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…keep the lines of communication open between you and God.
Deal quickly with sin, and continually ask the Holy Spirit to search your heart.
Ask God to increase your hunger to know Him!
If you do these things regularly, Satan cannot gain a foothold in your heart to deceive you
(Jonathan Graf, The Power of Personal Prayer, 80-81).
Too many of us ignore or make light of things in our lives that the Bible calls sin. We live with a temper and call it a character trait. We live with a hidden pornography problem and pass it off as harmless “looking.” We live with bitterness and unforgiveness from broken relationships or past hurts and point the finger of blame at someone else. Yet each is a sin, and if we harbor it, our prayer life is powerless.
(Jonathan Graf, The Power of Personal Prayer, 151-152)
Because to some extent all prayer is warfare, as you develop in your prayer life you will be growing in spiritual warfare as well (95).
Jonathan Graf, The Power of Personal Prayer
Remember that prayer is simply talking to God and listening for his response. You can talk to him just as you would talk to someone sitting right next to you. You do not have to use ornate language to talk to him. You do not even need to worry if your prayer makes sense. God knows the heart, he knows your thoughts; you do not need to explain everything clearly for him to understand. Coming to God is the important thing (32).
Jonathan Graf, The Power of Personal Prayer
We could always blame it on Satan.
But according to Jonathan Graf, in his book, The Power of Personal Prayer…
But we can’t give Satan all the credit for our anemic prayer lives. Much of our ineffectiveness, our inconsistency, is our own fault (13).
Therefore, let us just pray. Let us pray for revival in our lives and churches. Let storm the gates of heaven with our prayers so that God’s kingdom will advance mightily in our homes, churches, cities and nations!
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