Dear David.
It has been a while since I
wrote an article on prayer because I have been renovating my condio and
house. I wish to Now it is time to get
back into talking about the most important ministry of all. The reason it is the most important ministry
is because Jesus is doing it right now.
James writes that we have not because we ask not. In James 4:2, James reminds us that the
reason we do not have from God is because we do not spend time with Him. The comedy network has as it slogan, time
well wasted. Prayer is time well
wasted. When you come to God in prayer it
is more than releasing your bucket list to God.
It is a time of intimacy and love.
You are spending time with the creator of the universe. You are communing with the one who can meet
everyone of your needs.
I am always amazed how people
refuse to pray. They have a thousand
excuses of why they cannot pray. The
reality is you cannot afford to not pray.
Prayer is the one avenue in which you can and will receive everything
you need in life. Prayer is greater than
anything else because God himself is standing behind every prayer. You have not because you ask not. We need to ask and then by faith be ready to
receive. God is waiting to spend time
with us. He wants to minister to every
need, want and desire. He has a great
plan and purpose for our lives. So often
we live for far below our potential is is almost sickening.
It is time we reach out in
prayer. Let us today take time and
commune with God. Let us make sure that
everyday we set time aside to pray. It
is greater than any yoga exercise, work out plan or actvity. Prayer is life itself. It is life everlasting. It is abundant life. It brings joy, peace, patience and
victory. Let us pray and let us receive
when we ask.
Dear David
I want to spend some time
talking to you about the most powerful Old Testament people. This of course is Noah. Noah was the Great Grandson of Enoch and
Methuselah. Noah lived during a time
that was so sorrupt that the Lord determined to destroy the entire world. We are almost in that time ourselves. We live in a time where right has become
wrong and wrong has become right. Noah
was the only righteous man of that generation.
The amazing thing about Noah was his ability to hear God. This was because he was a man of prayer. Prayer gives you the ability and opportunity
to hear and know God.
Noah heard the word of the Lord
and was obedient to that word for 100 years.
I wonder how many of us hear the word of the Lord and then obey it. In Noah's case he became the laughing stock
of his generation. Tha ark has often
been called Noah's folly. One thing
prayer does is helps us to be true to the task.
When circumstances scream you are in over your head. Prayer says stay in there you are walking in
God's agenda and not your own. Prayer
keeps us focused and on track. Prayer
keep you in the right direction and keeps you from going the wrong way.
True people of prayer hear from
God and then walk in obedience to the word of the Lord they have heard. Noah would take this message to a world that
did not want to hear it. The reality was
that he was right and every one else was wrong and in time all lost their
lives. Prayer is life and death. You fight for the lives of others and in turn
can keep them from death. Today we must
take prayer for what it is, life and death.
You are in a war with the devil and he takes no prisoners, his agenda is
rob, kill and destroy. He does not care
about you. He shows no mercy, gives no
reprieve and attacks all the times. He
will never give up until he destroys you and everything you stand for. So today be like Noan in your
generation. Stand in prayer and do
everything you can to save and heal you world through prayer,
David
You know what I love about Noah and his
prayer life. It was so one on one. God could tell Noah to do anything and
without question he would do it. Each
step of Noah's journey of life was mark by prayer and his response to God. When God told him to build a boat on dry
land, he did. It took him one hundred
years to do the task but in the end it was his obedience that got the job
done.
Noah was a preacher of righteousness. You cannot be a preacher of righteousness
without being a prayer of righteousness.
Righteousness is right standing with God and man. It is the ability to hear from God and then
do his right thing. You cannot even try
to be righteous without God. You need to
hear, know and be what God wants you to be.
That only comes from spending time with Him which Noah did. Noah's testimony in his world was that he was
a righteous man. Oh, how we need people
like him today. Right thinking, words,
attitudes, motives and action. Hear from
God and then doing it. Obedience is the
greatest testimony a person can have.
Noah was an example of all of these.
We need more Noah's today. It is becoming like the days of Noah in
Canada but this is not the end of the story.
There is a Noah ready to emerge.
This person will come forward when as they spend time with the
Lord. John Wesley emerged when England
was in its darkest hour. John Knox come
forward during the dark days of Bloody
Mary. William Wilberforce came when
slavery was destroying the British empire.
God has his person. My question
is are we williong to pay the price?
Noah stayed the course for 100 years.
Will we stay the course for how ever long it takes? Through prayer we will.
David
A moment is prayer can change
everything. In that moment you invite
the Lord into the situation. Paul tells
us to bring everything to God in prayer.
We do not have to carry one burden ourselves. I am always amazed how like too many others
will worry, fuss and carry burdens and then when everything is too much then I
cry out to God. The real secret of
abundant living is turning everything over to God as soon as the need
arises. Immediately prayer can change a
situation around quickly. It can shorten
a lesson or circumstance. Also if the
problem persists you will receive strength and wisdom to work and walk through
it.
I am sometimes so slow in reaching out to
God. I suppose that there is an
independent streak in all of us. That
part of us that says, “Its ok God I got this.
The problem is we don’t got it.
The world, the flesh and devil are better at what they do then we often
are. They live the spiritual realm and
we do not. They attacked at our point of
weakness and often we do not even know the weakness exists until it too
late. That is why we are encouraged to
be anxious for nothing but with prayer and supplication to make our request be known
to God.
The Christian life is moment by moment,
event by event. So today do not live as
if you have all the time in the world and that you can handle everything. Bring everything to the Lord no matter how
large or small. Ask for divine intervention
and the promise is that you will receive it.
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