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PRAYING ARIGHT

Text: James 4:3 

You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

It is one thing to have a desire, it's another thing to know how to place your desire before the Lord in prayer.  

Knowing how to present your desire (request) before the Lord is important to receiving answer to your request. 

While you can choose to pray anywhere, at anytime and in any situation, you must learn to understand important and required protocols to accessing God's presence. If you don't understand this protocols, you will often pray amiss.

Queen Esther, though married to King Ahasuerus, had to still observe protocols when she needed to access the king. If Queen Esther  had not observed the protocol, she would have lost her life or miss out on her request.

In the same manner, *many are praying, but not many are praying aright.* The major challenge with many is not praying but praying aright.

Today, we shall be looking at one of the protocols you need to observe in order to always pray aright.

1. *Knowing Who You Pray To:* Jesus taught His disciples that when they pray, they should say, "Our Father in Heaven..."
Knowing that your prayers are directed to the very creator of the heavens and the earth would help you fulfill the protocol of proper identification of the deity you are praying to. *Knowing God whom you pray to as the all-powerful, the all-knowing, the all-mighty, the all-sufficient, the all-able God, would place you above all challenges that may come your way.* 

Whenever you pray, always know that you  are before the king of the universe. Hence, you have nothing to fear in this world, for you are in the hollow of His hands.


 *BIBLE READING*: Esther 5:1-8


 *PRAYER FOCUS* 

1.) Father Lord, always help me to see you as you are whenever I come into the place of prayer.

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