People say that prayer is a communication between man and his God, but to Christians prayer is a fellowship between Christians and God through Jesus Christ, it is a two way affairs, it requires speaking and responding, it requires singing and dance, it requires praises and rejoices. It is a mutual interaction, relationship, friendship. In all meaning, it must begin first with wedding/marriage between man and God without this wedding/marriage, prayer is meaningless as good relationship has been established, this wedding is to be baptized with Christ, dead with Him, buried with Him and resurrect with Him (the world calls it’s own “initiation”). People pray without response because they have no marriage with God, you need to have good relationship first, you need to be very friendly with God, you need to be in love with God, otherwise your prayer may be a waste. If you are in marriage with God, you need to always refresh and maintain the good relationship with him, for without good relationship, marriage may not last. How can marriage last without good relationship? If you cannot be in marriage with Him, how can you always expect marriage gift from Him, know you not that our God is a jealous God?

A woman can romantically request something from a man and receive it, only when she is in love with the man.

Now this type of relationship is so difficult with us, but some of us have certain relationships with God, relationships between son and father, relationship between servant and master. The relationship between wife and husband is hard to find, I wish and pray to have this relationship with God; relationship between wife and husband. If you have this type of relationship with God, you will become so precious to Him, you will be a man after God’s heart as David, you will be the apple of God’s eye as- “Zech. 2:8 For thus says the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that touches you touches the apple of his eye.”- when you are the apple of God’s eye, man after God’s heart, precious to God, I tell you, what so ever you ask or pray to God, that He will do for you, and you must also love to do what so ever He commands you to do. This is how prayer is two way affairs, mutual communication, a fellowship between man and God, as it was in Eden.

·        Do you have this type of fellowship with God?

·        How often do you fellowship with God?

·        How many times do you talk to Him in a day?

·        How many hours do you spent discussing with Him?

·        Do you faint talking to Him?

·        Do you ever hear Him?

·        If you hear, how do you respond to His commands?

At times God comes to have fellowship with us and we hide ourselves, just as Adam and Eve did, how? By receiving the ministration to pray but sleep, dozy, thinking of worldly affairs or discouraged makes us to hide from God.

 If you are married to God, and believe that He is always with you, you must therefore talk to Him always, answer Him whenever He calls, and you must always respond to His words when He speaks to you. God talks to you and I always.

If you don’t talk to Him, and when He talks to you, you don’t respond, He will leave you. This is why Apostle Paul says in “Eph 6:18 Praying always with all prayer, “1Thess. 5:17, Pray without ceasing”. in fact, St. Paul teaches every thing concerning fellowshipping with God in “1Thess. 5 from 15 to 22, “1Thess. 5:15 see that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourself and for all”. (Commandment of Christ)

1Thess. 5:16 “Rejoice always.

1Thess. 5:17 “Pray without ceasing.

1Thess. 5:18 “In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1Thess. 5:19 “Do not quench the Spirit.

1Thess. 5:20 “Do not despise prophecies.

1Thess. 5:21 “Test all things; hold fast what is good.

1Thess. 5:22 “Abstain from every form of evil.  

Many times, what restrains us from prayer or fellowshipping with God is our sins, which is ever before us, which the accuser the Satan uses to accuse brethrens.

When ever you committed a sin and wants to pray in the next hour, Satan will accuse you, reminding you what you did, in so doing you become weak to pray fervently. To Some people, Satan has already seared their conscience that they would go ahead praying, of without receive from God “Jms 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts”. This is where God will not also answer you, because the sin has separated you from God, But all you need to do immediately you feel weak or your prayer not answered is to kneel down there and ask God to have mercy and forgive you, then condemn the tongue of the accuser as in “Is 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD, after this you will see yourself flowing.

I know what sin can do to prayers because I was deeply in sin. Being the chief of sin brought me to a certain stage that I could not pray any more for mouths. In those days, each night I went in with a woman, I could hot pray that night and the following morning, and when this prayer stopped in my life, it will take me for about six months to return back to prayer, this means to quench the spirit, “1 Thess. 5:19 “Do not quench the spirit”. Does this also happen to you? If it does, you know that it is your sin that separates you from God, all you need to do is to stop sinning, and if mistakenly you sin, first ask God to forgive you before praying any other prayer.

But the best prayer is the prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(1)   Our father who is in Heaven Hallow be to your name.

(2)   Let your kingdom come,

(3)   Let your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

(4)   Give us this day our daily bread

(5)   Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us

(6)   Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from all evil.

(7)   For yours is the kingdom and power and the glory forever, Amen.

But this prayer is for born again Christians, the already repented.

BE YOU A PASTOR, PREACHER, PROPHET, OR EVANGELIST, YOU MAY FAIL BUT A PRAYERFULL CHILD OF GOD CAN NEVER FAIL