It is expedient for us to know and understand what Jesus says on this issue we are about to consider Prayer. He himself know the importance of it, that is why before taking any drastic step, he would go to the father in prayer, seeking to know what the fathers view and opinion on that particular matter before adventuring into it. Take for instance before starting his ministry the scripture explains to us on how he went into the wilderness to fast and pray and seek the face of God  “And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights he was afterwards hungry” (Matthew 4:2). Now this was just before the beginning of his eternal (assignment on the earth and he could not just go into it because he was God, but because he is our perfect example which is one of the basic reasons why he came to the world, he had to go to the one who sent him and report to him that father the purpose why, I am on earth is about to began but I cannot on my own do so, I need you at all points.

His Disciples: “And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray and continued all night in prayer to God”. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciple: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostle”. It is obviously clear that our master Jesus would not do anything except he first prays and common with his fther on that matter he do not see prayer as secondary issue, but the ultimate in all he did. The Bible made mention of how very early in the morning he would depart from his disciples and go to a mountain top and pray, it also show how after every great meeting and victory Jesus will send the people away and his disciples to the next village while he stays back to common with God for the success of the previous meeting and also commit the next programme in to his hands. But it is quite unfortunate that we now live in times, were so many Christian no longer pray, some don’t even have a family alter so when they wake up from bed, one jumps to the kitchen while the other to the bathroom and the children move strait to the television, and before you know the parents are off to work and the children to school and when they return anybody feels tired and moves to bed and so on. While some homes will only have prayers when there is a recurrence of bad dreams (night mere). Friends, that is not how Jesus taught us, scriptures made it plain that every morning Jesus would be sought for by his disciples, that at a point it got used to them because at certain occasion he doesn’t just go alone, he would take some of them with him, so when they don’t see him in the morning, they now know were to find him. Jesus prayed everywhere, one day he was on his way to a particular place, and while on the way with his disciples, he was hungry and he turned and looked at the Fig tree to see if he could get some food to eat, but could find none, and before his disciples knows what was happening, he coursed the tree, and it wither on their way back. What would you call that? Is it not prayer and if it is not what was it then? There are allots of arguments of where to pray and where not, but if we look at the scripture and see Jesus as our perfect example, we would drop all this argument because he actually prayed everywhere he went. The other day He entered into the synague and found a man with a leprous hands, and the bible says that the Pharisees watch to see if he would heal him but quest what he did, he prayed for the man, and that was it, in so many other incident on how (Jesus) prayed publicly for healing and other reason that we cannot number right now.

The Christian with prayer, we were told that when a baby is born, as soon as the child comes out it will cry, and if he/she does not, the nurse most palm the baby in order for him or her to cry, open up the lungs, if you are truly born again you will cry (pray) because there will be this deep hunger in your heart to cry. Also every child doe excise which is necessary in order to keep him or her fit, now you see when the mother is will bathing the child, she will stretch him/her, and in other times, the child alone stretches itself that is exercise. But our exercise as born again Christians is prayer, a child of God who does not pray is a spiritually dead person unknowingly or knowingly to him or her, the devil can play fool of such one, and such believer cannot go far in the Kingdom. No matter what you do in the house of God, He needs you to commune with him before any other service you render in his name which is directed to man in one way or the other.

“Come now, and let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool” (Isaiah 1:18). A life of prayer is a life on fire and nothing can trample upon such a life, though the enemy may try but will always fail at all cost. Do you remember on how one day the apostles were praying in the upper room and the Holy Ghost came upon them in divers tongues of fire, and descended upon them. “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound form heaven as if a rushing might wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them separate tongues like as of fire, and it sad upon each of them” (Act 2 vs 1-3). It’s obvious that even the list child knows that no one tours with fire because it shows no mercy to the offenders at all. Daniel understand this that was why when the law was enacted because of him, that no one should pray to other God except the golden image which the king has made, he spear not his life because he knew that no body dear touch fire and remain the same and not be burnt. Daniel 6:1-28. The reason why the world is not afraid of the church is because there is no fire burning in the church, and the reason why an occult man can try you and go free is because he sees no fire burning in you, if not he dare not come close because it has no friend, the church must arise which is you and I and get ourselves ablaze for God and for our world.