Why Do we Have to Pray?

Why Do we Have to Pray?

1 Corinthians 3:8,9 Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor. For we are God s fellow-workers; you are God s field, you are God s building.

Ezekiel 22:30-31 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

Isaiah 59:12-13 12 For our transgressions are multiplied before You, And our sins testify against us; For our transgressions are with us, And as for our iniquities, we know them: 13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isaiah 59:14-16,21 14 Justice is turned back, And righteousness stands afar off; For truth is fallen in the street, And equity cannot enter. 15 So truth fails, And he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. Then the LORD saw it, and it displeased Him That there was no justice. 16 He saw that there was no man, And wondered that there was no intercessor; Therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; And His own righteousness, it sustained Him.

Isaiah 59:21 21 As for Me, says the LORD, this is My covenant with them: My Spirit who is upon you, and My words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart from your mouth, nor from the mouth of your descendants, nor from the mouth of your descendants descendants, says the LORD, from this time and forevermore.

Romans 4:17 (as it is written, I have made you (Abraham)a father of many nations ) in the presence of Him whom he believed God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;

Mark 11:22-24 22 So Jesus answered and said to them, Have faith in God. ( Have the faith of God ) 23 For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, Be removed and be cast into the sea, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. 24 Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon formed against you shall prosper, And every tongue which rises against you in judgment You shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, And their righteousness is from Me, Says the LORD.

Matthew 18:18,19 18 Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. 19 Again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven.

2 Corinthians10:3-5 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments (reasonings, imaginations) and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

Psalm 8:4,5 4 What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? 5 For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. angels (Heb."Elohim" = God)

2 Corinthians 4:4 whose minds the god of this world has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. emphasis on term "god of this world who is Satan"

Matthew 4:8-10 8 Again, the devil took Him up on an exceedingly high mountain, and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. 9 And he said to Him, All these things I will give You if You will fall down and worship me. 10 Then Jesus said to him, Away with you, Satan! For it is written, You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.

1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. sway= (power) Amplified Bible

Colossians 1:13,14 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.

Isaiah 62:6,7 6 I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; They shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the LORD, do not keep silent, 7 And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Ezekiel 36:37 "The Lord God says: I am ready to hear Israel's prayers for these blessings, and to grant them their requests. Let them but ask and I will multiply them." (Living Bible)

Matthew 9:38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest.

James 4:2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.

Luke 18:1 Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart,

Phillips-Brooks stated, "Prayer is not the conquering of God's reluctance (=resistance), but the taking hold of God's willingness".

In his book, "Quiet Talks on Prayer", S.D. Gordon wrote, "Prayer is man(kind) giving God a footing on the contested territory of this earth. The person in full touch of purpose with God, praying - insistently praying - that person is God's footing on the Enemy's soil. The person wholly given over to God in prayer gives God a new sub-headquarters on the battlefield from which to work out. And the Holy Spirit within that person on the new spot, will insist on the Enemy's retreat in Jesus, the Victor's Name".

John Wesley preached, "God does nothing but in answer to prayer". "God's best working days are when His saints pray the most" (A.G. Ward).