Pray + Praise = Promise

For this reason I am telling you, whatever things you ask for in prayer (in accordance with God's will), believe (with confident trust) that you have received them, and they will be given to you. Mark 11:24 Amplified Bible.

Good Morning Girlfriends:

Every week, a very good friend of mine and I get together over the phone to have a prayer session on whatever comes to us throughout the week that has been placed on our hearts to pray for. We lift up people that we both know and people only one us may know, but we like to come into agreement with each other as we pray about whatever the situation is about.

As two ladies that have been living for the Lord for quite some time, we have prayed many prayers together and we have seen many prayers come to pass over the years, which all glory goes to God of course.

Each of us has lost a husband due to an illness, one that is quite similar, so we have a few things in common and being friends for many years we know that we can trust one another to be there when each of us may be in need of prayer for ourselves. There is power in prayer and there is even more power when two people come together in agreement on a situation, that situation can be change within a matter of time when a person is a faith believing praying person.

The Bible tells us that when one person prays, each one of you will put to flight a thousand of the enemy, for the LORD your God fights for you, just as he has promised, found in Joshua 23:10, but over in Deuteronomy 32:30 it tells us that two can put ten thousand to flight, so look at the power two people agreeing together in prayer can do about a situation.

As I have shared that we have known each other for many years, and we have been through many tough situations together, we have one another's back, so to say, that we have learned as soon as our prayer has been released up to God, that is when we turn around and started praising God for the answered prayer in advance. When we thank God in advance, it says that we have prayed in faith that the answer is already on the way, as we praise God for who He is and what He has done for us. When we praise God, we are admiring Him, loving Him, we are in gratitude to Him for what He is about to do as well. Psalm 100:4 tells us to "Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name!" Psalm 69:30 also says, "I will praise the name of God with a song; I will magnify him with thanksgiving."

Girlfriends, this means that after our prayer has went up, we thank and praise god for the answer, we are believing in faith, we are trusting in God that the answer is on the way, He is working everything out to that certain situation. Sometimes it hard to wait for the answer to come because there are times that we do not know what will happen in between when the prayer was released, and the praises go up, but we can be assured that God is not a man that He should not lie, (Numbers 23:19) and His word or promises are true, (1 Cor. 1:9) so that means that we can bank on what the Lord says in His word, we can stand on His promises that He will bring our prayers to fruition when we trust and believe.

Maybe you are going through a situation right now that you have been praying about and you are wondering if God really heard you, will He really answer your prayer request, the answer is yes, if you stand in faith believing, He will. You may be wondering how long will it take to get your answer, one never knows how long, but as long as the praises keeps going up and you keep thanking God for answering your prayer in advance, as you are believing and standing in faith that His promises are true, it will happen, so keep thanking and praising until you see your prayer come to pass. Don't stop believing, keep on praising and thanking because your answer is on the way, Amen, Amen!

Let's Pray,

Father God, I lift Your name on high, I sing praises unto Your name, You are glorious Lord and You are worthy of our praises. Lord You are a good, good father who hears our prayers when we pray to You, because Your son Jesus intercedes for us on our behalf as He lifts our prayers to You. Lord, Your word says that You have given us all a mustard seed grain of faith and that as we stand in faith believing our faith will grow as You take us through a small situation, You will take us through the next situation that comes our way, because You are the same God yesterday, and the same God today. Lord, I thank You in advance for the prayers that have ushered up to you today from the dear one who is reading this today, and I declare over them that their answer is already on the wait. You will testify when it comes to pass in Jesus mighty name, Amen.

Be blessed dear ones and pass the blessings on.