Why Cry? Speak the Word of God

 The 3 Second Prayer That Moves Mountains While Hour Long Prayers Do Nothing

 If you've been taught that longer prayers are more powerful prayers. You've been told that God responds to persistence, that he rewards the person who prays for hours, that if you're not getting an answer, you're simply not praying hard enough, long enough, desperately enough. 

  What if that's wrong? What if, and I need you to actually sit with this, what if the length of your prayer has nothing to do with whether God answers it? 

   Jesus Christ healed a leper with 11 words. He raised a 12-year-old girl from the dead in nine words. He stopped a storm with three words. He turned water into wine without a single recorded word of prayer. And when Jesus Christ taught His disciples how to pray, the people who would one day shake the Roman Empire, the model prayer he gave them takes less than 30 seconds to say out loud. 30 seconds. But here's what's strange. Here's what nobody talks about. 

 The one time Jesus Christ prayed for hours sweating in a garden face pressed to the ground was the one prayer that on the surface appeared to go unanswered. "Father, if it's possible, let this cup pass from me." It wasn't removed. 

So, what is actually happening when a three-word prayer moves a mountain and a three-hour prayer seems to hit the  ceiling? The answer is not what most Christians think. And once you see it, once you actually understand what Jesus Christ was doing when He spoke those three words to the storm, you will never approach prayer the same way again. 

   Let God know you're ready to receive what religion never told you. We'll come back to what that word means by the end of this teaching. There is a mystery buried inside the prayer life of Jesus Christ. And for 2,000 plus years, the organized church religion has walked right past it. 

Most believers have been handed a model of prayer that looks like this. The longer, the louder, the more emotional, the more effective. 

We've been told that God is moved by volume, by tears, by the sheer accumulation of minutes spent on our knees. And there are sincere, devoted, bible-belving Christians, people who genuinely love God with 

2:38 everything they have, who pray for an hour every morning and still feel like their prayers bounce off the ceiling. 

They pray, they believe, they wait, and nothing moves. 

Plainly. Most believers pray out of a sense of distance as if God were far away and must be persuaded to lean down. 

 But the moment you understand that he lives in you. Prayer becomes a conversation between a son and his