June 15, 2014

Pray: June 9, 2014

TODAYS WORD FOR MONDAY JUNE 9, 2014.

PRAY

DEFINITION:

To offer a devout petition, praise, thanks, to God. To communicate with a supreme being.

SCRIPTURE:

For this reason I tell you, whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. Mark 11:24.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

Everyone desires to have someone in their life who understands them and identifies with their circumstances and with whom they can share their thoughts and concerns. Jesus is that someone, and because of His death and resurrection we have the privilege of communicating with Him through prayer. Through prayer we can have an intimate connection to God and come directly to His throne of grace.

Prayer is not about petitioning God to bend His will to conform to our desires. It is us seeking God’s will and submitting to it.

The dictionary defines prayer as not only devout petition but praise and thanks. So often our prayers are motivated by our selfish motives and desires. How often do most of us pray just to thank God for His blessings to us and to praise Him for who He is and for His righteousness and goodness.

Many believers struggle with prayer because they do not feel that God hears them because they do not seem to get answers. There are several principles that one who knows Christ must understand about prayer and the response that God gives.

First, your heart must be right with God. You cannot be living a worldly life sinning against God and when trouble comes your way you stop and pray and expect God to answer. Secondly, you must be reading and studying God’s Word daily. When you know the content of the Bible God will speak to you by the words you read and the Holy Spirit will lead you to your answer through your understanding of what is right and wrong. In other words you must be communicating to God and then listening for His response.

God is never farther than a prayer away and prayer should never be far from our lips. There are so many times and reasons we should pray and yet we do not. We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in times of prosperity, lest we become boastful and proud. We are to pray in times of danger, lest we become fearful and doubting. We need to pray in times of security, lest we become self-sufficient.

Sinners need to pray to a merciful God for forgiveness. Christians need to pray for an outpouring of God’s Spirit upon a willful, evil, unrepentant world. Parents need to pray that God may crown their home with grace and mercy. Children need to pray for the salvation of their parents. Christians need to pray that the dew of heaven may fall on earth’s dry, thirsty ground, and that righteousness may cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. God will answer. He will not turn a deaf ear.

LEARNING:

Our memory verse for this week is found in Romans 3:23.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

PRAYER:

Let me pour everything I have and know out to You, O Lord, so You can use me as an instrument to further Your gospel. Give me listening ears to hear Your answers to my prayers. Thank You for the knowledge that You hear me and will answer me.



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