August 8, 2012
The Road To A Relationship With God
Is Paved With Prayer
Part Three
“The Practicality of Prayer”
“Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.”
- Thomas Brooks
Often we do not equate spiritual matters with practical value. We tend to sometimes view those things that are of a spiritual nature, to be above or beyond the confines of practicality and significance in a more common sense. And while prayer can be, and often does have impacts and implications on and for our lives that transcends the day to day practical needs of our daily existence: prayer also has a very significant place and it’s impact should be acknowledged and realized in a very real and practical way as we go through the events and activities of each and every day.
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 5:13-16
“Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is the power of prayer.”
- Norman Vincent Peale
If you doubt the potential power of prayer to influence, affect and impact your life in a practical way – try praying with more intensity, with greater fervency and more frequently for the next week and just watch and see how amazed you will be and what God will do.
“The influence of prayer on the human mind and body can be measured in terms of the increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.”
– Dr. Alexis Carrel
Today’s Prayer
Father, your hand reaches so far and your desire, to be involved, in even the most common and mundane aspects of my life, often amazes me: yet you love that much. Help me to be more faithful to talk with you in prayer and allow you to have access and authority in and over even the most common and practical aspects of my life.
“Give me your eyes
For just one second
Give me your eyes so I can see
Everything that I’ve been missing
Give me your love for humanity.
Give me your arms for the brokenhearted
Ones that are far beyond my reach
Give me your heart for the ones forgotten
Give me your eyes so I can see“
- Lyrics from ‘Give Me Your Eyes’ by Brandon Heath and Jason Ingram
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