"PRAYER LIFE"


Question: What is Prayer?

Answer: Prayer is simply communicating with God and allowing Him to communicate with you.

Questions: What is your prayer life like? Do you have daily prayer or, like Daniel, 3 times a day prayer? Do you do all the talking and none of the listening? Is it where you are talking to, what seems to be, a Santa Claus figure by asking for this and that and the other? Is it one where you uplift your voice to God in supplication for the saints, your sisters and brother who believe? Is it where you uplift your voice to God in supplication for non-believers? Are you in constant ready for prayer where if something happens you pray within yourself but to God about a situation before you? Truly ask yourself… “What is your prayer life like?”

I don’t believe any of us are at the point where we are perfect in our prayer life. We all need improvement in communicating with God and receiving communication from Him. You see many times we just talk… and talk… and talk. We fail to listen, to contemplate, to meditate on hearing His voice or knowing His leading and then many times we say that God hasn’t answered our request for guidance this way or that when it was just receiver error.

Sometimes, things in our lives may cause us to not be able to hear or see God’s leading. One of those things is called sin. Sin separates us from God where we are unable to be one with Him until that sin is acknowledged, confessed, and repented of by being given up. Sometimes, we may not hear God because of the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives where there is so much noise and busyness that we block God out.

The bible speaks of Adam, Noah, Moses, Elijah and other patriarchs speaking with God and God speaking personally to them. We can have the same type of experiences and the same type of relationship that they had with God. God desires a one-on-one chat with us. We don’t need e-mail, we don’t need IM, and we don’t need a phone. All we need is to surrender and to MAKE time to commune with Him regularly.” And then listen intently on God for His leading.

Let’s see what the bible says about prayer and how we can improve our prayer life.

Numbers 7:89 – And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony, from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.

God spoke directly with Moses with His own voice. It is a wonderful thing to actually HEAR the VOICE of God.

Hebrews 4:7 – …To day, after so long a time; as it is said, to day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.

So, we realize that not only are we to talk with God and give him an opportunity to speak with us but we must also surrender our will to His. You must be willing to take the direction He leads else what is the use in asking Him to direct you.

Matthew 26:36-42 – Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder. And he took with him peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done.

Jesus, the Saviour or the world, even surrendered His will to the will of His Father. It wasn’t easy because the task that lay before Him wasn’t easy, but He knew it needed to be done and He was the only one who could save you and me. It was painful; it was heartbreaking because it separated Him from His Father. It was degrading and demoralizing. The acts against Him were shameful. Yet, He accepted everything because He surrendered His will to the will of the Father.

We must use Jesus as our example. That is the point that we must get to. "Not my will but thine be done". So, we talk with God, we listen, we repent of sins or anything that displeases God, we surrender our will to His.

Question: Now what?


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Join me again as we cover
"Prayer Life" Part 2
The Steps To Listening To God.
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