The Place of Prayer 2

Several years ago, I endured the discomfort of living in an overcrowded dormitory environment. My quarters were supposed to be a room of 2 but we were at the least 4 at any given time. I found it difficult to pray aloud in the room. One of my disciplers, a great woman of God, Mrs. Mordi found out and made an amazing statement that has repeatedly churned in my mind since then. ‘Your room has got to know you,’ she said. ‘The environment has to sense the presence of God through you.’ She was asking me to create an atmosphere of prayer in a usual place.

It is a mystery, but certain environments for usual prayer have a deposit of the anointing that makes more prayer and answers easy even under the new covenant. These are places where one is not distracted, where one’s heart is wholly set on God. By all means, have a closet, a usual place of prayer. Whether a physical mountain, a concrete basement, a spacious attic, a hidden balcony, a secluded field, an uncompleted building or your room; have a mountain.

Most great men mightily used of God are men with a usual place of prayer. Charles Finney would regularly go out into the fields and forests to release the power of God in prayer. Ayo Babalola would retreat consistently to mountains to pray. Pastor Enoch Adeboye has a prayer room for consistent prayer and regularly walks the Redemption Camp grounds late each night praying. By all means, have a usual place for prayer- a place soaked in the anointing of repeated intercession; a place of the Presence.

Oswald J Smith talked about the walls of his secret place being stained with the breath of his prayers. The smudges on the wall and the knee-sized craters on the floor of his prayer closet resulted from the erosions of regularity. Where is your place of the Presence?