Conditions of Prevailing Prayer

FIVE CONDITIONS OF PREVAILING PRAYER
by George Mueller

1. Entire dependence upon the merits and mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the only ground of any claim for blessing.
2. Separation from all sin. If we regard iniquity in our hearts, the Lord will not hear us, for it would be sanctioning sin.
3. Faith in God's word of promise as confirmed by His oath. Not to believe Him is to make Him both a liar and a perjurer.
4. Asking in accordance with His will. Our motives must be godly; we must not seek any gift of God to consume it on our own lusts.
5. Persevere in supplication. There must be waiting on God and waiting on God, as the husbandman has long patience to wait for the harvest.

God has used mighty men of the past to lead His church on, in the future, to worship Him. Great people of prayer have been the inspiration to many for a deep relationship with the Lord.

God's desire is to move us in life, to His Life. He is seeking oneness in the heart of His people. Our prayers are to seek the heart, mind and will of the Lord. If we could or would understand the love of Christ for us it would completely overwhelm us, in love. If the church were to be filled with the LORD of the church, we, as His people, would bring Christ into our daily experience. As we move into relationship with Him we are and would be miraculously transformed into His likeness.

The Apostle Paul's prayer in Ephesians is a great prayer to understand where God is taking us.

Ephesians 3:14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.