How to Pray
How to Pray

    Should I pray standing up, sitting down, on my knees, or bowing down? Should my hands be open, closed, or lifted up to God? How do I address? What should be my language? Do my eyes need to be closed? Is it better to pray in a church building, or out in nature, or at home? Should I pray in the morning when I get up, or at night before I go to bed? Are there certain words that I need to say in my prayer? How do I begin my prayer? What is the proper way to close a prayer? These questions, and others, are common questions we receive about prayer. What is the proper way to pray? Do any of the above things even matter?
   Far to often, prayer is viewed as some form of we look for the tradition a “ritual or formula". We want to know what to say, exactly, or pray in the right position, God does not receive or hear, or answer your prayer on these things. There is nothing biblical of these things. God does not answer our prayers based on what, when, or how, or what position our body is in, what your form of words are, or what order words are in our prayers. MSG tell it like this; 1Jn 5:14  And how bold and free we then become in his presence, freely asking according to his will, sure that he's listening. 15  And if we're confident that he's listening, we know that what we've asked for is as good as ours;  
ISV 1 John 5:14-15 tells us; Later on, Jesus found him in the temple and told him, "See, you have become well. Stop sinning or something worse may happen to you."  I say “Prayer gives us the confidence, in approaching God: that we can ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us — no matter what we ask — we know that we have what we asked of Him.” Mark tells us to picture in our minds that we already have it; KJV Joh 14:13  I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14  If you ask me for anything in my name, I will do it."  
   So, what is the proper way to pray? Philippians 4:6-7 tells us, 6  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Just remember The First Christ, Jesus, our Great High Priest, forever blessed and adored be His Name, was a gracious Comforter, a faithful Guide, a gifted Teacher, a fearless Advocate, a devoted Friend, and an all powerful Intercessor. The other, “another Comforter,” the Holy Spirit, comes into all these blessed relations of fellowship, authority and aid, with all the tenderness, sweetness, fulness and efficiency of the First Christ. For life without the Holy Spirit one would ave to rely on the law, the would be a step bakcwards, the is old testment thinking. 
   It is truly the other Christ, the other Comforter, the Holy Spirit, that does in our life here and now, He represents Jesus Christ as the Christ of prayer! Not forgetting He is third God head of the trinity. This other Christ, the Comforter, plants Himself not in the waste of the mountain nor far into the night, but in the chill and the night of the human heart, to rouse it to the struggle, and to teach it the need and form of prayer. How the Divine Comforter, the Spirit of Truth, puts into the human heart the burden of earth’s almighty need, and makes the human lips give voice to its mute and unutterable groanings!
What a mighty Christ of prayer is the Holy Spirit! How He quenches every flame in the heart but the flame of heavenly desire! How He quiets, like a weaned child, all the self-will, until in will, in brain, and in heart, and by mouth, we pray only as He prays. “Making intercession for the saints, according to the will of God.”
 

  First may I say this, if you learn to understand what worship, praise and your Holy Spirit is. You will understand better in how to pray and what to expect. All that matters is that you speak from the heart and say what is on your heart. You do not have to speak eloquent words or speak King James version. Say it with respect and as you would speaking as a child would speak to his father. Yet it is important to understand sometimes you might pray in urgency, sometimes just as you would talk to your best friend, sometimes like you are talking to your king. It is important to pray all the time and everywhere you have a chance and it is important to listen. 
    This explanation may be a little long, yet hang in there and study. I am giving you view of over all so you have understanding. All good things come from hard work. You appreciate it more when you work for it. Hidden treasure has to be uncovered, so keep digging… Become part of the circle of agreement, pray from the heart and with one another. Pray in your car, in the bathroom, at work, at a lake or sea side. Pray in church, in the hall, just pray. A prayer in a fox hole is a true prayer, because you have given up on everything else and now you are expecting God to be there. That is how to pray. Prayer is your communicating with God. Prayer is the basis of your relationship with Jesus. “Prayer begins, where our human capacity ends, that is why we must pray and ask for the capacity to receive all of what God has for us“. Prayer is such a personal thing and it means so many different things to so many. 

Worship
    This subject is so misunderstood. We worship God by enjoying him. You even worship Him when by you being obedient. Worship is the first responsibility to God, yet most Christians fall short and don't understand it. For many, worship is just related to the music and singing praises. I have heard some say, “At our church we have the worship first, and then the teaching.” some think of worship as something for their benefit. Friends worship is not for you, it is for God. To honor Him and Love Him. The way you walk in faith, in relying on Him is worshiping Him. Worshiping is how you work, how you treat people, how you walk in life for God, yes worship is praising and singing, yet it is a lot more. True worship is being fearless. Knowing and relying on God, depending on Him in all things. Fearless is knowing God is in control, not you or satan. 
    I have heard teachers and pastors say they often receive notes that say, “I loved the worship today. I got a lot out of it.” Others associate worship with ceremonies, candles, and communion or healing, miracles, and ecstatic experiences. Christianity is not a religious ritual, it is a way of life. If you do not understand, ask God to explain it and then discern with your Holy Spirit, in what He means. It is not law and traditons of ritauls. It is al; about reading the word and being obedient and using what you have read. Be not dismayed or deceived, believe in the word of God and the Gospels of Jesus Christ. For your life is at hand. Learn to break satan’s stronghold on your life and you will know how to pray. Also understanding Christianity.
John 17:25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 
26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. 
Deu. 30:19 I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.
 Now choose life. 
    Be of God-consciousness and God-surrender that we carry with us at all times. Every waking moment is to be lived in an awareness that God is with us and that He is actively involved and engaged in our thoughts and actions. This is done by what I call *CCR to become a *GT.
*CCR; Constant, consistent, relationship, with God, through your personal relationship with Jesus. Even Jesus told us to CCR; MSG. Luke 18:1  Jesus told them a story showing that it was necessary for them to pray consistently and never quit. MSG 1 Jn 4:15 Everyone who confesses that Jesus is God's Son participates continuously in an intimate relationship with God. Giving your daily problems and putting it on the altar so God will burn away the chaff.
*God Thinker; G.T. .; A “God Thinker” to me is a person who has found their identity in Christ and acts like it. They think and respond like the word of God, not like the world. They have found the Kingdom of God. When one humbles himself and discerns. Controls his tongue and thought. For that is what we are, what is in our heart. When one humbles himself and discerns. "… For, "Who can know what the Lord is thinking? Who can give him counsel?" But we can understand these things, for we have the mind of Christ." (1 Corinthians 2:16 NLT) Ecc.8:5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing; and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgement. Likewise, it is when we welcome Jesus into our lives as Saviour and Lord, and we live it, in our walk and in time we learn how to think, by reading the word and hearing the word, and living CCR. A God Thinker boils down to knowing and understanding the Kingdom of God. Then having the Kingdom of God as your focus first. KJV Mt. 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Then by this we not only enter into this relationship with Him, yet also with His Father. He shares with us this unique “Son ship“ through the Holy Spirit we discern and recognize God‘s truths and wisdom and Love. "To all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, not of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God" (John 1:12, 13). As children born of God, Jesus shares with you all the spiritual resources that belong to Him "All that belongs to the Father is mine...the Spirit will take from what is mine and make it known to you" (John 16:15); Learning and using God’s wisdom & love in our living life with Jesus by our side, we become more like Him and our thinking becomes natural to react to life circumstance in a God like manner, G.T. 

   Prayer is talking to God and a communication is a humble heart. God speaks these words in Isaiah 66:2, "’All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be,’ declares the LORD. ‘But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.’" The other thing is a obedient righteous life and commiting what you are going to do to God before you do it, then ask Him to intervene where you fall short. This is the positive side of turning from sin and is marked specifically by effectiveness in prayer. James 5:16 says "The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much."
Mt. 6:7  But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. If you want to know howto pray read what Jesus said about it. Look it up,what else does He say? 
   Our speech to God may be vocal, in our minds or written. We can be confident that He will hear us and that the Holy Spirit will be helping us to pray what we ought to pray. Romans 8:26 says "Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words."

   As far as God's method of communicating back to us, we should be looking for God to speak to us primarily through Scripture, rather than trusting that God will put thoughts directly into our minds in order to guide us to specific actions or decisions. Now I am not saying He won't do this. I amsaying scripture is right there for you in truth. Our biggest blunder is our pride, we think we can, yet our capacity for self-deception can creep in, it is not wise to accept the idea that any and every thought that enters our minds is from God. God's word is His way to speak to us. Just don't form or make scripture to say what you want it to say. Sometimes, regarding specific issues in our lives, God does not speak to us directly through Scripture, and it can be understandably tempting to look for extra-biblical revelation in those instances. However, at such times, it is wisest—in order to avoid putting words in God's mouth and/or opening ourselves to deception—to find answers by referring to biblical principles that He has already given us. Listen to your Holy Spirit. Read the word over and over until it is clear what God is telling us. Write down a scripture and keep reading it and saying it asking for clarification in what who and how this to work in your life. The sure confirmation in getting it right is peace with it. Questions or doubt it has not been answered yet. How to apply or rely on it. Always ask God in any doubt to have truth revealed to you. It is also advisable to pray and ask earnestly for the wisdom to come to the right conclusions, for He has promised to give wisdom to those who ask for it. "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him" (James 1:5).
    Answers to your puzzling life, an obstacle, a mountain, a wrong mind set, a person in your life. We seem to pray and ask, ask, ask... how about praying with God and let God, hindering Him not. Have a two way conversation. We always want something then we handcuff Him so to speak by putting limitations on Him by saying do it this way. How about praying for His solution and how to make it manifest in His way and not ours. Pray with Him and in agreement, let Him, Let go and Let God. How about being God's prayer partner. Have you asked God to partner with you in what ever He wants us to do?
    Our debt to be paid because of our fall, limits our thinking. We have no idea in how to pay our debt because of our fall. This is why we do not understand how to pray and what to pray for. That is why the cross had to be. “The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart” (I Samuel 16:7 NIV). Remember He knows you, He has counted the hiars on your head. whether there are three or three thousand or more... Don’t allow your mouth to over load your prideful self. Learn to bite your tongue, to stop and wait on what you are thinking. “He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin” (Proverbs 13:3 AMP)
   It is time to re-invent yourself and life. Make a change and commit to it. Don’t let satan deceive you into next week, for next week never comes. Procrastination is one of the devil’s favorite tools in killing you in a slow death. Work with what you have the best you can. Then ask for solutions. Learning to take care of your temple and doing it is not easy, it takes old fashion work and commitment. God hates a sluggard. 
   It is time to go beyond, go beyond to where you have never gone before. Exploring God and life to the fullest. You are more than a conquer. You have to have a change of heart, change your thinking by the application of information that you are about to receive for the good of mind body and soul is being wise. Working to taste the sweetness of Jesus. Savor His love and His power like you never have. “Go beyond” your own preceptions, own the purpose, and you will control your destiny. Remember it is not what life can give you, it is what you can do with it, what you think and do becomes your life. Make it work with the common good, stop making excuses and do what  ever is holding you let it go and let God. Reread these two paragraphs and follow them as they are the keys to your future happiness and successes. Request always solutions to resolutions for your ways. In Acts, chapter six, it is translated, “Give ourselves continually to prayer.” There is in it constancy, courage, unfainting perseverance. It means giving such marked attention to, and such deep concern to a thing, as will make it conspicuous and controlling.

   Now what have we covered and not covered; let us see what does the bible says. The word tells me to pray about all things all the time, address your prayer, make your prayer from the heart, make it yours, (it is OK to read a prewritten prayer, I say add something to it to make it personal, give supplication, name your prayer seed, yet not the way to receive, ask for solutions to it or for it, asking for resolve, thank God and be of gratitude. Give honor to who gives you the right to pray. Give the address to where you want the prayer to go. Hollowed be Thy name Jehovah Jirah. Asking for deliverance from yourself and the world, forgiveness in our short comings. Close with authority Amen. Here in Matthew and Luke. Study both chapters you can understand more on what prayer is and how.  Mat 6:9  After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10  Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11  Give us this day our daily bread. 12  And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13  And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen. 
Mat 6:14  For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: 15  But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Do you see the address and supplication and understanding of forgiveness?
It is also demonstrated in Luke.
Luke 11:2  And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth. 3  Give us day by day our daily bread. 4  And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. 5  And he said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend, and shall go unto him at midnight, and say unto him, Friend, lend me three loaves; 6  For a friend of mine in his journey is come to me, and I have nothing to set before him? 7  And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee. 8  I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth. 9  And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10  For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 11  If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 12  Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? 
   Prayer; gives you your life. It can renew you if you ask and let it. Prayer is your communication with God and is essential in your personal relationship with Him. It is your armor against evil. It wards off disease. It lifts you up. It cleanses your body, mind and soul. You need to ask for cleansing, by the Blood of Jesus. You can ask for the Greek word sozo, that makes it whole. It is laid out here in these two scriptures in what God will do for you; if you walk and be a doer in the word, just ask. Ps.103:2-5; Isa.53:3-5 Teach us to pray Apostles said, "Lord, teach us to pray!" We say, teach us to pray with confidence, yet in humility. 
Like I said before, “Prayer begins, where our human capacity ends, that is why we must pray and ask for the capacity to receive all of what God has for us“. Prayer is such a personal thing and it means so many different things to so many. I say it is simply having conversation with God, conversation engages more than your words from your mouth, you must also listen.  Teach us to pray, to ask for Your will and the discernment to understand it, not to force You to give us what we want, yet as a means of submitting ourselves to Your plan, we ask to recognize that in us what we paid for in and with you, we ask for Your favor in all that we do. Remember prayer is not over until you are silent and be still, listen to God’s word to you. Teach us to devote more time to this precious privilege. Ps.55:17; Mt. 21:22; Lk.18:1; 1Cor.11:13; 1Thess.5:17; 1Cor:14:15 … I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also; I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. 1Thes. 5:17 Pray without ceasing. 18 In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. 

Prayer, Faith, Sanctification, and Grace
And from the old self, may we have a funeral for the old man. As we go through these words let us stop and ponder for this is meat of the word. Pray in all things and for all things, all the time. If you don’t know how to pray or what to pray, pray for solution and the promises.
“I find myself closest to the light in times of my darkest hour“. 

    “The story of prayer is the story of great achievements. David was prayerful man and he achieved, even though he fell. Prayer is a wonderful power, placed by Almighty God in the hands of His saints, which may be used to accomplish great purposes and to achieve unusual results. Prayer reaches to everything, it encompasses all, it takes in all things great and small which are promised by God to the children of men. The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.” the limitation is you and not God.
Discover for yourself the infinite possibilities of prayer. Study about “Answered Prayer,” “Prayer Miracles,” and “Wonders of God Through Prayer” this will equip you and help you understand what can be accomplished if we will only pray. 
   Homer W. Hodge said “Prayer should be the breath of our breathing, the thought of our thinking, the soul of our feeling, and the life of our living, the sound of our hearing, the growth of our growing.” Prayer in its magnitude is length without end, width without bounds, height without top, and depth without bottom. Illimitable in its breadth, exhaustless in height, fathomless in depths and infinite in extension. If we stop trying to do it ourselves and let God. He can help us. God is our Father. We need God’s good things to help us to “do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly before God.” We need Divine aid to act brotherly, wisely, and nobly, and to judge truly, and charitably. God’s help to do all these things in God’s way is secured by prayer. “Ask, and ye shall receive; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”
     A practical, challenging look at prayer and its power. We can come logically to the following two conclusions about prayer: first, since the Bible says that God hears man (Psalm 17:6; Psalm 77:1; Isaiah 38:5), man can trust that when he is in a right relationship to God, and he speaks to God, God will hear him. Secondly, since the Bible is God's words, man can trust that when he is in a right relationship to God, and when he reads the Bible, he is literally hearing God's spoken word. The right relationship with God that is necessary for healthy communication between God and man is evidenced in three ways. The first is a turning from sin, or repentance. Psalm 27:9, for example, is the plea of David for God to hear him, and not turn away from him in anger. From this, we know that God does turn His face away from man's sin and that sin hinders the communication between God and man. Another example of this is found in Isaiah 59:2, where Isaiah tells the people "...your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear." So when there is unconfessed sin in our lives, it will hinder communication with God.
   Pray in all things, all the time. Grace be given to those who offer salt, for salt killed the sin. Saints be sure of what you think for that is what comes out of your mouth. Then when you have gone as far as your mind can think, take a positive step and ask Jesus to intervene, then ask Him for a solution. Don’t ask for something from your mind for the solution. Prayer is to be incessant, without intermission, assiduously, no check in desire, in spirit or in act, the spirit and the life always in the attitude of prayer. The knees may not always be bended, the lips may not always be vocal with words of prayer, yet the spirit is always in the act and intercourse of prayer.
    There ought to be no adjustment of life or spirit for closet hours. The closet spirit should sweetly rule and adjust all times and occasions. Our activities and work should be performed in the same spirit which makes our devotion and which makes our closet time sacred. “Without intermission, incessantly, assiduously,” describes an opulence, and energy, and unabated and ceaseless strength and fulness of effort; like the full and exhaustless and spontaneous flow of an artesian stream. Touch the man of God who thus understands prayer, at any point, at any time, and a full current of prayer is seen flowing from him. If you want to know Him you must spend time with Him. Understand no matter who you are, you are flawed. Whether you are Baptist, Evangelist, Catholic, Jehova Witness, Islamic or Jewish. We are all flawed. look for God through His word and Prayer, not man or religion.
    Remember “Prayer begins, where our human capacity ends, that is why we must pray and ask for the capacity to receive all of what God has for us“. Ask for His solution to your problem or problems. Prayer is such a personal thing and it means so many different things to so many. I say it is simply having conversation with God, conversation engages more than your words from your mouth, you must also listen. So speak to Him as your friend and your loving Abba, the curtain was torn for you. Then go your business, and be in faith, and wait on Him; be obedient and you will eat of the good of the land. Pray from the heart, pray with passion. Prayer is faith in action. Release the prayer and it becomes prophecy. Believe as Mark said in 11. Believe you have it. Picture it in your mind. Make your request in line with the word. The possibilities and necessities of prayer are, the power that manifests of and by God’s purpose. This produces a true Godly response. God’s grace will abound. Where there is faith, there is hope. Which this ground produces & manifests miracles…
Col 4:6  Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. 
Gen 6:8  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. 
Exo 33:17  And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name. 
Act 20:32  And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
Rom 4:16  Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, 
Rom 5:21  That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Rom 16:20  And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen. 
1Co 1:4  I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ; 
Eph 3:2  If ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given me to you-ward: 
Eph 3:7  Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Prov. 1:7  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9  For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. 5  A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 

   About prosperity. God talks about money alot in the bible. It is man who said money is the root of all evil. The bible does not say that, not did God. Money is the answer to everything, that is what it is said in Proverbs. God wants us to prosper. I made Abraham rich, I made Solomon rich. God is the one who made His children rich. It does not say anywhere God wants His kids poor. You want to have money learn about God's check book. Then pray for His way. Shoot for living on ten percent of your income and give 90 to God's work. Remember the rich and the poor God has made them. God is a respector of no person. Pray for revealation to what holds you back. No matter what you learn or pray. Money is all about your choices. If you are stingy, greedy, or seeks pleasure will be poor. If you live in perversion, you will be poor. Proverbs 28:19 read it and remember what it says. Proverbs 6:9&10.  What do you do with your money? How do you manage God's check book? Are you full of yourself..? Obedience and discipline are the answers. 
Here are reasons you are poor...
Being lazy and half hearted.
Fools dunkards and glutons will end up poor
Fools who hide sin will go poor
The love of money will bring on poverty
Be selfish, and hold on to your money will bring poverty
Be fearful poverty will come on you.
If you do nothing what you have been given will lead to poverty

   If you are greedy you never have enough no matter how much money you make. Whoever loves money is never satisfied. Don't be religious, live the way and by your Holy Spirit. Dishonest money will perish, it will dwindle.
The love of money is the root of evil. wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter. Ecc 7:12 and 10:19  Money is the answer to everything. I pray this has given you an insoight on God's check book so you can have more money. Tithe and give... Remeber it pleases the Lord to make you prosper. Follow His commandments. If you worry about money, then money is an idol to you. That is what satan gets you to do, fear and worry. God will bless the fruit of your hands. Money is a bigger purpose than just for your stuff. It is OK to have stuff, just don't make them an idol. It is not all about you. Remember it is God's money and He wants to multiply it. Let go and let God. 
Learn to advance your skill, improve your ability. The money in your hand is a test to see if you will get more from God. Learn to plant in the right soil. Ask God. One of the most important lessons is learn to prosper where you are planted. Wgatever your hands can find do it with all your might. Question how would you treat the best spouse in the world? How would wash and wax a brand new car? How would take care of a new house? Prosper where you are planted. What ever is in your hands right now, give it heart and soul. Then watch what happens. 
If you are going to pray, ask big... ask in God's size not your size. Ask for help and it is OK to fail. His Grace far excedes the heavens. Stop trying to independent and become dependent on God.

Lets get back to prayer.

   When we pray we seem to be lack luster when we pray or seek God’s wisdom… When someone comes to and he haws around and has no enthuisaism, you don't seem to listen to what they have to say. Yet when someone comes with passion, excited or comepletly overcome with what they have to say, you tend to hear them and listen to what they have to say. That is the way prayer is, pray with passion. Being expectant in the promises of God.
   John Wesley said it so well, "You need not utterly despair even of those who for the present “turn again and rend you.” For if all your arguments and persuasives fail, there is yet another remedy left, and one that is frequently found effectual, when no other method avails. This is prayer. Therefore, whatsoever you desire or want, either for others or for your own soul, “Ask, and it shall be given you.”
    WITHOUT the promise prayer is eccentric and baseless. Without prayer, the promise is dim, voiceless, shadowy, and impersonal. The promise makes prayer dauntless and irresistible. It opens unlimited possibilities. The Apostle Peter declares that God has given to us “exceeding great and precious promises.” “Precious” and “exceeding great” promises they are, and for this very cause we are to “add to our faith,” and supply virtue. It is the addition which makes the promises current and beneficial to us. It is prayer which makes the promises weighty, precious and practical. The Apostle Paul did not hesitate to declare that God’s grace so richly promised was made operative and efficient by prayer. “Ye also helping together by prayer for us.” 
    The promises of God are “exceeding great and precious,” words which clearly indicate their great value and their broad reach, as grounds upon which to base our expectations in praying. Howsoever exceeding great and precious they are, their realization, the possibility and condition of that realization, are based on prayer. How glorious are these promises to the believing saints and to the whole Church! How the brightness and bloom, the fruitage and cloudless midday glory of the future beam on us through the promises of God! Yet these promises never brought hope to bloom or fruit to a prayerless heart. Neither could these promises, were they a thousandfold increased in number and preciousness, bring millennium glory to a prayerless Church. Prayer makes the promise rich, fruitful and a conscious reality. Prayer as a spiritual energy, and illustrated in its enlarged and mighty working, makes way for and brings into practical realization the promises of God.
   Let me give you a short story of the wise man on the mountain that existed in passion in all that he lived for. He had a full head of gray hair, a big man and muscular. His cragged face was covered with a long gray beard. There was a man named James who came to the mountain in seeking wisdom. He asked the wise man, how do I obtain knowledge and wisdom as you have? The wise man got up, took James by the hand and marched down to the water’s side. He grabbed James by the neck and plunged his head into the water, after 20 seconds or so he brought him up and James was gasping for air. He asked what is it you want? James answered; knowledge and wisdom. He plunged James’s head back under the water, 20 seconds went by, 30 seconds went by, then 40. The wise man brought him up and asked what is you seek and want? Jim gasping and spitting yelled out wisdom and knowledge. He plunged his head back into the water, 40 seconds passed, 50, 60 and James began to fight and slash his arms about. The wise man brought him up and asked what is it you want now….? James gasped and sputtered and said AIR, I want AIR! The wise man let him go and said to him, when you seek knowledge and wisdom the way you gasped for that air in this way, you will have them. The message here is if you want something from God, do it with passion and from the heart. With a reason for the season. No matter what life is throwing at you, go for it with all your might, know that He will give it to you. Be expectant and obedient. Do not seek or ask for something hap hardly. Ask God with passion and be persistent. Be expectant and thankful, in the attitude of gratitude.
    Look at the way men and women of the bible did it. 
Prayer and the promises are interdependent. The promise inspires and energizes prayer, but prayer locates the promise, and gives it realization and location. The promise is like the blessed rain falling in full showers, but prayer, like the pipes, which transmit, preserve and direct the rain, localizes and precipitates these promises, until they become local and personal, and bless, refresh and fertilize. Prayer takes hold of the promise and conducts it to its marvellous ends, removes the obstacles, and makes a highway for the promise to its glorious fulfillment.
While God’s promises are “exceeding great and precious,” they are specific, clear and personal. How pointed and plain God’s promise to Abraham:
“And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
“And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son;
“That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
“And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.”
But Rebekah through whom the promise is to flow is childless. Her barren womb forms an invincible obstacle to the fulfillment of God’s promise. But in the course of time children are born to her.
Isaac becomes a man of prayer through whom the promise is to be realized, and so we read:
“And Isaac entreated the Lord for his wife, because she was barren, and the Lord was entreated for him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.”
Isaac’s praying opened the way for the fulfilment of God’s promise, and carried it on to its marvellous fulfillment, and made the promise effectual in bringing forth marvellous results.
God spoke to Jacob and made definite promises to him:
“Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I will be with thee.”
Jacob promptly moves out on the promise, but Esau confronts him with his awakened vengeance and his murderous intention, more dreadful because of the long years, unappeased and waiting. Jacob throws himself directly on God’s promise by a night of prayer, first in quietude and calmness, and then when the stillness, the loneliness and the darkness of the night are upon him, he makes the all-night wrestling prayer.
    Involve God, ask Him to be your partner in all things. God’s being is involved, His promise are at stake, and much is involved in the issue. Esau’s temper, his conduct and his character are involved. It is a notable occasion. Much depends upon it. Jacob pursues his case and presses his plea with great struggles and hard wrestling. It is the highest form of importunity. But the victory is gained at last. His name and nature are changed and he becomes a new and different man. Jacob himself is saved first of all. He is blessed in his life and soul. But more still is accomplished. Esau undergoes a radical change of mind. He who came forth with hate and revenge in his heart against his own brother, seeking Jacob’s destruction, is strangely and wonderfully affected, and he is changed and his whole attitude toward his brother becomes radically different. And when the two brothers meet, love takes the place of fear and hate, and they vie with each other in showing true brotherly affection.

   Sometimes I think most us pray ho-hum dreams & prayers,  compared to those who the way people in the bible prayed. You need to pray passionately and have visions worth the salt, When you are intimate with God, be passionate. Offer your salt to kill sin. Some of us start out passionate yet it dies out due to life and the feeling of it not happening. Keep Praying until you hear from God or He gives you what you pray for. Here is a thought, have you ever thought about blessing God or giving Him your portions of blessing for the day. That kind of thinking gets God's attention. When is the last time you asked God to partner up with you in your quest. God as a pratner, do you think He can get it done? Just align your desire and prayer with God's greater good, ask Him how it can become your assignment...
Eph. 1:17  that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; 
   One must not be half a Christian to pray and expect an answer. That is like putting water in your car’s gas tank and expecting to get where you want to go. It does not work, you pray empty prayers. Is your prayer and life working for the greater good of God? Now I am not saying God will not answer your prayers if you are anughty or nice. That is up to God. What I am saying what you know to be truth and right, be obedient in it. God accepts you the way you are. Life and what you go through with Him is what changes you for the good. Little by little day by day the old man in you changes, you become sanctified. 
“Though troubles assail,
And dangers affright, 
Though friends should all fail,
And foes all unite,
Yet one thing secures us,
Whatever betide, 
The promise assures us,
The Lord will provide.”
Jeremiah once said, speaking of the captivity of Israel and of its ending, speaking for Almighty God: “After seventy years be accomplished at Babylon, I will visit you, and will perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.”
    This is strong and definite promise of God was accompanied by these words, coupling the promise with prayer: “Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” This seems to indicate very clearly that the promise was dependent for its fulfillment on prayer.
   Laws work for everyone, yet the promises are for the obedient saints. Bottom line to recieve the promises you must be sanctified. Die to self, give yourself as a living sacrifice. Give up some of that prideful self, let go. Let us stop and have a ceremony of the funeral of the old man, the sinful natured man. Gal. 5:24 And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 
   Are you Christ‘s ? Are you living in the natural? The natural life itself is not sinful. It is sin itself is what we are to abandon, having nothing to do with it. Sin belongs to hell and the devil, no matter how minor or substantiated you think it is. I myself, as a child of God, belong to Him in Heaven. It is not a question of giving up sin, it the giving up the right to self. Your natural independence of pride. You say how can I have any fun? Being prim and proper in God‘s eye‘s is not fun. My friends that is a lie straight from satan. God will give joy of the heart. Your perspective and outlook on things will change and laughter and joy will come without the world remedies of so called fun and happiness.
   You cannot intercede through prayer if you do not believe or obey in the reality of redemption. You simply will be turning intercession into useless sympathy for others who you pray for. Which will only alienate them and their feeling they have in being out of touch with God. When you where saved did you understand the Greek word Sozo? Did you accept the fullness of Jesus Christ and where expectant? Look up the word and look and the second and last part of the definition. One last thing failure is not a set back, it is a tool. A measuring device, a way not to do something. A good salesman knows there are going to be a lot of no’s. When you have a no or a failure, think I am one no or failure closer to a yes and success in achieving my goal. It is all about your choices in your pursuit of what you seek. Your motive and method. Phil. 3:8 “I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.” It is your choice by your choices good or bad. By your study of the living word and hanging out with other Christians, gives you the armor and strength to face the world and it’s demons. To have what it takes to spread the Good News and to work for God in His purposes for you. Pray in all thing all the time. Knowing how to pray is being fearless, because you know God and His power and presence. Faith in His power and relying on Him for all.
   Friends just pray from the heart and do it in private. partner with God. Speak to Jesus like your are speaking to a best friend and letting it all out. Trusting.
Jim Bowline “Becoming a king” ® 2006-2007
"You can hang your rope on this article about prayer"