This subject is clearly on my mind today and this is what I
want to write about. It’s about
Prayer! I write this as the day is
ending and all day we have gotten news of someone needing prayer one after
another. We are feeling helpless,
we want to go to them but what can you do, we ask ourselves? Our friend found
out today she has breast cancer, in a few days she will get the details of
where this journey with take its course.
Another friend ask prayer for her husband who had a massive stroke and
his future hangs in balance. That is just a few to put on our list of all the
others. One good thing happen
today among all the above. My
niece Angie, text me with exciting news with a sonogram picture of our newest family member she will
be having in February, this was happy news among the sadness we felt within an
hour ….
What do you do when you hurt so badly for your friends in
need and you don’t know what to do? You pray. That is one thing that I have always felt I didn’t
understand, and I know we will never.
We aren’t wired to know we’re just told to do it and like we breathe each breath. You ask Father for answers and
sometimes you just hear “crickets”. I’m just sharing my heart here! Don’t judge me you know what I am
talking about. I think, no I know... this is the release we need
when we hurt with those who hurt.
Prayer is giving it to God who then takes it and works it to His good
not ours. I had a paradigm shift
and felt so small when I heard this the other day. It was a comment given after
a beautiful young lady was killed in an auto accident, this person near to her
said:
“Many times we pray for God to heal someone or to keep
him or her safe. Sometimes God chooses to make them perfect instead, and brings
them home with him.”
Wow! That brings you into focus on leaving it with the One
who knows all things! I think I will take the Devotional I read each year when it comes around on May 26th in My Utmost for His Highest and digest it into my soul that is needing it right now. Prayer is not just something we do once in a while, it is
part of us that gives us relief while knowing we can’t fix it or control
it. Let's read this together, maybe you are where I am today.....
Pray without ceasing . . . —1 Thessalonians 5:17
Our thinking about prayer, whether right or wrong, is
based on our own mental conception of it. The correct concept is to think of
prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts. Our blood
flows and our breathing continues, “without ceasing”; we are not even conscious
of it, but it never stops. And we are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us
in perfect oneness with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is. Prayer is
not an exercise; it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the
offering up of prayer. “Pray without ceasing . . .”— maintain the childlike
habit of offering up prayer in your heart to God all the time.
Jesus never mentioned unanswered prayer. He had the
unlimited certainty of knowing that prayer is always answered. Do we have
through the Spirit of God that inexpressible certainty that Jesus had about
prayer, or do we think of the times when it seemed that God did not answer our
prayer? Jesus said, “. . . everyone who asks receives . . .” (Matthew 7:8).
Yet we say, “But . . . , but . . . .” God answers prayer in the best way— not
just sometimes, but every time. However, the evidence of the answer in the area
we want it may not always immediately follow. Do we expect God to answer
prayer?
The danger we have is that we want to water down what
Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense. But if
it were only common sense, what He said would not even be worthwhile. The
things Jesus taught about prayer are supernatural truths He reveals to us.
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