Fear Not — 150-Day Devotional
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Prayer Cross-Reference Library · Movement 5 of 6
Prayer as a Way of Life
Ascending, Strengthening, Revelation, and Healing
Prayer was never meant to be an event you attend. It was meant to be the air you breathe.
Here prayer stops being a task on a list and becomes a way of living. Alah is prayer that ascends, lifting your spirit into God's higher perspective. There is prayer that strengthens you in the secret place, prayer that enlarges your capacity and territory, Galah that receives revelation and uncovers hidden things, and Rapha that lays hold of God's covenant of healing. Prayer becomes the most intelligent and strategic thing a human being can do with their time.
The Scriptures
7 Cross-Reference Verses
1
Psalm 141:2 AMPC
"Let my prayer be set forth as incense before You, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice."
Alah — prayer that ascends like incense, lifting both petition and spirit into God's higher place.
2
Isaiah 40:31 AMPC
"They who wait for the Lord… shall mount up [close to God] as eagles."
Waiting in prayer produces ascent — rising above the low places into His perspective.
3
Philippians 4:13 AMPC
"I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me."
Prayer in the secret place draws strength from time alone with God.
4
Psalm 119:18 AMPC
"Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Your law."
Galah — prayer that receives revelation, asking God to remove the covering from your eyes.
5
Amos 3:7 AMPC
"Surely the Lord God will do nothing without revealing His secret to His servants the prophets."
God uncovers (galah) His plans to those who seek Him — revelation is part of the praying life.
6
Exodus 15:26 AMPC
"I am the Lord Who heals you."
Rapha — prayer lays hold of God's covenant of healing, part of His revealed name.
7
Psalm 107:20 AMPC
"He sends forth His word and heals them."
Healing comes by His word released — the praying life expects His word to restore.
Hebrew & Greek
Key Word Study
עָלָה
To go up, ascend, climb, rise. The verb of the burnt offering (olah) that rises wholly to God. Prayer in alah lets both petition and spirit ascend into God's higher perspective.
— Psalm 141:2
גָּלָה
To uncover, reveal, disclose — to pull back a veil so what was always present can finally be seen. The Greek equivalent is apokalupsis, revelation.
— Psalm 119:18
רָפָא
To heal, cure, restore to wholeness. Part of the covenant name Jehovah-Rapha — healing belongs to God's revealed nature, not merely His occasional acts.
— Exodus 15:26
The Anchor Verse
Ephesians 6:18
"Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit… with all perseverance."
— AMPC
"Praying always" describes a lifestyle, not a moment — every kind of prayer, in every season, sustained by the Spirit. Prayer woven into the whole fabric of daily life is the goal of the entire journey.
Application
What This Means for You
Prayer that ascends (alah) does not leave you where it found you. Like the burnt offering that rose entirely to God, it lifts your spirit out of the low places of fear and discouragement into the higher perspective from which God sees your situation.
A praying life is a seeing life. Galah is the asking that says "open my eyes" — and God answers by pulling back the veil on what was there all along. Much of what you need is not absent; it is simply uncovered in His presence.
Because Rapha is part of God's name, healing prayer is not begging God to act against His nature — it is appealing to a covenant He initiated. When God heals, He does not merely relieve symptoms; He restores to wholeness across body, soul, and spirit.