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Check this out: Matthew 6:6-8
Pray
Go to the cinemas
Hang out with friends
Watch your favourite movie
Play football and computer games.
Read this list carefully then pick the one thing you would most love to do and the one thing you would least like to do. If watching your favorite movie came up tops on the ‘most loved list’, you are not alone. If praying came trailing behind, you are also not alone. We all know prayer is important yet we rush over muffled words and put a DONE on our checklist. We give ourselves a pat on the back and rush back to the movies.
That’s just not acceptable, so the next few days, we’ll talk about prayer.
Remember the last time you were ‘in love’, that feeling when you couldn’t get enough of the other person, so you called, texted and stared into the skies imagining your loved one. Prayer should be like that – as enjoyable as having a love affair with your maker.
Let’s pause a bit from all the lovey-dovey and establish three reasons why prayer is so important:
God will never ever be moved without prayer. All great things that were ever done were done by prayer.
God will never use ‘prayerless’ men. E.M. Bounds said ‘praying men have been God’s deputies on earth; prayerless men have never been used of him.’ Wow!
You can’t have a relationship with God without prayer. Every relationship strives on conversation, even the one between you and God. No talking, no prayer, no relationship!
{Prayer tip for today}: Definitely pray when you feel like it, but to help for those times when you are not ‘in the mood’, have a scheduled prayer time and stick to it no matter what}.
Send up an S.O.S: Lord I desire you, and it’s only in the place of prayer that I will ever find you. Teach me to pray dear Lord, teach me to love to just talk to you and love up on you today. Amen.
Yours in love, MOI
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