“It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples” Luke 11:1, Amplified.
Some years ago, I was in my kitchen preparing lunch. As I stood at my sink washing tomatoes, the calm voice of the Lord spoke to me and said, “Ask Me to teach you how to pray and reveal to you what to ask Me for.” I immediately stopped what I was doing, moved to a downstairs restroom that had often doubled as my prayer closet, and replayed what I had heard in my spirit. Until that point, I believed my prayers to be sufficient. Like many people, I often prayed for health and strength, peace and protection, and blessings for my family and friends. I prayed for more money and to get out of debt. But in that moment, God began to reveal to me that He wanted me to experience not only a deeper prayer life but a more profound life and one that could only be accomplished under His careful tutelage and guidance.
He wanted to enhance my character, enlarge my heart, grow my faith, change my mindset, and prepare me for a greater work in His kingdom. I suddenly realized that out of all the times I had prayed to God; I had never asked Him to truly guide my prayers and show me how to honor Him through my requests! So I began to make a habit of praying the simple prayer, “Lord, show me Your way and teach me how to pray.” Little by little, He began to bless my soul! First were prayers for greater wisdom, extraordinary faith, greater courage, and renewed patience.
As time went on, He deposited more complex requests into my spirit. He helped me pray for deeper self-reflection, a greater willingness to forgive, more special ways I could love my husband and show patience toward him, and the courage to face specific fears and overcome them. My prayers have continued to deepen, over the years, while bringing me into deeper communion with Him.
My sister, not only does God desire to bless you with His love, peace, and protection, and with many of the tangible things that we desire, He wants to bless you spiritually and manifest the fruits of His Spirit within you. As you let Him guide your prayers, you will receive the blessing of His will in your life and will grow as He would have you to, never missing out on any good thing!
Prayer: Lord, please teach me how to pray and reveal to me exactly what to ask You for. Allow me the honor and privilege of growing and developing under Your divine tutelage! I desire Your will for my life above my own, and I proclaim that You know what is best for me. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
(Read Philippians 4: 6-8; Hebrews 13:20-21; 1 John 5:14; Mark 11:24; Matthew 7:11; John 14:26)
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LORD Please Teach Me How To Pray
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Thank you for the God for this beautiful ministry, continue to teach me your will as I continue to pray faithfully believing your word in your truth. Give me your will from my life in my future head in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen 🙏🏾💜🙌🏾
Ms. Knox, my sister in Christ ✝️. THANK YOU for THIS devotion TODA!. Recently God has called me deeper and higher in my faith and walk with Him. While I absolutely LOVE 💗 it, the change has been a challenge because I don’t have as much time to journal as long or as much as I have always done in the past. Since He called me up it’s been on my heart and in my prayers for Him to help me adjust my prayer life. I in fact was praying about it last night! I wanted to write it in my journal, but it was time to end my day and go to bed. I absolutely fell prostrate before The Lord God Almighty when I opened the app and read the title of today’s devotion! God is so good and faithful! Words cannot express how much this app has encouraged me and God has AUDIBLY spoken to me through out the yearS now. May God bless each and every one of you that I know prays first for the Holy Spirit to speak through and then lets the Holy Spirit SPEAK through them when they write and publish a devotional.
Lord I pray that you enhance my character, enlarge my heart, grow my faith, change my mindset, and prepare me for a greater work in Your kingdom
This message is like confirmation. When I got off my 4:30am prayerline. I asked God teach me how to pray.
This is my heart’s desire. I what to be more of Him and less of me. Rebuild, Restored, Redeemed for the Lord’s Glory. Thank you for this timely devotional. It sparked me to want to evolve more. Blessings, Shalom and Agape 👀🙏🏽♥️📖🙌🏽
Thank you for this 😭 I literally was just in the shower praying these things… I thank God for using you for confirmation 😇
Dear God, I often tell You that I don’t know what to say to You and I ask u to help me. But, I need to know how to hear Your response! Because apparently, I’m not hearing that. When I pray I pray for family, friends and different situations that I’m in or about to embark upon! I want to pray deeper prayer’s to You Lord of Lord’s! I want to learn to hear Your response and obey them! Help Oh Lord, so that I can live the life You so desire me to live! In Jesus name I pray. Amen! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❤️