The POWER Of Personal PRAYERS:: ...Understanding The Efficacy And The Potency Of Individual Supplications

Whether individual or corporate prayers, prayer remains a powerful spiritual force, provided God's requirements for answered prayers are met when praying. But this book sets out to reveal the power of Personal Prayers for you to not only believe in your prayers but equally begin to enjoy the full benefits of your supplications.

To know the power in our prayers is so very important because people now run helter-skelter – from pillar to post – looking for 'Prayer Contractors' or to use the more refined modern terminology: 'Prayer Partners', all over the place. They do this because of their ignorance of the power of their prayers. Little do they know that God deals with us, first of all, on an individual basis before ever considering us as a corporate entity!

Truth is, during emergencies and in times of dire needs – when you need prayers – people are not always there to pray with and for you! That's why God deals with us first as individuals thereafter, as a congregation.

Not many people know the power of their prayers. As a result of this ignorance, they believe more in corporate prayers and other people's prayers than in their prayers. It is important to state clearly that there's nothing bad with people praying for you. Nothing is also wrong with corporate supplications. While nothing is wrong in praying with other people, or even asking for people to pray for, and with you; there's everything wrong in depending on other people's prayers and over-depending on corporate prayers!

This is not to under-mind corporate prayers. That's not the intention of this book. God hears and answers both corporate prayers and individual supplications alike. My position is that Personal Prayers (your prayers) are more important and even more powerful as far as the direct affairs and issues of your life are concerned.

There's room for corporate prayers and there's a place reserved also for personal prayers. To estimate other people's prayers over and above your prayers is what is wrong and unacceptable! The experiences of three biblical characters as captured in this book explain the wisdom of praying for yourself by yourself instead of relying on other people's prayers or depending on corporate prayers: In Ishmael's case, he and her mother wept after they were sent away from Abraham's house for their unruly behavior but it was his voice God heard and sent an angel to encounter them. The author wonders what would have been their fate if the boy left the prayer for his mother and didn't cry (that is, pray) for himself. In the case of Peter, Jesus caught a revelation of Satan's planned attack on Peter's faith and prayed for him that his fail should not fail but his prayer for Peter didn't fully insulate him from Satan's sifting as he still denied the Lord thrice, thereby teaching us a great spiritual lesson, that, no matter who prays for you, your prayer is more potent to avert Satan's onslaughts against you and your interest. Our Lord Jesus Himself had his own experience of this: just before his crucifixion, his three closest disciples whom He trusted and had conscripted to stand with him in prayers were busy sleeping while the Lord was agonizing.

The book exposes the dangers of relinquishing what the author calls, your Personal Prayer Responsibility to others and challenges you to rise to your responsibility of praying for yourself by yourself as no one can and will ever pray for you like you! It teaches that, without prejudice to corporate prayers, personal supplications are as powerful with God (if not more powerful) in producing results and answers, as any prayer can be. All you must do is know how to pray according to the will of God and your prayers will move the same mountains, solve the same problems, and deal with the same challenges as any other person's prayer can do.

Overall, the book gives you a fresh understanding of the efficacy and potency of individual supplications.