Prayer: Unlocking the Mysteries

By Mariama Kamara Macauley

Prayer is like the clothes you put on each day as you leave your home. Never go without! Everywhere around the world today people are battling different many situations. For some it is crisis in marriage, for others, a child has gone wayward, yet others, diseases and affliction. There are wars, poverty, loss of job or income, homes and many other conditions that produce turbulent environment for mankind. When one is found in any of such situation, all you want to do is to give up. We get weary and sometimes even angry at life, and at God our creator. The good news is, there is always something we can do, PRAY! Our last resort is to look up to God in prayer. “Present your Case”, call upon him, he hears and he answers.

As you read this book, you will learn how powerful communication with God can be and how prayer brings us so close to God. This book will give you new insights and a new direction in your prayer life. You are going to experience a whole new level of prayer as you read. God bless you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mariama Kamara Macauley
• Release date: Apr 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005798154

Mariama Kamara Macauley

Mariama Kamara Macauley, SPHRi, MBA, BA, was born in February of 1975, is married, blessed with one biological daughter and two step sons. The Author has a Post Graduate Diploma in Social Science and Counselling Skills and quite recently earned her badge as a Senior Professional in Human Resource Management International (SPHRi). She began her early career as a classroom teacher in 1997 when she taught Religious Education. She later served as a Full Time Lecturer in the Department of Management at the Cuttington University, and served in other positions in the same institution including; Asst. Coordinator Service Learning, Development & Fundraising Officer, Chairperson Dept. of Management respectively.She currently serves as Training Specialist in both Public and Private Sector Management courses including; Human Resource Management, Leadership & Supervision Skills, Women in Leadership, Performance Management Systems etc. while being involved with Organizational Restructuring and Development, Public Sector Reforms, Civil Service Capacity Building, Curriculum Development etc. She co-authored a Governance Architecture Manual for the Government of Liberia, training manual for the first “Women in Leadership Training for Senior Female Officers of the Liberian Civil Service”, and the first “Performance Management System Training for Civil Servants in Liberia” etc. She is currently a Manager of Human Resources at the Liberia Revenue Authority, an entrepreneur, a role model, and a mentor to many. The Author views her most important roles as a wife, mother and Servant of God.

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Acronyms

ASV: American Standard Version

ESV: English Standard Version

NASB: New American Standard Bible

NIV: New International Version

NLT: New Living Translation

NKJV: New King James Version

KJV: King James Version

RSV: Revised Standard Version

Dedication

I dedicate this book firstly to the one who teaches us all things, the Comforter, who is the Holy Spirit, under whose guidance, instruction and inspiration I wrote this book. It is also dedicated to my mentor and earthly teacher, the greatest Prophet who walked this earth in my own time, Prophet TB Joshua, who transitioned into glory on June 5, of this year 2021. It was through his mentorship that I began to receive the grace for insight into spiritual matters. His teachings, his guidance, his practical acts of love opened my eyes to a whole new dimension of service to God, through the acts of Faith, Love & Charity. Through his teaching I began to realize how desperately I needed God, how often I needed to pray, in his words; you need God to sit, you need God to stand, in anything you do, consult God. May his gentle soul rest in perfect peace, and may light perpetual shine on him.

Acknowledgements

I want to recognize my darling husband and prayer partner, Lancelot, for his love and support through which I derived the much needed energy to complete this book. To my loving daughter Lucia, she happens to be the source of my strength in good times and difficult times. She has seen me at my lowest and my highest, we have often held hands to pray, and she is one of the reasons I communicate with God so much.

To all who will read this book, I pray you receive grace to remain in God’s presence and that you are inspired to pray without ceasing. May your prayer life be fired up so much that you receive unhindered access to the secret place of the Most High.

To God be the glory, My God remains the greatest.

Daniel 2:22 (NKJV) He reveals deep and secret things; He knows what is in the darkness, and light dwells with Him.

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Overview

Have you ever felt the need to pray? Have you ever been so desperate to talk to God about a given situation? Have you had a burning desire to change a situation and couldn’t do it on your own? My Christian journey dates as far back as 1982 at age 7, when I was baptized and confirmed as a Roman Catholic. I went to church religiously but never once prayed at home until 1990 when the civil war broke out in my Country Liberia. My first encounter with prayers as a Christian outside church was when I was displaced with my Aunt and her family in Kakata, Margibi County in 1990. Upon returning home, I quickly continued the practice of praying by introducing it to my Mother and Siblings. Sooner or later, I wouldn’t continue to pray, because as the Bible says Iron Sharpens Iron, there was no one there to inspire me and I wasn’t yet grounded in the things of the Spirit. In 1993, while completing the senior high school, I lost my father and conditions compelled me to move in with a classmate. This classmate, who is a sister till today, introduced me to a different level of prayer. We fasted, we prayed at midnight, and this time we were not just repeating words, but we prayed about the problems we had, this was new insight.

As the years went by and I grew into adult hood, I encountered so many difficulties and setbacks that I couldn’t figure my life out. I couldn’t afford a place