William Booth was an English preacher who founded the Salvation Army. And if you think about it, the name Salvation Army is really quite a powerful name. He wrote, “Pray as if everything depended on your prayer.” Is that the way you pray?

In the last few posts, I have discussed prayer and I am challenging you to examine your prayer life. Take stock of your prayer life. Is prayer a duty? An obligation? Something you do out of guilt, feeling like it’s a requirement? Is it something you dread? Or is it something you just don’t do? But all of that thinking is wrong. If you feel that way, you have believed a lie of the enemy. The truth is this - Prayer is a privilege. God, would you renew our minds so that we see prayer as a privilege? See, it’s an indescribable gift that we can seek help and counsel from the One who sees all things, knows all things, and is able to do all things. As Cory Ten Boom said, through prayer, we can leave a world of not being able to do something and enter God’s Realm where everything is possible.

If you don’t already, would you view prayer as a privilege? And as such, pray with passion and with shameless persistence. Pray knowing it makes a difference. Ask and keep on asking. Keep banging away at the door. Prayer is a powerful thing – more than we realize. I think the enemy works overtime to try to distract us and stop us from praying. Because he knows how powerful prayer is. Prayer changes things. That is one of the messages of my life.