"I guess the only thing I can do is pray..."
How many times have you or a friend used that line? As if praying was a last resort?
Why don't we make prayer our first response? I know that many times hitting the ground on your knees seems like an inaction to respond to certain areas, almost as if you're taking the easy way out, but why is that?
When you're stuck with a hard math problem, is it useless to ask a teacher or a parent to help?
When you need to cry something out, is it pointless to call a friend to talk?
When you got hurt on your bicycle, did you avoid running to your parents to fix you up?
So why do we poo-poo running to God, the All-Mighty Creator, the One who calls us friend and child by His grace only, when He is so much better than any earthly being? Why do we avoid Him when He has promised to always hear us, to never leave us, nor forsake us? As if sending Jesus wasn't enough to proove His love for us, He left the Holy Spirit down with us to comfort us and to continue to show God to us!
Prayer without ceasing. That's a command passed down from the Creator Himself; it's not a choice, not a recommendation- it's a command! When God commands us to do something, we had better listen.
And why? Because prayer has power! "Ask anything in My name and you shall recieve it". "Knock and the door will be opened unto you; seek and you shall find". "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much". The list goes on and on! He put those promises in the Bible for a reason. If you believe God is not a liar, then you had better believe that God means these promises!
When brings this to another point: pray in faith! Take a look at Hebrews 11. It lists all these mighty works that Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, and so many others accomplished in Christ. But take a look at the beginning of all their deeds: By faith. By Faith Abel... By faith Enoch... By faith Noah....
By faith you...
Take this world in a storm. Don't be content to sit back and watch, but make a decision every day to battle for us. Not by prayer I guess, but by spiritual warfare. Hit the ground on those praying knees, and let them never wear out!
"Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." Hebrews 13:5b
Never stop praying. 1 Thessalonians 5:17
You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. John 14:14
So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. Luke 11:9
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. James 5:16
Hebrews 11
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