FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer never fails to open the door.

Daniel 6

To pray before God demands to understand and to embrace the answer from God with understanding.
The answer to prayer before God is not rooted in forcing God to answer as one pleases.
Answer to prayer before God is: YES, WAIT, or NO
Do you know better than your creator?
God is God, the unchanging changer, and God alone reverses the irreversible.
The earnest prayer of Jesus (Luke 22:44) and Elijah prayer (James 5:17-18) testifies that praying with earnest is labor that will provoke an answer from God.
Prayer will open heaven if one will understand engaging prayer laboriously as a lifestyle.
At the location of water baptism, with people getting baptized, there was no record of baptism backed with prayer. However, when Jesus came for His baptism, He prayed, and heaven opened. Luke 3:21-22 records, “When all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized; and while He prayed, the heaven was opened.”
Earnestly, will you engage prayer as your way of life?
Prayer is labor that answers for deliverance and preservation in this wicked world. 
Prayer is labor with a custom approach. David testifies labor prayer for his deliverance and preservation that is custom: “As for me, I will call upon God, and the LORD shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice.” (Psalm 55:16-17) 
Praying with labor, with a custom, will not fail to gain and retain the presence of God.
Daniel is another one with a lifestyle of praying with the labor of custom. Daniel 6:10 records the testimony of his deliverance and preservation recorded: “Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.” 
Labor can be a custom way of seeking the intervention of God. Daniel needed the intervention of God when he engaged a prayer as his custom and could not die before his time.
Do you have a schedule of attending to God prayerfully? 
Study the word of God to understand the power of praying before God as a lifestyle. Take note that, “Whatever things were written before was written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. (Romans 15:4) 
With understanding, engage with the prayer of faith as demonstrated by Jesus.
Once, Jesus demonstrated prayer faith when He spoke to a fig tree to be withered. His disciples reacted with curiosity when they asked Jesus: “…how did the fig tree wither away so soon?” (Matthew 21:20) Jesus responds, “…Assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree but also if you say to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive” (Matthew 21:21-22).
With understanding, engage prayer laboriously, not lazily is practicing prayer with labor.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled with consistent prayer.