Day 6 final day of War Room Devotional:

Did you know that God wants to answer your prayers? When Jesus died on the cross, God tore the veil from top to bottom. This opened the way so that through a relationship with Jesus, we can approach the throne of grace and bring our needs and our requests before the Lord.

God wants to answer your prayers. Jesus instructed His disciples repeatedly: ask and keep asking, seek and keep seeking, knock and keep knocking and the door will be opened to you. God will meet your needs.

Scripture also communicates what happens when our prayers are answered. In the book of John, we see Jesus saying (to paraphrase), “Our joy is made full and the Father is glorified in the Son every time a prayer is answered” (John 14:13, 16:24).

Think about that. Because of our relationship with Jesus, because of what He did for us on the cross, we can approach our Heavenly Father through Him. When we pray through Christ, and God answers our prayers, the Father is glorified through the Son.

God shows up through answered prayer, showing that He is Provider, He is Protector, He is Healer, He is our Wonderful Counselor. There is not an issue we are facing in our culture right now that prayer cannot address.

Also, prayer fills us up with joy when God answers those prayers. Every church ought to have people walking in the door every Sunday sharing freshly answered prayers of what God has done in their lives. If that happened, then our faith wouldn’t just be in the wisdom of men. Instead, as the Apostle Paul says, it will be in the power of God.

God wants to answer your prayers … so keep praying.

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. Mark 11:24‭-‬26 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/mrk.11.24-26.KJV

Day 5 of War Room Devotional:

How can we know if we are praying effectively? By getting our lives positioned properly with the Lord.

That begins with a relationship with Jesus. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Me.” He is the mediator between God and us. He alone can take the holy hand of God and the hand of sinful man and bring us together because He is God in flesh and He died for us on the cross.

So if you want prayer to be answered in your life, then you need to surrender your life to Jesus Christ.

Next, remain in close fellowship with Him. Stay clean and close. Jesus said, “If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ask what you will and it will be done for you” (John 15:7).

We need to get right with the Lord—we have our hearts right with the Lord—and we need to get right with one another. Jesus said in Mark 11 “When you pray, forgive if you have anything against anyone” (verse 25).

So we get our hearts right and then we pray in faith trusting that God—as faithful as He has been in the past and as faithful as He is in His Word—is going to be faithful again in the situation that you are dealing with.

So get right with the Lord and then begin to pray in faith and watch God work on your behalf.

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And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it. John 14:13‭-‬14 KJV https://bible.com/bible/1/jhn.14.13-14.KJV

Day 4 of War Room Playlist Devotional:

Do you ever think of the battle in which you have been chosen to participate? Scripture says, “Put on the full armor of God and then pray always at all times for all the saints.” (Ephesians 6)

To do so, we need to pray in faith. Jesus said in Mark 11, “When you stand praying, forgive if you have anything against anyone” (verse 25). He also said, “When you pray, believe that you will receive what you’re praying for.”

In James 1, we see, “If you don’t pray in faith, don’t expect your prayers to be answered” (verse 7). And Hebrews says, “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebrews 11:6).

So when we are praying, we need to believe that our God is able, He is willing, and He cares—just as He says in His Word. He is likely to answer our prayers when we pray in faith.

So how do we pray in faith? Look at the faithfulness of God in the past and look at the faithfulness of God in His Word. As you are reading God’s Word on a daily basis, it will build faith in you.

Also, before you start asking God for anything, spend time thanking Him. It says in Philippians 4:6-7, “Instead of being worried about anything, instead in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.”

So if we spend time thanking God for his faithfulness in the past, it helps build in us a strong faith to begin to trust Him and pray in faith for the future.

Before you wrap up today’s devo, may I encourage you to invest a few minutes in listening to a song by Steven Curtis Chapman called “Warrior,” a song he wrote for WAR ROOM at theoverflow.com/warroom-devo. If you’re like me, you will be incredibly inspired to be praying in faith! http://oflow.it/00ne/sKFXkAZffw