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If there ever was a time we needed to pray, it is now.

It's a time for prayer because of the darkness the world is going through. Satan is killing people with disease, drugs, depression and every other weapon he can get in his hands.

It's time to pray because this generation of believers is in a very, very special time in history. We are at the end of an age.
The 6,000 years of man's lease on the earth is coming to a close. The 1,000 years of Jesus' millennial reign is immediately ahead.

But before Jesus comes, God will fulfill every promise He has made during the 6,000 years of man's history on earth. The Body of the Anointed One is about to have its hands full of harvest.

The key to seeing the kind of results God wants His last-days generation to walk in is not just shouting some scatter-shot type of prayer, and hoping something might happen.

James wrote, "Ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts" (James 4:2-3). Success comes when we pray accurately according to the will of God.

So many believers wring their hands and worry about whether or not they're praying according to God's will. Many of them have been taught a wrong view of God's sovereignty.

They think that His ways are past finding out, and it is more spiritual to pray, "God, whatever Your will is in this situation, You just go ahead and do it."

Just think what kind of confusion that causes. Whatever results from that kind of praying is credited to God—good or bad! To really honor God's sovereignty, we must pray what He has already declared to be His will.

Praying the will of God is the only kind of praying that can consistently, confidently be expected to bring results. We weren't created to waste time standing around looking puzzled, especially in these days.

We just need to grab our Bibles and find out what the will of God is. God's Word is His will. He has made some very specific promises in it. And it's His will to fulfill every one of them.

Think about what you did when you prayed for salvation. You didn't pray, "God, I'm sick and tired of this life under Satan's control, and I want You to be my Lord and Savior. But I don't want to tell You what to do. Whatever Your will is—to set me free or to keep me in this miserable condition, to send me to heaven or to send me to hell—You just do it."

No. You prayed for God to save you just like His Word said He would. You prayed accurately according to His Word that He is "not willing that any should perish" (2 Peter 3:9).

You prayed expecting results according to the promise: "If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved" (Rom. 10:9).

Maybe you wondered at first, "Did God hear me?" then later discovered that 1 John 5:14-15 says, "If we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us; whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him."

Find Out What The Word Says
These same principles work in any area of prayer. Do you need healing in your body? Don't pray what the doctor says or what your religious tradition has told you. Pray "by His stripes [I am] healed" (1 Peter 2:24).

Do you have financial needs? Don't pray your problem. Pray what God has said He will do: "My God shall supply all [my] need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:19).

God wants His will to be done on earth as it is done in heaven. Find the promise that applies to your situation and pray the answer instead of the problem. Don't just pray what you remember the Word of God says. Read it!

Even if you've read that promise a hundred times, read it again. Feed on what it says again and again. One day, you'll read a familiar verse and suddenly God will give you the greatest revelation you've ever had in your life.

And it will be exactly what you needed to know to pray effectively about your current situation.

First John 5:14-15 says, "This is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him."

When you pray God's Word, knowing His will in advance, you are no longer praying just hoping to get results. You're not rattling off a bunch of religious-sounding words.

You're praying expecting to get results. You're praying accurately because you are praying the very words God has given as His will to be done on earth.

So, before you pray, make the decision to get results, and then pray the Word, expecting God to move. That's the way we bring demonstrations of God's glory on earth while people are being increasingly tempted and terrorized by Satan's deception.

That's the way we position ourselves to receive harvest that will come so quickly that the sower overtakes the reaper.

Jesus is the Alpha and Omega—the Beginning and the End—The First and Last. So let's start with His Word and finish with His Word. Give Jesus the first word in everything you do, and watch Him bring in a harvest like no previous generation has ever seen.


Excerpt permission granted by
Eagle Mountain International Church, Inc.
aka:  Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Author Biography

Kenneth Copeland
Web site: Kenneth Copeland Ministries
 
For the last 50 years Kenneth and Gloria Copeland have been passionately teaching Christians all over the world how to apply the principles of faith found in God’s WORD to their lives.
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