I also stopped saying to people “I’ll pray for you”, unless I really meant it. I would then write it down to make sure I remembered. I also learned when people asked for prayer, I would ask then “What are you believing for?” Not all of us believe in a good God. For me, to pray for healing when people believe in surgery or doctors... then they won’t be healed. There are many factors here. One major factor is we have to start and realized that “WE” play a very big factor in what happens to us, not God, “US”. My amazing husband is in the Canadian Forces and can be gone from home a lot. I used to be in fear all the time. Calling my parents at 2:00 am, or later, because of the storm or noise outside. Then I learned that fear is not being in faith and that Satan will use fear, discouragement, frustration, confusion, to drive me from God. I now can cast down that fear when it rises, just like that.

Worship, prayer and devotions, these are the next new habit I am working hard at forming. I have to do these things daily if I am going to be strong in the Lord. This is how I am going to draw my strength from Him. Ephesians 6:10 AMP In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [be empowered through your union with Him]; draw your strength from Him [that strength which His boundless might provides]. As Christians, we can’t make it, just being a “Sunday Christian” and maybe adding a Bible Study during the week. We need to daily draw unto to Him, to take the time to honour Him, and pour our love out on Him in worship. To read our Bible, to learn the stories we never heard growing up and to find a great Devotional. One thing that I’ve always found so amazing about God is that my daily devotional is so on the mark that day. If it’s not for me that day, then it’s for the person who calls or the person who crosses my path that day. One of my biggest struggles is still getting “QUIET” with the Lord, so that I give Him time to speak to me. We must learn to hear that inward voice.

I am a mom and home school our daughter and go to Bible School part-time because of that inward voice. That small inward voice has given me the desires of my heart. I have kept that desire inside me and in the process God will send someone to pray over me confirming those desires. Psalm 37:4, 5 NKJV 4 Delight yourself also in the LORD, And He shall give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the LORD, Trust also in Him,  And He shall bring it to pass. Philippians 2:12, 13  AMP  Therefore, my dear ones, as you have always obeyed [my suggestions], so now, not only [with the enthusiasm you would show] in my presence but much more because I am absent, work out (cultivate, carry out to the goal, and fully complete) your own salvation with reverence and awe and trembling (self-distrust, with serious caution, tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against temptation, timidly shrinking from whatever might offend God and discredit the name of Christ). 13 [Not in your own strength] for it is God who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.

Then, we as Christians have to learn and accept we have an enemy. Ephesians 6:12  NKJV  For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.  For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rules of the darkness of this age, against spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly places.  It took me a while to wrap my mind around this truth. . We have to understand that our enemy is not our husband/wife, boss/teacher, “NOT FLESH AND BLOOD”. We have to bind Satan daily to protect our family and home. We also have to bind him every time he tries to place bad thoughts or lies in our minds. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 NKJV For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.   We also have to make sure that there are no open doors of sin in our lives to let Satan in. A lie, offence, unforgiveness, gossip or even being paid under the table, are all open doors. There are a lot of things to learn as a New Christian and so many NEW habits to form like letting go of the world. Every day is a battle. Remember we must pray always. Make sure you have the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Praying in other tongues is one of your greatest weapons because there are going to be times when you won’t know what to pray, but your spirit will. Romans 8:26 AMP  So too the [Holy] Spirit comes to our aid and bears us up in our weakness; for we do not know what prayer to offer nor how to offer it worthily as we ought, but the Spirit Himself goes to meet our supplication and pleads in our behalf with unspeakable yearnings and groanings too deep for utterance.