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Say, “But I don’t pray like you do” or “I don’t know what to say when I pray”. Folks, the simplicity of prayer is paramount for us to understand. All we have to do is open our mouth and talk to God. When we are in relationships and we stop communicating with each other, whether it is friendships or romantic relationships, that relationship begins to drift away. So often you will hear a couple say “we don’t talk anymore” or “so and so has nothing to say when I try to talk to them”. Any relationship needs communication. This is the same with our Heavenly Father, Jesus.

Word promises us he is just as close as the mention of his Name. So in other Words, when you say “Jesus”, the realization is that at that very millisecond, God is there. You could almost imagine a “POOF” and Jesus is surrounding you with His Glory. That is the kind of God we serve. A God that at the mention of His Name all of Heaven stands to attention and The Almighty Creator becomes your audience with a Host of Angels there to enrobe you with their wings.

Why pray? Because prayer changes things! We are reminded over and over in The Bible of situations where sickness, death, famine, judgment, heartache, financial failure, murder, promiscuity and adultery were present and then prayer was sent up to God and a miracle was brought forth. You see that all these situations left on their own and without someone to take up

the cause and “intercede” or come in between that present situation and God, it never would have changed. Untimely deaths and heartaches could be avoided by someone like a Moses and Aaron who would rent or tear their garments and fall on the ground with their face buried in tears crying out to God to change the situation. We need to have an Abraham spirit that will not be satisfied with watching others who have made bad choices in their lives pay the penalty of Judgment without seeking God for Mercy and spare the individual. We all know that Lot separated from Abraham and then pitched his tent or began looking to Sodom and Gomorrah because of the Glitz and Glitter of those cities. Before long, Lot was not only dabbling with the thought of Sodom, but he was living in Sodom. Then, Lot became a Judge at the city gate. You see sin is not satisfied with only a little. The goal of sin is to “desensitize” us and get us more and more familiar with it and then to desire more. This slow transition is a key strategy of the enemy in any military arena, be it physical or spiritual.

The story goes that you can actually boil a frog alive and he will not fight you or try to even get out of that pot that is actually killing him. Sounds kind of odd huh? Kind of hard to believe isn’t it. You do this by simply putting the frog in the pot with room temperature water. Gradually and slowly the heat is added. The frog becomes use to this and is relaxed in that pot of water. Never realizing that the pot that he is chillin’ in, has been specifically designed to kill him in the end. If the frog understood and was able to “discern” what was actually going to be happening to him with that pot of water, he jump out of it the moment he was put into it. This is how Satan deceives us. Lot and that frog have little difference except for one thing. Lot had an intercessor in his life, named Abraham. Abraham was not satisfied to sit back and allow judgment to fall on his Nephew, even though his nephew made such poor decisions,

Abraham began to seek God. Abraham was not satisfied with letting God exact his vengeance on those cities and his own family suffer along side of them. Abraham began to stand in the Gap, which means to plead for Lot and his family when they were not able to and did not understand that they never should have even ended up in those cities with those evil people in the first place. Lot should have stayed right where he was with Abraham in the beginning. Right there is where we tend to justify ourselves for not praying for those like we should who have made bad decisions in their lives. We have all made poor decisions and we have all paid for them. Here is the deal. We would not have known that God can change situations and deliver someone who has been deceived by the Enemy, if it were not for this story. Lot loved God. Lot was just somewhere he should not have been. Left to his own devices and without a praying Uncle who would not be satisfied, Lot and all his immediate family would have perished. The story does not read that way though. There is HOPE in prayer. The story reads that God sent Angels to get them out of the city before judgment came. Lot and his family were delivered from the judgment of those cities.

This is what the Power of Prayer can do. When we pray for someone else we need to remember that no matter how bad or impossible the situation APPEARS, we can stand in-between God and Satan and fight for that person’s very life and existence. We have the ability by the Power of Jesus Name and the work that was done on the cross to exact a miracle from the Heavenlies because God gave us that power THROUGH him because of His Name. I encourage everyone who is reading this to begin to realize how simple, but yet explosive and life changing prayer is. We HAVE to pray for one another. God is searching for someone who will answer the call. Who will go? Who will commit to time in sweet communion for souls and others on a daily basis? Will you dear Brother or Sister in The Lord? Will you commune with the Almighty for others and for yourself? It’s so simply, yet so rewarding to see a life changed because someone was praying for them. Have you understood yet how easy prayer is? All we have to do is open our mouth to our Father and ask what we will in plain language and do so In the Beautiful and Holy Name of Jesus.