I. 기도의 필요성 --------------------------------Necessity of Prayer

II. 믿음과 기도 ----------------------------------Faith and Prayer

III. 갈망과 열정기도 ----------------------------Longing for and Earnest Prayer

IV. 고난과 기도 ---------------------------------Sufferings and Prayer

V. 기도와 교회 말씀성취 -----------------------Prayer, Church and Word of God

VI. 거룩함과 기도 -------------------------------Holiness and Prayer

VII. 기도하는 방법 ------------------------------How to pray

(1) We must not forget that God rules over this world. Whatever is happened, is there God. God rules over the world like as his ruling over church.

(2) When God rules over human beings, most important thing God considers is prayer.   Prayer is important one among activities which human being can do. The person who fails to pray fail all to do duty, to serve and to grow spiritual growth, because the method which God help is prayer. The person who does not pray is the same to refuse God’s help. If we do not offer our prayer to God, there is no mind to love God. If we do not pray, vigorous strengths will be dried and finally die. For Christians’ virtues existing, blooming its flower and yielding fruits, we need prayer.

(3) To actualize more noble value rather than individual godliness, we need certainly prayer. If we pray, God begins to work. God made rule His purpose and plan will be fulfilled through our prayer. In view of history, when people prayed, God intervened and fulfilled great things.

(4) Therefore, prayer is one of tools to check God’s work; That is, when certain thing is happening, clear touchstone whether it is God’s work or not is whether people who do the work strongly pray or not. If people use strong power of prayer, that is, if people use the chariot of prayer, God pours overflowing big power and blessings to their works.

(5) By earnest desire of woman like as Hanna who earnestly prayed longing for son, great man like as Samuel comes to the world and can fulfill God’s work. These women give bigger benefit to the church and world rather than any politicians. Persons who born to the world by parents’ prayer can rescue nation in crisis.

(6) If church prays, God’s work is prosperous, and kingdom of God in this world wins the days. But if church does not pray, God’s work falls off and all kinds of evil spread through. God made rule spiritual prosperity comes to us through prayer.

(7) Refusal praying is the same to refuse God. Prayer makes God work, angel work, and people work. Hand of prayer is relayed to God, to angels and people.

(8) Since God is submissive to His law of prayer, by His destined rule, God works among His praying people. Prayer holds God and exercises power of influence to God to work.

(9) Method to mostly use many powers of God is exactly prayer. The most devotional thing to fulfill plan of God is prayer too. If prayer is weak, power of Christ in this world also was weakened, and result of glorious ruling over was appeared belatedly, and God had not executed His sovereignty power.

(10) When God build up personal relationship with human being, He made its tool; it is very prayer. By itself rule of prayer, God is nothing for it but to hear His people’s prayer.

(11) Person who not prays blocks up God’s promise to be fulfilled in this world. Person who prays helps God, but person who not prays disturbs God.

(12) Birds flying in the air submit to law of prayer; when God send Elijah to the Kerith Ravine and commanded “You will drink from the brook, and I have ordered the ravens to feed you there.” When Elijah prayed, God provided food; “The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he drank from the brook.” (1Ki.17:4, 6)

(13) Vitality, energy and motive power to do God’s work come from persons only who pray. Jesus Christ entrusted His own church destine to persons who pray. Apostles devoted themselves to prayer and considered prayer is most important work. God did not delegate His important kingdom to persons who not pray, and also He will not entrust His kingdom to person who not pray, because in life of those who not pray, prayer will not mainly work.

(14) Seed of word of God need much nutrition of prayer for its well growth. When seed of word of God abundantly absorb its nutrition of prayer, seed of God’s word fast grows and its root more deeply comes into the ground.

(15) Great leaders who had done successfully God’s work built up their leadership during wrestling of prayer at their room.

(16) Leaders in church must be persons who pray. Prayer must form their character and must be most outstanding personality, because church strength comes from leaders who show the model of excellent prayer. Church leaders must be persons who are deeply indulged into prayer; prayer must form their life and rule over themselves, and their mind and life must be filled with prayer.

(1) Persons who glorified God through keeping church always had done thoroughly prayer ministry; Excellent persons in native or educated power of culture or intellect, persons who were in poor knowledge or native talent, all had managed church by power of prayer.

(2) In human history, if we pull prayer down 2^nd position is the same that we pull God down to the 2^nd position. If we use other method without praying is the same we remove God from this world and solve all things by human power.

(3) If we correctly fulfill God’s work, we must surely pray, because God made that rule. The word in Ac.6:4, “We will give our attention to prayer and the ministry of the word” means Apostles found if God’s word correctly be spread and church grow, then, it is better to give up work rather than giving up prayer. How much strong we pray decide the value of work.

(4) If we do not pray by an excuse busy work, it leads faith into depression and its work will be ruined, because God is not together with workers in works without prayer. In the world, how many people are reducing prayer hours but extending their working hours by Satan’s cunning trick! If we do not pray because of busy time, we easily are disarmament by Satan.

(5) Proclaiming word of God not based by prayer is a useless thing. If Apostles did not pray, their ministry would not have continued. To get big success in proclamation of word of God, we must pray much. Preacher who God use him with mighty right hand is the preacher who prays.

(6) When Apostles put prayer is priority one among many works, they became genuine workers who executes God’s will in the world, and God could work effectively through them.

(7) The big reason why prayer at home is destroyed is not pray because of pretext of busy. This is the reason why godliness at home is destroyed and declined in church.

(1) Persons who do not pray is not proper to fulfill God’s plan, nothing to contribute to God’s kingdom. In this world, the most necessary existence to expand kingdom of God is persons who pray. God use persons who pray.

(2) Even though some satisfy other conditions, if he no pray, he fails. The necessary person to fulfill God’s work is person who is powerful for prayer. The chariot of prayer can rise up to any high place, can open any door, can win at any battle, and can get any kinds of graces.

(3) Our life level is in proportion to level of closet room of prayer. Thing to rise up vitality of life is only heat of closet room of prayer. If we do not pray continually, life is down to below zero temperature.

(4) Person whom God uses is person who prays. In spiritual field, this person lead atmosphere and begin to work big thing and finally yield fruit. If we say in connection with God’s work, person who not prays in God’s church is the same paralyzed organ of body. This person dries vitality and strength in army of God’s kingdom.

(5) Not praying weaken all strengths of soul and spirit, destroys faith and gives up holy life and closes the door of heaven. Fletcher of Madeley (1729-1785 pastor in Madeley England, he called name ‘John Fletcher) testified, “Without prayer, I never made any plan, start to do any work, and not read book, and not had conversation. Without prayer, I never visited someone, not met any visitors.” Sometimes, when he was absorbed into prayer, he overcame the limitation of prayer and entered into high level of prayer. At that time his face was changed similar to the face of angel just as Jesus Christ at Transfiguration Mountain.

(6) Even we are excellent in other filed, if we do not excellent in prayer field, we cannot say our success. All leaders in church must be person who prays. Even though we are very famous person or we get any important position, we must pray.

(7) To fulfill God’s work, we need all people’s help, and if each one pray, its help will be big. If we pray for own self and own necessity, our prayer dies because of close-fistedness, narrowness and selfishness. Prayer must be wide in width, must transcend the limitation of selfishness. If not, our prayer dies. If we want to get to a state of completion of power to overcome selfishness, we must develop power of our prayer for others.

(1) How much strongly Holy Spirit work depends upon our prayer how much we strongly pray. In Old Testament period, leaders must have been prayer people. God’s most revelation to show Himself was through prayer.

(2) Jesus Christ always made efforts without ceasing to pray at the relationship with God and His ministry. Since possibility of Jesus prayer is infinite, possibility of His ministry was also unlimited. Lord our God’s power is unlimited. But because of our short prayer, God’s unlimited power is limited reveled to us and world.

(3) World needs persons who pray to welcome God’s huge power into the world. We all whether we are preacher or layperson must take responsibility and duty to make efforts to pray to fulfill big will of God. If church is not filled with people who pray, church is not wholeheartedly work for God.

(4) Abraham who had successfully done role of leadership was the person who prayed. Wherever he settled his camp, soon he always built altar for God and sacrificed and prayed. The reason why his sacrificed altar was firmly sustained was because of his prayer. Abraham’s prayer altar made his sacrificed altar holy.

(5) God gives us spiritual understanding by the tool of prayer. At any period, God managed his church through people who prayed. If people do not pray, God’s ruling was destroyed.    

(6) Christians must pray for people. The secret which we can live in full of grace is prayer for others. Intercessory prayer becomes the root to give grace to people who intercede. Intercessory prayer is the utmost devotion which Christian can do. We must care people and understand their situation and pray for them. And after praying them, we must give our listening to them with compassion, sympathy and concerns.

(7) If our prayer is changed much, much change will come to our life. If our prayer is more changed, glorious things and vision of Heaven will be revealed to us much.

(8) ‘Medicine healing not to pray’ is ‘to pray’. ‘Medicine healing little praying’ is ‘to pray much.’ We can get necessary everything for our benefit through praying.

(9) If we pray, God comes to us like supporting army and pours His peace and safety on us. If we pray, God comes to us and His presence and peace upon us. If we want to get peace of God, we must not pray halfway, but we must persistently long for and strongly pray with all hearts to blossom flower of thanks. Then, God’s big peace will flow over us like as not drying spring water.

(10) Short and superficial prayer results declining godliness. If our faith is fallen off, we pray shortly and superficially. This kind of prayer is the sign we start to far from God, and if we continually pray shortly and superficially, we are more far from God. If you are the person who prays shortly but deeply, you need to train to pray long time, because if we make praying time longer, like miracle, our faith is fired up again.

(11) Prayer opens the door to apply God’s promises into our life, and remove hindrance blocking its application process, and get beautiful fruits of God’s promise. Example: God’s promise was given to Abraham and his descendants, but many barren bellies and several hindrances block its fulfillment. But Abraham and his descendants’ prayer helped to remove hindrance and to build big road for promise and to easily and fast fulfill promise of God.

(12) The prayer which is proper to will of God displays its power, because God’s will and human prayer bring combination of all powerful strength and almighty strength. Prayer has powerful strength to make God entering into human work.

(13) Church and angel make several works in heaven and on earth fulfilled by their helping prayer of saints; when Angel in Revelation 8:8 poured fire ignited by prayer, this thing happened, “there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.” Like as this, prayer is strength to happen awesome, surprised and suffered happenings.

(14) Hot prayer brings power of the Holy Spirit. Prayer is the chariot of victory of the Holy Spirit. If we do not pray, the fire of the Holy Spirit is off. Even though Holy Spirit came, if not pray, the fire of Holy Spirit is off. To where atmosphere of prayer is, strong realization of sin exists and deep repentance is arisen up.

(1) God’s ministers and workers are the people called by God to do noble duty. Therefore they must take 1stly responsibility for God’s people. Go gave God’s ministers the mission to lead spiritual Israelites into kingdom of heaven from this world.

(2) Therefore God’s ministers must look up God and continually seek the wisdom and power and help of God. This great work is done by prayer. How much healthy or wealthy God’s community is depends upon God’s ministers.

(3) The top tool which God’s ministers should prepare is the chariot of prayer. They must be an expert of prayer. The God’s ministers who not pray are not ministers of God. God’s ministers who not prayer probably knew wrongly own mission or make God to be sad through giving discouragement. What is the first prior qualification of God’s ministers is prayer.

(4) At the early days, why Methodist preachers succeeded was the reason they knew the technique to communicate with God. They were not educated people, and they had many limitations, but they earnestly prayed, they succeeded doing God’s big works. “Person who does not plow at the closet room (prayer) harvests nothing.”

(5) The most important factor at proclaiming gospel is prayer.    Martine Luther said, “Christian job is praying.” Jesus Christ had learned two techniques; 1^st was ‘carpenter technique, 2^nd was technique of prayer.’ The person who learned well technique of prayer will be a skilled worker at site of God’s work, because he understood the secret to do God’s work as the Christian.

(6) “Continually pray” is the supreme order to God’s ministers in this age. If prepare at kneel down, gracious Holy Spirit will come to word of God like waterfall.

(7) Apostle John wrote ‘the event of disciples’ baptism of Holy Spirit’ in 1^st Jn. 2:20, “you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.” He mentioned ‘anointing from Holy One’. Therefore, what God’s ministers must long for is ‘Anointing from the Holy One.’      

(8) Revival without prayer is ‘building on the sand.’ True revival comes after some period prayer. The revival which Holy Spirit gives rise up together from ‘the preaching altar and congregation’, and is spread to all ministers and saints by the will of God.

(9) Jesus separated 3 persons from ‘other disciples’, because three were strong in prayer. These three – Peter, James and John – were more concerned to prayer. They prayed more than other disciples.

(10) To attain the top level of faith, prayer is indispensible. God reveals His own things by the Holy Spirit to people who pray. To build firmly and strongly up kingdom of God in this world, absolutely we must pray. The first ministers of God (Apostles) at the early Church devoted themselves to prayer ministry.

(11) When pray only, preacher’s sermon gives congregation benefits, because God’s power and strength enter into sermon. When the prophet Isaiah waited front of God’s throne and confessed and prayed, angel touched his lips ‘with tongs from the altar’.

(12) If we pray, always burning fire comes upon us. This fire loose tight stiff tongue, and open mouth of witness of gospel, open widely big door of doing good things.

(1) God’s minister without passing a closet prayer room cannot give people religious benefit. But God’s ministers and workers who earnestly enter into the prayer room and diligently come to the preaching altar are blessed persons. If do not pray at secrete place with God, prayer is weak and godliness life also weak.

(2) The school where we learn praying is the closet prayer room only. If we pray well at the closet prayer room, then, we can do also well at the altar. If God’s ministers and workers are far from prayer room, his prayer at the altar is cool, powerless, and becomes formal prayer only.

(3) We can live outward noble religious life without prayer. But nobility and godliness quiet different. Godliness is given to us through prayer only. God’s ministers and workers can teach without prayer. But that teaching without prayer is different level from proclaiming word of God.

(4) The top condition for success of kingdom of God is prayer. If God’s ministers, workers and saints pray, offensive power comes to the gospel of Christ. At this moment, ‘the chariot of prayer’ goes forward against enemy camp.

(5) Missionary who charges the difficult and important task at mission site must prepare the equipment of ‘Chariot of Prayer’. Prayer and missionary must go together. If we pray, works Jesus Christ who sitting down at the right hand of Yahweh God in Heaven.      

(6) Therefore, O god’s ministers and God’s workers! “Learn how to pray! Kneel down in front of God!” Success of God’s ministers and workers depends upon prayer. Sermon goes together with hand of prayer. For getting grace from sermon, preacher must pray, and saints must pray too. Prayer is the most great work and most noble work.

(7) For sermon which God accept, sermon which gives benefits to people, God’s ministers and workers must truly pray with lamentation, tears and godly fearing. Sermon which gives life comes from prayer. Let’s preach praying!

(8) God wants that armed ministers and workers of God comes out. These people come out prayer only. Hands without prayer and lips without prayer cannot display any life power and charm at proclaiming gospel. Politician, school teacher and lecturer need intellectual power only, but God’s ministers and workers need ‘spirituality’ which comes from prayer.

(9) Prayer maximizes the effect of word of God. Hot prayer makes word of God hot, if pray, then word of God becomes strong and anointing upon word, and word stays long time inside mind of people. In Lk. 24:49, Jesus said to disciples, “…stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on High.”---- Jesus requested them to pray till wearing power from High. ‘Power from on High’ means ‘anointing from God’. This means ‘spiritual power’. God’s workers and ministers absolutely need this ‘Spiritual Power’. When God’s ministers keep this spiritual power, message of God can get wings and can give people life power; Even though they are lack of human talents or qualifications, if they keep spiritual power, God’s workers surely succeed.

(10) ‘Power from on High’ wakes up sinners and saints’ soul, touches them to realize their sins and impresses them. ‘Anointing from Holy One’ keeps sermon not to dry, prevent sermon from flowing superficially, and grant authority of sermon. Because of this anointing from God, person who proclaims gospel is different from lecturer, speaker in the world.

(1) If we do not ask prayer to other and do not receive other prayer, spiritual source is dried. God’s ministers and workers clearly ask church pray for them.

(2) Nowadays saints pray, God’s ministers and workers can open mouth like as Apostles and boldly make efforts to proclaim gospel. God’s ministers and workers who receive support of saints’ prayer can get message from God and that message can be powerfully delivered to saints. For proclaiming gospel, prayer must run first for preparing the way of gospel; God’s ministers and workers’ prayer and saints’ prayer together.

(3) Like as racing game, to be winner, he must get much energy. For God’s word being fast spreaded, God’s ministers and workers need much spiritual energy from themselves’ prayer and saints’ prayer. If saint prays, God’s ministers can preach word of God more strongly and competently. If saints not pray, race of word of God meet big hindrance.

(4) If pray, all blocks and hindrance against word of God at altar is removed. If there is ‘chariot of prayer, word of God goes rapidly forward to saints, and come into deep heart of saints.

(5) Prayer gives wings to God’s ministers’ word of God.     If saints pray for God’s ministers and workers, they can keep righteous life, and prepare well message of God. If saints pray for word of God, Holy Spirit from High leads atmosphere of altar, and removes hindrance blocking word, and guides word of God to be delivered to saints.

(6) Because layperson who prays for God’s ministers sustain both sides of spiritual electric line, God’s power can enter into the people’s mind through spiritual electric line.

(7) If word is delivered to saints who not pray, word falls down in front of saints’ feet. Preacher’s message cannot have power to far to saints who not pray. Because saints not pray for word of God, God’s word cannot enter saints’ heart and no power, no grace, no impression to saints. Therefore, to get grace form word of God, God’s ministers and saints must together strongly pray and pray and pray.

(8) Word and prayer must go together. Because God’s ministers are spiritual watchman to warn danger to God’s people, and God’s messenger to rebuke and encourage, shepherd to protect sheep