This month is not only the start of a new year but also a new century; and yes, a new millennium. In the last century alone, technological advances have boggled the mind; many wonder what the next one hundred years will usher in. As I consider the predictions of the cinematographer prophets (science fiction), it will be a bleak outlook for the church. Christianity is often not portrayed in their predictions; it has become just one of the many primitive religions which science has replaced. Science, on the other hand, has been prophesied as being the answer to all man’s problems. Given enough money and enough time man thinks he can take care of himself. Where does this leave us, those archaic individuals who still hold on to one God? The world views us as simple, superstitious sissies, who need a crutch in order to face life. I agree:

It is only by recognizing our weakness that we can reach beyond what we can see and can be yoked with the supernatural. For it is not our strengths that will make us usable by God, rather it is our weaknesses that make us potentially powerful. For it is through the recognition of the only one true God that we can seek to appropriate His power and can become channels of that power to minister to the world. It is not our ability that enables us be used but rather our humility and availability. By admitting our inabilities to God, allows God to use us mightily:

Many of the great men of the Scriptures started with an admission of weakness; for our admission of weakness ensures that God will receive all the glory for all that He will do through us. Nothing more clearly illustrates this then the art of prayer. Prayer is the switch that starts the gears of our faith working:

Prayer reaches beyond what we can see to appropriate all that we need:

God wants to grant His people all that He has promised so that we might experience the fullness of His joy. The greatest problem in the church is not that God has changed, but that the church has lost the faith to ask God for the desires of His heart. It is not that God is ignorant of our needs:

God waits for us to ask before He grants us what we need in order that when we receive it, there will be no mistake that it was God who did it through us. If He gave us what we needed before we asked, we might be deceived into thinking it was of ourselves and be overcome with pride. This is why our prayers must incorporate thanksgiving:

The greatest revivals of the church started with a season of prayer. It is only after a season of prayer that God is ensured that man realizes beyond a doubt, it is His hand that moves the people into revival:

The greater the work that God wants to do through us, the longer the season of prayer to prepare our hearts to be used in humility by God. In fact, the Bible tells us to pray in the Spirit:

The reason why we are to pray in the Spirit is that the Spirit will lead us in our prayers, guiding us as to what we ought pray for. In this way, it is through our prayers that God gives us direction for his church. The answers are often found during the asking in the requests:

We need to know God’s will, for it is only if we pray according to his will that he will answer our prayers.

To be used mightily by God we need to be in the will of God:

In this way, we can be certain of all that we ask because our prayers are not self-center but rather God centered. For the purpose of man is to bring glory to the Father in all we do:

Prayer is an act of humility where we come to the Father for all that we need bring all the glory to Him. Therefore let us be a witness of an active prayer life and a prime example of humility- waiting on God to do the impossible through us.