THE POWER IN THE SIMPLE ACT OF PRAYER

When you constantly pray for open heavens, it allows the free flow of Angelic activities in your life. Either in a worship or prayer meeting when this activity is hindered or not present, the feeling of struggling and unease is unavoidable

. It almost feels like the peace needed for such activity is not present. Therefore, we must always pray for open heavens in every spiritual activity so as to have free flow of Angelic activity. When there is a free flow when praying in the spirit everything always feels easy. There are times when we go into prayer and it feels almost like a struggle as we pray in the spirit. Do not be discouraged; rather, stay in the place of prayer and the uneasiness will begin to lift off after a while. When you stay there for an hour, after sometime you get a release and a note of victory in your spirit, once you get that feeling, it means the heavens have been opened up and so your speaking in tongues begin to flow and the groaning of the spirit begin to come out to you.

This means you have gotten to the point where angels are able to minister to you, rearrange things within your environment and remove any form of temptation that is coming your way. You will begin to have thoughts and ideas as to what you ought to do in any given situation such as averting any danger on your way, and deliverance from evil. For instance, when Peter was in jail, it was the angel that visited him and brought him out of jail. When you have an unrestricted movement of angels in your life and you back it up with the confession of the word of God that activates such activity; it is practically impossible to be cut off guard. But a lot of Christians do not understand the concept of open heavens. We must have real respect and reverence for the act of prayer. Even Jesus, we are told in the Bible that in the days of His flesh, though, being the son of God, offered up prayer and supplications with cries and tears unto Him from death (Heb. 5 vs 7). To Jesus even though He was the son of God and could confess what we call new creation realities like ‘I am the son of God’ etc, He understood and had that reverential attitude towards prayer. He knew that if He did not offer up prayer unto God there will be no salvation from events around Him.

We have so many Christians walking about with what we call ‘a faulty confidence; which is a confidence in the written word of God without doing what they ought to do to make what they have seen within the scriptures manifest within their flesh. This means they are not doing anything to make sure there is no unrestricted movement of Angelic activities in their lives. Through the study of the scripture we have learnt that we can only find angels ministering where demonic power have been overcome. For instance, we find it in the life of Jesus, when He got into the wilderness He was tempted of Satan and when He overcame the third temptation the bible says angels came and ministered unto Him. We also have the story of Daniel; it was after he overcame the prince of Persia in  prayer that angels came through to minister to him. This Angelic activity goes on in a very high and heavy scale. But it can only occur after the individual have offered up prayers with sufficient tenacity, in a focused way to lift off the burden in order to create open heavens and angelic activities.

The good thing about it is if you are consistent with your prayer life you will have this experience of open heavens and angelic activity daily without any hindrance. But if you are relaxed with your prayer life and you only pray when you feel like it and not as a necessity you will lose all the grounds you have gained before in prayer. As a result anytime you go into prayer you will have to start all over to gain that ground again. But if you do it everyday consistently the duration of time it usually takes you will begin to reduce because of your everyday practice. If  you are consistent with your prayer life you will get to a point where it will take you just five minutes to penetrate and that is where the heavens are clearly opened up to you.

When you give yourself to prayer consistently the reality of scripture and spiritual things begin to dawn on you and make more meaning to you. Things begin to come more alive to you in the scriptures and in all you do. What you read in the scriptures get on your lips with the full assurance of faith and this is because you gave labored to enter into the rest of God by seizing from your own works. Henceforth, you will begin to see the manifestation of God in your life like never before and before anything happens you have seen it and you already know the outcome. That is the power that resides in having the heavens opened up to you and angels ministering to you daily, and this is the type of life style we should all strive for as believers.