Prayer is a four lane highway.
Which lane does God want you to pray in today?
Bro. Gurley, in his book on prayer, said that if prayer were a road, it’s not a single lane highway. It has many lanes, each leading you to God.
Paul said, “I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks (the four lane highway of prayer) be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” I Timothy 2:1-4
The Bible talks about other types of prayers too. Praying in the Spirit is an overpass. The Spirit prays through us and takes us above everything around us. (I Corinthians 14:15) Binding and loosing (Mark 3, Matthew 16 and 18) are like a roundabout. Deliverance includes both exit and entrance ramps. The evil exits. The newly delivered enters the highway of prayer.
Bro. Gurley also mentions calling down curses, which David did many times in Psalms when praying against his enemies. This is a U-Turn, because we are headed back to an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth traffic jam of the Law. Jesus wants us to forgive our enemies, and we may need to take the exit and entrance ramps of deliverance to accomplish this. This is not the best lane for us to go down.
Repentance is the gas station and car wash. Use it frequently to get clean and filled up.
How do you know which lane you should be driving today? Use your GPS (God’s Positioning System) to decide which lane you should drive in any given prayer. During certain times or seasons, God opens only one lane. We may be driving on Supplications street, but God wants us to be driving down Thanksgiving lane. We may want to meander down the commune with God road, but He wants us to stand in the gap in the Intercession lane for some certain person.
Be sensitive. Instead of rushing from one lane to another, slow down and ask which lane God is in today. If we don’t find Him in one lane, we can find Him in another.
Proverbs 3:5-6 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” Ask Him to direct your path in prayer.
Luke 22:42 “Not my will, but thine, be done.”
Prayer is not our destination.
It is the means to our Destination.
We cannot rest until we see His face.
| On a humorous note, James Ward, a member of Parliament, was not in the correct lane with his prayer that was found amongst his papers. He wrote, “O Lord, Thou knowest I have mine estates in the City of London, and likewise that I have lately purchased an estate in the County of Essex. I beseech Thee to preserve the two counties of Middlesex and Essex from fire and earthquake and, as I have a mortgage in Herfordshire, I beg of Thee likewise to have an eye of compassion that county; for the rest of the counties, Thou mayest deal with them as Thou art pleased.” |
| Child: Now I lay me down to sleep. I pradalor my sodakeep. God: What? |
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