Prayer: The Believers Dependence Upon God
Changing Your World Podcast with Creflo Dollar
World Changers Church International
4.7 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 April 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
When we pray, we demonstrate our trust and reliance on God. Praying with the right motives does not involve loud wailing and constant repetition to impress others; it is our way of having a private conversation with Him. Prayer reminds us to always acknowledge God’s involvement in everything concerning our lives, and that we cannot live apart from Him. It requires our acknowledgement that we are helpless without God, but confident in His ability and willingness to supply our needs. Prayer reflects an attitude of putting Him first, above anything else. This is a significant departure from the religious attitude that emphasizes self-effort. The prayer that reflects our faith in God to take care of us in good times as well as bad helps us maintain the proper mindset.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Creflo Dala, and this is the Creflo Dala Ministries podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | I want to thank you for joining us today, and I sincerely hope this word encourages you, builds your faith, and above all else, helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change. |
| 0:17.6 | Enjoy the message. |
| 0:18.9 | If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of First Thessalonians chapter 5 and |
| 0:23.6 | verse 17. First Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse 17. |
| 0:29.6 | The last couple of weeks I've been looking at some things that we talk about on Sunday |
| 0:35.6 | and some of the stuff that I don't have time to really dig into |
| 0:39.3 | taking advantage of Wednesday to do that and what I want to do here tonight is I want to talk about |
| 0:44.9 | you know we talked about that area of prayer we were talking about the things that the Bible teaches |
| 0:50.0 | that will encourage people to begin to understand how to depend on God more. |
| 0:56.0 | And so tonight we're going to talk about prayer, the believer's dependence upon God. |
| 1:02.7 | Prayer is the believer's dependence upon God. |
| 1:07.4 | You're praying because you're obviously depending on God to do something that you can't |
| 1:13.3 | do. And so First Thessalonians, we're going to focus in on this really short scripture that is |
| 1:20.1 | pregnant with Revelation. And in First Thessalonians chapter 517, he says says this pray without ceasing pray without ceasing and i did not have |
| 1:35.3 | chance to dig in this i don't think i've ever had chance to dig into this but we need to dig in it |
| 1:39.6 | because it's so short you think well there's nothing to it well the first thing i want you to recognize is that praying without ceasing has to do more with attitude than the |
| 1:50.3 | number of hours spent in prayer think about again pray without ceasing has more to do |
| 1:57.8 | with the attitude versus trying to keep up with the amount of minutes or hours |
| 2:05.2 | that you pray now notice he will notice what he said what he didn't say he said pray without |
| 2:10.9 | ceasing he's talking about praying without ceasing he didn't say praying constantly. You see the difference there? |
| 2:19.3 | He's saying praying without ceasing because he's focused more on the attitude. |
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