Teachings of Daddy Uma Ukpai: Seven Levels of Prayer Intensity.
Number One: ‘Ask’- Matthew 7:7. Asking in prayer is to put a question that demands an answer. It means to make a request, it means to expect or demand an explanation from God. The scripture is clear that we don’t have because we don’t ask. In the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15: 11-32’. He never merry because he did not ask; therefore our personal and collective merriment is tied to your ability to ask.
Number Two: ‘Seek’ -To seek is to locate or discover, for unless you locate your placement in life, which is your location through the direction of the HolySpirit; you cannot possess your possessions.
Number Three: ‘Knock’- This is the beginning of confronting your confrontations. To knock is to affect your generation in a unique way by spiritual stubbornness. It is the ability to collide forces with forces, for when power meets with power, the lower power must bow to the higher power. It takes a knocking prayer to take hold of destiny by force. Matthew 11:12.
Number Four. ‘Fasting’- This is the period of abstention or self-denial. It can be food or anything that you gain pleasure doing. It must be conducted in the atmosphere of doing business with God. Daniel 9:3. There are problems that won’t just go away until you enter into this realm. (Night Fasting/ Another day's Teaching)
Number Five. ‘Vowing to change your circumstances’ -To vow is a voluntary offering to God demanding that your life status be changed. And Jacob vowed a vow. Genesis 28:20. It is giving an assignment to your offerings and sending it as a dove to reach heaven.
Number Six. ‘Liquid Petition’ -Weeping prayer is powerful. It is an act of self-abandonment Psalm 30:5. When your enemies have mocked you like they did to Hannah in 1 Samuel 1:15-20; when your situations have refused to answer the everyday Sunday school prayer. When it seems that defeat is imminent, and there is no one to run to. This is the prayer that moves heaven to attend to your supplications. 1 Samuel 1: 5-6.
Number Seven. ‘Wrestling with God’- This is the prayer of telling God, I will never let you go unless you bless me. It does not matter how many years it will take, I will hold on to you. You have to change my name to change my circumstances; it is you telling God this is the final full stop of my stress and failure. May this word release an ocean of faith to your inner man, and may you be set free as you apply these words


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