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How can a woman become a powerful prayer?
What are the qualities of a praying woman?
When a woman prays quotes?
What is the meaning of the word prayer?

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Stormie Omartian is the best-selling author of The Power of a Praying series with over 32 million books sold worldwide. In high demand as an international speaker, Stormie's passion is to help people know God and love Him in a deep way. A survivor of child abuse, Stormie brings a deep understanding of recovery issues to her work.

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STORMIE OMARTIAN es la autora de la serie de éxitos de librería «El poder de la Oración»®, (más de 32 millones de libros vendidos) la cual incluye El Poder de la Esposa que Ora, El Poder del Esposo que Ora y El Poder de los Padres que Oran.

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The Power

It doesn’t matter what age you are, what your marital status is, what the condition of your body and soul, or how long you have or have not been a believer—if you are a woman, this book is for you. I’ve been a devoted follower of the Lord for more than 43 years and I have not fallen away from Him in all that time, yet I need this book too. In fact, I wrote it for myself as much as I wrote it for you. That’s because I’m like you. Many days I find life difficult rather than easy, complex rather than simple, potentially dangerous rather than safe, and exhausting rather than exhilarating. Often it’s more like a strong, hot, dry wind than it is a soft, cool, refreshing breeze.

But I have come to know that God can smooth my path, calm the storms, keep me and all I care about safe, and even make my way simple when I ask Him to carry the complexities of life for me. But these things don’t just happen. Not without prayer.

In the midst of our busy lives, too often we don’t pray enough. Or we only pray about the most pressing issues and neglect to take the time to really get close to God, to know Him better, and to share with Him the deepest longings of our heart. In our pray-and-run existence, we shut off the very avenue by which He brings blessings into our lives. And we risk waking up one day with that empty, insecure feeling in the pit of our stomach frightening us with the thought that our foundation may be turning into sand and our protective armor may be becoming as fragile as an eggshell. This is what happened to me.

A number of years ago, I had become so busy with working, taking care of teenagers, trying to be a good wife, running a home, writing books and traveling to promote them, being at all church meetings, helping people who needed it, and trying to make everyone happy, that I neglected the most important thing—my intimate walk with God. It’s not that I stopped walking with Him. To the contrary, I couldn’t make it through a day without Him. It’s not that I stopped praying. Actually, I was praying more than ever—about everyone else on the planet. But I didn’t pray about my own walk with Him. It’s not that I didn’t read His Word. I read for hours as I did research in the Scriptures for different projects I was working on and the Bible study classes I was taking. But I didn’t give God time to speak to me personally through it. I was busy doing good and neglected to do what was best. I became Martha instead of Mary without even realizing it (Luke 10:38-42).

I didn’t take enough time for God and me alone, and as a result I became so depleted I couldn’t go on. I felt like that eggshell, as if I could be crushed with very little outside pressure. I knew I needed more of God in my life, and nothing on earth was more important than that. There wasn’t anything else that could satisfy the hunger I felt inside except more of His presence. And I came to realize how important it was for me to guard and protect my personal relationship with God in prayer.

The way to avoid the kind of thing I experienced is to pray about every aspect of our life in such a manner that it will keep us spiritually anchored and reminded of what God’s promises are to us. It will keep us focused on who God is and who He made us to be. It will help us live God’s way and not our own. It will lift our eyes from the temporal to the eternal and show us what is really important. It will give us the ability to distinguish the truth from a lie. It will strengthen our faith and encourage us to believe for the impossible. It will enable us to become the women of God we long to be and believe we can be. Who among us doesn’t need that?

In my previous books on prayer, I have shared the ways husbands and wives can pray for one another, parents can pray for their young as well as their adult children, and children of all ages can pray for their own lives. In this book, I want to share how you can pray for YOU. I want to help you draw close to your heavenly Father, to feel His arms around you, to maintain a right heart before Him, to live in the confidence of knowing you are in the center of His will, to discover more fully who He made you to be, to find wholeness and completeness in Him, and to move into all He has for you. In other words, I want to show you how to effectively cover your life in prayer so that you can have more of God in your life.

Why Is It So Hard to Pray for Myself?

Do you find it is easier to pray for other people than it is to pray for yourself? I know I do. I can pray for my husband, my children, other family members, acquaintances, friends, and people I’ve never even met whom I hear about in the news far easier than I can pray for my own needs. For one thing, their needs are easy for me to identify. Mine are numerous, sometimes complicated, often difficult to determine, and certainly not easy to label. We women know what we think we need most of the time. We are able to recognize the obvious. But we are often too emotionally involved in the people around us and the day-to-day existence of our lives to be able to figure out how we should be praying for ourselves beyond the immediate and urgent. Sometimes we can be so overwhelmed by our circumstances that our prayer is simply a basic cry for help.

Do you ever have times when your life seems out of control? Do you ever feel pressured, as if your days are so busy that you fear you’re missing out on a certain quality of life because of it? Do you worry that you are neglecting one or more areas of your life because you are trying to fill numerous roles and meet many expectations? I’ve experienced that too.

Have you ever felt as if your life is stuck in one place and you’re going nowhere? Or worse yet, you are going backward? Have you had times when you’ve lost your vision for the future? Or have you never really had one to begin with? Have you wondered whether you can actually move into the full purpose and destiny God has for you? Have you experienced feelings of emptiness, frustration, or unfulfillment? I, too, have felt all those things.

Do you hunger for a greater sense of the Lord’s presence in your life? Do you desire to know God in a deeper way? Do you want to serve Him better and more completely but don’t feel you have the time, energy, or opportunity to do so? Do you need to spend more time with Him in prayer? Do you want your prayers to be accompanied by greater faith so that you can see greater answers to them? Do you need a more complete knowledge and understanding of God’s Word? Do you ever just long to throw your arms wide open and embrace Jesus, white robes and all, and feel His embrace of you? So do I.

The good news is that this is the way God wants you to feel.

God wants you to long for His presence. He wants you to find your fulfillment in Him and nothing else. He wants you to walk closely with Him. He wants you to increase in faith and knowledge of His Word. He wants you to put all your hopes and dreams in His hands and look to Him to meet all of your needs. When you do, He will open the storehouse of blessing upon your life. That’s because these things are His will for you.

But none of this happens without prayer.

Where Do I Go to Get My Needs Met?

Every woman has needs. But many of us are guilty of looking to other people to meet them—especially the men in our lives. Too often we expect them to meet the needs that only God can fill. And then we are disappointed when they can’t. We expect too much from them when our expectations should be in God.

My friend Lisa Bevere expressed it best when she said that for centuries women have wrestled and waged war with the sons of Adam in an attempt to get them to bless us and affirm our value. But this struggle has left us frustrated at best…In the end, it is all a senseless and exhausting process in which both parties lose. It is not the fault of the sons of Adam; they cannot give us the blessing we seek, and we have frightened them by giving them so much power over our souls. We must learn that the blessings we truly need come only from God.*

We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.

We have to put our expectations in the Lord and not in other things or people. I know this is easier said than done. So let’s start with the easy part. Let’s say to God, Lord, I look to You for everything I need in my life. Help me to put all my expectations in You. And whenever you are disappointed because your needs are not being met, talk to yourself and say, My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him (Psalm 62:5). Then tell God about all your needs and everything that is in your heart. Don’t worry, He won’t be surprised or shocked. He already knows. He is just waiting to hear it from you.

More Than Just a Survivor

If you’re like me, you don’t want to live the kind of life where you are barely hanging on. You don’t want to merely eke out an existence, find a way to cope with your misery, or just get by. You want to have the abundant life Jesus spoke of when He said, I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10).

We don’t want to be women who hear the truth but seldom act in faith to appropriate it for our lives. We don’t want to be forever grappling with doubt, fear, insecurity, and uncertainty. We want to live life on purpose and with purpose. We find it boring to live like a baby, feeding only on milk. We want the solid food of God’s truth so we can grow into a life that is exciting and productive.

None of us enjoys going around in circles, always passing through the same territory and coming back to the same problems, same frustrations, same mistakes, and same limitations. We don’t want to become calloused, hard-hearted, bitter, unforgiving, anxious, impatient, hopeless, or unteachable. We don’t want to end up with a negative attitude that says, "My situation will never be any different because it hasn’t been any different for a long time." We want to break out of any self-defeating cycle of repeated patterns and habits and be able to transcend ourselves, our limitations, and our circumstances. We want to be more than just a survivor.

We want to be an overcomer. We want to be a part of something greater than ourselves. We want to be connected to what God is doing on earth in a way that bears fruit for His kingdom. We want to have a sense of purpose in our lives. We want to abound in God’s love and blessings. We want it all. All God has for us. But we can never achieve that quality of life outside the power of God. And then only as we pray.

How Do I Move in the Power of God?

We’ve all had times when we felt completely powerless in the face of our circumstances. We’ve proven to ourselves over and over that we don’t have what it takes to attain any kind of permanent transformation in our lives. We know without a doubt that our best efforts to change ourselves or our circumstances in ways that are significant or lasting never work. We recognize our need for a power outside of and far greater than ourselves. But there is only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above ourselves and the difficult things we face. That is the power of God.

Without God’s power, we can’t transcend our limitations or get out of our rut. We can’t stand strong in the face of all that opposes us. We are doomed to a life of spiritual mediocrity. Without the power of God’s Holy Spirit working in us, we can’t be liberated from everything that keeps us from moving into all God has for us.

We don’t want to spend our lives waiting to be delivered from all that limits us and separates us from God’s best. We want to be set free now. But that can’t happen if we refuse to acknowledge the Holy Spirit’s power. When we deny the Holy Spirit’s attributes we become like those people the Bible speaks of who live having a form of godliness but denying its power (2 Timothy 3:5). We become professional Christians who talk Christianese with such a slick veneer of superficiality that it makes us untouchable and keeps us untouched. We become all show and no heart. All correctness and no love. All judgment and no mercy. All self-assurance and no humility. All talk and no tears. We live powerless and meaningless lives without any hope for real transformation. And without transformation, how can we ever rise above our limitations and be God’s instrument to reach the world around us? And that is what life is all about.

God wants us to understand what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe (Ephesians 1:19). He wants us to know this power that raised Jesus from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named (Ephesians 1:20-21). He wants us to understand that Jesus is not weak toward us, but mighty in us (2 Corinthians 13:3). He wants us to understand that though He was crucified in weakness, yet He lives by the power of God, and even though we are also weak, we live by the power of God too (2 Corinthians 13:4). God wants us to see that we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God (1 Corinthians 2:12).

I can’t make you see or cause you to comprehend the power of God or the way the Holy Spirit wants to work in you. That is beyond my capabilities and authority in your life. But you don’t need me to convince you because the Holy Spirit will do that Himself. Jesus said, The Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things (John 14:26). But you first have to acknowledge the Holy Spirit and invite Him to move in you freely.

We can only move in the power of God’s Spirit if we have first received Jesus as Savior. You need to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19). When you have Jesus as ruler of your life, you will come to know Him as the one who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us (Ephesians 3:20). Because of His Holy Spirit in us—or His power in us—He can do more in our lives than we can even think to ask for. How great is that?

Being filled with the Holy Spirit is not something that happens against our will. It is something we have to be open to, something we must desire, something for which we have to ask. If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! (Luke 11:13). We have a choice about whether we will be filled with the Holy Spirit or not. We have to ask God to do that.

I am not going to get into the various doctrines of men about the Holy Spirit of God. There seem to be as many of these as there are denominations. All I am asking is that you recognize the Holy Spirit of God as the power of God, and that you ask God to fill you with His Holy Spirit so He can empower you to move into all He has for you. The Bible says, Be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18). Life works better when we do what the Bible says.

The Power to Become All God Made You to Be

Today, more and more believing women are being given an open door to become all they were created to be. They are moving out in different areas of expertise and ministry and making an important difference in the lives of those whom God puts in their realm of influence. They are learning to rely on the power of God to prepare them and open the doors. They are also realizing that they are not just an afterthought in the order of God’s creation, but they were created for a special purpose. They might not know exactly what that purpose is or all that it entails, but they know that it is to do good for others and glorify God.

An important reason more women are rising up to fulfill the destiny God has for them is because men are also rising up to their place of spiritual authority and leadership. This is an answer to the prayers of countless women and something for which we must praise God. Women need this spiritual covering. When it’s done right—with strength, humility, kindness, respect, and understanding—and not with abuse, arrogance, self-promotion, cruelty, harshness, or lovelessness, it becomes a place of safety for a woman. Being in right order in our lives is something to be desired.

The Bible says that the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head (1 Corinthians 11:10). This means spiritual authority, and it is very important. Everyone is supposed to be submitted to divinely appointed authority. It’s part of God’s order. God won’t pour into our lives all He has for us until we are in right relationship with the proper spiritual authority figures whom He has placed in our lives. They are there for our protection and benefit. God’s power is too precious and too powerful to be let loose in an unsubmitted soul. (This is something to pray about, not worry about, so we’ll do that in chapter 9.)

God’s Promises to You

So often we don’t move into all God has for us because we don’t understand what it is He has for us. We may know He has given many promises for our lives, but if we don’t know exactly what these promises are, we can’t get a clear perspective on our situation. God’s divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature (2 Peter 1:3-4).

We need to know these promises well enough

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When a woman prays quotes?

“The power of a praying woman does not depend on what she can do with her own hands, but in the mighty Hand of God.” “The strength of a praying woman is unfathomable, her beauty is undeniable and her Spirit is uncrushable.” “A praying woman finds her strength from the Almighty God.”