{"id":8548,"date":"2022-04-06T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abidingfathers.org\/?p=8548"},"modified":"2022-04-06T13:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T19:00:41","slug":"prayer-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/2022\/04\/06\/prayer-is-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer is everything!"},"content":{"rendered":"

PRAYERS<\/h3>\n

\u201cIf prayer is anything, then it is everything.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>This is attributed to a Puritan pastor many years ago. This statement is so far reaching \u00a0and so profound, at least to me. As I was dwelling on this and many scriptures on prayer, I was led to create an acronym.<\/p>\n

P<\/strong>raise
\nR<\/strong>epentance
\nA<\/strong>doration
\nY<\/strong>earning
\nE<\/strong>ntreating
\nR<\/strong>esponding
\nS<\/strong>pirit-led<\/p>\n

These are mine, try yours. I\u2019d love to see them. Praise to the Father, confessing and repenting of one\u2019s sins, words of adoration for our magnificent LORD, a yearning for a deep abiding relationship, entreating God for things the Spirit is bringing to your heart and mind, and responding to the Spirit\u2019s leading.<\/p>\n

Jesus’ prayers<\/h3>\n

Jesus is our most trusted mentor when it comes to prayer. The prayers of Jesus before he leaves to return to his Father are found in John 17.\u00a0They are still being answered today. He prayed\u00a0for himself<\/strong>\u00a0(1-5);\u00a0for his disciples<\/strong>\u00a0(6-19); and\u00a0for all believers<\/strong>\u00a0(20-26). I challenge you to read the entire chapter,\u00a0right now<\/em>.\u00a0John 17<\/a><\/p>\n

The Psalms are such powerful songs and prayers, of every nature. Pray the Psalms as God leads. Memorize some and use in your quiet time. Psalm 65 starts this way.\u00a0\u201c<\/em><\/strong>Praise is awaiting you, O God, in Zion; and to you the vow shall be performed. O you who hear prayer, to you all flesh will come\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(vss. 1,2).<\/p>\n

In the American church,\u00a0what we need\u00a0desperately today are dedicated prayer warriors; for each of us, our families, our neighborhoods, the church, our nation, and our leaders\u2014and so much more. Individual, corporate and national prayers are the answer for prospering in a sin-infested and broken world. God has given us the means and privilege to be a contributing part of his kingdom objectives. As one pastor put it\u2014\u201cBill, you do know that God runs his kingdom through the prayers of his people\u201d.\u00a0<\/em>I had never thought about it that way.<\/p>\n

Pray together<\/h3>\n

Abiding<\/em>\u00a0Fathers has a faithful and fruitful prayer team composed of the Board members and many volunteer prayer warriors. The incredible growth of the fatherhood movement\u00a0can be attributed to their prayers and supplications. God loves a cheerful giver, and he especially loves the prayers of his people.\u00a0\u201cThe Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(Prov. 15.8).<\/p>\n

Jesus’ disciples beseeched him to teach them to pray. How about us? Let\u2019s ask God to teach us to pray. You know he will. And we find an encouraging truth in 2 Chronicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face, then I will hear from heaven, I will forgive their sins and I will heal their land\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(2 Chron. 7.14). So, pray we shall, believing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRAYERS \u201cIf prayer is anything, then it is everything.\u201d\u00a0This is attributed to a Puritan pastor many years ago. This statement is so far reaching \u00a0and so profound, at least to me. As I was dwelling on this and many scriptures on prayer, I was led to create an acronym. Praise Repentance Adoration Yearning Entreating Responding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[95,323,106,307,324],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prayer","tag-abiding","tag-disciplines","tag-prayer","tag-spiritual-disciplines","tag-supplication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/af2.musiimes.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}