God hasn\u2019t made prayer difficult or complicated, but really simple. The truth is, many of us pray more often than we know. And we have a more effective and successful prayer life than we realise. The trouble is, we don\u2019t always recognise when we\u2019re praying. That\u2019s because we\u2019ve got the wrong idea about it. We\u2019ve been taught that prayer requires a specific environment like church, or a prescribed posture like kneeling, or a particular form of words like \u2018Thee\u2019 and \u2018Thou\u2019, or that we must strictly adhere to certain religious rituals. <\/p>\n
No, prayer is simply talking to God, then being still and allowing Him to talk to you. It\u2019s a conversation. You can pray any time, anywhere, about anything, by just directing your thoughts, spoken<\/i> and unspoken<\/i>, towards God. <\/p>\n
Paul writes, \u2018We fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.\u2019<\/i> Imagine that all of God\u2019s blessings and benefits are stored in a giant warehouse in the invisible realm; things like forgiveness, strength, wisdom, guidance, favour, and resources. Through prayer you enter God\u2019s warehouse of blessings and, by faith, you receive them and bring them back into your life. <\/p>\n
The Bible says you don\u2019t have what you need because you don\u2019t ask for it (see\u00a0James\u00a04:2). So whatever you need today, pray and ask God for it\u2014believing that He will give it to you. Jesus said, \u2018If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted!\u2019<\/i> (John\u00a015:7\u00a0NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n So, have you prayed about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" God hasn\u2019t made prayer difficult or complicated, but really simple. The truth is, many of us pray more often than we know. And we have a more effective and successful prayer life than we realise. The trouble is, we don\u2019t always recognise when we\u2019re praying. That\u2019s because we\u2019ve got the wrong idea about it. We\u2019ve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}