All Manner of Prayer

✨ New Episode – Faith For Your Family with Michelle Steele ✨

In our next episode, Michelle Steele teaches us how to pray effective prayers—prayers that are rooted in faith, aligned with God’s Word, and bring real results into our lives and our families. 🙏📖

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Welcome to Faith for Your Family. My name is Michelle Steele, and I'm so thankful to have this opportunity to share with you from the Word of God things that are going to help you have faith for your family. We're talking about believing God for change in our loved ones' life, standing in the gap, making up the hedge, putting our faith in a place that God can use that open door to flow his power into our loved one's life. And your investment of time and focus and attention will produce dividends as you give yourself to God's word and God's plan for your family, for your loved ones. You will see the results as you walk out in days ahead. Last time that we had together, I was teaching on the ministry of prayer, how the word of God discusses that we are kings and priests, that we're anointed of God, and we have a ministry, part of that ministry that we have before God, serving him and ministering at his altar, is to bring our petitions, to bring our prayers and to let our faith be uh conduits through which he can minister in the lives of not only our our situation, but our loved ones and those in our church family too. So when we when we talk about our our prayer life, a lot of times I found that I didn't know anything about prayer when I first got saved. I I was very inept at talking to God, and I was even worse when it came to hearing from him. So I had to learn how to hear from God, how to recognize his voice. I had to learn. And I learned by time in the word and spending time with him. And um one of the things that that will help us is to let the word of God establish for us that communication that we have with God, that we're not um just doing this out of uh our our reasoning or our our human thinking, but we are learning how to hear Him with the heart. And everything we do spiritually is benefited by the Word of God. If you try to pray without the Word, you're gonna find that you're reaching for emotional tools, you're reaching for reasoning or or perceptions that come to the natural thinking, where this the word of God will condition your spirit to be able to recognize spiritual sounds and spiritual words and spiritual promptings of the Holy Spirit. And so that's what we want to do. We want to let the word um establish that for us. And I have a tool that I want to share with you. It's called effective prayer, and I'm gonna be teaching from this. Our our session last week actually was lesson one, and I just had in my heart to just continue down this road because we want our prayers to be effective. We want to be confident in our praying, we want to pray the word way, we don't want to pray um out of emotion, and it's possible. If you know, uh other religions pray. Other religions, I mean, and some of them are more diligent about keeping certain times and certain practices where their prayers are concerned, but that doesn't mean they're reaching God, and that doesn't mean their prayers are changing anything, and so we want our prayers to be effective, and to be effective, we got to do it the word way, and so this is a study guide. It's not it, it's it's pretty thick, but it's not a book, it's a study guide, and it has these lessons in them, these sermon outlines all the scriptures, the different translations that we use in the scriptures, and it also in this one it has questions, study questions. So you could use this for a personal Bible study, you could use it for uh something that you may want to have, a Bible study with friends at work or a home group or something to that effect. Um, we also have the flash drives of all of the 12 lessons from this are available on this flash drive, and the the study guide is in a PDF on this flash drive as well. And then we have CDs. If you if you still use a CD player, and uh we have some in our house, so we we use them from time to time, but we have CDs available of this. You can go online at our YouTube channel and watch them for free. If you if you don't want to, this is just to make it more convenient for you, but it's free on our YouTube channel. There's a playlist called Effective Prayer. You can go watch all of that there. Also, we have podcast uh audio uh available on the podcast for free. So you could go to our podcast uh on whatever podcast venue you use, whether it be uh Spotify or Apple Podcasts, whatever, and and look for the effective prayer series there. But our goal is to provide you with the tools that you need to pray and to have faith for your family. So last week, as I mentioned, we talked about the ministry of prayer. And I did want to touch on a part that I don't know that I got to cover as completely, and we'll start from that today, James chapter 5. Because James chapter 5 is telling us that the prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him up, and then he goes into this phrase that is found in verse 16 the effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. And I love how the Amplified uses that uh phrase to amplify it. It says, the effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous makes tremendous power available. So prayer makes power available. Prayer avails much, effectual, fervent, the prayer of the righteous, it makes power available. It makes the power of God available to the situation. And then the book of James goes into an example, an example that you and I can relate to. He said, Elijah was a man with subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. So he prayed, and it brought a flow of the power of God in the first situation to stop the rain, and in the second to start the rain. So the rains were controlled by prayer. It was the will of God in both situations. God had already determined it and told Elijah that this is what he wanted. You go tell Ahab it's not gonna rain till you say it's gonna rain. And so Elijah he received the word of God, but he didn't just wait for God to make it happen. He prayed. It says he prayed and the heavens gave, or the heavens stopped the rain. Uh he prayed earnestly that it might not rain and it did not rain. And then he prayed again and the heaven gave rain. So the rain was started and stopped. The rain was turned on and turned off by a man's prayer. And there are things that need to be started in your life. It's the will of God for you to prosper that needs to be started. It's the will of God for your children to walk in the peace that passes all understanding. You can make that, you can start it, you can stop it. You can turn it on, you can activate it. There are some things that need to be deactivated, things that the enemy's trying to do that you need to go in there and put a stop to it. How do you do it in prayer? And so that's what we're learning how to have uh effective prayer. And then I want to give an example as well from Daniel. Uh, Daniel began reading things in scripture and he saw the plan of God, and then he looked at the situation. That's what the scripture says, is what the situation says. Something's not right. What needs to change? The situation needs to change. It needs to line up with what God said should be happening in this scenario, what God said should be happening right now. And so let's read this in chapter 10, Daniel 10, verses 1 through 3. In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a message was revealed to Daniel, whose name was called Beltashazzar. The message was true, but the appointed time was long, and he understood the message and had understanding of the vision. In those days, I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant food, nor meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all till three whole weeks were fulfilled. So 21 days. Verse 12. Then uh an angel appeared to him. Verse 12, the angel said to him, Do not fear Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and to humble yourself before God, your words were heard. So he set his heart to understand and to humble himself before God with words. He said some things to God. He prayed. He said some things that were recorded, he said some things that initiated the response from God. He said, Your words were heard, and I've come because of your words. So there was angelic activity because of the words of a man who was praying to God. And so when you're praying to God, God's hearing, angelic forces are responding, powers made available, the effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous makes tremendous power available. And it says that the king of kingdom of Persia, the prince of the kingdom of Persia, withstood me 21 days. So he'd been praying that long, hadn't he? Three whole weeks. 21 days he this angel had been hindered by demonic forces. And then he called for Michael, one of the chief angels, to come and help me. For I have been left alone there with the kings of Persia. Now I've come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the re for the vision refers to many days yet to come. What I want you to see is that the minute he started praying, things started happening in the realm of the spirit. And your prayers are effecting change immediately, even if you don't see it, even if you don't have any other kind of evidence that things are working, you've got Bible evidence. And the Bible evidence that God hears me when I pray is enough for you to stand on. And so uh the Amplified, this phrase in the Amplified, when he said, I've come because of your words, the Amplified said, I have come as a consequence of and in response to your words. So when you're praying, there's a response to your words. Things are moving as a result of your words. The uh God's word translation says, I've come, or in response to your prayers. And the young living translation says, I have come because of your words. So the answer started moving toward Daniel the moment that he prayed. And that's what happens when you're praying as well. Now, when we enter into prayer, and in my book, um Intervention Prayers, I talk about prayers like a toolbox. It's you've got a toolbox here, you've got a toolbox of praying. Uh, and you don't want to try to do everything with one tool, you don't want to try to try to do everything with the screwdriver or with the skill saw. That different tools are for different things, and different types of praying are for different situations, and so it helps for you to know. So we're going to get into a little bit today from the lesson, all manner of prayer. And this phrase, all manner of prayer, is found in Ephesians 6 18. Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints. So praying always with all prayer. The Amplified uses the phrase that I'm referring to, with all manner of prayer. Praying with all manner of prayer. So praying with the different things in the toolbox, not just one tool out of the toolbox. And this is the only tool I use. No, I've got more than I've got a toolbox. I've got all manner of prayer. The Good Speed translation says, use every kind of prayer and entreaty, and at every opportunity, pray in the spirit. Use every kind of prayer. Glory to God. So the King James again says, praying always. And that word always is defined at every moment, at any time, whenever you can. So it's not necessarily saying 24 hours a day. That's impossible. God knows that I cannot pray 24 hours a day, always, but it's it means whenever you can, at any time. So it's a consistency. I'm consistently praying. So let's talk about some of the kinds of prayer, because knowing the different kinds of prayer and the application for those kinds of prayer is going to benefit me to know what I need in a certain situation, what I need to utilize, what tool I need to pull out of the toolbox for that moment, for that scenario. And when we recognize there are different types of prayer, it will help us know uh to look into the situation to determine what do I need here? The scripture I want to start with for this is 1 John chapter 5, and I want to read this from the Amplified as well, verses 14 and 15 of 1 John 5. This is the confidence, the assurance, the privilege of boldness which we have in him. We are sure that if we ask anything, make any request according to his will, in agreement with his own plan, he listens to and hears us. Now I'm gonna read it with just a little bit of a different inflection. It's it says, let me read it this way. This is the confidence we have in him. If we ask anything according to his will and in agreement with his own plan, he listens to and hears us. And I read it that way because I want you to see most of the time we read it that first way. If I ask anything according to his will, meaning if I ask outside of his will, then yes, that's true. That is a true application. If you ask outside of the will, number one, you can't have faith for something that's outside of the will of God. Faith begins where the will of God is known. And that's a quote from Jesus, the healer, I think. Uh it that quote is from F. F. Bosworth. Faith begins where the will of God is known. But it's scriptural in its concept. You can't believe beyond what the scripture promises. You can't have faith for something that's not yours according to scripture. You can't have faith to marry my husband. You can't have you can't use faith for it. You can you can try to use any other kind of temptation, he's not gonna fall for it. But you can't use faith for it. You can't say, well, by faith, I'm gonna marry so-and-so's husband. No, you can't have faith for something that's not promised you in the word. And so trying to pray and ask God for something that's not his will, you're it's not gonna be. So, yes, that is true. If we ask anything according to his will, he listens to and hears us. But I also want you to apply this. It's his will to hear me. According to his plan, he hears me. And so let me read it that way again. If we ask anything, according to his will, in agreement with his own plan, he listens to and hears us. So God is not trying to make it hard to answer your prayers, God's always ready to do everything in his power to answer your prayer. So, glory to God. If we, since we positively know, if since we positively know that he listens to us in whatever we ask, so don't you see how that this is the amplified verse 15 that's emphasizing he listens to us whatever we ask. If we positively know that he listens to us in whatever we ask, we also know with settled and absolute knowledge that we have granted as our present possessions the requests we've made note of him. So we're talking about the prayer of faith, the prayer of petition. This is the the tool in your toolbox that you'll use most, probably often out of the different types of praying. Although I have brought to this my my updated version of, I've said that for a number of years. This is going to be the tool that you use most often. And over the years, I've come to determine in my own personal life that the prayer of praise and worship, which is is a prayer because it's communication, all prayer is communication. So praise and worship, I use that maybe as much as the prayer of faith. And with the prayer of faith, because once I've made the prayer of faith, the praise and worship is what I use to hold myself in in contact with that which I believe I have received. So there is probably as much the prayer of praise and worship being used in my life as the prayer of faith. So I would say those two, though, are at the top of what you use on a consistent basis. But I want to just go through some of these, and we're not going to try to go into depth about every single one, but you can in the effective prayer lesson go through and see all the different scriptures that teach and and identify the workings of each type of prayer. So it says uh in John, the prayer of faith, it talking about the prayer of faith, that there's confidence, talking about the prayer of faith, it says, if we positively know that he listens to us, we know we have the possession, the requests, the petitions that we've made. So God, He the prayer of faith is a settled prayer, it's an absolute prayer. And so the prayer of faith, it is going to have a focus on um what's the what the word says belongs to me. For me to have faith for it, I've got to first of all establish that from where's that written? Where did God say I can have that? And and that's where the faith for the prayer of faith comes from, from the word of God. So the prayer of faith is one of the prayers, and you could also find that one referred to in a lot of teachings as a prayer of petition. And it's a prayer that's based on the known will of God through the evidence of his word. And this prayer of faith is what Jesus was referring to when he's teaching about faith in Mark chapter 11, in verse 24, he says, This works in prayer too. For this reason, I'm telling you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that it's granted to you and you will get it. Matthew 21, 22, all things whatsoever you ask in prayer, believing you shall receive. So the prayer of faith is a prayer that I've established it on the word of God. I believe I receive it, and then I stay in that position after I make that initial request. I stay in that position of I believe I have received. It's mine now. And so the prayer of faith, we want to make a contrast from that one to the prayer of consecration. So Jesus is our example for the prayer of consecration in Luke 22. Uh, we see him saying, Father, if you be willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. And you notice in that phrase, if you be willing, Jesus used the word if in that prayer. This is a consecration to whatever your your will is in this situation. If you be willing, if if you be willing to let this cut pass from me, but if not, nevertheless, your will is what I'm I'm after your will. So he used the word if in this type of prayer, but you never see Jesus using the word if when he was praying for someone to be healed. He didn't say, Lord, if you want to heal this blind man, Lord, if it be your will to heal this leper, he never said that. As a matter of fact, a leper came to Jesus and said, I believe you can heal me. I know you've got it in you to heal me, but I'm not sure if you want to. If you will. And Jesus said, I will. And I love how the Wee Weese translation says, I want it with all my heart. I want to do this with all of my heart. I want to heal you. And so the will, when he knew the will, when the will was established, the receiving of the healing was established. And a lot of times people try to use if in a prayer of faith. Mostly we hear them pray, hear people use that if in the prayer of faith attempt because they're trying to say, Lord, if it be your will to heal. If you, if it be your will, Lord, heal them of this sickness. That prayer is not gonna work because the if the word if does not fit in something that the will is already established in. The word if only fits when it's something that's we're talking about consecrating to whatever God's will in that situation is that we don't know if if it's your will for me to marry this person, if it's your will for me to move to this other state, if it's your will, Lord, I I want your will and I'm consecrated to do whatever it is you've called me, whatever your plan is. But when you're talking about healing, the word of God already clearly tells us what the will of God is. So I don't have to leave, I cannot receive by by the word if in my prayer, if if I'm because I'm leaving it open to if it's not his will. But whoa, whoa, whoa, God said, Hey, hey, it's written what my will is, it's already in the book by his stripes you were healed. I've made healing a finished work, I've made it part of the that would be like, Lord, if it's your will to save me. If we did that, how would we ever get anybody saved if we preached it like that? No, we've got to know the difference in the type of prayer that I'm using. So if I'm praying the prayer of faith, I need to not use the word if, Lord, if you want me, if, if you want to heal me, Lord, if you want to prosper me, Lord, if you want me to get out of it, Lord, if you want, if I know the will of God, I'm gonna use the prayer of faith because I have the established will on it. If it's something that I'm consecrating myself to do, whatever God wants me to do in that situation, and I don't have all the knowledge about the situation, but I do know that God's will is good, God's will is secure, I can trust God's plan, right? There's a difference in the way that I pray. So, in the few minutes that I have left, let me just go through some of these types of praying. I mentioned the prayer of praise and worship, and that might be as far as we get. We might need to pick up on this and continue on it next week. But the prayer of praise and worship, it says in Hebrews 13, 15, amplified Bible, through him, therefore, let us constantly and at all times offer up to God a sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of our lips that thankfully acknowledge and confess and glorify his name, the fruit of our lips. So the sacrifice of praise does not mean I'm praising God and it's such a drudgery and it's such a hardship that it's a sacrifice for me to have to praise you right there. Because it's hard for me to praise. No, no, the sacrifice was the best. You brought the best. It's not talking about it's a sacrifice for me to praise him. The sacrifice of praise is the fruit of our lips. Acknowledging thankfully and confessing and glorifying his name. This is communication, this is prayer, it's the prayer of praise, it's the prayer of worship. And brother Hagin, he he would say it's the atmosphere of praise and worship to God that God can do more for his people in that atmosphere. He can move readily and mightily in our midst. And that's a direct quote from Brother Hagin. He can, it's it is in this kind of atmosphere of praise and worship to God that God can do more for his people. And we see that in the scripture, Acts chapter 13. As they ministered to the Lord and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me, Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them. What were they doing? They were praying, but it wasn't a prayer of petition, it wasn't a prayer of consecration, it was a prayer of praise. They were ministering and worshiping the Lord and acknowledging him as God, acknowledging him as their creator, acknowledging him as the source of their strength, acknowledging God. And in that atmosphere, God was able to speak about the direction to send these men in their ministry. Another example is Acts chapter 16, when Paul and Silas were thrown into the inner dungeon. They were beaten, they were threatened not to preach and thrown into the inner dungeon. They'd been lied on, they'd been uh they'd set that girl free from demonic oppression and her her captors or possession actually, and and her owners were upset about it. And so they lied on him, and here they are in prison. But it says, at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them, and you know what happens next. Suddenly there was a great shaking, and the the the every prison door came open. So there was a supernatural response, but it started with their praying and singing praises unto God. Luke 24, it says they worshiped him. This was right after the ascension of Jesus. It says they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, and they were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. Another example is in Acts chapter 2, verse 46 and 47. They continuing daily with one accord in the temple, breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God and having favor with all people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. So this communication, this prayer of praise and worship, and in my own personal experience, I found that I use it as often as the prayer of faith. I use the prayer of faith, but I employ the prayer of praise and worship because this is where I get my strength from. The joy of the Lord is my strength, and rejoicing is how we stay strong. And that's how we stay strong in faith. That's how we stay strong for our families, that's how we maintain this walk of victory that is ours in Christ. I'm so glad that you tuned in today for Faith for Your Family. The book, The Study Guide, Effective Prayer, is available. Download, you can get the PDF in a download uh on our uh website at lifeoffaith.net. Go to the bookstore there, and you can get the flash drive, uh, CDs, or you can go watch it for free on YouTube over again uh or listen to the audio on our podcast and connect to that podcast. Uh, we also have the book Intervention Prayers that will help you so much as you grow in your faith for your family to know how to utilize the tools that God has made yours in His Word. Thanks for tuning in today. I've got some information that I believe will be a blessing to you, and I look forward to seeing you again next week.

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