Learning to Pray with Guaranteed Results

Learning to Pray with Guaranteed Results
Psalm 100

Testimony - Laura Forest
Prayer and looking back and seeing God's hand.
Son's hole in heart healed through prayer
With God she was able to cope after her husband passed away.

'Popcorn Prayer' - lots of small prayers

'Laying hold of the promises of Scripture'

Mark 11:20 - 26
We get to tap into what God has promised
87,000 people a day becoming Christian (a few years ago)

If we are to lay hold of the incredible power of prayer...

Become a student of God's word
Identify scriptural promises
Speak out those promises despite circumstances

Reality will confront the dream

Ask
Seek
Knock

Ask
Ask Him what He wants you to know in the situation at hand

The Gibeonite Deception

Crafted Prayer
Written Prayer
Takes a couple of drafts
Pray it in season and out
Invite others to participate

Declarations
Based upon scripture or God's specific revealed will
Said out loud
Proclaimed Regularly

His specific revealed will - won't contradict scripture
Proverbs 18:21

Our words influence the spiritual realm moreso than our thoughts
Binding the demonic and releasing the angelic
A power in saying it out loud.

Declarations
eg Perfect love casts out fear.
Romans 8:26, 27

You can fail, but you'll never be a failure

Influence is not about power.

The Best is yet to come

Declaration exercises
Identify the lie you are believing
What verses of scripture relate to that?:
Write a declaration based on God's truth

A stronghold - 'a mindset tainted with the lies of the Enemy'