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Do Not Grow Weary in Your Prayers

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Weary in Prayer

Do you begin to pray fervently with power, but as your prayers continue do you find that your strength is waning? Praying is not only a spiritual exercise, but is also mentally, and physically demanding as well. God sent Jesus an angel to strengthen Him while He was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, and He will send us help too. There are sweet prayers that we find rather easy to pray, and we can sing and whisper them, but there are also those that are like raging storms within us that we must shout in order to be heard above the gale, and that demand a great deal of effort to pray. Regardless of the nature of our prayers today, let’s not grow weary as we offer them. Have you ever had such an occurrence in your life?

The Angel that Strengthened Jesus

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , God’s Love

When Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane, that the cup be taken from Him, and His prayer was so fervent that His sweat fell like blood, an Angel was sent to strengthen Him, and for years I read this to mean that the Angel strengthened His faith, and gave Him the physical determination to obey God’s Will, but then it dawned on me that I was wrong. Jesus had perfect faith, belief, and never wavered in obeying God’s will. What I now envision the Angel bringing Jesus was the strength of God’s love. I see an Angel holding Him in a loving embrace, and covering Him with His Father’s love. When sin and death passed away and the world was transformed, Jesus endured all of the suffering, and took on the world’s sin, not by some miraculous degree of physical fortitude, but through the power of love. Do we look to God’s love when we face the hard things in our lives? Do we feel the loving embrace of our Father as unseen Angels hold us close?

Courageously Answering the Messengers of God’s Will

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Angel, messenger

Has God ever sent you to do His bidding? Did it require that you face a fear that terrifies you, sacrifice something of yourself, or give up your pride by becoming humble before the world as you know it? Occasionally God sends us on a mission that lifts us up, and brings reward and honor to us, but most times we are meant to sacrifice ourselves... or to lay something of down that we have valued.