The Australian sailing team did the same thing in preparation for the 1983 America’s Cup. The coach made a tape of the Australian team beating the American team three years before the race. He narrated the race with the background sound of a sailboat cutting through the water. Every member of the team was required to listen to that tape twice a day for three years. By the time they set sail from San Diego Bay, they had already beaten the American team 2,190 times in their imagination.
More than a decade ago, I had a paradigm shift when it comes to finances. I stopped setting “getting goals” and started setting “giving goals.” All of our financial goals are giving goals because that is our focus.
you make a living by what you get, but you make a life by what you give.
who will make history,” said Penney. “Give me a man without a goal, and I will give you a stock clerk.”
“Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets.”
When you write down a goal, it holds you accountable. The same goes for a prayer journal. I used to think that written prayers were less spiritual because they were less spontaneous. I now think the opposite. A written prayer requires more faith simply because it’s harder to write it than to say it. But the beautiful thing about written prayers in particular and prayer journals in general is that you have a written record of your prayer. Too often we fail to celebrate an answer to prayer simply because we forget what we asked for before God answers!
The sad truth is that most people spend more time planning their summer vacation than they do planning the rest of their life.
And one way to set prayer traps is by keeping a prayer journal. In my opinion, journaling is one of the most overlooked and underappreciated spiritual disciplines. Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It’s also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.
One of the reasons we get frustrated in prayer is our ASAP approach.
Drawing prayer circles isn’t about proving yourself to God; it’s about giving God an opportunity to prove Himself to you.
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
Every prayer is a time capsule. You never know when or where or how God is going to answer it, but He will answer it. There is no expiration date, and there are no exceptions. God answers prayer. Period. We don’t always see it or understand it, but God always answers.
Our prayers are prophecies, and God Almighty seals them until their designated time.
Psalm 56:8.
You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
Psalm 84:11: “No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.”
Deuteronomy 33:16: “The favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush” is upon me.
“History belongs to the intercessors.”
dream big, pray hard, and think long,
Don’t let what you cannot do keep you from doing what you can. Draw the circle.
Philippians 4:19 (NASB): My God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him; God is great because nothing is too small.
God won’t answer 100 percent of the prayers we don’t pray
Matthew 26:40 (ESV) personally: Could you not watch with me one hour?
when you pray to God regularly, irregular things will happen on a regular basis.
Your greatest legacy is the prayers you leave behind. It’s also your longest legacy.
