What if God set His watchmen upon each bend of earth, to pray 10 minutes at a time, in shifts, day and night. The world would be different by the effective prayers of those who pray in spirit and truth and do not keep silent. These saints persist and do not rest until they establish God a praise in all the earth. Isaiah 62: 6-7. This would be an unspeakable, global blessing to all. Our humble confession: “Lord Jesus, we know not how to pray as we ought so we ask that the Holy Spirit makes intercession for us.” Perseverance

As we humble ourselves before God, our admitted ignorance leads us to depend upon the Spirit to pray in us, and through us. Oh Lord, fill us with a hunger for living in complete dependence on Your Spirit. As a co-worker “In Christ” that is committed to intercessory prayer, the certainty is that a Spirit filled prayer gets answered, in God’s perfect way, in His timing, and by His grace.  To expect God to answer as we go boldly before His throne, is to exercise great faith. There is nothing selfish in our desire to be effective in prayer. Our Father pleads that we ask Him anything. We worship a God that delights in our petitions. Many experience unanswered prayers and so they stop praying.  As we examine our hesitation to pray, we confess to our Lord that we desire Him to answer us now. Our Father seeks in every possible way to awaken in us the confident expectation of His perfect answer. When we pray with the mind of Christ, we are in His will. We assert the royal power of our renewed will, by His will when we pray scriptures.  A saint who is indwelt, who abides in Christ, such a saint is found worthy of entering into fellowship with God, not only in adoration and worship, but also in having God’s will actually taken up into the rule of the world.  Choose to be a channel through which God can fulfill His eternal purpose.

The power of prayer and intercession, when rooted in a life consecrated to Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit, is the key to unlocking God’s promises and empowering the church to fulfill its divine purpose. The blessing of prayer is that we can ask and receive what we will. As we know Jesus took time to pray, His holy example motivates us to persevere and persist to obtain what God asks us to do. Study our Lord Jesus and His words. The answer we want in prayer is many times not what our Father knows is best. There is a numberless amount of unanswered prayers. Jesus taught us that the answer depended upon certain conditions. Our Lord spoke of faith, perseverance, and of praying in His name the will of God.

All these conditions are summed up in this. “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.” Clearly, the power to pray the effectual prayer of faith depended upon a submitted life. It is to live entirely in Christ and for Christ, as the branch in the Vine and for the Vine, that these promises can come true. Christ said,  “Ask in My name.” A saint full of the Holy Spirit asks in Christ’s name and expects miracles. An empty, or dead Christian life cannot appropriate His promises. To be consecrated, we abide in Him and enjoy a spiritual life, together in Christ we persist in vigorous prayer and in power. The better life is in our dedicated abiding.  The clarity and force of this truth is written to help every beloved fellow Christian to some right impression of the reality and the glory of our privilege as God’s children. “And whatsoever we shall ask the Father in My name, that will I do.”  Jesus actually meant prayer to be the great power by which His church should do its work.  The neglect of prayer is the great reason the church has not greater power over the masses.  If all God’s people would humble themselves and confess their sin of laziness, and disobedience, things would be different.  Our Lord waits to indwell us, to fit us by His spirit that we would pray as He would have us.

There is a life in the spirit, a life of abiding in Christ, that He welcomes us to partake in. The Spirit of God gives us the privilege and power to pray and the power to obtain the Fathers will. Any desire or hope we have in Christ, He is for us, not against us.  The doctrine of grace is manifested in the surrendered Christian life. By our glad, full submission to the life of abiding, He yields to us the fullness of the Spirit’s leading and quickening.

Pray and trust God, that He chooses the weak things to use  for His own glory. In intercession, our King who sits upon the throne of our submitted heart finds His greatest glory.  Through us, Jesus continues His saving work. We are called to receive in ourselves the fullness of God’s spirit with the power to impart spiritual blessings to others. The power of the church truly to bless rests on intercession, asking and receiving heavenly gifts to carry to other men. The body of Christ works more than we pray. The presence and power of God are not seen in our work. And so this book is the attempt to open a practicing school and to invite all who have never taken systematic part in the great work of intercession to begin.

A Prayer School Audiobook

by Andrew Murray ●

There are tens of thousands of prayer warriors who have kept the church alive. Yet, there are tens of thousands who pray little, and as many more who do not pray at all. For their sakes, and for the sake of all who feel the need for help, I’ve prepared helps and hints for a month long school of intercession at the end of this book. Who will join to begin by giving at least 10 minutes a day definitely to this work. It is in doing that we learn to do. It is as we take hold and begin that that help of God’s spirit will come. It is as we daily hear God’s call and at once put it into practice that the consciousness will begin to live in us, I too am an intercessor, and that we shall feel the need of living in Christ and being full of the spirit if we are to do this work aright. Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor. It is difficult to conceive how much we ourselves and the church will be the gainers if with our whole heart we accept the post of honor that God is offering to us. With regard to the school of intercession, The result of a month of dedication would awaken the truth of how little we know of how to intercede.

Deepening Spiritual Life Through Prayer. A dedicated 10 minutes to connect with God.

*   Spiritual Deepening
*   Pray for one another
*   Church Class on Prayer