What I want to speak to you this day is about the power of short prayers. How these five short prayers can actually transform your life. How these five short prayers can change your prayer life and why short prayers work. Now at first, it may seem bit contradictory because some of you like man, but I thought that you know Vlad, you're encouraging people to pray for a long time. Yes, yes. I do believe in the power of long prayers. Jesus prayed all night. We see Jesus's High Priestly prayer was very long. We see Daniel prayed for three weeks. We see Nehemiah and the Israelites prayed a lengthy confession and repentance prayer, Nehemiah chapter 9. And long prayers have a lot of benefits. They help you with focus and concentration. Long prayers can help you to focus on your relationship on God and deeper your connection to Him. Long prayers also can help you to pour out your heart to the Lord. Long prayers can help you with your persistence and perseverance. Long prayer can help you to spiritually grow you. So there's a lot of benefits to long prayers 100% but what I want to share with you right now is this. The length of a prayer is not necessarily a measure of its effectiveness. Let's just drop this in the chat. The length of a prayer is not necessarily a measure of its effectiveness. Matthew 6:7 it says, "And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words." The heart of prayer lies in revelation not repetition. Let's drop this in the chat for somebody who's just logging in. The heart of prayer lies in revelation not repetition. Now is it wrong to repeat the same prayer many times? Absolutely not. Jesus prayed the same prayer three times. Paul prayed the same prayer three times but the heart of prayer it's not in repetition, it's in revelation. That's why Jesus focused on speak to your Father. Speak to your Father. God being your Father is a revelation, it's not a religion, it's not a ritual, it's not even a routine, it's a revelation. So people who lack revelation in prayer sometimes will through the length repetition try to compensate for that. Now sometimes you do have to spend more time in prayer. Prolonged prayer to get to the place of revelation but never underestimate the power of revelation in prayer. In other words, a prayer's impact lies in its heartfelt connection with God not its length. A prayer's value doesn't depend on how long it is. The quality not the quantity of a prayer matters most. The effectiveness of a prayer is not measured by its duration. I want to share something with you. Short sincere prayers can be as powerful as long ones. Drop this in the chat. Short sincere prayers can be as powerful as long ones. Can I say that again? Short sincere prayers can be as powerful as long ones. Here are five short prayers that were sincere and extremely potent, extremely powerful. They were dynamic prayers. The first prayer is the prayer about and we're going to look at it. It's Matthew 15:25 Then she came and worshiped Him, saying, “Lord, help me!” Drop prayer number one “Lord, help me!” That's the prayer. “Lord, help me!” What is this prayer. This prayer is for deliverance of others. A mother worshiped Jesus and then she prays a sincere humble but very short prayer “Lord, help me!” Now this prayer “Lord, help me!” was for the Lord to help her daughter and that prayer was so powerful that Jesus delivered her daughter. I'm going to repeat that throughout this brief stream. Sincere short prayers can be as powerful as long ones. The effectiveness of your prayer is not measured by its length. “Lord, help me!” Learn to pray that prayer. Prayer for deliverance of others. The second short prayer Lord or have mercy on me and it's a prayer for a miracle. Have mercy on me. Mark 10:47 And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” So the second short prayer is have mercy on me. It's a prayer for a miracle. He's not even asking for his sight. He's asking for mercy. When you ask for mercy, in God's mercy is your miracle. Drop this in the chat. My miracle is in God's mercy. When God extends His mercy, miracle is on its way and blind Bartimaeus said, "Son of David, have mercy on me!" He said it out loud. It wasn't the volume, it wasn't the fact that he was yelling. You can yell on the top of your lungs. That prayer had a lot of faith in it. That prayer had a lot of humility in it. The first short prayer is "Lord, help me!" It's a prayer of deliverance for others according to Matthew 15 verse 25. The second short prayer “Son of David, have mercy on me!” It's a prayer for a miracle because in His mercy is my miracle. I don't demand a miracle from God. I don't try to squeeze God's hand through prayer and through fasting. I humbly ask for mercy because in His mercy is my miracle. My miracle is in God's mercy. Third short prayer is Lord, save me and that's the prayer for intervention. It's a prayer of rescue. It's a prayer for God, I'm drowning and I can't help myself. Matthew 14:30 But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!” So when you begin to sink, when you begin to drown, when you're overwhelmed by fear, when the wind is boisterous, when your life feels like it's spinning out of control, and you took the step of faith, you risked for God because Peter wasn't trying to run from Jesus. He was trying to run to Jesus. He took the step of faith. Jesus told him to come, distracted by the winds around him, he started to drown and when he started to drown, he said “Lord, save me!” Short prayer and Jesus stretched His hand and He pulled Peter out. Sincere short prayer is as powerful as a long one. Sincere short prayer is as dynamic as long one when it's sincere, when it's full of humility. So “Lord, save me!” is a prayer of deliverance for others. “Son of David, have mercy on me!” is a prayer for a miracle. “Lord, save me!” is a prayer for intervention. Number four short prayer and they are short prayers and that's why I cover these briefly because they're short. Number four prayer is show me Your ways Lord. It's a prayer for guidance. Show me Your ways Lord is a prayer for guidance. Psalm 25:4 Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. Drop this in the chat. Short prayer number four, Show me Your ways, O Lord. It's a prayer of guidance. Sometimes we don't know where to go, what to do and we're kind of clueless. All of our education, all of our experience, it kind of falls flat in front of whatever we're supposed to do and so we don't lean on our understanding, we don't lean on our strength. The Bible says that we have to trust in God and how do you do that? You express your dependence on Him by saying, Show me Your ways, O Lord; Teach me Your paths. I don't know where to go. I don't know what to do in this place. I don't know the next step to take. Show me Your ways, O Lord. Short potent powerful dynamic prayer. Prayer number five. Short prayer number five. Not my will be done but Yours, and this is the prayer of surrender. Luke 22:42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.” This prayer is potent to your ego, your pride, your desires, and some people are scared to pray this prayer but I want you to pray this prayer often. Lord not my will but Yours be done because if you pray show me Your ways, and if you pray, Lord save me, and if you pray, Lord have mercy on me, and Lord help me but you don't learn to pray the most powerful prayer and that is the prayer of surrender, you will find yourself not in line with God's will. You will find yourself out of line alignment with God's will. So let's review these five short prayers again and somebody could perhaps drop that in the chat for our audience. We said long prayers have their power but short sincere prayers can be as powerful as long ones. Why? Because the heart of prayer lies in revelation not in repetition. These five short prayers have power. Lord help me. Prayer for deliverance for others. Have mercy on me, Son of David. Prayer for a miracle. Lord save me. Prayer for intervention. Show me Your ways Lord. Prayer for guidance. Not my will be done but Yours. Prayer of surrender. There are short prayers you can pray that will please God and they will draw God's grace on your life. You know the guy that was dying on the cross, he said, Remember me Lord and he was saved. Short prayer. Now what makes short prayers powerful? Should I always pray short prayers and never linger in the presence of God? Absolutely not. Our relationship with God isn't just about asking for things, it's about cultivating a relationship but with that said, this does not mean that you should not rely and depend on God even in short prayers. So I'm going to tell you what makes short prayers powerful and what actually is required for the short prayer to be dynamic. First is faith. Drop this in the chat. Short prayers require faith. So it's not the shortness of a prayer that guarantees the answer, it's the faith in that short prayer. Faith is the foundation of any prayer. The Bible emphasizes that prayers made in faith will be heard and answered by God. Matthew 21:22 Jesus says and whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith. The Canaanite woman's prayer that I mentioned to you, Lord help me, Matthew 15:25 was rooted in her unwavering faith in Jesus's ability to heal her daughter. Short prayers require faith. They're not prayers of panic, they're prayers of faith. They're not prayers of desperation, they're prayers of faith. Drop this in the chat. Short prayers are not prayers of panic, they are prayers of faith. The second thing that short prayers require is humility. Drop this in the chat. Short prayers require humility. Short prayers are often a sincere and humble cry for help which God values. They express the true condition of the heart without pretense. James 4:6 it says for God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. See the tax collector's prayer, God be merciful to me a sinner, Luke 18:13 was an honest admission of his need for God's mercy. So number one, short prayers require faith. Number two, short prayers require humility. Why? Because what makes short prayers powerful is the fact that they're sincere. There's no pretense involved there. There's no cover up. It's a humble cry for help and God values that because God gives grace to the humble. That's why the tax collector's prayer who came in and says, Lord have mercy on me. I'm a sinner. Jesus was moved in that story the Bible says that he left more justified than the other guy who had a clean record. So what makes short prayers powerful is that they require faith. They're full of faith. They might be short in words but they have abundance of faith. See some of us have prayers full of words and void of prayer of faith. Drop this in the chat. Some of us have prayers full of words but void of faith. So we have panic but no peace. We have desperation but no faith and that's why it's not how long you pray, it's how much faith is in that prayer. Faith that God got you. God is with you. He'll never leave you and never forsake you. Some of our prayers have abundance of words but they lack or they are void of faith. Jesus isn't looking for more words, more color in your prayer, He's looking for faith in your prayer. And any prayer that is a testament of your pride is a prayer that God hates. But prayer that has humility is what God loves. The third thing that short prayers have and require is urgency. Drop this in the chat. Short prayers require urgency. Many short prayers in the Bible are made in the moments of great need or urgency reflecting a deep dependence on God. Many short prayers in the Bible are made in the moments of great need or urgency reflecting a deep dependence on God. Jonah 2:2 it says, In my distress I called on the Lord, and He answered me. See Peter's prayer, Lord save me, Matthew 14:30 was a desperate plea for immediate help as he was sinking in the water. Now urgency is deep dependence on God. This is not just panic. This is not just a cry of anxiety but there is a sense of urgency that reflects dependence on God. So my urgency is about my dependence on God, not just my desperation because of my situation. Drop this in the chat. My urgency is about my dependence on God. It's not about my desperation because of my situation. I depend on God and that's what this urgency is. So short prayers require faith. Short prayers require humility. Short prayers require urgency and lastly short prayers must be according to God's will. Powerful prayers that align with God's will and purpose, will recognize His sovereignty. So prayers that will align with His will prayers, that will align with His purpose will recognize and receive His power. See 1 John 5:14 it says according to God's will excuse me, it says, Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. See Jesus's prayer in Gethsemane, Father if You are willing, take this cup from Me, yet not My will but Yours be done showed submission to God's will. So every person needs to recognize why short prayers are powerful is because they are aligned with God's purpose. When they are aligned with your pleasure, align with your own ego, your own ambition, when it's all about getting ahead, competing, when they are aligned more with your insecurities or just with your needs, it's not about our needs, it's about God's will. Does He want to meet our needs according to His riches and His purpose? Of course. He loves us. He's our Father. But look at Jesus, the Son of God, He modeled to us that the ultimate success of prayer is surrender to God's will, His plan and trust in His timing. So short prayers can be as dynamic and powerful as long ones because the heart of prayer is not in its repetition, it's in its revelation. These five short prayers are game changers. The short prayer that says Lord help me. The short prayer that says, Son of David, have mercy on me. The short prayer that says, Lord save me. The short prayer that says, Show me Your ways Lord and the short prayer that says, Father not my will be done but Yours. What makes these short prayers powerful is that short prayers require faith. It's not how much volume is in it. It's not even how much length or words are in that prayer. It's how much faith is in that prayer. Secondly, short prayers require humility because short prayers are often sincere and humble and it requires urgency. Urgency is about dependence on God not desperation because of our situation and short prayers are in alignment. When they are in alignment with God's will, they release God's power, Amen. I hope this was a blessing to you. This is a short teaching about the power of short prayers. Come on somebody. Drop that fire emoji if this already has been an encouragement to your prayer life. You hear me a lot of times talking about fasting. You hear me a lot of times talking about all night prayers you know extended prayers but I wanted specifically bring this teaching to you to equip you to learn the power of short prayers as well. Now this teaching will be saved on YouTube, it will be also on my podcast. So those of you on YouTube right now, Hey help me out. Hit that thumbs up if you're watching or eventually re-watching and if you are on other platforms, you can find it on YouTube. Make sure you subscribe to my channel and if you're listening to this as driving on your audio podcast which by the way we have an audio podcast, we actually have two of them. Make sure you leave a review where you are listening to this on your audio podcast but right now, I want to take a moment and I want to pray for you. I want to pray that the pressure, the stress that comes maybe with some of you are in the season where you're not able to you know maybe pray very long prayers that you pray the prayers you able to pray in this prayer challenge, God will hear you and meet you. Ultimately, it's really about your heart. It's really about your humility and it's really about faith. I'm going to say it again. Ultimately, prayer is not about a technique, it's about your heart, it's about your faith and it's about humility. If I can add one more thing, it's about a revelation. A revelation of who God is. Revelation of who you are in Him. Prayer becomes so much easier when it flows from that place. Drop that prayer emoji in the chat as we're about to pray. We're going to pray short prayers but powerful ones. Jesus I thank you that your presence is in this live stream. I thank you that your presence is in even the re-watching. I thank you I feel your presence in this office, in this studio. I know that you are encouraging, strengthening, aiding our prayer life. I thank you that you have taught us how to pray in your word. You've left us these examples that we glean from. I thank you that in urgency, we can depend on you. I thank you when we are drowning, we can call for help. I thank you when we are on crossroads and we don't know which way to take, we can say, show me your ways Lord. I thank you that the weight of life doesn't have to rest on our shoulders. I thank you when we have a situation with somebody, we can ask for help for them as well. Jesus I thank you that we can submit our will to your will today. Submit our desires to your will today. I pray for every person that is watching, listening, re-watching this, would you take them deeper in dependence on you. Would you take all of that extra stuff that sometimes we think really makes a big difference in prayer but it doesn't, help us to have more and more of these heartfelt connections with you in prayer. Help us more and more find Your presence in prayer and release that cry, that cry for help, cry for help. I thank you that you always hear us. You're eager to help us so that you will be glorified in our life. I bless the prayer life of your people. Strengthen their prayer life. Magnify your Son Jesus Father in our answers that we receive from you in Jesus name, Amen. Thank you Lord. Drop that word Amen in the chat. I would like to invite you right now if the Lord moves on your heart if this teaching or teachings that you've been receiving from this ministry has been a blessing to you, would you consider partnering with our ministry to make not only free resources be given to everyone but we also currently supporting construction of a home for a poor family in Romania. Sent 65 books in Russian, Georgian, Romanian and Spanish to a detention center in San Diego. Sending 120 physical books to a detention center in Arizona. 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