Four Key Elements of Effectual Prayer-- Power of Prayer

Prayer is the most important in everything that we do. It is the act of addressing to God what we want to say to HIM. May it be you ask for forgiveness, thanksgiving, blessings, guidance. providence and a lot more. We are all witness of how effective is the prayer.

Here are the four key elements of effectual prayer...

1. Desire or ask when you pray...
Desire is the starting point. The word "desire" means to ask, beg, crave, call for or require. We get something from God when we have a heart-felt desire to have it. He wants us to have our desires.

Psalms 37:4

"Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart".

2. Believe when you pray...
The word "believe" here means to think to be true; to be persuaded of; to credit and to trust in Jesus or God as able to aid either in obtaining or in doing something. It is also a mere acknowledgment of some fact or event.

Mark 9:23-24

"If you can ?" said Jesus. "Everything is possible for him who believes". Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!".

3. Receive when you pray...
Receive means to take with the hand , lay hold of or to take up a thing to be carried.

Hebrews 11:1

Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

4. Forgive when you pray...
We must always keep in mind the importance of asking the father to not only forgive us of our sins, but also to forgive those who sinned against us.

Jesus has promised to answer our prayers on the recognize premise that petitions must be in harmony with God's will. This enables faith to receive the answers God gives.