Prayer Warriors: Secrets to Effective Prayers

[TheSeraphim]

Have you ever had trouble getting your prayer answered? Do you feel that God is rejecting your petitions? It’s time to move on. Obviously your method isn’t working! Here is a proven method that works.*

Jesus said be not lukewarm! Pray it like you mean it! Believe.*

The secret is simple. But there is more to it! I will go in depth. Read on…

The most effective prayer for getting what YOU WANT is the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. It takes 6 minutes. Pray it on your knees, crying and begging to God. Pray it with will and determination. Pray it to the point where you know and believe it will happen. Do not doubt. Most importantly, pray it with love!

I have had many intentions granted with just this short and easy prayer. It’s so powerful. It can change people’s hearts, meet new friends, conquer sins, for peace of mind, grace to pray more, eat and be healthy. It even works for regular secular things. Getting a job, enough money to pay a bill, present to treat yourself, an iPad, computer and even relationships! Really anything (that is not malicious).

Remember ask for anything you want! The stars are the limit! God only allows something to happen or He completely wills it. If your prayer is heard it will be answered. Jesus said that whatever you ask the Father in His name, the Father will give. If your earthly father can give you gifts, just imagine how much more the Eternal Father can give you?

Speak to Him as “Father”. Imagine you are like Jesus Christ talking directly to the Father. ( I want to clarify that you aren’t really Jesus or His equal). Respect and honor the Father and talk to Him in Jesus name. Remind Him of Jesus’s promises, submit yourself in your knees, remind Him of your good deeds. This is your bounty, it’s your purchase. Your intention He will grant. (I want to clarify that love is unconditional. You can’t buy love. God loves you more than anything. You cant buy Gods love. You aren’t required to pray, though it helps a hundredfold! This is just an analogy.)

++ Step 1 - make the sign of the cross, In the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.*

++ Step 2 -Before the chaplet, say

Invoking Mary and your patron saints ]*

If you don’t have a patron saint just assign one you find interesting.*

Example:
“St. Michael, I assign you now as my patron saint.”

“I pray this chaplet with the intercession of Mary and my patron saints. (list your patron saints)”

For each saint tell them that you share a certain similarity with them. That you are struggling the same way as they had. They had the same needs. Remind them how they felt when they were on earth. Tell them to plead to the Jesus for you."

*I have 14 assigned patron saints. The numbers don’t count. It’s the meaning and love and how much you relate to the saint. The more you have in common in struggles the more likely they will intercede and pray in love for you.

++ Step 3 - Talk to God the Father

Conversation with Father ]
“Father, in Jesus’s name, I ask you to please grant me (intention). Your Son said that whatever you ask the Father in His name, You will grant. Father, lately I have been feeling bad, lonely, struggling with (insert struggles). I really want (state intention) so that (end results expected) will happen. I want this to happen because (state motives). I know my motives are wrong and impure, but please give me the grace to desire the things of Heaven. If its Your will, please grant this grace. I promise you that I will ( make compromise ). If You grant me this intention it will benefit the church by ( insert how you plan in helping you or others come closer to Christ.) I pray all this in Jesus name. I beg you Father, hear my plead. My cry. I really need this.*I am nothing without You. You have made me from nothing. You have given me all these gifts. How blessed am I! But Father, turn not away from me because I desire more. Father have mercy and forgive me for I am weak. I am only human. I am not perfect. Please O Father give me this. I desire it and You desire my happiness. Who but You can give me love and joy! I have nothing else without You! I could be doing (insert secular activities you escape to) but instead I am here in my knees praying. I pray because You are powerful and You satisfy all my wants and needs. I pray to You most importantly because I love You oh so very much! You are the highlight of my day! I love You now and forever. You are my God. My King. I cherish, treasure and adore You. I love You so much. I love You! I love You oh so dearly! In Jesus name I pray.”

It’s important to also make promise with God! It’s important to have confidence that it will happen.*

DO NOT LIE to God! Ever. He knows your heart and thoughts. You are a fool if you do.*

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[TheSeraphim]

For example:

(situation)
Fred likes this girl Amanda. She is really beautiful as she is nice and Catholic. He desires her physically more than her personality. He wants her to be his girlfriend.*

Fred invites Amanda for coffee. She agreed only to go as friends. But Fred desires otherwise. But Fred hangs around Amanda because he likes her. He hopes to change her heart over time.*

Fred says he wants to love Amanda. Deep down inside he loves her but more on the physical side. If the girl was ugly, he wouldn’t be spending time with her.*

Fred lies to God and says that He doesn’t mean any harm. He only wants to become friends with her.*

God bless you if He grants your prayers. Most likely it won’t happen.*

But if Fred told God that “Father, my desires is lust towards Amanda. This is the reason why I want to have her to have coffee with me so eventually she can be my girlfriend. *I am sorry Father. I am human. Father, please change my desire. I am evil in your sight. I know that I cannot lie to you and my desires are impure. Father please grant me this and I promise You this I will not have sex with Amanda even though I desire it. Father, please trust me. I will not fail You.”

Fred lies in the first situation. Similar to Adam and Eve in the garden denying responsibility when confronting God. God will most likely not grant this. Of course there is a human element to this. If Fred is really good with women then he will probably get a date with Amanda anyway.*

The second situation is that
in honesty God will surely grant. He admits his sin. He acknowledges that he cannot play God for a fool. (remember, there is no one like God) Let’s say Fred is not good with women. It’s impossible Amanda will go out with Fred. God will make the impossible possible. Because God is like that. He loves Fred so much.*

God favors honesty and admission of weakness. He will give you the grace to overcome anything. Without Jesus we have no salvation. Without Jesus we cannot combat sin. In all things we do, is through the gifts of God.*

Remember also that God made you out of love. Since birth you have loved God. You are here on earth as a journey to return to God out of your free will. Believe that you love God. Sin makes you think otherwise.*

Post here if you had your prayers answered with this!

Pray also for my intentions.*

God bless and Happy Easter! The Lord has risen!

 

[agnes_therese]

“I have had many intentions granted with just this short and easy prayer. It’s so powerful. It can change people’s hearts, meet new friends, conquer sins, for peace of mind, grace to pray more, eat and be healthy. It even works for regular secular things. Getting a job, enough money to pay a bill, present to treat yourself, an iPad, computer and even relationships! Really anything (that is not malicious).”

I’m not saying you meant it that way, but this sounds dangerously like that “prosperity gospel” nonsense that’s floating around – “name it and claim it.”

God does answer prayer, but there’s no magic formula. And sometimes the answer is “No.”

 

[Jeanne_S]

“I have had many intentions granted with just this short and easy prayer. It’s so powerful. It can change people’s hearts, meet new friends, conquer sins, for peace of mind, grace to pray more, eat and be healthy. It even works for regular secular things. Getting a job, enough money to pay a bill, present to treat yourself, an iPad, computer and even relationships! Really anything (that is not malicious).”

I’m not saying you meant it that way, but this sounds dangerously like that “prosperity gospel” nonsense that’s floating around – “name it and claim it.”

God does answer prayer, but there’s no magic formula. And sometimes the answer is “No.”

Agreed.I feel the whole point of Divine Mercy Chaplet,is that we literally place all of our trust in Jesus,knowing that He will do for us what is in our best interest.

 

[nuntym]

+JMJ+

Do you really want to be always answered by God the way you want it to be? Well, read on:

Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence, Part II, Chapter I
“We Do Not Ask Enough”

It is clear then that we do not receive anything because we do not ask enough. God could not give us little, He could not restrict His liberality to small things without doing us grave harm. Do not misunderstand me. I am not saying that we offend God if we ask for temporal benefits or to be freed from misfortune. Obviously prayers of this kind can rightly be addressed to Him by making the condition that they are not contrary to His glory or our eternal salvation. But as it is hardly likely that it would redound to His glory for Him to answer them, or to our advantage to have them answered if our wishes end there, it must be repeated that **as long as we are content with little we run the risk of obtaining nothing.
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Let me show you a good way to ask for happiness even in this world. It is a way that will oblige God to listen to you. Say to him earnestly: Either give me so much money that my heart will be satisfied, or inspire me with such contempt for it that I no longer want it.

Either free me from poverty, or make it so pleasant for me that I would not exchange it for all the wealth in the world. Either take away my suffering, or – which would be to your greater glory – change it into delight for me, and instead of causing me affliction, let it become a source of joy. You can take away the burden of my cross, or you can leave it with me without my feeling its weight. You can extinguish the fire that burns me, or you can let it burn in such a way that it refreshes me as it did the three youths in the fiery furnace. I ask you for either one thing or the other. What does it matter in what way I am happy? If I am happy through the possession of worldly goods, it is you I have to thank. If I am happy when deprived of them, it gives you greater glory and my thanks are all the greater.

This is the kind of prayer worthy of being offered to God by a true Christian. When you pray in this way, do you know what the effect of your prayers will be? First, you will be satisfied whatever happens; and what else do those who most desire this world’s goods want except to be satisfied? Secondly, you will not only obtain without fail one of the two things you have asked for but, as a rule, you will obtain both of them. God will give you the enjoyment of wealth, and so that you may possess it without the danger of becoming attached to it, He will inspire you at the same time with contempt for it. He will put an end to your sufferings and even more He will leave you with a desire for them which will give you all the merit of patience without having to suffer. In a word He will make you happy here and now, and lest your happiness should do you harm, He will let you know and feel the emptiness of it. Can one ask for anything better? But if such a great blessing is well worth being asked for, remember that still more is it worth being asked for with insistence. For the reason why we obtain little is not only because we ask for little but still more because, whether we ask a little or we ask a lot, we do not ask often enough.