How To Pray For A Miricle Series

Jeremiah 29:13 "God says, `You will find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.’" Half hearted praying doesn’t cut it. It is better to have heart without words in prayer than it is to have words without heart. Sometimes the most spiritual prayer you can pray is "Help!" It’s not very profound, it’s just the cry of a child. "Help, God!" That’s passionate praying.

God wants you to learn to pray this way so He has a tool that teaches you how to pray passionately. You’re not going to like this tool but He has a tool to teach you to pray passionately. It’s called Pain. Have you noticed how much more intense you pray when you’re in pain. I’ve know guys who’ve had a lukewarm prayer life and then their wife walks out on them. That will teach you to pray. It becomes very intense. Or the guy in the foxhole says, "God! Get me out of this!" He’s serious. He’s passionate.

The problem is, when the pain leaves, usually so does the passion. You need to learn how to pray passionately what you really feel even when you’re not in pain.

2. PRAY PERSISTENTLY.

Keep on praying until the miracle happens. v. 39 "The people in front scolded him and told him to be quiet. But he shouted even more loudly. `Son of David! Have mercy on me!’" I like this guy. He’s determined. Nobody’s going to stop him from getting to Jesus. I admire his bull-headedness, his tenaciousness. It says he shouted even more loudly, "I want a miracle!" He’s passionate and he’s persistent.

Are you relentless in praying for your needs? Or do you just pray for them and then just drop them when the answer doesn’t come immediately. You quit too soon!

Why should I be persistent? Should I be persistent because God doesn’t hear me and I’ve got to wake Him up? God isn’t like that. In fact, He knows what you’re going to ask even before you ask it. It’s not like you’re waking Him up.

You don’t be persistent in order to nag God -- if I beg enough, He’ll give it to me.

Romans 8:32 "If God loved you enough to give Jesus, His Son, to die for you, He loves you enough to care for your other needs." God says, If I love you enough to send Christ to the cross, I certainly care about your other needs. Matthew 7:11 says God loves to give good gifts to His children. "If you being an imperfect father know how to give good gifts, certainly your heavenly Father who’s perfect knows how to give gifts to you."

So why do I be persistent? It shows what I really care about it. If I don’t care about something enough to pray about it more than once, it’s not that important. Notice that the more you have to wait for something, the more you desire it. It shows your passion.

Also be persistent because God is preparing you in the meantime for the answer. While I’m waiting, God is getting me ready. The Israelites had to wait forty years in the wilderness while God was getting them ready to go into the Promised Land. Why didn’t you get here sooner? I think He was waiting. He wanted you in on the miracle. So He waited until you got here.

Have you ever prayed, "God, I need a financial turn around in my life! I’m going under." Have you ever thought about maybe God’s waiting on you? Maybe He’s saying, "I’ve given you some financial principles. When are you going to start obeying them? I want to work in your life but you’ve got to obey these principles first. When you obey these principles then I’m going to bring the answer that you’ve been praying about."