Prayer Victories Originate from Our Relationship with God - Part 1

When a man or woman receives Christ by making Jesus Lord of their life, a supernatural power enters their heart and begins to change them from the inside out. Jesus said, "As many as recieved him, to them he gave the power to become a child of God.
The very first thing that changes on the inside of anyone who receives Christ is this - you gain a deep sense of acceptance and adoption. There comes a knowing that "God is my Father... I am not a fatherless person any more. I belong. I belong to God. God is my father, my papa, who deeply loves me in a good and holy and pure way, and that looks out for my benefit and protects me from hurt and harm. This is not a theory, it is a fact. Read Romans 8.14-16.
When you are a newborn son or daughter of God, prayer is so easy and exiting and organic. You don't have to try to pray. God watches over you and you have a sense of his closeness and of your new relationship to him and with him. It seems he answers every prayer almost before you get it out of your mouth.
Soon, though, your father begins to teach you through that sense of closeness, which is called the presence of God, the Glory of God, and in John's writings, it is called the Anointing.
As you grow in Christ, or when enough time has passed that you should have grown in Christ, it takes more obedience, more yielding of yourself to your father-God to have that sense of his nearness and favor.
That is absolutely right and fair and is not a gospel of works. You would have no relationship with God at all, if it were not by grace alone that you enter in to his kingdom and even to enter his presence today to pray and/or fellowship with him. But by using a Binary System of "off and on," he trains you, he guides you, to do those things that please him.
If you have lost the "sense of His presence" or "the anointing," don't blame him. Realize that he hasn't moved. You moved. You missed it, somewhere, if your peace and the testimony of His voice in your heart, has decreased.
Don't despair, kids!
He pulled back a little to let you know you missed it. He didn't leave.
Take the time, right now, to open your Bible and read 1 John 1, the entire 10 sentences.
In verse 8, he is saying that if we are living without an assurance in our heart, deep and strong, of God's presence, and of our sonship (relationship) through Jesus, then we are fooling ourselves or lying if we say we haven't sinned. That does't mean you are rejected ... it means you need to follow the directions found in verse 9. "But if we confess our sins to him, he can be trusted to forgive our sins and it is justice to do so since he paid the price for all our sins with the shedding of his own blood."
Confessing your sin is like spitting it out. It is seperating yourself from it. You stop doing it. That confession and seperation ... RESTORES US TO FULL FELLOWSHIP AND SONSHIP AND RIGHTSTANDING WITH GOD!
Once again, God draws near and we sense His presence. Our hearts are assured in His presence. In that place, in that atmosphere, faith and prayer become organic. This is the foundation of the prayer of faith.
This is the ground where the seeds of the promises of God's Word can grow until our faith is strong and can be harvested through the prayer of faith. More Later!