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Jari Iivanainen's teaching for the prayer has many good points.

Few passages about that teaching:

Do you know, that in the way of prayer can be hindrances, which prevent us to pray trustfully and permanently? For even though we would have received Christ into our life and got to be saved, so the beginning of prayer, trustfulness and perseverance in it is not always so simply, but sometimes in the way of prayer can come many futile hindrances.

   Sometimes as a reason can be simply, that we don’t understand our right position before God, through Jesus. For even though Christ should be our righteousness, and through him we can approach God, so we don’t understand or internalise properly this important basic matter. Instead of that, we can stare all the time at ourselves and our imperfection, and therefore we don’t expect, that God would answer just our prayer. We expect that he indeed answers other, "holier people’s" prayers, but we ourselves don’t have this kind of trustfulness on this area.

   Still as a hindrance in prayer can be wrong teaching, in other words for instance such matters as the direction of prayer and how many times we should pray. For if we have got wrong teaching on these areas, it can takes us to the futile false paths or at least to paralyse the whole prayer. If we namely forget God, to whom we pray, to be in heaven, or we think always, that only one prayer time is sufficient, so is possible, that our prayer slackens. It changes then its form and is left only a word among other words, which at all is not purpose.

   We are indeed going to concern this important matter on the next lines and also that, how it is important to pray permanently. The purpose is, that we would learn to pray trustfully and permanently, and we could remove futile hindrances out of the way of prayer. If like this really takes place, praying is certainly easier than former.

http://koti.phnet.fi/elohim/renewinprayer

May GBU . . . .

Amen Petri!!

The noise and the things of this world DO, indeed, get in the way of our proper relationship with GOD in many ways. The POWER of Prayer is really beyond our imagination, and the devil obviously doesn't want Christians to experience closeness and intimacy with GOD through prayer. The devil wants Christians to be weak in all things. JESUS wants the opposite, and I give thanks for every opportunity to grow stronger and more secure in JESUS. It really becomes a matter of knowing the basic ways that we can continually grow in the strength that JESUS wants for us. The answers are really pretty easy: Study HIS WORD, PRAY, Yield to God's Will in our daily lives, and do these same three things over and over again in a spirit of joy and humility - asking that GOD build us up in HIS WORD.

Love In Christ,
Tom

John 10:27-28 NASB  "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of My hand.

Psalms 37:39-40 NASB  But the salvation of the righteous is from the LORD; He is their strength in time of trouble. The LORD helps them and delivers them; He delivers them from the wicked and saves them, Because they take refuge in Him.

Romans 3:21-22 NASB  But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction;

Romans 5:1-2 NASB  Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.