I want to show you how you can have a direct relationship with God. This relationship will change you, and it will change your nation! ‘Those who know their God will be strong and do exploits!’ - When YOU know God, you will literally be able to do what no one else can do. Nothing is impossible for those who believe. I want challenge you with this: when you know God, you will become the strength in your nation; your faith will lift it up! (Daniel 11.32). But how can we get to know God? Through prayer. But what is prayer? Prayer is not a ceremony or ritual. Prayer is a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. Prayer is communication and communion with Him. Prayer will change you! And prayer will change your nation!
My father was a man of prayer. The reason I am an evangelist today is because of his praying. Every morning, as a boy, I would hear my father praying in the kitchen. I knew he was praying for me! His praying changed my life! I want to encourage praying parents with this: my ministry today, is God's answer to my father's prayers, all those years ago. This is the Power of God through prayer: to change, to heal, and forgive.
Prayer is not just a repetition of words or reading from a book. When you present your requests in prayer to God, ask in FAITH! Don’t waver in what you are asking for: be confident and assured that when you pray in accordance with God’s Will – you will get what you ask!
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His Will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of Him. (1 John 5:14-15, NIV)