Why You Must Pray?

Why You Must Pray?

Most of the times if not all the time, when prayer meetings are called, you see few people attending, why is this so, the reason is simple, either people do not know the reasons why they are to pray or they feel lazy to pray. Why must we pray without season?

Let’s begin to examine this topic by closely examining the following scripture:

Ge 1:26 ¶ Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion (rule) over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." Ge 1:27 So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

By this statement, we realized that God has clearly define, who’s in charge here, man’s rulership on this planet earth. God did not include himself in the equation here, “let’s create man in our own image to rule over all the earth”. Wow, can you imagine? This is too good to be true, well, in as much as you want to doubt this statement, it is very true. By this statement, God is telling you and I that when it comes to the issue of plane earth, is fully in charge. This is where most people miss the point by saying there is no God, if there is really God things must be happening automatically on earth without the consent of man. But, You all will agree with me that if God says we should have dominion/rule on earth and He God passes our back to do something on earth without our consent, that will be tantamount to a coup d’état, especially when He God himself has said:

·         Nu 23:19 "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

·         Jer 1:12 Then the LORD said to me, "You have seen well, for I am ready to perform My word."( This means, the laws of God is also a law unto He himself, His laws serves as a mirror for him, He watches every word to perform it)

·         Mt 5:18 "For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one title will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled

With this background, you now agree with me that the statement in Gen.1:26 is still potent than never before.

Somebody might ask what happened after the fall of man at Gen.3? I will deal with this when I talk on the Grace of God but a short answerer is the second Adam which is Jesus Christ, the bible tell us He came to perfect the laws, in other words He came to realign every word of God to the initial intent of the Father. Quickly, the four major benefits of the death of Jesus on the cross is 1. Reconciling us to our Father again. 2. Claiming our birth right the first Adam lost to the devil through the fall in Gen.3, The return of the Holy Spirit to earth, the part of God we lost during the fall and 4. Setting the captives free.

The fall has been restored by Jesus and nothing is lost, the word is perfect and whole.

What Then Is Prayer?

Many people will answerer by saying ‘communication with God’, good but communication about what? When we define prayer based on Gen.1:26, we will then say:

1.      Prayer is man asking God or enquiring from God about dominionship/rulership guidelines on earth. He created the earth and has delegated us rulers so He knows the earth system better than we do. The one who designed the PC you are using now, knows it better than you despite the fact that you now owns it.

2.      Prayer is man giving God the legal right to establish his perfect will on planet earth. God will not do anything on earth without the consent of man, right from beginning He needed Adam to name all the creations on earth, Noah to save his creations from the flood, Abram, Moses, Mary for Jesus, etc.

But, He is God, why don’t he do it? He can but in order for God not to violate His own law, He will do nothing on earth except in response to our prayers. This law our savior Jesus Christ kept very well, although He was fully God here on earth, He does nothing without praying.

So, if Jesus himself observed this rule to the latter, what are you sitting down doing? why are you swerving prayer meetings? Why don’t you cause the hand of God to move now? Start exercising your legal right now with the following words of Jesus:

Ø  Mt 16:19 "And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."

Ø  Mt 18:18 "Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Mt 18:19 "Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. Mt 18:20 "For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them."

Ø  2Ch 7:14 "if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

God richly bless you for visiting and all the best in your new found prayer life.

Visit again to read the part 2“If all this is true, why don’t we receive answers to our prayers?”