Becoming More Effective in PrayerSample

COME BEFORE GOD AS A SON (1)

Many people go into the place of prayer with a wrong mentality. They have the mentality of a God who is perfect and waiting for them to make a mistake and judge them, a God who cannot be touched with the feeling of the infirmities of a human being, and an impersonal God that nobody can have a relationship with.

But Jesus came to show us a completely different picture of God. He’s talking of a father-son relationship. Showing you a son going into the prayer closet with the mentality of a son, not the mentality of a housemaid. If you have a housemaid, there is a difference between how your housemaid approaches you and how your own child approaches you.

What Jesus is saying to you here is that when you go into prayer, you should go with the mentality of a son relating with a loving father. He deliberately compared the Father-nature of God with that of a man. If you are a father, there is compassion that flows towards your children from you. You love having them around and do some things for them even when they don’t know they need them, but your own eyes as a father sees the need and you plan to meet the need.

In an infinitely greater measure, your heavenly Father has you in His mind. The Bible says in Psalm 8: 4, “What is man that you are mindful of him?” Despite that fact, many people are still ‘prayer failures’ because they go into the place of prayer with a wrong mentality. They think of God as a God who they must appease. In the African culture, there are angry and wicked idols that people must appease. The God of heaven is not like that at all—He’s your Father whom you should approach with the mentality of a son going to his father; it’s as simple as that.

PRAYER: I refute every wrong mentality I have had as a son, today. I receive the spirit of boldness to come before you as a Father that you are to me in Jesus’ name. Amen!