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THE PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Weekly Update <\/strong>– May 26th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lately, the Lord has been leading me to read several books on prayer. I feel he wants me to experience the power of intercession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In reading Andrew Murray’s classic \u201cWith Christ at the school of prayer\u201d<\/strong>, I learned that through prayer we can ask for anything: \u201c whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.\u201d<\/em> (Mark 11:24) We often belittle Jesus’ \u201ceverything\u201d<\/em> by saying: \u201cIf it is God’s will\u201d<\/em> or \u201cIf it is good for us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In the book \u201cThe Essential Guide to Prayer\u201d<\/strong>, author Dutch Sheets reminds us that when we pray, we should seek first intimacy with God before praying for our needs and those of others. I love this excerpt: \u201cGod wants us to believe in the power of Jesus and call on Him to build walls of protection around individuals.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2 days, I read \u201cThe Fourth Dimension\u201d<\/strong> by Yonggi Cho, who invites us to be precise in our intercession. Too often, our requests are vague. The well-known Korean pastor reminds us that the Bible contains 8,000 precise promises. It’s not enough to say \u2018Lord, bless me!<\/em>\u2019. We need to address our requests to God in a specific way. Jesus would set himself apart to pray (usually at night) and then during the day, down on the battlefield he would give orders: to the wind, to evil spirits… Too often, we tend to pray on the battlefield after having prayed too little in the secrecy of our bedroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yukki Paton<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4165,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timotheepaton.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}