Our Prayers, God's Miracles

SCRIPTURE

 

1 Kings 16:41- 45 (selected)

 

Then Elijah said to Ahab, “Go get something to eat and drink, for I hear a mighty rainstorm coming!”

So Ahab went to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the top of Mount Carmel and bowed low to the ground and prayed with his face between his knees.

Then he said to his servant, “Go and look out toward the sea.”

The servant went and looked, then returned to Elijah and said, “I didn’t see anything.”

Seven times Elijah told him to go and look.

Finally the seventh time, his servant told him, “I saw a little cloud about the size of a man’s hand rising from the sea.”…And soon the sky was black with clouds. A heavy wind brought a terrific rainstorm…

 

James 5: 16-18

 

The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. 17 Elijah was as human as we are, and yet when he prayed earnestly that no rain would fall, none fell for three and a half years! 18 Then, when he prayed again, the sky sent down rain and the earth began to yield its crops.

 

 

PRAYER

 

Lord, ______ has many things in his heart for which he prays, actions he would like you to take, situations he would like you to influence, hopes and dreams for his tomorrow, longings for today, desires on other’s behalf. He asks for strength, faith, hope, love, peace, and joy. He would have you effect growth in him and others. Lord, I ask that you would make ______’s prayers earnest. May he pray with a depth of passion that moves the angels to take wing and deliver his requests to you in haste. I ask that you would clothe him with the righteousness of Jesus so that his prayers come to you in power and produce results. I pray that he would fall down before you in humility and dependence, pleading his heart day and night. And Lord, I ask that you would hear his prayers, and answer them in your grace. As he delights herself in you, may you grant him the desires of his heart for which he pleads. Amen.

 

 

ENCOURAGEMENT

 

Elijah was no different that you. Allow your prayers to flow from a deep earnestness and powerful righteousness. Then stand back and watch God work miracles indeed.