6 Principles of Prayer

1. Prayer is an overflow of our walk with God.

- Acts 4:24

- Prayer is an extension of our walk with God; it does NOT equal our time with God.

- Devotions does not equal your devotion to God.

- You relationship with God is not contingent on your time with prayer.

- Your heart posture towards Him.

2. God loves our presence more than we love His.

- He wanted us, He didn’t need us

- Psalm 149:4

- Zephaniah 3:17

- He simply has pleasure in His people

If you don’t spend time with Him, you deprive Him of His pleasure.

3. We go to prayer to be with God; not to find Him.

- Matthew 6:6

- Exodus 24: 12

- We don't have to strive to be with Him.

- The struggle is to get our flesh out of our comfort and be there with the Lord.

4. We pray in the Spirit.

- 1 Samuel 30:6

- Ephesians 3:16

- Jude 1:20

- 1 Corinthians 20:4

- This is God giving us permission to turn prayer into a spiritual gym.

- You start praying until your emotions shut up and then your spirit take over.

- Speaking in tongues will take you through the turbulence of your emotions.

5. We pray the Scriptures.

- When you don’t feel God.

- When in the dark, the enemy tries to hinder what God revealed in to you in the light.

- It forms your understanding.

6. Always run into secret place when you fall into secret sin

- Go to God first when you commit sin.

- Isaiah 16 :1

- God wants to know where are we, we wants us to talk to Him, to be with Him, and to ration with Him.