The Most Powerful Prayer
Luke 11 tells us about an encounter between Jesus and one of his disciples. The encounter occurred in a certain place right after the LORD had finished praying. The disciples had been with Jesus every day witnessing first hand the manifest miracles and power of GOD. They knew it was the Lord’s custom to rise up early, go to a solitary place and pray. They must have reasoned that the Lord’s time alone with God the Father was connected to His great anointing and power. This particular morning when Jesus finished praying one of His disciples approached the Lord saying, “Lord, teach us to pray…”
In 1997 during a time of research, I came across an old book which stated that the prayer most feared by the occult was The Lord’s Prayer. It seemed incredulous to me at the time. My response was, “But Lord, there are so many really powerful warfare prayers. How could this be true?”
During a time of prayer in 2017, the Lord brought this incident back to my mind. I began pondering it again. The LORD spoke to me and said, “When My disciples asked Me to teach them to pray, why would you think that I would give them anything less than the most powerful prayer they would ever need?”
The LORD’s words pierced my heart.
The Lord’s Prayer does not begin, “My Father”; the prayer begins, “Our Father”. Immediately, we are reminded that we are part of something greater than ourselves; we are part of a family, both in heaven and in the earth. The first part of the prayer connects us not only to God the Father in heaven but to the entire Body of Christ in the earth. When we pray this prayer we are agreeing with our Father for His kingdom to come and His will to be done in earth as it is in heaven in every area of our lives. When we pray this prayer we are not only praying for our needs and protection but for the needs and protection of every other believer in the earth; those that we know and those we have never met. When we pray this prayer we are agreeing to be one; with God and one another.
How important is being one with God and one another? Of all the prayers He could have chosen, why would the Lord choose to teach this prayer to His disciples?
In Genesis 11 we are told that the enemies of God built a tower. The Bible tells us that the whole earth was of one language, and one speech. These enemies of God had become united; they had become one in purpose against God. The power of their unity and agreement must have been lethal because in verse 6 The Lord Himself said::
“And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.”
The enemies of God understand the power of agreement and being in one accord. While the enemies of God have for ages utilized and understood the power of one accord, it is also the very thing that they fear the most. Why? God’s enemies know that when the Lord’s people become one with God, His Word, His Heart, His Mind, His Will and with one another; they know that they will be doomed. They will not be able to stand. They will be scattered. Surely, swiftly, they will fall.
Since the morning the Lord spoke to me in 2017, The Lord’s Prayer for me has become what I call The Prayer of Holy Reset. Every time I pray this prayer I feel a very real and certain spiritual recalibration, a realignment with the Lord, His Kingdom and every other believer in the earth. Each time I kneel to pray this prayer I am saying LORD, I am ONE with YOU, YOUR WORD, YOUR KINGDOM, YOUR HEART, YOUR MIND, YOUR PURPOSES, YOUR WILL and YOUR people, the family of GOD both in heaven and in the earth in JESUS NAME.
Therefore, holy brethren, should we not daily, in obedience to the written Word and Admonition of Our Lord Jesus Christ pray this prayer?
Matthew 6, the Lord Jesus speaking to His disciples:
After this manner, therefore, pray ye:
Our Father which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil:
For thine is the kingdom and the power, and the glory, forever.
Amen.