December 27, 2011
Prayer – The Appropriate Activity For Any Situation
Today’s Thought:
“Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.” – Charles G. Finney
Today’s Quote:
“They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.” – Richard M. Milnes
Today’s Question:
Did you know: “Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays?” – Soren Keirkegaard
Today’s Bible Verses: Jonah 2:7, Psalms 102:17 & Luke 22:44
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Today’s Spiritual Thought”
“Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.” – Samuel M. Showmaker
While faith is essential to becoming a Christian and necessary to have to live as a Christian: for without it we cannot be pleasing to God: prayers is also vital, important and necessary if we want to have a meaningful and healthy relationship with God.
“Faith and hope, and patience and all the strong, beautiful, vital forces of piety are withered and dead in a prayerless life. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian grace have their being, bloom, and fruitage in prayer.” – E. M. Bounds
“All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.” - Delma Jackson
Prayer is the essential to the fostering, development and maintenance of our relationship with Him. No relationship can be whole or complete if it does not have as one of its fundamental components healthy communication: and prayer is the primary vehicle by which we communicate with our Heavenly Father.
Oswald Chambers stated that; “The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.”
John Newton put it this way: “Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies, the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.”
The truth of the matter is – regardless of how you look at it: what your perspective is or how you may think about it – without prayer you cannot, will not and won’t have a complete, whole and full relationship with God.
Prayer is essential, needful and appropriate for every circumstance, every situation and is needful at all times, every day, everywhere.
Even scripture teaches us that we need to: “Pray without ceasing.” – The Bible (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
Today’s Prayer:
Father in everything, at all time, for every season and in every situation may my life be seasoned, saturated and surrounded with prayer.
“What is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer!”
- David Brown
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