As powerful as God is, he cannot answer prayers until they’re prayed.  Prayer is the only way to get gods power released into your life.  Prayer is the secret to power with God.  Daniel was thrown to the lions because his prayer life terrorized the demonized bureaucrats of Babylon.  He pierced the darkness with prayer.  Elijah prayed and fire fell form heaven.  If that ever starts happening in your prayer life, it won’t be boring, I guarantee you.  In the early days of the church, they prayed until the building shook.
Moses prayed, and as long as his hands were held up, Israel won the war.  The moment his hands came down, Israel lost the war.  The point is this?  What you do on the ground in prayer is what God can do in the heavens.  The moment you stop praying is the moment God’s power stops.  Your prayer is the secret of releasing God’s power in your life.  Jesus had a powerful prayer life; He prayed all night many nights.   And after He had prayed all night, then came the signs and wonders.

When you pray, you tap into the supernatural world.  Through the Holy Spirit, you can pray with supernatural intelligence that goes beyond the knowledge of man.  Romans 8:26 says that when we don’t know how to pray, the “Holy Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:  for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:  but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.”  Our “infirmities” include our mental capacity.  Regardless of how brilliant you thing you are, you are playing in a sand box compared to the genius of all-knowing God.

When I was going to seminary, every weekend I would travel somewhere to preach.  On one particular occasion I preached all day Sunday in Oklahoma and was driving back to Dallas late that night.  I had to drive all night in order to get back in time for school.  I went to sleep while driving and woke up when I heard a loud noise.  Evidently I was driving quite fast and I hit one of those old country railroad tracks that has a swayback.  It launched my car up into the air.  I was airborne, if you will, hanging on to the steering wheel.  When my eyes opened, right in front of me was a Texaco tanker coming toward me.  Miraculously, my car landed, in my lane, on all four wheels—and brother, when it did, I was wide- awake all the way back to Dallas.

As I walked into my dorm room, the phone rang.  It was my mother.  She asked me where I was at 3:00 that morning.  I had looked at the clock and knew that was the exact moment my car hit the road safely.  I told her I was driving back form Oklahoma.  That didn’t quite satisfy my mother.  She was like the FBI; she knew what I was doing behind the door when it was locked.  She said, “At 2:30 this morning the Lord woke me up.  I began to pray for you, because I knew your life was handing in the balance.  And at ten minutes after three the burden lifted and everything was all right.  Now I’m asking you again, where were you at 3:00?”  So I told her the story.

You can pray with supernatural knowledge when you have a prayer relationship with God.  Answered prayer is not a miracle; it’s a law.  When you take an ice tray and fill it with water and place it in a freezer, if the temperature is 32 degrees or less, the water turns to ice.  That is not a miracle.  That is a natural law.  It’s the only thing that can happen.  When you meet God’s conditions in prayer, you will get an answer.  It is not a miracle; it is the only thing that can happen.  John 14:14 says, “If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.”  Matthew 7:8 says, “For everyone that asketh receiveth.”  Prayer is not a mystery.  Answered prayer is not a miracle.  It is the law of God.

Devotion from Pastor Hagee’s book 12 Sunday Mornings – currently out of print