Be devoted in prayer.
Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.
Colossians 4:2 NIV
Faithful.
Romans 12:12
New International Version
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Worldwide English Version
Be very happy because you have a hope. Be strong when you have trouble.
Keep on talking with God.
The Message Bible
Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master, cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. Help needy Christians; be inventive in hospitality.
Continually praying.
1 Thessalonians 5:17
Pray continually… NIV
…without ceasing. KJV
With thanksgiving!
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Philipians 4:6 NIV
The sick will be made well.
Prayer that comes from faith will heal the sick, for the Lord will restore them to health. And if they have sinned, they will be forgiven.
James 5:15 CEB
For, the prayers of the righteous are powerful and effective.
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.
James 5:16 NIV
The Lord hears the prayers of the righteous.
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayer,
but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12 NIV
He hears the prayers of the righteous.
Proverbs 15:29b NIV
Tipping Point
As he did so, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each had a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God's people. Revelation 5:8 GNT
Recently, on one occasion, when praying for our nation, I envisioned a large golden bowl suspended within the atmosphere above the political center of our nation. The bowl, filled with a golden liquid, was beginning to tip; thus, causing the contents to stir forcefully, sloshing over the edge.
Symbolically, this bowl of intercession, filled with the perfumed prayers of incense, is beginning to tip, and pour out upon this nation, for the bowl has grown weighty with the continued prayers of God’s people.
As I continued to pray, I heard the Lord speak regarding what I saw: “I have heard. I have counted. Now, I will answer.”
PERSISTANCE IN PRAYER PRODUCES A TIPPING POINT!
Definition of tipping point taken from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place.
Prayer
Father,
May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. Psalm 14:2 NIV
Empower me, Dear Lord, to be persistent in prayer, that my bowl of intercession
may be found full. Please remove the weariness from my soul. Restore within me
a passion to pray.
Increase my faith to pray just one more prayer. UNRELENTING! For that prayer;
MAY BE THE ONE TO HAVE AN UNSTOPPABLE EFFECT, producing a
TIPPING POINT!
Amen
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