6 Principles of Prayer 1. Prayer is an overflow of our walk with God. - Acts 4:24 - Prayer is an extension of our walk with God; it does NOT equal our time with God. - Devotions does not equal your devotion to God. - You relationship with God is not contingent on your time with prayer. - Your heart posture towards Him. 2. God loves our presence more than we love His. - He wanted us, He didn’t need us - Psalm 149:4 - Zephaniah 3:17 - He simply has pleasure in His people If you don’t spend time with Him, you deprive Him of His pleasure. 3. We go to prayer to be with God; not to find Him. - Matthew 6:6 - Exodus 24: 12 - We don't have to strive to be with Him. - The struggle is to get our flesh out of our comfort and be there with the Lord. 4. We pray in the Spirit. - 1 Samuel 30:6 - Ephesians 3:16 - Jude 1:20 - 1 Corinthians 20:4 - This is God giving us permission to turn prayer into a spiritual gym. - You start praying until your emotions shut up and then your spirit take over. - Speaking in tongues will take you through the turbulence of your emotions. 5. We pray the Scriptures. - When you don’t feel God. - When in the dark, the enemy tries to hinder what God revealed in to you in the light. - It forms your understanding. 6. Always run into secret place when you fall into secret sin - Go to God first when you commit sin. - Isaiah 16 :1 - God wants to know where are we, we wants us to talk to Him, to be with Him, and to ration with Him.