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Every person ever born has built
into them a desire to come to God.
Because we are all His "o• spring"
(Acts 17:29) and all human spirits originally
proceeded from Him, people in general have
a desire to reconnect to where they came
from—to pray.
Born-again believers, especially, sense the
call to pray. But they don't always respond to
that call. Some push it down because prayer
intimidates them. It seems too big. They
think, I don't know how to pray. I don't know
what to say to God.
Other believers may attempt to pray, but
then they get discouraged. They back away
from prayer because their prayers don't seem
to produce any results. James 5:16 tells us
what the problem is in such cases. It says,
"The e• ectual fervent prayer of a righteous
man availeth much."
Notice it's not just any prayer that avails
much or gets results. It's the right kind of
prayer, prayed the right way, that gets the job
done.
Is there really a right and wrong way to
pray? you might wonder.
Yes. James 4:3 says, "You ask and do not
receive, because you ask amiss" (New King
James Version). But that doesn't have to
scare us, because we have the Bible. When
our prayers aren't getting results, we can
fi nd out from the Word of God and by the
illumination of the Spirit where we've gone
awry.
Now since as Jesus said, His words
are spirit and life, we know we can gain
understanding of anything related to prayer
directly from the Word of God. Learning from
the written Word how to be led inwardly by
the Spirit doesn't readily "compute" to the
by Terri Copeland Pearsons
The
Right
Kind of
Prayer
This article is an
excerpt from the
new book
An
Encounter
With Him
by Terri Copeland
Pearsons.
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