WRESTLING IN PRAYER

And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me – Genesis 32:26

Even though Jacob was the Seed of Abraham and God had made a Covenant with him to bless him and make him a Blessing, Jacob still had to wrestle with God for the Blessing to manifest in his life. In that moment, many in the Church today would have told Jacob to just declare or confess that he’s blessed and stop asking for what already belongs to him. We would have told him that he’s in unbelief.

Our theology today is faulty. As a result, the Church doesn’t pray anymore, we just confess. There’s room for Confession, but Confession is a poor substitute for Prayer. Colossians 4:12 says, ‘Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.’ Epaphras didn’t confess or decree that the Colossian Church was mature and in the Will of God. He wrestled in Prayer for them.

The Church sees no need to wrestle with God in Prayer because our theology today insists that God loves us so much He has already given us everything we need, and all we have to do is to confess that we have it and it will be ours. But that’s not how the Patriarchs or the Early Church did. They took what God said about them and prayed it through. They wrestled with God to see what God declared manifest in their lives. It’s not unbelief to ask God to bless you. It’s not wrong to pray all night and wrestle with God in Prayer like Jacob to see God’s Will manifest in your life. The reason many of God’s People don’t see any manifestation of God’s Power in their lives is because they’re simply not praying. It’s time to pray.

PRAYER

Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray that I may wrestle in Prayer to see your Will for my life come to pass. Like the Patriarchs and the Early Church, may I wrestle in Prayer until Your Will be done on earth is it is in Heaven. Amen.