Prayerlessness: a Doom

Monday 22 June
READ: Gen.32:21-31
MORE LESSONS: Gen.33:1-4

For Jacob, taking the decision to return home after over twenty years in Laban's place was tough because of the problem he had about the issue of the blessing of his father, which he stole from Esau. However, one would have expected that being brothers, twenty years were long enough to have quenched the fire, but not so in this case.
Esau, on hearing about his brother's return, prepared a four hundred man army to meet Jacob for revenge. All the gifts that Jacob sent to appease his brother did nothing to change him; his opportunity to revenge had come. When Jacob saw that nothing worked, he resorted to what he ought to have done first-prayer, staying alone with God.
At the place of prayer he met God and his story changed. He was blessed and had his name changed so that by the time he met Esau, the battle plan had become a party plan. If you can turn over your battles to the Lord, you will win without shooting a single bullet. Just imagine, all the four hundred men that Esau brought became bodyguards for Jacob and his family (Gen. 33:15). This is what God will do for you this year, in Jesus name.
Every battle will be turned to party time and all satanic revenge will fail, but not without a life of prayer. Prayer is what changes things-personal prayer, church prayer and all manner of prayers. Restore your altar of prayer today. Prayerlessness is a doom, fight it now!

Prayer/Action
* Ask God to lay hand on bow and arrow and fight your cause today.
* Declare that from the rising of the sun to its going down today, Heaven will stand for you.
* Declare that you will not lack victory in your place of prayer this year.
* Ask God to rekindle the fire of prayer in your life.

PROPHETIC PRAYER
I am a fruitful vine, I shall not be barren of any good thing, in the mighty name of Jesus.