Mark 11:24 ‘What things so ever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them’
DAILY READING Acts 26; Ruth 3; Psalm 48
The Battle of the Bulge, was one of the single bloodiest battles in America’s history. In this battle, during world war 2, the Germans unexpectedly attacked a section of the American army and overwhelmed and overran them. As a result about 12,000 American soldiers were trapped and besieged at Bastogne in Belgium. General George Smith Patton, who commanded the U.S. Third Army was assigned the responsibility of rescuing these trapped men.
As he battled to rescue the men, unfortunately, his rescue effort was delayed by a month of unrelentingly horrid weather. He only needed a 24 hour window of decent weather conditions to be able to send in the Third Army and reinforce the troops trapped by the Germans. He then gave the Army chaplain Colonel James O’Neill an assignment to organize prayers for a fair weather that would give the American troops the break in the weather they needed to rescue their besieged brothers.
Colonel O’Neill’s prayer was printed on hundreds of thousands of wallet sized cards and prayed by the men in the American Army. The prayer read in part, “Almighty and most merciful Father, we humbly beseech Thee, of Thy great goodness, to restrain these immoderate rains with which we have had to contend. Grant us fair weather for battle. Graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee that, armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory,.”
The prayer worked. The weather miraculously cleared, and the trapped men were rescued.
Colonel O’Neill was later awarded the Bronze Star medal “for writing a prayer that worked.”
Mark 11:24 tells us ‘What things so ever you desire when you pray believe that you receive them and you shall have them’
Indeed prayer changes things. . No matter how tight the situation, God will rescue you when you resort to the prayer altar. Prayer invites God to intervene in human affairs. It is a spiritual weapon by which we invoke divine intervention in any situation
Prayer is the spiritual control room of life.. And when you’re in the control room, you are in charge.. Those who travail in prayers, will prevail in life. Prayer is a great spiritual weapon in the hand of the believer who knows how to wield it. Through prayer we bring God into our situation.
When our voices rise in prayer, God’s hand will also arise to deliver us. Heaven acts only in response to the earth. There is no intervention without intercession.
Whatever you may be confronted with today, there is a way out through prayer. When you commit to prayerGod will arise for you deliverance.
If you don’t like what you see around you, speak what should be. Don’t keep silent over the enemy’s harassment. In spiritual warfare silence is seen as consent. But when you roar in the place of prayer, every enemy of your destiny is sent packing.
Prayer becomes more effective when we pray with God’s Word . God is not moved by our tears rather He is moved when we ask according to His will.
In Isaiah 43:26, God says: ‘’Put me in remembrance, let us plead together, declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.”
What do you declare? His word. God’s Word is the effective language of prayer. It is what connects us to the throne of grace, to obtain mercy and help in the time of need.
And we must never forget to seal our prayer with thanksgiving.
Philippians 4:6 says ‘Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God’
Praise grants us access to God’s Presence, and His Presence will always make the difference for us anytime, anywhere..
PRAYER: Lord, please grant me grace for perseverance at the altar of prayer. May I never grow weary, rather I shall keep growing from strength to strength, and from victory to victory in Jesus Name.
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When God places His hand upon a man in life nothing can come against him, this is because the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. WORDBITE 222