FAITH CAPSULE: Power prayer always answers and unfailingly.

Daniel 6

Praying as a way of life before God is a sacrifice that entails labour.
The labor in prayer is costly, meaning prayer is not cheap and will not gain the attention of God.
David demonstrated that sacrifice is costly and not cheap in praying before God.
Once, David had to sacrifice before God, and when offered land for free, he refused and did not accept.
2 Samuel 24:24 records of David, “No, but I will surely buy it from you for a price; nor will I offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God with that which costs me nothing.”
Costly, David sacrificed before God.
Sacrifice is with labour; it is costly, so is prayer before God a sacrifice, labour with cost.
To pray before God requires understanding and embracing the answer from God with understanding.
Praying before God is not to intimate God for answers.
No one knows better than God.
God is God, the unchanging changer, and God alone reverses the irreversible.
The earnest prayer of Jesus(Luke 22:44) and the prayer of Elijah (James 5:17-18) are the testimony that praying with earnestness is labor that will provoke an answer from God.
Prayer is the power to open heaven.
At the location of water baptism, where people were getting baptized, there was no record of heaven opened, but without prayer.
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.”
Pray with earnestness.
Prayer is a sacrifice with labor that answers for deliverance and preservation in this wicked world. 
Prayer is a labour 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 prayer as a laborer in a custom. 
Daniel 6:10 records the testimony of his deliverance and preservation, “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 God. Daniel needed the intervention of God when he engaged in prayer as his custom, and could not die before his time.
Do you have a schedule for attending to God prayerfully? 
Study the word of God to understand the power of praying before God as a lifestyle.

Prayer for the day: Ask for the strength of prayer as a way of life.