Do You Realize the Deep Importance of Prayer?

Tip! 'Asking of God' and 'receiving' from the Lord - direct request to God, immediate connection with God - that is true prayer.

We can only profit from the Holy Scriptures when we are brought to the realization of the deep importance of prayer. I am afraid that many present-day Christian readers and students of the Bible have no deep convictions that a definite prayer-life is absolutely essential for our daily walking and communing with God.

Prayer is for the deliverance from the power of indwelling sin in our lives, the luring and temptations and seductions of this world, and also for the release from the assaults of Satan. How can we send our children to school without praying for them first? If we don"t pray for them who will? Is your marriage about to fall apart? Why have you not prayed to our Father about it? Are you having trouble at work with your boss or are you facing a possible layoff? How can you not pray for help?

If such a conviction really gripped our hearts, would we not spend far more time on our faces before God? But yet our reply is always the same, "I have a multitude of things that have to be done that crowd out prayer, even though it is very much against my wishes." But the fact remains that each of us takes time for anything we deem to be important.

Whoever lived a busier life than our Savior? Yet who found more time for prayer? If we truly desire to be prayerful and intercessors before God Almighty our Father and use all the available time we now have, He will so order things for us that we will have more time for prayer. Just ask Him to help you, He will!

I can see this lack of positive conviction of the deep importance of prayer; and it is plainly demonstrated in the corporate lives of most professing Christians. God has very plainly said, "My house shall be called the house of prayer" (Matthew 21:13). Note: Jesus did not say "the house of preaching and singing," but of prayer.

Tip! Let us always be aware of the fact that the power that is achieved to do the greater works that are required for Christ, is only gained through fervent prayer and faith in Jesus Christ.

Yet, in the great majority of even so-called orthodox churches, the ministry of prayer has become a negligible quantity. There are still evangelistic campaigns, and Bible-teaching conferences, but how rarely do we hear of two weeks set apart for special prayer! And how much good do these "Bible conferences" accomplish if the prayer-life of the churches is not strengthened?

But when the Spirit of God is applied in power to our hearts such words as:

Mark 14:38 "Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation..."

Tip! Approach God in prayer and ask for a fit body. Get clear and visualize your fit body and believe.

Philippians 4:6 "Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;"

Colossians 4:2 "Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving;"

Then we are profiting from the Holy Scriptures, God's Word the Holy Bible.