Yesterday I sent out an email with this question:
Do YOU still believe that prayer is:
"simple communication between a child and the father, nothing more." --
... as one recent visitor wrote on our blog?
I saw many replies but this one stood out.
It is from Livhuwani in South Africa.
She says:
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Thank you for the question that is given to us.
It is an eye opener.
Some years back a colleague gave me your manual, Prayer Cookbook for Busy People. I read it, it was a wow.
I could feel the move of God in my heart. My life was good. Everything was going well.
I put that manual away with my study books and continued with my life.
Few years after, all hell broke loose. My marriage was broken, on the edge of divorce.
I look for the prophet to help me get my marriage back.
There was a pastor from a foreign country, who was evangelizing in my country and not far away from where I stay.
A friend introduce me and I told him my problem.
He instructed me to pray at midnight and also to take something like 21 days or 14 days fast.
I can't remember well. The condition of praying with me was that I should send my tithes to him every month.
I agreed and I started fasting. In the evening before I break, I should call him and he pray with me.
He told me that my problem in the spiritual realm is very big and no one can tell me when God will resolve it.
But it will take time to be resolved.
The first night I wake up and pray for one minute and went back to sleep.
Somewhere second day or third day, the Spirit of God spoke with me that I must pray in the way of Elisha.
I wake up and look for Elisha material and I found it.
It was like God put it close because it's been many years maybe 5 years or more since I put that manual away.
I decided to tell the prophet goodbye and starts my journey having Elisha's guide in my hands.
As I continued praying, things started to shape up in just 3 months and I was happy.
I could see what Elisha is talking about.
But the work load in my work place made me weary. I drop from praying 3 hours and more. And suddenly I just felt Lazy and very tired.
That's when this thought that Kenny is having filled my mind and I couldn't pray anymore.
Even when I try to pray I can't speak the words, I can only speak in my mind.
My prayer time came back to 5 minutes and the enemy was sweeping everything.
Until one day I ask God to help me to be able to pray again.
And I stand up and pray. I even wrote what am going to pray about on a paper.
Amazingly my life is shaping up again glory to God in Jesus's name.
Concerning the question asked, if we read Luke 22:40-44. We hear Jesus praying.
If it was father and son talking he wouldn't sweat a heavy sweat like blood.
The angel came to strengthen him, talking with your father you would never require to be strengthened.
So he was on fire. He was working not chatting, not having fun.
But the way I experienced, the enemy uses laziness and silly reasoning to stop us from praying.
I do see live miracles. I will give my testimony one day in Jesus name amen.
- Livhuwani M, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Praise the LORD.
She just made a profound comment about prayer that you must pay attention to.
In reference to that famous "machine gun" prayer of our Lord Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane she has this to say:
"If prayer was just father and son talking he would not have to sweat great drops of blood like he did."
You can read it yourself in Luke 22:40-44.
Yes, the Bible says He was praying and sweating heavily in the process.
Doesn't sound like just "simple communication between a child and the father" to me, as some will like you to believe.
If you are wondering what brought up this whole conversation...
Right now we are getting ready to unleash a firestorm of prayer bullets...
... as the Platinum Forum opens shortly.
Be An Overcomer
elisha