Pray as though your life depends upon it
So I say to you, Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. – Luke 11:9-10 (NSRV)
I’ve just finished reading Max Lucado’s Facing Your Giants. This book is about David and his trials and tribulations. Of all of the people in the Bible, David’s life may have the most extremes. He is one of the most devout persons, and one of the biggest sinners. He is a study of contrasts and contradictions. But Lucado points out how David goes from good to bad and from high to low.
When David accomplishes his greatest feats, slaying Goliath, uniting the tribes of Israel, and bringing the Ark to Jerusalem, he constantly prayed and asked God for guidance. When David has his lowest moments, taking the holy bread from Nob, the affair with Bathsheba and killing Uriah, having multiple wives and concubines and ignoring his children, he strayed from God.
I’ve come to realize that I find a correlation between my bad days and my prayers. The days when things don’t go right are the days when I don’t make time to talk to God. It isn’t that because I didn’t pray that I have a bad day. God doesn’t punish me because I haven’t spoken to Him. God doesn’t pout because I haven’t called, and therefore decide to ship a plague of locusts to my address. Because I haven’t taken the time to talk to God, and put my heart and mind and soul in the right place, I make the choices and do the things that create the bad day. Instead of talking to God, I order the locust special.
If you pray daily, pray in the morning, pray in the evening, pray before meals, pray before class, pray before meetings, pray before doctor appointments, you go into the day or event with God on your lips, on your mind and in your heart. You have opened the door for God to come into your life. You have changed your attitude toward everything. When you talk to God, you admit and recognize that you can not do it by yourself. When you ask God for help, you feel the weight of the day, of life, of the world being lifted from your shoulders. Through God, all things are possible. We only have to ask for His help and guidance.
Pray as though nothing of eternal value is going to happen in your life unless God does it. Because nothing will.
I’ve just finished reading Max Lucado’s Facing Your Giants. This book is about David and his trials and tribulations. Of all of the people in the Bible, David’s life may have the most extremes. He is one of the most devout persons, and one of the biggest sinners. He is a study of contrasts and contradictions. But Lucado points out how David goes from good to bad and from high to low.
When David accomplishes his greatest feats, slaying Goliath, uniting the tribes of Israel, and bringing the Ark to Jerusalem, he constantly prayed and asked God for guidance. When David has his lowest moments, taking the holy bread from Nob, the affair with Bathsheba and killing Uriah, having multiple wives and concubines and ignoring his children, he strayed from God.
I’ve come to realize that I find a correlation between my bad days and my prayers. The days when things don’t go right are the days when I don’t make time to talk to God. It isn’t that because I didn’t pray that I have a bad day. God doesn’t punish me because I haven’t spoken to Him. God doesn’t pout because I haven’t called, and therefore decide to ship a plague of locusts to my address. Because I haven’t taken the time to talk to God, and put my heart and mind and soul in the right place, I make the choices and do the things that create the bad day. Instead of talking to God, I order the locust special.
If you pray daily, pray in the morning, pray in the evening, pray before meals, pray before class, pray before meetings, pray before doctor appointments, you go into the day or event with God on your lips, on your mind and in your heart. You have opened the door for God to come into your life. You have changed your attitude toward everything. When you talk to God, you admit and recognize that you can not do it by yourself. When you ask God for help, you feel the weight of the day, of life, of the world being lifted from your shoulders. Through God, all things are possible. We only have to ask for His help and guidance.
Pray as though nothing of eternal value is going to happen in your life unless God does it. Because nothing will.
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