Today, Luke 11:1-4 I was focusing on the words; "Your kingdom come, Your will be done".  So I started thinking and it came to me in this study (These are just notes)

There is a difference between inviting Jesus as Savior and inviting the entrance of the Kingdom of God.  This has to do with the "King" and His "Kingdom" and:

Recognizing nothing just happens

Will Father God do nothing on earth except in answer to prayer...?

God said what He wants to do and things only happen through prayer - God's choice is to use people to pray through. You may say "that's not true". well, you don't know if God moved on someone's heart somewhere in the world for you and they may not have known who they were praying for either.

We say, "what differance can I  make?"

God wants to rinse that thinking out of us...He's saying, don't be afraid!

Reasons why we might not pray:

1. Ignorance
2. Unbelief in the face of revealed truth of which they are unadvised
3. People think Biblically based expectations are presumptuous or fanatical
4. View God in His sovereign might and power and overlooks His will to involve the church in the redemptive process
5. View of the "Last Days" to be spiritual decline and moral decay so they presume it's futile and surrender to a passivity (except for some personal preparation)

Perhaps there are blinders to the invisible realm and the spiritual nature of the struggle.  Some may divide attention from prayers as priority to only a substitute action.

The natual aspect of not praying is we start applying basic resources of spiritual arsenal: Fasting and Prayer: your fasting and prayer just become something hard if we don't realize the dynamics of it.

Preoccupation with personal need and circumstances.

We become compromised by guilt or condemnation.

Self centered concerns: Blessings, health, etc.

Paul says "When I am weak, He is strong".

I love the fact that Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint on their knees

Col 2:14-15 - principallities and powers is a term describes beings in the invisible realm that resist God's purposes - Think about it.

The Power of the cross

Prayer drawing on the power of the Cross, not our power but, the power of Christ.

1. Ask for the nations of the World (Psalm 2)
2. Pray for extension ministries (Eph 6:18:20)
3. Continue warfare until "break through"
4. Intercede for nations and leaders (1 Tim 2:1-3, 2 Chron 7:14

It only requires "God's people" to get on their knees"