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Praying with Confidence: How to Know Every Prayer is Getting to God

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Ms. Clara walks into her emptied closet, her ‘war room’ has been made ready for the battle to begin. If you have seen the movie War Room, you will likely remember this scene. It depicts a ‘prayer warrior’ and often will bring someone to our mind that we know personally. We all have that person that we think of that seemingly know how to really “Get a hold of God”. They have their list of answered prayers as proof of their accomplishments. However, if we are completely honest, looking at our own lives our batting average in the ‘prayer closet’ doesn't seem so hot, so anytime we feel that we need prayer, we must shop around for the right person to pray for us. The danger with this thought process is it will often cause us to give up praying ourselves in lieu of someone who can do it right. The problem is that this is completely foreign to the Scripture.   “Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the ...