August 9, 2012
The Road To A Relationship With God
Is Paved With Prayer
Part Four
“Prayers Changing Powers”
“One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.”
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Prayer, or at least the words that comprise our prayers, do not hold any power in and of themselves. But when our heart; through the prayers we pray, connects with the heart of God: His power and love activated in response to our prayers, definitely has the ability to effect changes. However, it is not always in a way or by a means we may think: and often that thing we are praying to have changed: may not be the actual thing that gets changed. Often the most effective changes wrought by prayer are those changes that occur within us as individuals.
“It is not so true that ‘prayer changes things’ as that prayer changes me and I change things.”
- Oswald Chambers
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thessalonians 1:11-12
“Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don’t pray more.”
- Oswald Chambers
One of the most amazing things about really opening ourselves up to God through our prayer life is that it affords Him the opportunity to make changes in us and it enables us to be the beneficiaries of His changes.
“Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.”
– Samuel M. Shoemaker
Are you willing to open yourself up to the possibilities of what God wants to do and will do if you will only ask Him and talk to Him about it?
Pray and be amazed at the work God will do in you.
Today’s Prayer
Father, you are a God of amazing wonders: awesome possibilities and greater opportunities than I can imagine: may I always be open to talking to you about them and even more open to allowing you to do what only you can do in me, so that I can do more for you in the world in which I live.
“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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