“Prayer is the conduit through which the power from heaven is brought to earth.” O. Hallesby once said that. That gives us such a great word picture about the heaven – earth connection. “Prayer is the conduit through which the power from heaven is brought to earth.” Jesus said in the Lord’s Prayer that He desired for God’s kingdom to come and for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. When we pray, we get to be a part of seeing that accomplished! We‘re bringing the power from heaven down to the earth. The Bible tells us to pray all manner of prayer. There are many kinds of prayer we can participate in. Prayer really does change things – and when we pray the prayer of agreement, or binding and loosing, or the prayer of faith, or the prayer of supplication, or intercessory prayer, or united prayer, or the prayer is worship and thanksgiving or the prayer is dedication and consecration, we open the windows of heaven to change situations on earth. I love it when prayer is answered quickly. To pray one day and have the answer the next is awesome. It is awesome when that happens. But there are times that we need to soak a situation in prayer, and believe long term that things are changing. It may not happen overnight, but God is at work and soon the situation will look very different from how it is now. The prayer of consecration and dedication is one that we can continue to do. Daily we can offer our lives to God to be a tool in His hands to be His hands and feet to a hurting world. Daily we can worship and praise as a prayer of thanksgiving and worship thanking God for who He is and what He has done in our lives. Daily we can bring our requests unto God and then thank Him that the answer is on its way. I hope today’s dailyeword has made you more aware of our responsibility to be praying, and revealed the joys that result from our obedience. Let’s get disciplined in our Christian walk to make prayer a priority in our lives. Then our words can be part of the pipeline from heaven to earth, seeing God’s will done right here where we live.