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Reentering the World outside our Prayer Closet

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional, Living in Prayer

Do you carry your prayers into the day with you? Does the encounter you have with Jesus during your time of morning devotion and prayer follow you into the worldly environment that awaits you outside your prayer closet? The hardest thing for a Christian to do each morning is to get up from his knees and walk into the chaos of the world outside his door. Yet, if we wear our prayers into the world we will find that we carry the peace of Christ on our faces and in our actions, and that from our hearts the glorious glow of Christ will radiate for all to see.

Steadfast Prayer, and our perfection in faith

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Steadfast Prayer

We are told to pray without ceasing and although many of us take this to mean precisely that, and live in a constant state of prayer, some translate this verse to mean that we are to pray regularly as if on a schedule, but how many of us adhere to even this limited regimen of prayer? Aren’t there those among us who only remember to talk with the Lord when trouble or need overwhelms them, while others are hard pressed to pray at all? Which of these describes our specific prayer life, and what is God’s desire when it comes to prayer?