We're going to talk about the plans for prayer. What are some of the prayer patterns that you can
pray as you are praying? Now in the scriptures we see few types of prayers that we can pray.
The prayer of faith being one, the prayer of agreement, the prayer of supplication,
the prayer of thanksgiving, the prayer of worship, the prayer of consecration,
the prayer of intercession, the prayer in the Spirit and as well as spiritual warfare prayer.
Now when it comes to different modes of prayer, my favorite one of course is the Lord's Prayer. Jesus
says, "When you pray, pray like this." Now some people will debate and say, "We shouldn't follow
or pray through the Lord's prayer today." The church I grew up in actually finished the services
with the Lord's Prayer. The Lord's Prayer was one of the ways that when I grew up in my family we
actually, when we prayed together in the evenings, we finished with the Lord's prayer. But if you
take the Lord's Prayer and you break it down, you can actually make it as a pattern for your prayer.
It doesn't mean that you have to pray like this every single day but if your prayer gets in a rut
this could help you bring a revival to your prayer. Let's look at the Lord's prayer and we see
that recorded in Gospel of Matthew 6:9 all the way through 13. The breakdown of the Lord's prayer is
"Our Father who is in heaven," deals pretty much with our connection to the Father. We're praying
about our relationship with Him. "Hallowed be Your name," is we're beginning to worship His name. And
you can go through the redemptive names of God, like the Lord our Shepherd, the Lord my Healer,
the Lord my Provider, the Lord my Banner, the Lord my Sanctifier, the Lord my Peace and so
forth and begin to worship His name. And then "Your kingdom come, Your will be done." That
deals with God's agenda. So you can start praying for the nations, you can pray for missionaries,
for the lost, praying for leaders, for pastors. You're praying pretty much for more of like an
intercession mode of prayer. You're praying for what matters to God, what God cares about. "Give
us this day our daily bread," deals with your petitions. You're telling God, Lord I need this,
I'm having this appointment, I have this meeting, I have this challenge, I have this
health crisis. So you're telling God pretty much what you're going through and what's on your mind.
And then you know "forgive us our debts, as we forgive those people who have sinned against us."
And this is now praying for relationships, praying for relationships that you have with other people.
Offenses that maybe you have, you're releasing them and as well as you're praying for your
relationship with God. If there's any sin in your heart, you're confessing that and you're repenting
from that. And then it says that you know "lead us not into temptation," and that's when you're
praying for your struggles, your weaknesses. Maybe things that you're battling with right
now. The areas of temptation in your life. Perhaps it's with your tongue, perhaps it's your attitude,
perhaps it's with your behavior or a certain other thing that you have that you're battling with.
Ask God, concerning those areas that God will strengthen you and give you victory. Then He says,
"deliver us from the devil," and so that's why you're praying for deliverance. You're praying
for God to break down strongholds in your life, break down, you know deliver you from maybe any
demonic influence, demonic harassment or demonic oppression. And then at the end you're pretty much
proclaiming the goodness, and the majesty and the power of God, by you know saying, "Yours
is the kingdom, Yours is the power, Yours is the glory. Amen." I love praying through this prayer
because first is the Lord gave us this prayer, and secondly it helps me to cover different
points, that sometimes if I just kind of pray, you know led by whatever I feel, I could lose. I'm not
saying that we need to pray this all the time but if you feel like your prayer has gotten into a
rut, hey begin to pray through the Lord's prayer. Another prayer that you can pray through is
through The Tabernacle Prayer. The tabernacle has a few points and the first one is the brazen altar
and then the labor, as well as the menorah, the show bread and then altar of incense and the mercy
seat. So it starts with you pretty much coming to God and acknowledging the power of the cross.
That's the first piece of the furniture of the tabernacle and then after that is you're coming
into the labor, it's pretty much the washing. So you're confessing your sin and then you're
going further, you're praying around the piece of menorah. You can pray through Isaiah 11:2, pretty
much the seven spirits of God. You can kind of talk to God about your relationship with the Holy
Spirit. You can fellowship with the Holy Spirit. And then you're talking about that bread, the Word
of God. That's when you can actually start reading the Word yourself and then ask God for revelation
for the Word of God, from the Word of God. And then is the altar of incense. It's when you are
really worshiping, you're just spending some time in worshiping. And then comes in the mercy seat,
is when you're making an intercession and that's how you get to the holy of holies is through
following these, these pieces of furniture in the tabernacle. I know a lot of people who
pray through the tabernacle prayer regularly and there's a reason why God put the tabernacle and
put everything like that. Because He wants us to learn from those things. The Old Testament is the
shadow for us as believers in the New Testament. But the tabernacle Moses received it from God,
He received the blueprints from God and so you can pray through the tabernacle. Again,
if your prayer is in the rut and you feel like man, I feel like I don't know what to pray for,
I kind of get stuck. Hey, pray through the tabernacle. You can download from online.
There's different ways and different patterns of the tabernacle prayer but they're all pretty much
similar and pray through the tabernacle prayer. I love to pray through a tabernacle prayer as well.
I know late Dr Yonggi Cho prayed through that. First time I heard about tabernacle prayer was
actually from him and it really inspired me to pray like he prayed. And so tabernacle prayer
has been really one of the prayers that I also pray in my prayer time. Another one that you can
pray through as a plan of prayer in your prayer is the Spiritual Warfare Prayer. It's when you
pray through the spiritual armor, the armor of God according to Ephesians 6:9-13. And so you can take
each armor of God piece and pray through by confessing it and by acknowledging God and
asking God to help you in that area. You can start with the belt, you know. Telling God that His Word
is the truth and then asking Him to help you walk in the truth. As well as the breastplate,
the breastplate of righteousness. Thanking Him for the gift of righteousness and asking Him to
live a righteous life. Then you can go into the shoes. You can thank God for the peace and then
ask Him to help you spread the message of peace and being the ambassador of peace on this earth.
As well as going further and begin to put on the shield of faith. Begin to release your trust in
God and telling God that you trust Him, as well as ask Him to strengthen your faith. As well as
the helmet, you can thank God for salvation and then pretty much start coming against every lie
of the enemy that comes against your mind, so that it will not penetrate your thoughts. As well as
the sword, is you can begin to thank God for his Word and asking for a fresh revelation
of God's Word in your life. And so as you're praying through each piece of the armor of God,
you're pretty much putting that armor on, you become conscious of who you are in Jesus Christ
and you become a warrior ready for spiritual warfare. Another way that you can pray or
another plan of prayer that I like as well and that is The Prayer of Jabez. There's a
whole book and there's a movement of the prayer of Jabez. It's recorded in 1 Chronicles 4:9-10.
And Jabez said, "Oh, that You would bless me. Oh, that You will enlarge my territory. Oh,
that You would have your hand upon me. Oh, that You would keep me from evil and that you will
cause me not to cause pain or that You will keep me from causing pain." And so and that prayer
can be broken down to the blessing, it could be broken down to influence, presence, protection and
being a blessing. "Oh, that you would bless me," will you take time and you ask God to bless.
You know blessing of God makes rich and adds no sorrow. God wants to bless you,
and then you can say, "Lord enlarge my territory." You can start praying about your influence. I
want to encourage businessmen, maybe people in influencers, pray the Jabez prayer. it's a really
good prayer and the Bible says that afterward God did what Jabez asked. You know and then Jabez
says, "let your hand be upon me.' So that's you're praying for God's presence, for God's supernatural
guidance in your life and then he says, "that you will keep me from evil." So Lord protect me,
God you know keep me away from temptation, keep me away from bad decisions. And then he's saying
at the end that "I will not cause pain." Meaning that I will not be a liability, that I will be a
blessing to others. God make me a blessing. Bless me to make me a blessing. And so a prayer of Jabez
is a really good prayer to pray as well. I love praying the prayer of Jabez, especially the times
that I have less time to pray because it's more of a quicker prayer. And then the last prayer that I
want to share, there's many more but the last one that I will share is the Prayer of Solomon. And
the prayer of Solomon is the one that he prayed when he received wisdom from God. And if you look
at prayer of Solomon you will see that Solomon starts out with acknowledging God's faithfulness
and mercy to his father David. And that's recorded in 1 Kings 3:6-9. He's pretty much starting with
reviewing God's mercy, remembering God's previous mercy. And that's a good way to start prayer as
well, where you can start and start thanking God for everything He's done. Every mercy He has shown
you, the grace that He has shown you. And then Solomon begins to acknowledge that the place he's
in right now is really supernatural divine appointment. And that's a good thing to do
in prayer as well. To tell God, "Lord, I whatever I'm at right now, I'm not what I want to be but
You brought me here God." So acknowledging that nothing in your life is an accident.
God is involved in your life. And then Solomon goes further, begins to humbly acknowledge his
weaknesses. He says, "I'm like a little child. I don't know how to go out, how to go in." Meaning
like I don't have the king's requirements, like what it takes to be a king. I don't feel like I'm
good enough. And he's not like downplaying his self-worth but he's pretty much acknowledging
his weakness to God. And the prayer of Solomon is huge for leaders. I personally think that every
leader should pray the prayer of Solomon and the prayer of Jabez. Because we have to acknowledge
our weakness before God as leaders and we have to acknowledge God's gratefulness as leaders.
And then Solomon goes in and begin to ask God for a few things. He's asking God for a hearing
heart. Crazy huh. Solomon is a leader. You would think he would ask God for like military strength,
for strategies, for wealth, for money for the death of his enemies. You would think he would
ask God for a speaking ability. He's asking for a hearing heart and I think as leaders sometimes we,
we want to speak more than we want to listen. And the Bible says that we have to be slow to
speak but to be swift to listen, and Solomon prays for that. And as a leader, I pray that for myself,
"Lord give me a hearing heart that will hear you first and they will listen to other people,
and actually listen to understand not listen so that I can reply." And then he says, "give me a
discerning heart." You know so not only hearing heart, help me to discern between good and evil.
So if you're in the leadership position it's a good prayer to pray or implement in your
prayer time to ask God for discernment, to ask God for the sermon between bad deals,
good deals. To ask God for discernment between people, for people, discernment of spirits,
because it's one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And Solomon's pattern of prayer has been a great
blessing to my life. There's one more and it's a famous one that Christians a lot of times use,
and that is to pray through the redemptive names of God. So the redemptive names of God
are Jehovah-Jireh, which is the Lord my Provider; Jehovah-Rapha, the Lord my Healer; Jehovah-Nissi,
the Lord my Banner; Jehovah-Mekoddishkem, the Lord my Sanctifier; Jehovah-Shalom, the Lord my Peace;
Jehovah-Rohi, the Lord my Shepherd; Jehovah-Sabaoth, the Lord of the Hosts of armies.
Jehovah-Tsidkenu, the Lord my Righteousness and Jehovah-Shammah, the Lord who's ever present.
And pretty much what you can do, is that you pray through every name claiming those promises upon to
your life, proclaiming those promises, and asking for those things to manifest or to be evident in
your life. Like for example, you know the Lord my Provider. You begin to thank God, Lord your
my provide, your Jehovah-Jireh. You provided for Abraham, God provide for my needs. Lord I pray
for my family. Lord I pray for my business. Lord I pray for my church. Lord I pray for my needs.
Then you're go on to pray thanking Jehovah-Rapha the Lord my Healer and then you start praying for
your healing, for the healing of people that you know. Then you're acknowledging Jehovah-Shalom,
God my Peace and then you're asking God for peace. You're releasing your stress and anxiety
and being overwhelmed. And then you're thanking God, Jehovah-Nissi. Lord your Jehovah-Nissi,
and then you're asking God for that victory. So you're praising, proclaiming
and also petitioning at the same time all the redemptive names of God. And that's a beautiful
prayer because you're pretty much praying into the nature, into the character and into the attributes
of God. I mean how awesome is that. Now all of these prayers, they have one thing in common:
They're scriptural. And so and that's one of the reasons why I love praying through prayers in the
Bible. Now most of these prayers, they were not necessarily written in the Bible as a template.
But if you're praying the Bible, if you're praying through the Scriptures it's the best prayer. And I
want to encourage you to begin to practice praying the Scripture, practice praying the prayers of
the men and women of God in the Scripture and see if your prayer life doesn't go to another
level. Everyone needs to take their prayer life to another level. What if praying the Scriptures
is your secret sauce to taking your prayer to another level this year? Give it a shot
and let me know what you think about that. Are you praying the Scriptures? Have you
ever prayed the Lord's Prayer or the Prayer of Jabez or any other prayers? Which are the
prayers that I mentioned came as a surprise to you, that maybe you're like I've never thought
about that. I'm going to try that. I'm going to go find that verse and I'm going to pray through that
next time. Drop that in the comments below and let me know your thoughts on the prayers and the
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