The Prayer of Relationship

Mark 11:24 - "Therefore I say to you, all things for which you pray and ask, believe that you have received them, and they will be granted you."

Prayer implies relationship. It is the ongoing conversation between God and man. How odd to believe that we will receive anything from the Lord if we only occasionally come to Him with our "wish list!" The reason why prayer either works or it doesn't is faith. And faith is the result of walking and talking with Jesus daily, much like the disciples experienced. The "chutzpah" of those who merely invoke their positional right as sons and daughters of God rather than their ongoing love relationship with the Father regarding praying and asking reveals their dire lack of relationship.

Our ongoing love affair with "Daddy God" will provoke two things: The first is praying only for the things we know He wants because we know Him. The second is asking with the faith of a small child that expects their daddy to give them what they ask. Beware of so-called children of God demanding from God on the basis of their "sonship." If there is not humility in faith in our asking, then it is questionable whether indeed the Holy Spirit is leading.