This document discusses the different types of prayer and provides guidance on effective prayer. It begins by establishing that God desires order in prayer and cares about details. It then outlines six main types of prayer: prayer of faith/petition, thanksgiving, agreement, intercession, consecration, and binding/loosing. The bulk of the document focuses on prayer of faith/petition, noting that it requires believing God exists as more than a concept, having the measure of faith, growing faith through God's word, being specific in requests, and asking only once without doubting. The goal is for prayer to be in line with God's will rather than one's own.

1. Types of Prayer - Part One
Dr. Tony Mariot

2. God is a God of order, no matter our individual complacency or reduction in spiritual standards. God is not like us. The way
we speak to God should have order. Consider the detail that God is actually concerned with.
The construction of the Ephod (Exodus 28:4-43) and the requirements to come into God’s presence is an example of the little
things God cares about. It is true, that all these requirements were under the law, but the larger point is that God is the same
now as He was then.
“For I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6)
“Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today and forever” (Hebrews 13:8)

3. Covenants that God makes with man are accommodations. They have nothing to do with God’s requirements with respect to
His character. That has not changed.
There are basically six forms or types of prayer.
With respect to the forms of prayer, they all have specific ways they address needs, which means there are rules to making
these prayers function more effectively.
First, let us consider a few words associated with prayer.
Meditate: The word “meditation” in Hebrew is Siyach, meaning an utterance, babbling, communication, complaint, talk,
prayer, converse with oneself aloud.
In the Greek meditate is the word Meletao/mel-et-ah-o, meaning to revolve in the mind, to imagine.
To pray is to “SPEAK” not “THINK” to oneself. If you are praying you have to open your mouth and speak. You must
move the air with your voice, no matter how slight. You cannot think a prayer, there is no scripture to support that. As
traditional and widely done as this is, it is simply not biblically based, if you thought you were praying by thinking,
you aren't.
When God created the Heavens, man, the world and all thats in them, He did not think any of it into existence, He spoke it.
“and God said” (Genesis 1:2-29).

4. When the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray, Jesus did not say, when you pray “think” He said when you pray
“say” (Luke 11:2). When Jesus prayed Himself, He spoke aloud,
• “These words spake Jesus and lifted up His eyes to Heaven, and said” (John 17:1-26).
• When Jesus prayed to the Father to raise Lazarus from the dead, He spoke,
“Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, Father I thank thee that hast heard me” (John 11:41-44).
• In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus prays and speaks aloud v39 (Matthew 26:36-45).
In every occasion, speaking is required in prayer, there are no examples in scripture to support it being done any other way.
Praying silently is a religious tradition and nothing more.
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue” (Proverbs 18:21)
Not the thoughts

5. The first rule of engagement in prayer is to speak it.
Every prayer that is made falls into one of six types of prayer
1. Faith or Petition Prayer when your asking God for something - (Mark 11:24)
2. Prayer of Thanksgiving - (Revelation 7:12; Philippians 4:6)
3. The Prayer of Agreement - (Matthew 6:14-15; 18:19; Mark 11:25-26)
4. Intercession (Romans 8: 26-27)
5. Consecration and Dedication (Luke 22:41-42)
6. Binding and loosing (Matthew 18:18; Mark 16:17-18)

6. Prayer of Faith- (Mark 11:24)
The prayer of faith is also known as petition prayer. This is the most common form of prayer,
asking God for stuff. The most common misconception is that the people praying to God
actually believe that God exists.
Most people who say they believe in God, only say they do because of social pressures to do so.
These people, never pray to God during their day to day lives. They only pray to God when
they are in trouble, otherwise God is scarcely part of their vocabulary.
Most people believe in the concept of God, they subscribe to the notion that if you are a good
person you will go to Heaven.

7. This good person belief is based on an individual’s concept of right and wrong, good and evil, this
concept has nothing to do with God at all. The first requirement in praying to God, is that you have to
believe in Him, not a concept of Him, which requires a relationship.
Santa Claus is a concept, he is not a real person, therefore, anyone can be Santa Claus. But there is only
one God, who is not a concept. He is a Spirit, tangible, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient with Aseity
and is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth.
“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).
“For he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek
him” (Hebrews 11:6).

8. The second requirement is that you must know that God has given you faith in the first place, in order
to be able to believe in Him.
“God has dealt to every man the measure of faith” (Romans 12:3).
What is the measure of faith?
“if you have faith as a grain of a mustard seed” (Matthew 17:20)
A mustard seed is one of the smallest seeds in the world. A grain of a seed that small is barely visible to
the naked eye. To put this in context, if you have ever had a job and went to work trusting that whoever
it was, you were working for would pay you on payday, you have the measure of faith.

9. “if you have faith as a grain of a mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain remove hence to yonder place, and
it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you” (Matthew 17:20)
The moving of mountains Jesus refers to, is not a physical mountain but a physical
circumstance that appears to be a mountain at the moment, its a metaphor.
Most people, instead of looking at the real reason for the lack of performance in their spiritual
life, will use the mantra, “it is God’s will” or that “everything happens for a reason”.
but these mantra, as a practical matter of application in one’s life, occurs in most cases as the
result of default.
Being out of the Lord’s will and plainly not being in step with the way God has said to do a
thing is the default, like thinking a prayer.

10. The most common reason for unanswered prayer outside of these mentioned, is simply not praying
effectively, or correctly. Despite popular belief that there is no right and wrong way to pray, all the
biblical evidence is to the contrary.
The next thing we must consider is that since we have faith to start out with, how do we grow that faith
practically?
The only way to grow your faith is by hearing the word of God.
“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Romans 10:17)
The easiest way to grow your faith is to read the Bible out loud to yourself.
You’ll notice that God will talk to you more through the Holy Spirit. This will translate into peace of
mind and better decision making on your part.

11. To pray by Faith as carnally defined is the ability to commit oneself to act based on self-experience, to
warrant belief without absolute proof. In other words, faith is an act of the will. You “want” to believe.
“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1)
Practical Application
Faith is used to believe something initially. Hope fills in the gap during the time between what we
believe God for and the manifestation of it.
Faith is the tangible aspect of the actions on our part, while we are in the process of believing. Faith is
an action word. To have faith is to do something.
Hope in the gap is the thing that helps us see progress, even minor advancements along the way can
provide hope. But the progress, is not what we are using our faith for, nor is the progress answered
prayer.

12. Keys - Prayer of Faith/Petition - Mark 11:24
The key is “WHEN YOU PRAY”. When asking God for anything, you should first be sure that He can
hear you by cleaning the slate, ask for forgiveness of your sins up front.
• Repent of any sins you have committed.
• Ask for what you want, but be very specific.
• Be certain that what you are asking for is in God’s will. Not something outside of His will, like winning the lottery, killing
your enemies, covering up a lie for you or asking for someone else’s wife or husband, stuff like that.
• Believe in the moment that you are praying to God. Not before or after. “WHEN YOU PRAY”
• Ask Once
Religious teaching suggests that you should ask God over and over again as though God is hard of hearing, but thats not
biblical.
“But when you pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye
therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him” (Matthew 6:7-8)
“Ask in faith, nothing wavering” (James 1:5-8)

13. To ask over and over is not to ask in faith, but in doubt. As a practical matter it is wavering.
Jesus offered two parables with respect to answered prayer.
“because of his importunity” (Luke 11:5-13)
Here Jesus makes the spiritual contrast that God is not like a man, that because you wear Him down he
will respond to you. He is saying instead,
“ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened to you. For everyone that asks
receiveth” (Matthew 7:7-8, 21:21-22; John 16:23-24 - ask in Jesus name).

14. Another example is the unjust judge. God is a just judge and if this earthly judge would
avenge this woman, how much more would God do for His children (Luke 18:1-8).

15. God is a God of order, we can’t ignore these details, God does not. We can thank God all
day long and as often as we want, God even likes that. You can praise the Lord for what He
is doing on your behalf. All that is fine and what we should do, but to ask amiss is to get
into the repetition (James 4:3).
The final key is to never accept substitutes as answered prayer.
“If a son asked bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? If you then being evil know how to give good gifts
unto your children, how much more shall your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?”
(Matthew 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13)

16. Finally, we must believe that God’s will for us is greater than our own will is for ourselves.
“Eyes have not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him”
(1 Corinthians 2:9)