Make your life a conversation with God. Don’t just have a prayer time (although this is important too), talk to God constantly. Make him a part of every part of every day. Tell God how you feel and what you want. The moment you feel a bad thought or attitude rise-up within you, admit it to God. Ask God for things constantly, not because he needs to know what you need but to establish a habit of dependence on him. Recognise what it is in your life that only he can bring about and seek him for these things. Pray for people regularly and make sure you maintain high expectations of God. Don’t ever lower your expectations of God to accommodate your experience. If you are not seeing God answer your prayers, then do what the psalmists did: complain. Complain to God and appeal to his promises. This is what faith does. When God holds back answers to prayer it gives us the opportunity to exercise our faith, and this may be deliberate on God’s part. So, keep praying and don’t give up. The more you pray the more your prayers will align with God’s will. There is no ideal time for prayer. There will always be distractions. So, learn to pray all the time in the midst of all the distractions. Let prayer become your distraction from the distractions so that the distractions don’t determine your life. A prayer-led life is a God-led life.
Pray to God for breakthrough in an area where you most want to see change.
Read James 5:13-20
