The Power of Praying to God for One Thing at a Time | How to Pray with Focus and See Results
by Nikki Walton of CurlyNikki.com
“I lift up my eyes to the hills-from where comes my help? My help comes from the Lord.”
-Psalm 121
Most of us are praying for everything all at once. Healing. Money. Guidance. Love. Clarity. All in the same breath. And then we wonder why nothing moves. Why nothing seems to change.
But God said, “Let your eye be single, and your whole body will be full of light.”
Single. Focused. Not scattered across ten requests, ten fears, ten outcomes.
When you pray, choose one thing. One promise. One mountain at a time is plenty lol. Stay with it until you feel peace rise up where worry used to live. Until you can say thank You without forcing or faking it. Until you sense His “it is done” deep inside.
When Jesus prayed in Gethsemane, it was one cry repeated until the surrender broke through. Elijah prayed seven times for rain and didn’t move until the cloud appeared. The widow kept bringing one petition before the judge until the breakthrough came.
That’s the power of praying about one thing at a time and staying in the posture of prayer until something changes… not until your alarm goes off, or until it’s time to go on to your next task… not rambling off a grocery list of prayers and then looking around faithlessly at nothing changing. And please know praying for one thing isn’t limiting God in anyway. He HAS done all things at once. You’re just learning to see Him in one place long enough to know He’s everywhere. Everywhere. EVERYWHERE.
“Life without Christ is not life. That’s just the way it is.. If you don’t see Christ in everything you do, you are without Christ. “~ St. Porphyrios the Kapsokalyvite
So today, and all weekend, ask Him for one thing. Just one. Write it down. Say it out loud. SAY IT OUT LOUD until you soften, until your heart feels like it’s finally safe to believe. If the declarations, “I Am” or “I will” feels too fierce right now, too fake, too heavy to carry, then talk to yourself how the Holy Spirit does (you just don’t be hearing), or how Angels do, like the one that came to Mother Mary… not commanding, but confirming. “Blessed are you…” Try that, and feel how it lands differently. Softer. Truer. “You are _____.”
“For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” – MARK 11:23-24
Pray this one thing through. Watch for His hand in it. And when peace settles, only when you feel a real, palpable sense of His Peace, move on to the next. But if you’re ’bout it, stay with that one request. Stay in this one assumption that it’s done. Walk and talk like it’s done. Which means to walk and talk in Peace. Sit back off the edge of your chair. Your head doesn’t need to be on the swivel anymore, looking for it. Relax a little. Smile a little. LOVE MORE.
YOU ARE THAT.
I love you,
nik
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