DAY THIRTY-NINE
April
1, 2017
Why Pray?
“…The prayer of a righteous
man is powerful and effective.” James
5:16
Can prayer really make a difference? Can my prayers actually change things? Is it possible for the will of God to be
thwarted because I don’t pray? These are
legitimate questions. The answers you
give them reflect the very foundation of your relationship with the Lord. On one hand, if God is Sovereign, He’s going
to do everything the way He wants to, so why pray? On the other hand, if He is waiting on my
prayers to execute His will, then I had better get serious about praying really
quickly. How does God’s Sovereignty and
my prayers go together?
God uses prayer to make the impossible, possible and
the ordinary, extraordinary. Prayers
make our efforts effective and help us to define God’s will more clearly. C.H. Spurgeon said, “Whenever God determines
to do a great work, He first sets His people to pray.” Faithful praying releases the Holy Spirit to
act and allows us to see God in His full glory.
I think it was John Wesley that once said, “God does
things when we pray that He does not do when we do not pray.” Let today’s devotional be an inspiration for
you to seek the Lord in prayer. Look up
prayer in your Bible’s concordance. Then
read and study those verses it gives you.
It will help you become endeared to prayer and to realize just how vital
prayer is.
Prayer Focus: Thank God for
hearing all the prayers that have been lifted up on our church’s behalf. Thank Him for answering them. Pray that God’s people at Fred Wes will pray
more than ever before and that everything we do as a church will be labored
over in prayer.
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