The Power of Prayer
How prayer aligns us with God’s purpose and activates His movement on the earth
It’s been weeks since I last wrote. I had told myself I was just taking a short break, but days turned into weeks, and it’s now been almost a month since my last note.
This morning, the Lord reminded me of something I want to remind you of as well, the power of prayer.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). In the process of creation, God spoke to Himself and by His Word, all things came into being. He also gave man authority over creation: Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground” (Genesis 1:26).
We were given dominion over the earth. And because this authority is from God, a similar process of speaking is needed for God to move on the earth. We must speak to God for Him to act. He is waiting for His people, those called by His Name, to exercise our authority and speak over the earth.
Our authority comes from our submission to God; without Him, we have no true authority. God is subject to no one, so in the act of creation, He spoke to Himself. We, on the other hand, are subject to God, so in our exercise of dominion, we must speak to Him in prayer for Him to move.
In 2022, the Lord Jesus spoke to me and said, “I died for so much more than what you are living for.” And today, during prayer, the Lord reminded me again: “I died to give you back your authority on the earth.”
This is why prayer is vital. And this is also why the enemy will do everything possible to keep us from praying. When we pray, we are exercising the authority God has given us, and we are inviting Him to move.
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you” (Matthew 7:7). This process of asking, seeking, and knocking happens in the place of prayer.
This is what God is waiting for from His people: “Men ought always to pray and not to faint” (Luke 18:1).
So pray.
With Love,
Ejiro