Storming Heaven with Prayer: For Healing and Deliverance

By Ardith Blumenthal

"O come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker, for He is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the flock under His care." Today, if only you would hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, as you did that day in Massah in the wilderness. (Psalm 95:6-8)
You may wonder why a book about storming heaven begins with a prayer about bowing and kneeling. It's because it is from this position of humility and submission that we find our answers and win our battles. In understanding Him, we learn He won't deny us our requests. In pouring out our heart to Him, we learn He would never break our heart. Not only do we grow to understand our place in His Kingdom, we grow to understand His amazing love toward us. He is waiting and longing and expecting to answer our prayers and give us our heart's desire. We are members of His household, children of the King of Kings. We are heirs to all of His incredible promises and recipients of His matchless grace.
Like most people, I've had experience with prayers that seem to fall on deaf ears, prayers that appear for all practical purposes to go unanswered. In fact, at one point in my life, I actually told people if there was a God, He was a serious underachiever. It’s amazing to me that He still loves me after such an insult. I'd lost family to devastating illnesses. I tried without success to ease the terrible suffering experienced by four members of my six person family. I watched them die untimely and painful deaths. In some cases it was more like seeing them tortured to death. If there was a formula to reverse suffering or to talk Jesus into showing mercy, I certainly couldn't find it. It was a very black time of my life.
That's why I'm excited to share this book. I spent years studying prayer, reading about prayer, praying prayers. For more than twenty years my life has been devoted to discovering how to pray effectively. I don't believe there is a formula, really, though I believe the format of The Lord's Prayer is an excellent blueprint. Daniel, David and Solomon give us beautiful prayers as well.
The endorsement I give for the prayers in this book is: they worked. It’s not because of what I studied, read or wrote. It's because during the process of learning what touches the heart of God, what He wants, what pleases Him, I learned to pray His Word.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9781973683681

Ardith Blumenthal

Ardith Blumenthal has been devoted to prayer for over twenty years. She prays for the nations, the marginalized, the sick and the broken. She lives in the New York area with her husband with whom she runs a charity serving at risk populations throughout the world. Working in health care and business throughout her professional career helped create compassion for those in need of restoration. The prayers in this book are an outgrowth of her working with those whose lives need to be rebuilt, those who are longing for a touch of God’s grace.

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Chapter One

God Has a Plan

Have you noticed how sometimes commitment to something or someone isn’t enough? Have you noticed how sometimes outside help isn’t enough? In fact, even at our best, we sometimes aren’t enough either. We simply can’t prevail. It seems we all come to the place of needing divine intervention in order to make our way through the trials and difficult patches in our lives. We are like the label of a vitamin, not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. There are situations about which we can do nothing though we may tell ourselves we can. Just like the disclaimer on a supplement, we are woefully inadequate to promise any real relief in the time of trouble. We can help, we can pray, we can hope and stay positive, but we have no magic wand to change surrounding circumstances or situations. When people take the position they don’t need the help of others, or more likely they don’t need God, they are kidding themselves.

We all need real help and real answers to our problems. As a matter of course we seek the doctor when we are ill, find a counselor if problems are tough enough or seek various avenues of relief if we are in financial trouble. But the Bible says It is through God that we shall do valiantly; for He it is that shall tread down our enemies (Psalm 108:13 KJV). We all know the phrase With God all things are possible (Matthew 19:23 KJV). What gets left out of that phrase is the first part of the quote from scripture. With men, this is impossible, but with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:23 KJV). We can’t cure ourselves, much less anyone else. But, Christ in us, the hope of glory, (Colossians 1:27 KJV); has given us the authority and supernatural power to bring true cures to the suffering and real hope to the