Prayer is in threefold:
1. Fellowship with God
2. Intercession
3. Warfare
If God is not in a place definitely satan is there and one of the ways of bringing God to the scene is through the ministry of prayer; interceding for men/women.
If you're a man/woman of prayer; the world will definitely cry out to you one day. Do you know that your world start from your home?
If you accept the responsibility of an intercessor; God won't be able to do anything in your family until he told you and satan won't be able to do anything in your family until you're told so you can resist him,it's a twofold revelation.
It has nothing to do with a being a preacher, pastor or prophet. Bible says men ought always to pray and not to faint.
You shouldn't rely on someone's spirituality because it's a requirement for every Elishas to carry the double portion of Elijah's because the kind of warfare that will face Elishas will require double portion anointing.
Destinies of people are on your shoulder and failure to rise to a dimension of grace will make those people to suffer. Prophet Isaiah prophesied about Jesus "the government will be upon his shoulder" and Jesus told us in John 14 verse 12 "truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I go to the father.
When you decide to accept the role of an intercessor; you will begin to see and hear things that ordinary people can't hear and see because when you're praying, you're praying you're legislating in the realm of spirit for the will of God to find expression on Earth.
For you to survive in this wicked world you need prayer because men ought always to pray and not to faint. It's a requirement.
You can't know the potency of your prayer until you study the book of James chapter 5 verse 16b - 18: the prayer of a righteous man has great power in it's effects. Elijah was a man of like nature with ourselves and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth it's fruit.
Do you know that men are under the influence of spirits? It can either be light or darkness. You should accept the responsibility of an intercessor; remember at least one person in your prayer everyday; don't do it as a ritual but do it for grace.
Things to note about prayer:
1. Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them. (Mathew 6 verse 6: but when you pray, go into your room and shut your door and pray to your father who is in secret; and your father who sees in secret will reward you)
2. Forgiveness: whenever you decide to be a man/woman of prayer; satan will orchestrate offences to come your way because he knows that unforgiveness will hinder your prayer before God (Mathew 6 verse 14 - 15: for if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly father also will forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your father forgive your trespasses.
Prayer is key, Jesus started with prayer and ended with prayer