Prevailing prayer!

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"Lord, teach us to pray!" Luke 11:1

Real prayer is always powerful. Fervent prayer avails much. But we often seem to pray—when we do not really pray. There is . . .
no clear knowledge of need,
no fervent desire,
no earnest pleading,
no strong confidence in God,
no steady expectation,
no wishful watching,
no patient waiting. 
And yet all these are included in prevailing prayer!

Beloved, we must acknowledge with the Apostle, "We do not even know what we should pray for—nor how we should pray!" Romans 8:26

Let us therefore plead with the disciples, "Lord, teach us to pray!" 

But if we are answered, perhaps . . .
needs will press us,
trials will surround us,
foes will beset us,
afflictions will come upon us, and 
Satan will worry and distress us; 
for it is by such things, that the Lord teaches His people to pray. 

There is no real prayer without the indwelling, illumination, and direct operation of the Holy Spirit! He . . .
awakens us to feel our need,
quickens desire,
leads to the throne of grace,
helps our infirmities.

"For we don't even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groaning that cannot be expressed in words." Romans 8:26

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