Pray Till You "Fell The Pain"

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“And being in agony He was praying very fervently; and His sweat became like drops of blood, falling down upon the ground.”
(Luke 22:44)

We live in a time that we attempt to avoid pain at all costs; this is why there are very few true intercessors…..Prayer is not difficult to comprehend, but it is difficult to do as our Lord did in the Garden of Gethsemane…..When was the last time that you prayed in such a way that your heart broke for those you were interceding for; it broke so much that your entire mind and body suffered in extreme pain??

Most of us pray our prayers at the shallowest level of prayer possible, but our Heavenly Father desires for us to experience the very deepest type of intercessory prayer possible -- going to the place where very few Christians have ever gone…..This deepest level of intercessory prayer is not easy; it is painful…..We cannot experience this closeness to God by praying our short, repetitious, empty, daily or weekly prayers; it will involve positioning ourselves before God for extended periods of time, continuing when everyone else has moved on and gone to sleep!

When Jesus arose from His prayer in the garden, He went to the disciples and found them sleeping and told them to wake up and pray (Luke 22:45-46)…..God expects us to stay alert in our prayer life…..ALSO, WE MUST EXPERIENCE BROKENNESS BEFORE THE LORD TO BE EFFECTIVE INTERCESSORS FOR HIM; we must submit fully to God and allow Him to break us so that He can then mold us into the “vessels of prayer” that He desires us to be!!

How do we get better and more mature in our prayer life? Just like anything else, we get better at something the more that we do it!!
How many times have you said, “I know I need to pray, but I just don’t feel like praying now”? When we do not feel like praying is exactly when we need to pray!!!!! To become the spirit-filled intercessors that God desires us to become, we must commit ourselves to pray and then follow through!!!

We need to find our own “Garden of Gethsemane” and begin visiting it on a very regular basis and plan on spending long periods of time there…..Follow Jesus’ example and take the time to pray --- pray until you “feel the pain”!!
God is calling His children to become intercessors for Him!
Continue to pray earnestly before Almighty God until you reach that deeper intense level that He wants you to experience on a regular basis!

It will hurt, but it will be a “good hurt”!!!

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