We are always in a hurry, to work, to bed, to the next thing. We don’t have time to pray….Satan gets a victory in that thought and action. He wants to keep us from praying for he understands the power that lies within us when we pray. Have you ever noticed that when you open your bible, or you start to pray a distraction immediately comes? That really is no coincidence, that is your enemy hard at work to keep you from deepening your relationship with your heavenly Father. Press on through that distraction, or immediately after it is resolved with renewed vigor as a result of the distraction. Just talk to God……and then be still and listen to that small voice deep inside you.
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Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
How often do you pray? How often do you seek the things of God through meditation and prayer? Is it simply the routine blessing at meal times, and the effortless “now I lay me down” type prayer in the evenings? It is so easy to say we pray regularly, but how would those close regard us if we spoke to them the same way? God has prepared us for much more than that. I must confess that I am not an elegant prayer person myself, but yet I pour my heart out to God in my simple prayers.
Matthew Henry said “Pray; pray often; pray with sincerity and seriousness; pray, and pray again; make conscience of prayer, and be constant in it; make a business of prayer, and be earnest in it. Ask, as a beggar asks alms.” Prayer is not asking what God can do for you, it is not asking what we can do for God. Prayer is the alignment of our lives, into God’s Will for our lives. Prayer takes us to God, and even when we cannot find the words, the Holy Spirit inside us will utter the words only God can hear for us. Prayer is the most feared tool of Satan, and the power that resides in you through Christ is available only when you humble yourself and talk to God….daily.
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