GoodNews Daily Devotional 9 October 2021, Saturday By Uebert and Bebe Angel
TOPIC: A Higher Level of Prayer
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE: Ephesians 6:18
Pray at all times (on every occasion, in every season) in the Spirit, with all [manner of] prayer and entreaty….” (Amp)
GoodNews Daily Devotional 9 October 2021 Message:
The Amplified translation of Ephesians 6:18 makes the higher purpose of prayer clearer than other versions. Prayer is very import-ant. Oftentimes, when we talk about prayer, what comes to people’s mind is asking God for things, making entreaties and requests; that’s all they’ve known about prayer.
Yes, such a prayer has its place, where you make requests, but prayer has higher purposes than asking God for your needs. Praying for material needs, that is, asking God for something for yourself is actually the lowest kind of prayer. When you pray like that, you’re praying at the babyhood stage; it’s the prayer of spiritual babies. Someone could pray, “Oh God, I need a job,” or “Lord, I need some money,” or “Dear Father, give me a car, a wife, a husband, a house etc.”; but that’s the lesser purpose of prayer.
There’re higher purposes of prayer. One of them is fellowshipping with the Father through the Spirit. Another higher purpose of prayer is the privilege to exercise our authority in Christ.
There, you take your place of authority and cause things to happen within the ambits of the power given to you by Christ Jesus. Thirdly, prayer helps us to activate and walk in the consciousness of the divine presence. Fourthly, through prayer, we enforce the will of the Father in the earth.
PROPHETIC DECLARATION
I have the word of God in me and my prayer is according to the will of God. I shall not pray amiss for God himself gives me the power to will and to do. My prayer life is taking a new shape in the name of Jesus!
FURTHER STUDY
GoodNews Daily Devotional By Uebert and Bebe Angel 9 October 2021. With years of full time ministry between them, Uebert and BeBe Angel are Pioneering & Leading voices in proclaiming the GOOD NEWS of God’s grace (Euagellion) with a prophetic edge that has made them to be coined the leading forces of both the Good News movement and the modern day Prophetic Movement.