Years ago a great teacher named Bob Mumford said something interesting about prayer and petition. He said, “If you want to increase your batting average, you have to stop swinging at every pitch that comes over the plate.”
A baseball player watches for that perfect pitch. Apply the same strategy to your prayer life.
What if you are praying and earnestly seeking God, and swinging in all directions—but you are swinging without a strategy?
What if more of your prayers could get answered when you pray the prayers that God wants you to pray, knowing that they fit into His master blueprint for your life?
If you only swung at the ball that the Father intended for you to knock out of the park you would be a Hall of Famer in the Kingdom. Your batting average would go up.
Consider these key points:
1. Recognize that the story is bigger than yourself: You were destined to be alive now, in this year, on this day. There is a pulsating recognition within each of us. We have a sense that God is doing something now and we know we’re meant to be a part of it. Your prayers play a critical role in the harvest of souls. Destiny is not about you, but rather a purpose God has positioned you for that is bigger than yourself. You are entering into and inheriting a six-thousand year labor of prophets, martyrs, reformers and missionaries who came before you.
2. Swing with a strategy: James 4:2-3 warns about praying amiss. Perhaps you have asked and prayed, but the prayer wasn’t in tune with the heart of God. Instead of a disjointed prayer life focused on what you want to see manifest, tap into the main vein where the Father is leading you.
As you line up with the Scriptures and the Lord speaks to you, you’ll start to see things come to pass for which you’ve been interceding. Walk in a rhythm of divine asking. Seek Him morning, noon, and night in alignment with your assignment.
In what ways is the Lord calling you to realign your prayer life? What are some strategies you already employ as you seek Him today?
As One,
Lance Wallnau
Wow. This post is in alignment with a conversation I had today with a chaplain at our church. We were speaking about the importance of aligning ourselves with Holy Spirit and praying His Heart….. not ours. Beautiful. It’s important to align ourselves with God, and wait for His inspiration ad direction for how to pray. Prophetic prayer.
I love your message on prayer. I will remember morning ,noon and night. Also God’s bigger purpose in everything we do. Thank you.
This is just what I needed to hear. Thank u. Very timely
I’m in a spiritual war fare and been praying morning, noon and night. But it’s all in God’s timing. I love my husband very much and he says he’s not in love with me and I can’t make him love me. But my family is against him. I know he isn’t his self. All I can do is pray and put it at the lords feet. My heart isn’t in good shape cause I have 49% damage to left side and for the last two day has been in pain. Thank you Lance pray 🙏
As a mom of a former professional baseball player, I love this analogy. AND, more importantly, RESOLUTELY ALIGN is my 2021 word from the Lord. (Hab 2:4) When we are out of line, we are out of whack. I lead a prayer group called COVER TENNESSEE. We are a group of women across Tennessee who took our authority in the Lord in August of 2020 to keep our nation, state, cities, communities, homes, families and friends covered in intercessory prayer. I know we have been aligned with the Lord because we have seen many prayers answered, BUT last week during our zoom prayer, it felt like we were a little out of line.
Thank you for the reminder to RESOLUTELEY ALIGN everything, especially our prayers to Him!!! Blessings!!!