Is it ok to pray for the the same thing hour's after you prayed for it becasue it hasn't happend... Or to pray for the same thing just in general even days after if it doesn't happen?

[biblelesson]

This is an older thread, but I'm glad I found something on prayer.  Just want to say I realize I have misunderstood prayer.  Ephesians 6:18, "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints..."  I thought this meant to pray constantly, all day.  But now I understand it to mean, when you pray, to pray always in the Spirit.  Not pray all day in the Spirit. I think it's just how Apostle Pauls forms his sentences and words in certain passages. 

Praying always in the Spirit.  This means I must not pray in the flesh, that is, the carnal man.  I must be in the New Man (Spiritual Man), for my prayers to be effective.  Now this is a problem.  How to get to the point that I pray in the Spirit, if I'm not walking in the Spirit.  If my prayer end up being frustrating.  If I feel I'm simply praying and praying, and feeling like I'm not being heard by God.  

This becomes an issue if we are not praying in the Spirit, like we are told.  We are disobedient.  Not our fault.  We are not disobedient because we chose to be.  We are disobedient due to lack of knowledge.  Hosea 4:6, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge."

Do anyone realize that the Lord's prayer is not the prayer we are to be praying.  Jesus was talking to those under the law.  He had not died yet to bring in the New Testament, so some of Jesus's teachings were for those under the law.  We are not under the law in Christ.  Apostle Paul made reference to this in 2 Corinthians 3:13-15, and most people don't understand what Paul is saying.  "...until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.  The New Testament starts with Roman.  A testament is not in affect until after the testator dies, which is Christ, Hebrews 9:17.   

So, another misunderstanding.  We continue to pray in the flesh thinking God will hear our prayers. This might be objectionable to some people, but when we continue to pray in the flesh, we are not in right relationship with God.  Although God loves us and want to blessed us, He is a Righteous God, and hate sin.  When we approach God in the flesh in our prayers, we are approaching Him in sin.  Simply a lack of knowledge.

So, we must pray in the Spirit. But how ?    Just bare with me!  There is only one spiritual language that the bible talks about.  If there are many spiritual languages, please let me know.  But the bible says there is only One Spirit, Ephesians 4:4.   What is that Spiritual language.  Apostle Pauls defines it in 1 Corinthians 14:14-15, "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also.   When praying to God, 1 Corinthians 14:28, "...let him speak to himself and to God.  

Praying in the Spirit is unfruitful because we don't know what the spirit is saying.  But God does and want us to based on John 4:23-24, "The hour cometh, and now is (when the testator dies for our sins bringing in the New Testament) when the true worshippers shall worship the Father i the spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirt and in truth.   This is the reason why tongues were introduced first to the disciples.  Tongues is also a sign for those who believe, Mark 16:17, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues." 

So we must be speaking in tongue, in the spirit in our prayers.  It's the spirit that takes over and makes intercessions for us, and God hears those prayers, Romans 6:7, Romans 8:26-27.  We don't know what the language is saying, but it builds us up, edifies us, and builds our faith, and allows us to praise God without effort. That't the Power.

If we are not speaking in tongues, we must ask God about it.  No one can cause a person to speak in tongue.  It is a gift from God.  So take the scripture in Luke `11:13, "If ye being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

When God blessed us with speaking in tongues, speaking in the spirit, then we can start praying in the spirit, then God will be pleased, then our prayers will be head, and He will answer!

 

Edited August 4, 2021 by biblelesson

[JohnR7]

On 6/8/2021 at 8:32 PM, faithfull-prophet4040 said:

pray constantly for God to direct your path's, and make them straight

Yes Psalm 139:16 tells us that God writes the book of our life at or before conception. So we pray for the grace of God to be transformed into the person God wants or creates us to be. We pray until God gives us peace and assurance that He is going to answer our prayer. He does not change so we are the ones that are changed by prayer. I pray up to 4 or 5 hours and I may pray a 3 or 4 times for a total of 15 to 20 hours before I get the answer I am looking for. Last time it was about an illness and I wanted God to directly heal me. He ended up using a doctor to bring about my healing. There could have been sin in my life that caused the illness. Of course we want to keep the sin and get rid of the consequences.