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Praying Amiss 4 Ephesians 6:18 [18] Praying always with all ... supplication in the Spirit,  watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; To persevere is to continue and disregard discouragement. Watching and perseverance in prayers are knit. You can't watch when you can't persevere and without persevering, you can have the faith to keep asking. First thing to know before coming to God in prayers is that He is a loving Father and loves to do the request of His children but His will supersedes ours and His ways aren't ours. So, your expected time may not be His but in all we need to persevere so that we'll not pray prayers of a double minded man due to discouragement. Beloved, Christ taught us himself about perseverance in Luke 18:1-8. Perseverance brings about unstoppable and incomprehensive miracles and answers. If Elijah didn't persevere, he would have not pray continuously but he did for seven times same with the man at Bethe

Praying Amiss 3 Ephesians 6:18 [18] Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; Hello God's Image! Having seen that praying in the spirit is very important and nonnegotiable, we will look at another thing will prayers are amiss. Today we will look at WATCHING and tomorrow will be PERSEVERANCE. Watching is the act of observing. When we pray, we should observe our life and the situation, to know the progress report. Prophet Elijah did this; he watched (observed) as he prayer for rain, see 1 Kings 18:41-46. Why should I watch after praying? Vain repetition of prayer points are likely to occur if we don't watch, Matthew 6:7. Also, while we watch, we should not watch we our physical eyes. Elijah's servant saw a little cloud that can't never physically cause a rain but Elijah saw rain already about to fall. Beloved watch while in prayers not to pray amiss via vain repetit

Praying Amiss 2 1 Timothy 2:8 [8] I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. Yesterday day, we started this series and we briefly learnt that when we pray, our spiritual being should be employed and not out physical personality. Here, Paul advice that wrath (anger) and doubt (fear) which are physical characteristic of the physical being shouldn't be seen in whosoever is praying. Remember, the anger of human works not the righteousness of God, James 1:20. That unholy angry in you makes your prayers to be amiss. Moses was supposed to speak (an act of prayer) to the Rock (Christ) but out of human anger, he strike the Rock (see 1 Corinthians 10:4). This is the message, when we pray with human anger in us we are Striking the Rock. Don't strike Christ. Doubt is not a spirit of God, it makes is unstable and spiritually weightless. Get rid of doubt (fear) and see yourself excelling in prayers. See 2 Timothy 1:7, James 1:6-8.