(Fourth part)
Memory verse: (James5:17-18) " Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit ".
There are prayers that touch God’s heart and affect the events that take place on earth. Someone called it touching heaven and changing the earth. God expects a believer to pray prayers that touch His heart. The scripture teaches that He will answer all of us when we pray if we pray the right way. He teaches that Elijah was not a special human being. He was normal and ordinary like every one of us. God did not answer his prayers because he was extraordinary. God says, he was as ordinary as we all are. What was special about Elijah was the way he prayed, He prayed earnestly and fervently. In the department of prayer, what works is not the language, eloquence, not the many words etc. what works is: First: To pray according to God’s will (1Jn5: 14). Elijah prayed that prayer because God commanded him to. Second: We need to pray by faith (Jam 1:5-8). Third: We should pray with pure hearts (Mtt5:8). Forth: We should pray with right motives (Jam4: 1-3). Fifth: We should pray empowered by the Holy Spirit (Rom8: 26) etc.
When we pray for the right cause, with the right motives and the right way, we get the right results in God right time. This kind of prayers touches God’s heart. There are so many things we don’t have power to change in our lives, our children, our cities, our churches and marriages etc, and God does not expect us to change them, but is calling us to depend on Him who can do all things and with whom nothing is impossible in praying earnestly, fervently, unceasingly, etc and then God will move. When our prayers touch heaven, God begin to work in our situations. Jesus taught us to pray that God‘s kingdom should come and God’s would be done on earth as it is in heaven. God’s will is his presence to fill our homes, our children to know him, all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of God, his church be filled with his glory and power, miracles, growth etc. God’s will is the whole earth to be filled with his glory and his knowledge like the waters fill the seas. God’s will is the works of Satan to be destroyed out of your life, family church and nation. So, let us pray and touch heaven in our time.
Tomorrow’s subject: “ The giving that touches God’s heart ”
