At the least provocation, existential threat and distress, we are asked to PRAY -that’s good. But prayer is not only reserved for when we get into some trouble or need. Do they really take time to teach us about prayer and how to maximise the best results out of it. Do we even understand the mystery of prayer and the right posture of prayer to getting the desired results?

Prayer is much broader than just what you say with your lips. Prayer is a culture, it is a way of life, it has its own modus operandi- that calls for a specific mindset. Prayer is a mystery established by God himself -as a system of communication between the physical realms and the spiritual realms, so you don't decide what prayer is, or what it is not. You must go back to the mind of the manufacturer of prayer, what he intended it to be and the mindset he wants you to have about prayer.

So in this conference we are going to be discussing prayer, the culture of prayer, the posture of prayer, the mindset we are supposed to have as regards prayer and learn how to make our prayer lives more result oriented.

But before we get into the crux of this conference, the year has began and people are already under attack- so I thought we should begin this conference with- a reminder on- how to know you are under attack spiritually-When you begin to experience the following, know that your life is under intense attack.

1.    LOSS OF GOOD RELATIONSHIPS

Satan will begin to kill your connections to people, good people who have the skill and grace to aid you. He will use offence, hurt, pride and anything possible to kill those relationships.  He will  move you from your spiritual support base, and isolate you from the company of all who can help you.

You will begin to fight with everyone, have problems with everything, including accusing the snail of over speeding🤣. You will begin to feel paranoid, thinking everyone is after you- When you begin to see this signs, know that you are under attack. Satan intentionally destroys your relationships, isolates you so he can finish you. 

Listen up, SOLITUDE is different from ISOLATION. When Satan wants to destroy you, he cuts your connections; spiritually, emotionally and physically. He will use pride to keep you in the offensive position. Remember that scripture says we are not ignorant of his devices/strategies (2 Corinthians 2:11), Satan has a skill, there is a way he does it, he will isolate you, keep you in a position where you no longer have a support system he will finish you. 

So my advice to you this year and beyond is this - Do all you can within your power to maintain relationships that bless you- spiritually, emotionally and physically.  Because of our inability to preserve relationships certain things that should come cheap in our lives, we struggle over it aimlessly because there is no understanding. Please guard good relationships especially spiritual relationships.

2. YOUR PASSION FOR GOD AND GODLY THINGS BEGINS TO GO DOWN.

Satan will not make you to be doing all the bad things immediately, that backsliding is too sudden, too fast, and he knows you will realise it quick and come back so he will take it gradually, he will attack your PASSION for GOD, your zeal and enthusiasm towards godly things. The Psalmist said I was glad when they said unto me let us go to the house of the Lord (Psalm 122:1), the GLADNESS is a sign that your spirit is still in tuned. 

See eerrh, when people are already backsliding, and the spirit of revival is eroding from their lives, they lose fervour and fire for the things of God and the house of God. They will stop and reduce their participation in spiritual activities, in the name of every other excuse.  Has your passion for the things of God reduced? Are you finding yourself now making excuses as to why you couldn’t participate in godly activities organised by your local church?- you are under attack.

3. YOUR PRAYER LIFE BEGINS TO GO DOWN

So you say to yourself, I will pray at 10pm, then you decide to put on your phone on. A friend begins to chat you- chat gets interesting and for the next 3 hours- chat is on. now it is 10pm- time for prayer, you tell yourself, oh let me finish this chat and pray, its 12pm- no prayer said- chat is still on going- you just replaced your time for God with something else- you just worshipped another god- the god of technology and chatting- then you fall asleep. You will feel bad, initially but after sometime, few days you will become comfortable, and Satan will be watching - he will never strike you, he is not a fool, call Satan an accuser- you are right; call him trouble maker - you are right;  call Satan a deceiver-you are right;- call him a fool you are wrong.  

Satan has an advantage of age, he is very old, very old , He has seen the first humans who were created, he has seen Abraham, he has seen Moses, he has seen John the Baptist, he has seen Judas, he has lived through dispensations and he has studied mankind as an entity and he knows our vulnerability and weaknesses. He knows the spiritual wear and tear that is capable of befalling us because of our humanity.

In this year and beyond- don't be careless with your prayer life ooh, SPIRITUAL CARELESSNESS is a dangerous thing in the realms OOH, It is even more dangerous than immorality CARELESSNESS-gradually -gradually, you begin to lose spiritual standards, things that didn't move you will begin to move you now, anger, lust, power, men, women, titles- you are becoming the opposite of good each passing day.

And it is very subtle, one week you have not PRAYED, 3 weeks you have not prayed- you are OK...  Satan will never attack you, he is not a fool, it is like a spiritual meter, and he is just allowing your spiritual battery 🔋 to run low and empty. So there are some of you, you don't pray, you snore your way till morning, no morning devotion, nothing to command your day, but because you are still seeing results in your life, you think all is well. Just give it time.

Take a look at Samson, Samson slept with a prostitute immediately after that he removed the city gate, Satan kept quiet and was watching, then Delilah came into the picture, asking of his power source, and because he was already dying spiritually he could not discern that this was the woman to finish him finally, because a man who is spiritually alive will have picked up signals that- behind that beauty lied the true colours of the devil that will destroy him in the near future.  

What happened? Now Samson was carnally minded, the scripture says to be spiritually minded is life eternal and to be carnally minded is death (Romans 8:6), and Samson died, because he became carnally minded.

Many of us- our lack of prayer has made us do unwise things, because we don't discern things spiritually again. At first when people annoyed you, you used to check things from the realm of the spirit but right now, you are so carnally minded that everything you want to fight at the least provocation.

You have been depraved physically that you respond to things sensually and that's the realm of Satan, sensuality, he operates there the most, and it is just a matter of time, once you are carnally minded, he will finish you. You can be jumping around that you are a new creation in Christ till you die, as if Jesus didn't die for you...

PRAYER life... We must be spiritual people ooh. All of a sudden when you want to get serious with your prayer life, then something happens to your finances or marriage or health, and you think it is about your business, but it is because you pray too much, you were causing trouble in the realms with your active prayer life, so they do something to your time line- so that the time you spend in prayer will be dedicated to other things, and all of a sudden you stop praying.... This is a strategy from Hell. The devil knows that as long as there is abundance, there is now time to seek the face of the Lord, so he comes up with a system to take you away from the prayer place.

Listen up-every great ministry, business, family, movement, starts from the PRAYER ALTAR, anything you want to do that doesn’t start as PRAYER ministry will not LAST. The ministry of Jesus started as a PRAYER ministry- the moment He was filled with the Holy Spirit- He was driven into the desert 40 days and nights of prayer- prevailing in prayer - He returned in the power of the spirit and his fame began to spread. 

James 5:16 says "the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective, therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other that you may be healed. ”  meaning that the prayer of a believer is not just an empty talk, an exercise in futility or religious system to feel spiritual- every time people pray there is an effect.

TO BE CONTINUED...

Shalom and God bless you

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