Prayer

I've always heard it be told that prayer is powerful when one has it in their life. Tonight, as I have been praying for quite some time on the subject of prayer, God has revealed some great news to me. I have looked up many verses on prayer and I am going to post the verses that I feel are quite impactful.

Psalm 17:6
I call on you, O God, for you will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.

Psalm 39:12
Hear my prayer, O Lord, listen to my cry for help; be not deaf to my weeping. For I dwell with you as an alien, a stranger, as all my fathers were.

Psalm 42:8
By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me. a prayer to the God of my life.

Psalm 55:1
Listen to my prayer O God, do not ignore my plea

Psalm 84:8
Hear my prayer, O Lord God Almighty; listen to me, O God of Jacob.

Psalm 86:6
Hear my prayer O Lord, listen to my cry for mercy.

Psalm 88:13
But I cry to you for help O Lord, in the morning my prayer comes before you.

Psalm 109:4
In return for my friendship, they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.

Psalm 141:2
May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice.

Psalm 142:1
I cry aloud to the Lord; I lift up my voice to the LORD for mercy.

Proverbs 15:8
The Lord detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.

Proverbs 15:29
The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Become consistent with prayer so that you may continuously grow with God. God wants us to pray to Him. He wants to hear the prayers of the righteous, hurt, and broken. God wants to hear the prayers even when we feel as if he is not in our presence. God wants to test our faith BY prayer so that we may hear Him THROUGH prayer. DO NOT allow a cloud to form over your head that may block your prayers from God.
Lamentations 3:43-45 says "You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity. You have COVERED YOURSELF WITH A CLOUD SO THAT NO PRAYER CAN GET THROUGH. You have made us scum and refuse among the nations!

DO NOT allow a barrier to form between you and God. When you feel as if God is not there or a barrier is starting to form I encourage you to pray in a way so powerful that God will be able to feel your yearning touch for Him. Of course as humans we always want that human physical touch because it makes us feel good right? Well as Christians we want to feel God's touch in our lives, but we never consider the fact that maybe God also wants to feel our touch! So pray in a way so powerful that God will embrace that feeling!

Just as the song Prodigal, by Casting Crowns says - God is waiting on you to look up to him and say "Daddy here I am, Daddy here I am, again, and I've held out as long as I can, Now I'm letting go and holding out my hand, Daddy here I am, again. Will you take me back tonight?!"