Thirty tips to make your prayer more effective
If you become aware of being in God and identify your life to the design that He has on you, you begin to live a new life. Your Christian life will have a different style, based on a solid faith, on a positive way of acting and on a Gospel way of speaking. Your faith finds its foundation in the Word.
Here are 30 reasons to support your faith through the Word of God; 30 reasons that will help you to decisively abandon a flat, cold and mediocre Christian life and give strength to your prayer. You will receive many blessings and those who live with you will also benefit.
Return often to these 30 reasons; tries to memorize some; repeat them often when you pray; talk to other people who want to grow in faith.
1. BEFORE WELCOMING JESUS IN YOUR LIFE YOU WERE A SINNER.
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3,23)
2. YOU WERE GUILT IN FRONT OF GOD, DESTINED TO DEATH.
"Because the wages of sin is death" (Rom. 6,23:XNUMX)
3. GOD LOVES YOU IMMENSELY AND DOES NOT WANT YOUR DEATH.
“The Lord does not delay in fulfilling his promise, as some believe; but use patience towards you, not wanting anyone to perish, but for everyone to have a way of repenting. " (2nd Peter 3,9)
4. GOD HAS SENT HIS SON TO DEMONSTRATE HIS LOVE.
"God in fact loved the world so much that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that whoever believes in him may not die, but have eternal life." (John 3,16)
5. JESUS, THE FATHER'S GIFT, DIED FOR US.
"But God shows his love for us because, while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Rom. 5,8)
6. WE MUST REPENT OF OUR SINS.
"If you do not convert, you will all perish in the same way." (Luke 13,3)
7. IF YOU OPEN THE DOOR OF YOUR HEART, JESUS WILL ENTER.
“Here, I'm at the door and knock. If someone listens to my voice and opens the door for me, I will come to him, I will dine with him and he with me. " (Ap 3,20)
8. WHO WELCOMES JESUS BECOMES A SON OF GOD.
"To those who accepted him, however, he gave power to become children of God." (John 1,12)
9. BECOME A NEW CREATURE.
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature: old things have passed away, new ones are born". (John 3,7)
10. BELIEVE THE WORD OF THE GOSPEL AND YOU WILL BE SAVED.
"In fact, I am not ashamed of the Gospel, since it is the power of God for the salvation of whoever believes": (Romans 1,16)
11. CALL ON HIS NAME TO BE SAVED.
"Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10,13:XNUMX)
12. BELIEVE THAT GOD WANTS TO ENTER OUR HEART.
"I will dwell among them and with them I will walk and be their God, and they will be my people .. I will be for you like a father, and you will be me as sons and daughters, says the Lord" (2 Cor 6,16:XNUMX )
13. WITH HIS DEATH JESUS PAID FOR OUR SINS.
"He was pierced for our crimes, crushed for our iniquities." (Is 53,5)
14. IF YOU WELCOME JESUS YOU RECEIVE HIS LIFE.
"Truly, truly, I say to you: whoever hears my word and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and does not go to judgment, but has passed from death to life." (John 5,24)
15. WE MUST NOT IGNORE SATAN'S WORKS.
"What I have forgiven, even if I had something to forgive, I did it for you, before Christ, so as not to fall at the mercy of Satan, whose machinations we do not ignore". (2 Corinthians 2,10:XNUMX)
16. JESUS DEMONSTRATED THAT SATAN COULD NOT WIN IT.
“In fact, we do not have a high priest who does not know how to sympathize with our infirmities, having been tried himself in everything, in the likeness of us, excluding sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with full confidence, to receive mercy and find grace and be helped at the right moment. (Hebrews 4,15)
17. SATAN CAN NEVER TRIUMPH ON THOSE WHO HAVE FAITH.
“Be temperate, be vigilant. Your enemy, the devil, like a roaring lion, goes around looking for someone to devour. Stand firm in faith. " (1 Peter 5,8)
18. DO NOT DO THE WILL OF THE WORLD BUT THE WILL OF GOD.
“Do not love the world, nor the things of the world! If one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him; because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the arrogance of life, does not come from the Father, but from the world. And the world passes by with its lust; but whoever does the will of God remains forever! " (1 John 2,15)
19. NEW LIFE IS A GIFT FROM GOD.
“The Lord makes man's steps sure and follows his path with love. If he falls he does not stay on the ground, because the Lord holds him by the hand. (Psalm 37,23)
20. THE LORD ALWAYS FOLLOWS YOU.
“The eyes of the Lord are above the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. " (1 Peter 3,12:XNUMX)
21. THE LORD INVITES US TO CALL IT.
“Well I say to you: ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you. Because whoever asks obtains, whoever seeks finds, and whoever knocks will be open ”. (Luke 11,9)
22. GOD ALWAYS RESPONDS TO OUR PRAYER.
"For this reason I say to you: whatever you ask in prayer, have faith that you have obtained it and it will be granted to you" (Mk 11,24:XNUMX).
23. WITH GOD WE ARE IN ABUNDANCE.
"My God, in turn, will fill your every need according to his wealth with magnificence in Christ Jesus". (Phil. 4,19)
24. YOU BELONG TO THE ROYAL FAMILY OF GOD.
"But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the holy nation, the people that God has acquired to proclaim the wonderful works of him who
he called you from darkness to his admirable light. " (1 Peter 2,9)
25. RECOGNIZE JESUS AS THE ONLY WAY.
“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life. (Jn 14,6)
26. WITH JESUS YOU MUST NOT FEAR ANYTHING.
“The punishment that gives us salvation has fallen on him; for his wounds we have been healed ". (Isaiah 53,5)
27. EVERYTHING THAT IS CHRIST IS ALSO OUR.
"The Spirit himself testifies to our spirit that we are children of God. And if we are children, we are also heirs: heirs of God, co-heirs of Christ, if truly
we participate in his sufferings to also participate in his glory ". (Romans 8,16)
28. NO PROBLEM MUST CRUSH YOU.
"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that you exalt yourself at the right moment, throwing all your worries into Him, because He has
look after you. (1 Peter 5,6)
29. YOUR SINS CANNOT CONDEMN YOU ANYMORE.
"There is therefore no more condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." (Rom 8,1)
30. CHRIST JESUS WILL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU.
"Here, I am with you every day, until the end of the world." (Matthew 28,20)