God is always willing and ready to answer our prayer more than we want Him to answer it. In God pattern of operation on earth, human being need to align with God to bring His will into manifestion on the earth. John Wesley said God will do nothing on earth except in answer to a believer prayer.
What can you do for you to be effective in the place of prayer.
Using the life of Daniel (Daniel Chapter 9 and 10, Jeremiah 29:10 )
- You need to understand the program of God per time or season: Daniel through purposeful study, trusted the prophecy of Jeremiah this is what the Lord says when 70 years are completed for babylon I will come to you and fulfill my wishes promised to bring you back to this place.
- You must pray the Will of God to manifestation at that time or season: He(Daniel) orders to the Will of God for his people even in exile. How? as this period was coming to a close Daniel got busy petitioning God to honour his promise. It was not a player in passing but a fervent prayer pleading humility of sackcloth and ashes with an empty stomach aching for food.
- Resolve in your heart and believe strongly in receiving your answer to your prayer: Daniel's outward appearance and his abstinence from food was a demonstration of the resolve in his heart to believe about the end of the Babylonian overlord through prayer. Do not doubt God but a new conviction and petition were required to start the process.
Are you waiting for answers in prayer? Is your hope deferred or you have promises yet fulfilled? at times it feels like the waiting is holding you captive like God is not lifting or has abandoned you, you need to understand what to avoid at this particular time.
Things to avoid when expecting answers in the place of prayer
- Unbelieve: it may look as though your answers is not coming but you must keep your faith alive to eventually touch and seek the results of your prayer.
- Sin: unconfessed sin can disqualify you from receiving what God is waiting to give.
- Pride: it pride to thing you are capable of helping yourself, you must avoid pride by constantly checking your mind. Humble prayer and fasting can release a multitude of blessings God is waiting to give, so keep humbling yourself in the presence of God as you're expecting your answers.
Know this fact that God answer the prayers of the righteous, so the question is, are you getting weak in the place of prayer? ask Him for strength today.