How to Approach God in Prayer in Five Simple Steps
This is how Prophet TB Joshua taught us to approach God in prayer in 5 simple steps. Take this good habit into your home and continue to pray like this.
This is training for you to learn how to pray when you communicate with God. You should have a time during the day where you will exercise this walking and praying.
Take this good habit into your home and continue to pray like this.
Step 1: Thanksgiving for God’s Goodness
Scriptural Reference:
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His mercy endures forever.” – Psalm 107:1
Psalm 100:4. Psalm 116, Psalm 50:14, Psalms 103:1-5, 1Thessalonians 5:18, Psalms 69:30
This is the time to appreciate God Almighty for His goodness upon our lives. If not for God’s mercy and favor upon your life, you would not be here today. You would not be in His presence today. The fact that you are here on this Holy Mountain, and you are given the grace to walk and pray and connect back to your Creator, is by the mercy and favor of God Almighty.
So right now, appreciate Him for every good thing He has given you. Appreciate Him for your good health. Appreciate Him for your family—your husband, your wife, your children. Appreciate Him for your home, for your good job. Appreciate Him for forgiving you each time you sin. Appreciate Him for lifting you up each time you fall.
You have come a long way—full of unrighteousness, full of unfaithfulness—and yet God is faithful in His word. He has been there with you, protecting you, saving you, even at times when you were not aware of it.
So appreciate Him for being with you all the way, and for not allowing your enemies to rejoice or to triumph over you. Give thanks to God Almighty. Give thanks to Him right now as you continue to walk and pray.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray.
Prayer:
“Thank You Lord for all the way long You have intervened in my affairs. Here I am breathing freely, standing freely, looking freely, talking freely”
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray.
Time for Confession
Scriptural Reference:
Romans 3:23 – “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
Read Psalm 51 and insert your name where it is personal, 1 John 1:8
This is the time to confess our sins to God Almighty. Yes, the Bible says that we all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And also the Bible says that if anyone says he is without sin, that person is a liar, and the truth does not dwell in him.
So right now, it is time to open up our hearts to God Almighty and confess every sin we have committed before God and before men. It is time for us to confess every unrighteousness, every disobedience to His word—every time we have been stubborn and done our own thing instead of God’s will.
It is time for us now to confess and ask for forgiveness. Remember, this is why Jesus Christ came into this world. He shed His precious blood on the cross of Calvary in order to forgive our sins.
So right now, begin to call on the blood of Jesus Christ to wash you clean from every unrighteousness. Begin to call for the blood of Jesus Christ to wash you clean from every disobedience, every sin you might have committed—knowingly or unknowingly. Every mistake you have made—whether in a dream or in the physical, whether that sin was done by you, your parents, or your grandparents.
Remember: sin is sin, and it cannot go unpunished. The Bible also says that God Almighty must bring justice to all unrighteousness, even to the third and fourth generations.
So right now, it is time to ask for forgiveness—for every sin you might have committed in your life: through your thinking, through your words, or through your actions. Confess every sin your parents have committed, or your grandparents, or your great-grandparents. Confess those sins and ask for God’s divine forgiveness. Ask for God’s mercy and favor to speak for you.
Cry out to God Almighty—like blind Bartimaeus, who cried out and said, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Let your favor speak for me today. Like blind Bartimaeus, cry out to Jesus and ask for His divine mercy and favor to forgive you and wash away every stain of guilt from your life.
Prayer:
“Oh Lord, I’m a sinner, come into my heart, wash me with your precious blood, save my soul today”
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray.
Praying for Sanctification
Scriptural Reference:
1 Thessalonians 5:23 – “May God Himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through.”,
Psalm 51:10-11, 1 John 1:8
This is the time to pray for sanctification. Yes, we need to be sanctified in order to be used by God Almighty.
If you read your Bible very well, you will discover that those whom God sanctified are the ones that God used. Those whom God sanctified are the ones whom God sent to do His work.
Look at the life of Moses. At a certain stage in his life, Moses became a murderer. He killed an Egyptian and ran away for his dear life. And after some years, God Almighty visited him and sanctified him, and then sent him back to Egypt to go and rescue the Israelites from slavery. God took a murderer, sanctified him, and then made him a great deliverer.
Are you talking about David? David was just a shepherd boy. And God Almighty sanctified him. From a shepherd boy—from a nobody—God made him a king. God made him somebody.
Are you talking about Paul the Apostle? He was a great persecutor of the church. He was the one arresting Christians, dragging them to prison, stoning them to death—all that, in the name of God. And what happened? Jesus Christ visited him and sanctified him. From a great persecutor of the church, God made him a great Apostle to the nations. God used him mightily, and we read today so many books in the New Testament that he wrote.
So right now, as you are in God’s presence, ask God Almighty to sanctify you by His precious blood. Ask Him to sanctify you—spirit, soul, and body. Ask Him to sanctify your thoughts so that your thoughts may be holy. Ask Him to sanctify your mouth so that your words may be holy. Ask Him to sanctify your hands so that your works may be holy. Ask Him to sanctify your legs so that your walking may be holy.
Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, holy.
Ask God to make you holy as He is holy. Ask Him to make you righteous as He is righteous. Ask Him to make you blameless as He is blameless.
Prayer:
“Cleanse me Lord, Wash me clean. Spirit of the Living God, fall afresh on me. Power of sanctification fall on me. Sanctify me so I may hear only things that are holy, fix my thoughts on things that are holy, pure, just and of good report. Sanctify my heart and my feet Lord. Create a new heart within me. Make me holly just as you are holy”
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray.
Bring Your Personal Requests Before God
Scriptural Reference:
Philippians 4:6 – “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.”
Matthew 7:7, Ephesians 6:12
This is also the time: if you have any requests, bring your personal request before God Almighty right now, and believe that He’s working out the answer.
Whatever is troubling you, whatever is causing you sadness or disappointment in your life, commit it into the hands of God right now and believe that Jesus Christ is working out the answer for you.
This is also the time to go into Spiritual warfare and breakthrough prayer
Prayer:
“Thou Son of David, have mercy on me. Locate me Lord in your mercy.”
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ we pray.
Thanksgiving and Declaration of Faith
Scriptural References:
John 11:41 – “Father, I thank You that You have heard me.”
2 Corinthians 5:7 – “We walk by faith, not by sight.”
Then Continue to give thanks to God Almighty. Give thanks to Him for answering your prayers. Give thanks to Him—for your prayers here now have been heard in heaven. Give thanks to God Almighty, for you are going to experience uncommon blessings in your life: uncommon breakthrough, uncommon miracle.
In the mighty name of Jesus Christ.
Remember: faith claps for the miracle before the miracle happens—not after the miracle. We Christians walk by faith and not by sight.
Remember what Jesus said when He stood in front of Lazarus’ tomb. His best friend was dead. Jesus stood outside the tomb and what He said was, “Father, I thank you for answering my prayer. I thank you for hearing my prayer. I know that you always have been hearing me.”
That is clapping before the miracle.
Jesus was not looking at the dead Lazarus. Jesus was looking at the resurrected Lazarus. And that is why He spoke the word of faith. That prepared the way for the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit to move through the tomb, into the dead body of Lazarus, and resurrect him.
So right now, give thanks to God Almighty, for the miracle has already happened in the spirit. The miracle you have been looking for has already happened in the spirit.
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References
🌱Five Simple Steps to approach God in prayer by Prophet TB Joshua
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