Giving It To God’s Not Working

Have you found that giving it to God in prayer is the easy problem? If you are like most you must be wondering if God is as powerful as “they’ say He is. If He is, why then am I not seeing the positive response to my prayer that I need?

Let me stop you right there and help you with the first issue. Prayer is not a normal, ordinary, average practice. If you go into it with popular thinking, you’re more than likely disqualifying yourself from the results that prayer, when done correctly, will offer.

The lord had said to Abram, “Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you [do this next step that I, God will show you]. 
– bible.com/bible/116/GEN.12.1.NLT

Prayer isn’t that one-sided recitation you’ve come to naturally believe it is and made a tradition of practicing. “The Lord said to Abram.” If He said something to Abram, what makes you think He’s not going to say something to you. Abram wasn’t a prophet, preacher, teacher, evangelist. The Lord gave Abram a set of instructions, actions if you will, to take to get him out of the situation he was in so that he could get to a better situation. What makes you think God doesn’t have a set of instructions to give you? It would do us well to get our set of instructions.

[Pray This]
Lord, if I tell the truth, I thought I was supposed to recite my prayer request to You and You handle. I didn’t know I was supposed to wait to hear for a set of instructions. Now I understand why most of my prayers went and go unanswered; there’s some things I must do. Lord, if you would, give me Your instructions, in Jesus’ name.

Your Action
(What action based on your prayer can you take?): 
Make it a habit to never go into prayer without asking God for the instructions He wants you to have for the prayer you’ve prayed.

For more on this topic, see “Act When No One Else Will Act.”

Prayer Disclaimer Notice: prayer is not a miracle, it’s our conversation with God which gives us insight on how to respond to our situations and the world around us. For more detail, please review our prayer disclaimer notice in its entirety, available at nolongercommon.com/nlc-prayer-disclaimer.