Sometimes we make prayer more complicated than it should be. Essentially, prayer is a dialogue with God and it work’s both ways. However, there are some rules when it comes to prayer that must be heeded and it is important to have a theological foundation, when we pray to our Heavenly Father, for ourselves or others. For example, does the Lord’s prayer hold the same merit for the New Testament Church as it did in the time of the disciples? Join Carl now as he shares salient keys to the seven kinds of prayer, found in scripture, live in session…
Here is a complete transcript of the broadcast (below)…
This is the first part today of us live in session at DHOP, and we’re establishing a firm foundation in prayer. We discuss the Lord’s Prayer to begin with. Then we talk about the different forms of prayer, probably up to seven or eight of those. Then we ask ourselves, who are we praying to? Then also the fact that we must see ourselves correctly through the lens of scripture as a little child when we pray and the fact that we are seated in heavenly places in Christ, looking down on the situation. Then we get into the protocol of praying petitions. Do we need to keep asking for the same thing over and over? You catch my drift, friend. I want to welcome you to this session and the forthcoming sessions on the Keys to Answered Prayer. Let’s join me now in session. The Lord’s Prayer, for example, if we start out with Matthew chapter 6, verses 9 through 13, the Lord’s Prayer is in a transitional time. It’s between the Old Testament and the New Testament, and He’s bringing around a bunch of teenagers, and He’s having some issues with some of those teenagers, okay? Many of the disciples could have been late teens, early 20s even. But He said, After this manner, therefore pray you, our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Note that.
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory. Amen. When I was 11 years of age growing up in Wales, which is a long way from here, we would recite this prayer every morning, okay? We would religiously recite this prayer. It was a public school. I’m impressed. But when you study it more, it says here, “Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.” Let me ask you this. Is there any cancer in heaven? No. Is there any poverty in heaven? Is there any demonic oppression in heaven? No. So we are being involved in bringing the kingdom of God to the earth. Amen. That’s part of our mandate, right? That we be delivered from evil. You know, some people are trying to invoke evil to appear more religious and to appear more pious, but that is not scriptural. We’ve been redeemed from the curse of the law, which is poverty, sickness, and spiritual death.
We also have curses in the earth. That’s why we have accidents. And Luke chapter 13 speaks of that. The different forms of prayer. There are different types of prayer. There’s about seven. There may be eight or nine, depending on who you study. But we start out with petition. And that’s what I’m talking about tonight. Asking God for stuff. That’s petition. There’s a prayer of dedication. There’s a committing of your way to God. You could say that when you cast your care in 1st Peter 5:7, that’s a prayer of commitment. I’m not going to worry anymore. Amen. What a wonderful scripture. Lord, I cast my care upon you because you care for me. Oh man, it already feels so good. Amen. So we have a prayer of petition, which is asking for stuff. We have dedication, which is committing something to God, right? Jesus did that in the garden of Gethsemane. He said, ‘nevertheless, thy will be done.’ I commit my will to you, Lord. I’m going to the cross because humanity needs to be saved. Amen. Commitment is not something we necessarily do often.
But certainly when it comes to worry, we do. Because we should be casting our care as much as possible. The more we relieve ourselves of the burdens and woes of this world, the more we can move in freedom. Amen. And we may talk about that later. The prayer of thanksgiving, right? “Be anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Make your request known to God” (Philippians 4:6). We’re going to talk about that later. Supplication is asking God for assistance. Intercession is praying for other Christians or non-believers. You’re standing in the gap. Amen. If you’re interceding, you’re doing what Jesus is doing right now at the right hand of the Father. He ever makes intercession for us. The prayer of agreement. Agreeing in faith for an outcome. I’ve done that several times in my life. Agreeing in faith for an outcome. And then the prayer of faith spoken of in the book of James. The prayer of faith will raise him up, right? If any among you is sick, let him confess his sin, etc. And the prayer of faith will raise him up. So there’s different kinds of prayer. But tonight we’re going to focus mainly on asking God for stuff. We’re going to talk about the restrictions that may hinder us from receiving.
Because God’s not the one who’s holding back stuff. Our soul issues could be. We could have resistance in the second heaven, in the demonic realm also. So, to petition is to earnestly request something from God formally regarding our immediate needs or even wants. Yes, you can ask God for wants too, amen. Yeah, you can ask God for wants as well as needs, amen. We’re not religious here. He’s a good God, amen. How many believe he’s a good God? Good, that’s a good start. Amen. Slide two. So, sorry, who do we pray to? This probably doesn’t need to be said. But we don’t pray to Jesus. We pray to the Father. This is very rudimentary. John chapter 16, verses 23 through 24. Jesus is speaking, “In that day you shall ask me nothing. Verily I say unto you, whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Hitherto is another way of saying up to this point. So hitherto you have asked nothing in my name. Up to this point you’ve asked nothing in my name. Asking you shall receive that your joy may be full, amen.” There’s joy in receiving prayer. There’s joy in answered prayer. I know there is for me. When I’ve got it, I’m like, wow, that’s awesome. So we pray to the Father and not Jesus. And why don’t we pray to Jesus? Well, we’re in that day now. This is post-resurrection.
The body does not pray to the head, amen. We’re the body of Christ. We don’t pray to our brother, right? We’re the firstborn of many brethren. Jesus was the firstborn of many brethren. We don’t pray to our bridegroom if we are the bride, amen. We don’t pray to our joint heir, Jesus, amen. So we’re praying to the Father. And then we have the notion that the Father is mean. He’s got a big white beard. He’s got a big stick. He’s ready to smite you with his ‘smiter’ the moment that you step out of line. That’s how some people think of as the Father. It’s a wrong viewpoint, amen. Jesus said, if you’ve seen me, you’ve seen the Father, right? Now, this is different from using the name of Jesus, okay. For example, if we encounter some oppression or we heal, it’s in the name of Jesus you speak to the obstacle, right? I’m not talking about that. That’s a different kind of prayer. That’s a command. We’re talking about petition, which is receiving vertically. We’re not talking about commanding horizontally, right? Mark chapter 10, verses 15 through 16. This is the secret to prayer. And all joking aside, if you can see yourself as a child, you’ll be powerful in the kingdom. Now, I’ve got this personally as well. The Lord has spoken to me. He said, if you see yourself as self-sufficient, if you see yourself as someone who is able, if you see yourself as all of those things, then what do you need me for? If we see ourselves as a little child, friends get this tonight, this is so powerful.
If you see yourself as a four-year-old, you are 100% reliant on Jesus to guide you, to feed you, to do everything else, amen? And what I’ve learned down the years is when I go into freak out mode, it’s time to cast my care, amen? And go back to the four-year-old and say, Lord, this is too hard for me. I know you can do it, amen? So powerful. Verily, whenever he says verily, it means pay attention. I’m telling you a truth. Whoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them up in his arms and put his hands upon them and blessed them. He wants to take us up, friend, and bless us, amen? The people of this world who do not receive Jesus have pride issues. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble, amen? Grace is equipping power to do his will. That’s what grace is. Some people think grace is a token to sin. Okay, I got a little grace. I’ll go down the bar, smoke a little weed, do some stuff.
I got some grace, amen? No, that’s not what grace is. You’ll be asking for mercy, all right? Grace is empowerment to do his will. That’s what it is. And he gives more of it when we see ourselves as a young child. When God speaks to me, he says, my son. He speaks to me with the words, my son. And if it’s a lady, it’s my daughter. And you know it’s his voice, amen? My sheep know my voice. You know his voice, friend. Don’t say that you can’t hear God, la, la, la. He hasn’t spoken to me. Everybody knows his voice, amen? The throne room perspective. So I’m changing your perspective. I want you to see yourself as a little child. I want you to see yourself in the throne room so that when you get ready to pray the prayer petition, you are seeing yourself as God sees you, amen? That’s powerful.
Because if you see yourself as God sees you, then you’re better equipped to receive, right? So we always ask the question, if Jesus prayed, would the father answer Jesus’s prayer? I think he would, right? The reality is we’re attached to Jesus. We’re a part of his body, right? So you have just as much likelihood of the father answering your prayer as he would his own son, amen? Looking down on the situation. Don’t see yourself down here in the weak mud, in the dust. Oh, oh, heaven is millions and billions of miles away. God is busy right now. He’s not interested in me. No, look down on the situation, okay? Because you’re seated in heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, right? You’re at the right hand of the father, which is here. You are a king and priest in his sight. That just sounds a bit cocky, pastor.
How dare you say I’m a king and priest? There’s a little bit of that going on internally inside of you right now. Who does he think he is? He’s saying we’re kings and priests, friends. The word says it. It’s not what I’m saying, okay? The word’s saying that, amen? Would the Lord answer a king or priest? Would the father answer the son? Yes, he would. We’re attached to the son. So I’m changing your perspective. I’m changing the way you’re seeing yourself so that when you enter into the prayer closet, you’re then, man, I’m gonna get my prayer answered, amen? That’s what we want. Okay, so how do we pray for stuff? Do we ask and keep on asking over and over? Do we ask the same question, the same, sorry, petition? The point is he hears you the first time, okay? We do not pray the same prayer over and over again. Jesus said in Matthew chapter 6, verses 7 through 9, “but when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen does, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking”, okay? We’re not gonna pray like that, amen? We’re gonna go into our closet. We’re gonna be humble, and we are going to seek the father and pray in the name of Jesus, amen? Ask and it shall be given. Seek and you shall find. Knock and it shall be opened to you.
This is in a progression of petition. We’re not talking about the same petition. We’re talking about being persistent when you pray. You need to practice in being persistent, amen? Believing that you’re gonna receive. John gave this analogy. His daughter wants a dress, right? So she comes up to him and says, Daddy, I want a dress, okay? We’re gonna go to the store on Saturday, but I can’t go there right now. But you’ll have your dress on Saturday, okay? I heard you, all right? Right, five minutes later. Daddy, starting to get irritating. Daddy, right? So what we’re doing is we’re not really showing that we believe when we do that. We’re doing the same vain repetitions, right? That’s what we’re doing. We’re asking the same thing over and over. “If you believe when you pray, you will receive.” And that’s Mark 11:24, and we’re gonna talk about that in a moment. Whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them, okay? So, you must believe when you pray. You don’t believe when you get it. If you wait to believe till you get it, you won’t get it. You’ve gotta believe when you pray. I know this is very elementary, but we have to get this.
Because some people have prayed presumptuously, and they really thought they believed, but they didn’t believe. How many have been there? I mean, I’m talking to me right now, okay? What you do in that situation is you measure where you’re at. You have to know whether you believe it or not, okay? Now, you say, well, how do I know that? You must go into the Word, find the promise, build your faith in the area you want to pray, and then pray, okay? Praying is a serious thing. It’s not a haphazard thing or frivolous. You build your faith in the area you’re trying to receive. You get to the point where, you know what? I really believe that when I pray, I will receive this. That’s where you want to be. Daddy, can I have that dress? Daddy, can I have that dress? Daddy, can I have… It’s like, look, I’ve given you the answer. Wait till Saturday. The analogy is this. You have asked the question or you’ve prayed to the Father, but there’s a time lapse between when you prayed and when it manifested, okay? Manifestation is when your prayer arrives. Some people have prayed and five years later, their answer turned up. That’s a manifestation, okay? Some people waited a week. Some people waited a day. Amen? Friend, we’ll pick it up tomorrow with part two of our live session.
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Title: Keys to Answered Prayer: Part 1 (LIVE)
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Six Frequently Asked Questions:
1. Is prayer supposed to be complicated?
No, prayer is essentially a straightforward dialogue with God. It’s meant to be a two-way conversation where we communicate with our Heavenly Father, not something complicated or intimidating.
2. Does the Lord’s Prayer still apply to Christians today as it did in Jesus’ time?
Yes and no. The Lord’s Prayer provides a foundational model of prayer, but it was given during a transitional time between the Old and New Testaments. Its principles remain vital, but understanding the Kingdom mandate behind phrases like “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” helps us apply it in today’s context. It is God’s intent to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, through His church.
3. Who should we pray to—Jesus or the Father?
According to scripture (John 16:23-24), we pray to the Father in Jesus’ name. Jesus acts as our mediator, but the direct address in prayer is to God the Father.
4. What are the different types of prayer mentioned in the Bible?
There are about seven types, including:
- Petition (asking God for needs or wants)
- Dedication (committing oneself or situations to God)
- Thanksgiving (expressing gratitude)
- Supplication (asking for help)
- Intercession (praying for others)
- Agreement (praying in unity for outcomes)
- Prayer of faith (believing prayer that activates God’s power)
5. Should we keep repeating the same prayer to get an answer?
No. Jesus cautioned against “vain repetitions” (Matthew 6:7). God hears us the first time. Persistence is about faith and belief, not repetitive phrases. Believe that you have received when you pray (Mk 11:24), and trust the timing of the answer.
6. How should I see myself when I pray?
Jesus teaches us to come before God like a child—humble, dependent, and trusting. Seeing yourself as a child before God helps you receive His grace and power more effectively because prayer is about dependence on Him, not self-sufficiency.
Carl is an authority. He is a biblical scholar, minister, author, husband, father, and life coach. In his mid-twenties he had a powerful encounter with God and saw miraculous healings as a result. Carl is a unique researcher who investigates current affairs, societal trends, prophecy, technology, cults, and end time events, all through a biblical lens.
Carl holds a Doctorate in Theology (Th D). His Alma Mata includes: Salford University, Manchester, UK, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK, Rhema Bible Training College (Tulsa), and Southwestern Christian University (Oklahoma City).
Carl Joseph Ministries empowers believers in Christ to fulfill their God given potential. Join Carl every other Monday on the Lions Unchained Podcast, available on Spotify, iTunes and other mainstream platforms.
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