How to Pray

1. pray in faith

• Before going to prayer read some good articies. We have found the 'Herald of His Coming' challenging, helpful, and faith-building.
• Consider carefully the Scriptures given. Finding in them that it is God's will to do these various things for your missionary, you may stand on His promises just as firmly as you do for your own salvation and know that God will do what you ask Him to do. John 11:40; Mark 9:23

2. keep informed

• Take time to write to the missionary to inform yourself of the specific prayer targets for his field. You will never know what a letter from home will do to encourage the heart of the missionary. Take it as your responsibility from the Lord to keep in touch with your missionary, and you will receive your reward.

3. pray consistently

• Once you have a prayer target before you, continue to shoot at it until the thing is taken by God . The missionary must give much time to prayer in order to take the strongholds held by Satan. God is holding His servants at home responsible to back the missionary with consistent prayer. 1 Thess. 5:17; Luke 181

4. pray in the spirit

• To be effective, prayer must be in the Spirit. God has promised to help us pray by His Spirit. To become a prayer warrior you must give yourself to prayer as the early Christians did. Acts 6:4. Prayer is not something God dumps upon one, but something that must be exercised. Rom. 8:26-27

5. exercise your authority over satan

• It is in prayer that the binding and loosing ministry He has given us is accomplished. Ask God to help you to enter into this most important ministry. Satan must be bound in situations, and the children of men loosed from his power.
  Matt. 18:18 (and others already given)

6. pray with fasting

• We have found it works. Fasting added to prayer will break any stronghold of Satan. If you are a group coming together to pray do not spend time in idle talking (Prov. 10:19), and do not eat. Acts 13:2 Mark 9:29

7. praise Him for answers

• Someone has likened prayer and praise to the two wings of a bird. Praise is necessary if we are to soar above our circumstances. So often praise is missing and that prayer life or that prayer meeting is crippled because of it. Be careful to give God the praise due to Him for answered prayer, and as you pray, praise Him for the answers which are yet to come. Mark 11 :25. Prayer is mighty, but prayer with praise is mightier 11 Chron. 20:22-22. -Prayers and praises go in pairs, They have praises who have prayers."