Wednesday 1 April 2026
Putting Prayer into Practice
by Rev Daniel Joseph
Prayer: Father, we thank you for being the I AM THAT I AM for the sake of Your people. Thank you, Lord, for all Your benefits that we enjoy free of charge. Lord, we thank You again for Your Holy Word, the lamp at our feet and a light on our path. Thank You again, Lord, for what You are going to do for us all today, this week and throughout this month and this year by the power of Your Word, in Jesus’ name. Amen
Message: Beloved of the Lord, today, let us consider: Putting Prayer into Practice. Take some time today to review your prayer habits. Ask yourself these questions: Do I quiet myself before the Lord prior to prayer or do I usually pray hurriedly, just to get through one more task in my day? Do I pray sporadically and haphazardly, or do I pray purposefully according to God’s word? Is there any sin in my life that I’m trying to justify? Do I have a prayer schedule that I follow daily or do I pray only when I have the time to hurry over a prayer? Do I have a prayer closet/a dedicated place to pray at when I’m home, or at work?
This week, make an effort to gradually incorporate these action steps into your prayers. If you have been justifying wrongdoings in your life, agree with God that they are sins and truly repent by turning from them and ask God to cleanse you from all unrighteousness according to 1 John 1:9.
Take one of your prayer requests, for an example, and start living in expectation of it, practice active belief. Anticipate that what you pray for according to God’s word will happen, believe and make preparation for the answer. Even if it does not happen sooner than you anticipated or has not even happened at all, please don’t give up your belief. Still believe that it has been granted and that the answer is yet to manifest.
Note: This month, begin to practice to pray, believe, and expect! Your prayer life this month should be much better than what it was in the previous month(s). Jesus Christ, our Blessed Redeemer, when He was on earth, He was 100% God, and 100% man. It is written in Luke 5:16, “16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” If Christ, God prayed on earth, that should teach us many things.
We should learn from our Savior, that as mortal humans, it is imperative that we pray always. We should also learn and understand that, as man put on this earthy realm to manage and prosper God’s creative handiwork, we must pray to be successful at fulfilling our God’s purpose. We should also understand that, the earth is not our final “Bus stop” so to say, but that as we transition through the earth, we must be prayerful lest we enter into temptations.
Again Jesus, in Luke 18:1, used a simple parable to teach us a couple of things: that we should pray without stopping and also that we should present ourselves to the Father, through Him, as people who are poor and needy, just like the widows of His time, meaning that we have no other helper but God and that if He doesn’t then we’d get help from nowhere else. And also, that, we should not be disturbed by the father’s silence if we don’t receive our request quickly enough, we should persist. Folks, prayer is a process and it requires persistence, humility, surrendering, believing, trusting, hoping, and patience. I pray that your prayer habit will keep on improving until it is like what Jesus modelled on earth as it is written, in Jesus’ name, and may God prosper your life of prayerfulness, beginning today, in Jesus’ name.
Take this prayer point: Powers that work against my prayer life, I renounce you and denounce you now in the name of Jesus.
Anything in my life disturbing me from taking my prayer life seriously, the Lord rebuke you by fire, in the name of Jesus.
I pray for you: Heavenly Father, thank you for giving Your people principles for prayer. Help them to continually meditate on your precepts and learn your ways. Help them to study these principles and consider carefully your desires. Encourage them, Lord, to step out in faith to put these principles into practice today. Lord, I thank you for answering my prayer and doing immeasurably more than I ask or imagine, according to your power that is at work within me. I pray this in the name of Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. Amen.
Today’s reading: Ruth 1-4; Luke 8:1-25
Please folks, continue to share the Word. May the Lord bless, keep and prosper you this day, this week and through the month and this year, in Jesus’ mighty name. It’s me, Daniel-Joseph, your prayer partner. Thank You Jesus. Amen.
Rev Daniel Joseph, Dip Ed, BSc. Ed, B. Ed, M. Ed is an educator/teacher of science on the high school panel of the local board of education in the Ottawa-Carleton region. He’s a psychology of learning specialist. A scholar, always learning, a writer, teacher and trainer, adviser board of directors and pastor of the Light of the Nations ministry international, a non-denominational ministry with its headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.