All tagged ceasing
Who have we prayed for today? Have we left your prayer closets after having prayed in the spirit for our personal needs, the needs of our families, and maybe a close friend or two? Well, if so, that was a good start, but it should only be the beginning of our daily prayers. In fact, we should consciously pray for all the saints, and all day long in every circumstance, for every soul in need. Then, as our conscious prayers fade, we should recognize our unconscious prayers as well.
This morning's devotion deals with how we should begin our prayers with inspiration and desire, and how once we have mastered this we will understand the way that they should end. Pastor E.M. Bounds used what was written to the Laodicean Church in order to awaken us to the danger of feeling a sense of self-sufficiency when we pray, and the negative impact which it has on our spiritual and prayer life.
Am I praying continuously and without ceasing? How can I possibly do this with all of the happenings in my life every day? Yet this is precisely what Jesus is telling me to do and he never asks of me those things I am incapable of.
Prayer is viewed similar to our works when it comes to faithfully pursuing them. We read Revelation 3:16 regarding those who are lukewarm in their works and how we will be spit out of Christ’s mouth if we live in this way, but brothers and sisters many of us are leading lukewarm lives of prayer right now and not thinking a thing about it. Are we convicted by the thought of this?