Today daily devotional / Trusting the Power of God in Prayer

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Trusting the Power of God in Prayer

Scripture Reading — James 5:16

The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

— James 5:16

A close friend was seriously ill. Her doctors were not optimistic, and it felt like hope was slipping away. In desperation, I turned to prayer, gathering a group of friends and family to pray for our friend’s healing. Despite the uncertainty, we prayed fervently, trusting in God’s power.

Miraculously, our friend began to recover. The doctors were astonished by her sudden turnaround, and it was clear that God had responded to our prayers with healing. This strengthened my conviction that prayer is powerful and that God uses it to bring about real change.

Prayer is not just a ritual; it is a direct line of communication with our Creator. Through prayer we express our deepest desires, fears, and hopes to God. In prayer we find solace, strength, and guidance. The Bible teaches that “the prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective,” and God can use it to transform lives.

Prayer aligns our hearts with God’s will, allowing his power to work through us. It can bring healing, provide comfort in times of distress, and open doors that may seem impossible to unlock. Through prayer we invite God into our situations, trusting him to act according to his perfect will. God hears us and is able to do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine. Let’s bring our concerns, joys, and needs before him, trusting in his power to work wonders.

Lord, thank you for the gift of prayer. Help us to approach you with faith and confidence, knowing that you always care for us. In Jesus, Amen.

About the author — Darrell Delaney

Darrell Delaney is a cohost of ReFrame’s podcast ministry Groundwork and serves as lead chaplain with Reach the Forgotten Jail Ministry in Michigan. He considers it his life’s calling to create and facilitate life-giving environments in which people can thrive and grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Darrell and his wife, Kia, have three children. He enjoys spending time with family, walking, reading, and playing basketball, chess, and video games.

 

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When we have Revelation on Praying in the Name of Jesus then we receive everything we ask. In order for our Joy to be "Full" or Perfect.

John 16: 22 And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
23 And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
24 Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
25 These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
26 At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you:
27 For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

We see this clearly in Moses. Where everything He prayed for in Obedience to what the Living God, Jehovah, told Him to pray for was given to Him. Even when He hit the rock while God said spoke to it the rock did give water. But his disobedience was Disciplined for us to see that we have to be Perfectly Obedient to pray exactly as our "Abba Father/Daddy said.

The same we see in Jesus who were Perfectly Obedient to His Father. Where He is the Word of our Creation for us to enter being Perfectly Obedient to pray and ask exactly what our Daddy told us to ask for.

John 8: 26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.