The Most Transforming Prayer

The most transforming prayer that can ever be prayed is……….
Contrary to popular belief, it’s not “God bless me to be a millionaire”. It’s not, “Master make me the head and not the tail”. It’s not “Lord place my enemies under my feet”. It‘s not even “Father bless me to minister all over the world”. The most transforming prayer that can be prayed is, “Father let your will be done in my life. I submit my will to your will. In Jesus’ name, Amen”.

Why is this prayer so transforming? Because when we pray this prayer as believers, we allow God to do in our lives what He desires to do and not what we desire for Him to do. We also allow Him to reposition us to be what He wants us to be so we can do what He wants us to do. We assume that our hopes, dreams, and goals are Gods hopes, dreams and goals for us as well. This may or may not be true, but the only way to really know for sure is to submit our will unto the will of God by praying the transforming prayer.

Now if you noticed, I used the phrase, “we allow God”. That’s right. The all-powerful God wants our permission to come in and transform our lives. Revelation 3:20 reads, “Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me”.

When God created us, He gave us a will. Merriam-Webster defines “will” as desire, wish, appetite, passion, choice, and
determination. These are some strong “will” words. God doesn’t force His way on us or break down our door. The doorknob is on the inside. He loves us and He wants us to accept His will and His way willingly.

Now please don’t be mistaken in thinking that He can’t override our will. Believe me, if we have gone too far in our disobedience, He can and He will! He can do what He wants to, when He wants to, how He wants to, to whom He wants to. Not to mention, there is consequence for sin and disobedience. But because of His grace and mercy He gives us time to make the righteous choice. He wants us to surrender to Him on our own. God doesn’t want us to obey Him out of obligation, He wants us to obey Him because we love and trust Him. Think about it, if you were Him, wouldn’t you want the same?

We may even choose to disobey God and He still may not do anything to stop us. Think about Adam and Eve for instance. God told them they could eat from every tree in the garden, just not from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but still they disobeyed. Now we know God is all-knowing. When they were about to sin (the sin that would affect generations to come, by the way), couldn’t He have spoken in His powerful voice of authority and yelled “Stop! Halt! You’re going the wrong way! You are about to affect generations to come!” But instead, God did nothing! He didn’t stop them because He wanted them to be obedient to what He’d told them not to do.

God may not even stop us from making certain decisions or doing certain things that He totally disapproves of. Just like He didn’t stop Adam and Eve, He won’t stop us. So a lot of us as believers have been deceived into thinking that just because God doesn’t stop us, it must be His will and He must approves. We live under the assumption that our wants are okay with God, whether we submit to His will or not. I mean, surely He wants what we want, right? Believe it or not, some of us have jobs, careers and even lifestyles that was never apart of God's plan for lives.

We could be wealthy and still be out of the will of God. For instance, there are atheist that are billionaires. But "only a fool hath said in his heart, there is no God (Psalm 14:1)". We even drive cars and live in houses that God had nothing to do with. Is it because He doesn't want us to have these things? That couldn' be farther from the truth. God wants us to trust in Him with all of our heart and lean not unto our own understanding. We should acknowledge Him in all our ways and He will direct our path (Proverbs 3:5&6). If we didn’t submit our decisions to God before we made them, we were already out of His will. God and God alone knows what’s best for us.

Now asking God to let His will be done in our lives will cause what may look like negative changes on the outside, but a transformation is taking place on the inside. These changes may look like they’re for the worst, but they are working for the good. Some of the changes may be in our relationships, on our jobs, in our finances, and even in our everyday lives. There may be changes such as break-ups in certain relationships, lay-offs or even involuntary terminations on our jobs. Finances may become strained. Even our health may be affected as well. So often when these changes start to take place, we think the devil is the one responsible. Well guess what? It’s not the devil; it’s God. The devil may have brought it, but God sent it. This is His way of placing us in a position of total trust in Him.

When we start to lose material things when submitting to the will of God, it can only be for at least three reasons: 1) We were out of God’s timing when we puchased them, 2) It was something that was never a part of God’s plan for our lives, and/or 3) These things have been more valuable to us than God and He has to move them out of the way to get our attention. In other words, He may have to back us up to catch us up.

God allows some things to change on the outside in order to change some things on the inside. Just like anything of value, it gets worse before it gets better. Real gold has to go through purification by fire,a major meltdown, and tested, to be considered true gold. During a major construction project, or even reconstruction, there has to be a tearing down before a building up. Even for a surgery to be successful, the surgeon has to cut and dig and…..well you know what I mean.

We are just that valuable to God that He has to clean us out before he cleans us up. He has to purify us by taking some things out of us that we may not have known we had (jealousy, envy, strife, malice, hatred, lasciviousness, bitterness, animosity, pride, lust, lying, etc.) to put the things in us that are pleasing to Him (love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, faithfulness, meekness, temperance, and self-control).

Surprisingly so, no matter how long we’ve been saved by the blood of Jesus, we still may not have submitted to the will of God. Jesus is truly our Savior; we just may have not accepted Him as Lord. But God still loves us and He only wants what’s best for us. He is faithful to His Word and He has a divine plan for our lives.

Now if we are hesitant, or even fearful, to pray the transforming prayer, it shows that we haven’t completely submitted our will to the will of God. This also gives indication that we know there are some things in our lives that we have not surrendered to God and that we are not ready to face the truth about. The reality is that we need to accept the truth about who we actually are and what’s really going on in our lives no matter what others think about us. Time out for impressing people and time in for pleasing God. We need to allow God to deal with us, so we can be all that He wants us to be. If we don’t, we will only cheat ourselves out of knowing God for who He really is, and continue on living our lives according to who we think He is.

Now please be aware that it was never meant for us as believers to do anything on our own. We have our helper, the Holy Spirit, to lead us into all truth. Even when we get off track, which we all do sometimes, He will convict us unto righteousness. We just have to be willing to be led and accept the conviction.


So I encourage you to submit your will to the will of God and pray the prayer that transforms lives. Your life will never be the same. You will experience peace that surpasses all understanding, strength beyond measure, and moreover, a closer and more intimate relationship with God.