Why Pray (2)
Hello everyone,
How are you doing today? I hope well and yes, bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for indeed He is faithful, He is true, kind and wonderful. And we have the wonderful power of prayer, just being able to talk to our God about everything and anything. To talk to Him about ourselves, and also about others, even as we intercede, or even seek healing for hurts. Why do we pray? So many reasons, but we know that we have been told:
Primary Text: 1 Thessalonians 5v17
“Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];” 1 Thessalonians 5v17 (AMP)
Prayer moves the hand of God. The Word of God says – “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Matthew 7v7-8). James 4v2 (AMP) says “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but you do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.” Are you submitting your desires, your wants, your needs to God, or are you fretting and coveting what other people have? Jesus said, “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” (John 16v24). Go to God in prayer. However, we need to check our motives for some things we ask, the Bible noting in James 4v3 “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” But the wonderful thing with prayer, is that even when we find ourselves yielding to the flesh, we can ask God for help, and put to death the deeds of the flesh by the Holy Spirit. We can cry out to Him, saying, “Search me, God, know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139v23-24, NIV). We can pray with all kinds of prayer. Hallelujah.
Supplementary Text
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Mark 11v24 (KJV).
Prayer
Father, I thank You so much for goodness. We thank You so much for the ability and the power to pray. We pray for the grace to continue to pray at all times with all kinds of prayer, in Jesus name, amen.
How are you doing today? I hope well and yes, bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for indeed He is faithful, He is true, kind and wonderful. And we have the wonderful power of prayer, just being able to talk to our God about everything and anything. To talk to Him about ourselves, and also about others, even as we intercede, or even seek healing for hurts. Why do we pray? So many reasons, but we know that we have been told:
Primary Text: 1 Thessalonians 5v17
“Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];” 1 Thessalonians 5v17 (AMP)
Prayer moves the hand of God. The Word of God says – “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Matthew 7v7-8). James 4v2 (AMP) says “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but you do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.” Are you submitting your desires, your wants, your needs to God, or are you fretting and coveting what other people have? Jesus said, “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.” (John 16v24). Go to God in prayer. However, we need to check our motives for some things we ask, the Bible noting in James 4v3 “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” But the wonderful thing with prayer, is that even when we find ourselves yielding to the flesh, we can ask God for help, and put to death the deeds of the flesh by the Holy Spirit. We can cry out to Him, saying, “Search me, God, know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” (Psalm 139v23-24, NIV). We can pray with all kinds of prayer. Hallelujah.
Supplementary Text
“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.” Mark 11v24 (KJV).
Prayer
Father, I thank You so much for goodness. We thank You so much for the ability and the power to pray. We pray for the grace to continue to pray at all times with all kinds of prayer, in Jesus name, amen.
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