Changing People by Prayer
Many times when we pray, our prayer
are filled with a greater degree of doubt than with confidence. We tend to
forget that in order for God to answer our requests, our prayers must be in
line with His will. However, sometimes when we are faced with the uncertainty
of our prayer being in God’s will, we begin worry or become confused and then,
we will occasionally fall silent.
God’s will for us is to have a
healthy relationship with Him through His Son, Jesus. That means we must know
the Father with increasing intimacy and our goal should be that we become more
and more like Jesus. By focusing our prayers on having this type of
relationship with the Lord, simply makes it easier to know what to pray. We
need to find a scripture that tells us
something about God’s character, and pray that for others and for yourself. The
results are:
- You can pray with confidence
because God wants His children to be like Jesus Christ.
- You can pray expectantly
because you know He will work out His will in our lives.
- You can cooperate with the Holy
Spirit while He works to develop the same quality in you.
Prayer is not a game where we have to
guess when to talk to the Lord or about what. When we study scripture we will
discover that it is full of God’s attributes and His desires for our lives.
Pick one and start praying. Then watch what God does in response. Prayer gains
access to the proud spirit, to the hardened heart, to the unbelieving mind;
there are no walls too high or thick for Him to breach. So pray God’s will and
watch lives change—especially your own.
Yours in Christ's
service,
Tom Snowden, Chaplain
Confess your trespasses
to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. James 5:16
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