Prayer & Fasting
Prayer is not twisting the arm of a reluctant deity; it is fellowship with our Father on the ground of His Word and Spirit. These teachings cover adoration, petition, intercession, praying in the Spirit, biblical fasting, and listening sensitivity.
Published Teachings (30)
- Prayer Is Relationship Before Request
Prayer begins with who you are addressing and only then moves to what you are asking — which means the first work of prayer is not the request but the relationship the request is brought into.
- Our Father: The Doorway Address of Prayer
The Spirit's first work in prayer is not to supply the words but to supply the relationship — He teaches a believer to address God as a child rather than to bargain with Him as a stranger.
- Praying With Understanding, Praying in the Spirit
Prayer is meant to run on two channels at once — the spirit praying what the mind cannot frame, and the mind praying what it understands — and a believer who uses only one is praying at half capacity.
- The Prayer of Petition: Ask With Precision
Petition is not a vague sigh in the direction of heaven but a specific request brought to a specific Father — and the specificity is itself an act of faith, because only someone who expects an answer bothers to name what he wants.
- The Prayer of Consecration: Not My Will
Consecration is not the abandonment of desire but the placing of it inside a larger trust — Jesus asked for what He wanted and then handed the decision to the Father in the same breath.
- The Prayer of Intercession: Standing in the Gap
Intercession is not asking God to be more merciful than He is; it is standing, at cost, in the place where mercy and judgement meet — and God goes looking for people willing to do it.
- The Prayer of Agreement: Two Are Better
Agreement in prayer is not two people wanting the same outcome; it is two people arriving at the same mind before the Father — and Jesus attaches a specific promise to that arrived-at unity rather than to the wish.
- Fasting Sharpens What Prayer Fires
Fasting does not move God to a different position; it moves a person's attention off the appetite and onto the One being sought — which is why Scripture assumes it rather than commanding it loudly.
- Your Prayer Life Reveals Your Trust Level
What you bring to God, how often, and how honestly, is a fairly accurate report of what you believe about Him — prayer is less a duty to be performed than a reading to be taken.
- The Altar Is Personal Before It Is Public
The altar is built in private and only then attended in public — the shut door is not a restriction on your worship but the workshop where it is made.
- Thanksgiving Completes the Circuit
Thanksgiving is not the polite ending of a prayer but the switch that turns a request into trust — it declares that the outcome is already in good hands before the answer is visible.
- Pray Without Ceasing: An Attitude, Not a Marathon
Unceasing prayer is not an unbroken devotional but an unbroken relationship — a life in which the conversation is never formally closed, only paused.
- Effectual, Fervent Prayer Works
Prayer that works is not louder prayer but engaged prayer — the kind that comes from a settled standing and a stirred heart at the same time.
- Ask Amiss: Diagnosing Empty Prayers
An empty prayer is rarely a prayer God refused to hear; it is usually a prayer aimed at the wrong target, and the aim is the one part of prayer almost nobody examines.
- Persistence Is Not Nagging Heaven
Persistence in prayer is not a way of nagging God into agreement; it is the refusal of a settled faith to stop standing where it has already been heard.
- Watch and Pray: Awake at the Gates
Watchfulness is prayer that keeps its eyes open — the deliberate refusal to sleep through the hour in which the enemy has planned his visit.
- The Secret Place Pays Public Dividends
The secret place does not merely precede your public life; it manufactures it, because what is built in the unseen room is what eventually walks out of it.
- Prayer Changes the One Who Prays
Prayer does not only carry your request upward; it carries you into a beholding, and a person who beholds is being changed whether or not the request has been answered yet.
- Midnight Prayers Move Morning Mountains
The midnight hour matters not because night is more spiritual than day, but because the night is where you decide about God with no witnesses and no props.
- Praying for Governments: A Kingdom Assignment
Praying for rulers is not a political gesture but a kingdom assignment: the church secures the conditions of its own peace by interceding for the men and women who shape those conditions.
- The Prayer of Worship: When Asking Ends
Worship is the prayer that has stopped asking for anything, because it has found something more interesting than its own needs — and it is exactly where God tends to give direction.
- Confession and Cleansing Restore Fellowship
Confession does not repair your standing with God, which was never damaged; it repairs the fellowship that your silence was slowly wrecking, and it is the one mechanism God has given for getting back into the light.
- Answers Delayed Are Not Answers Denied
A delay is information about the timetable, never a verdict about the answer; and the believer who reads silence as refusal has confused the calendar with the courtroom.
- The Thorn, the Grace, and Persistent Strength
Grace is not the consolation prize awarded when the answer is withheld; it is a working strength that arrives inside the weakness and does what the removal would have done.
- The Spirit Prays When Words Run Out
When your words run out, prayer has not failed; it has simply changed hands — and the One who takes it is not limited by your vocabulary.
- Family Altars and Generational Coverings
A family altar is not a performance of godliness for children to admire; it is the place where a household learns that God is real, and it is built by whoever in the house decides to build it.
- Praying the Word Is Praying His Will
The Word does not merely tell you what to believe about prayer; it supplies the will of God you are meant to be praying, which is why praying Scripture is not a formula but a discovery.
- The Prayer of Dedication: Saying Yes to His Plan
Dedication is not a vow to try harder; it is the placing of an already-accepted body at God's disposal, and it is called reasonable because of everything He has already done.
- From Prayer Requests to a Prayer Lifestyle
A prayer life is not a long list of requests performed at intervals; it is a settled awareness of God that turns the ordinary hours into conversation.
- The House of Prayer: What the Temple Teaches
God named His house for one activity and opened that name to all people, which means the measure of a house of prayer is not its architecture but whether the praying in it is available to everyone.
Prayer and the Life of Communion (30 Studies)
Prayer as relationship first — the kinds of prayer, the posture, the persistence.