Living on a prayer (3)

When it comes to prayer, let's look to Jesus. While Jesus was on earth, he made sure he regularly spent time talking with his Father, because he experienced human pains, temptations and struggles. He lived in high demand from people. He struggled to escape to find quiet, him-and-his-Father time as much as we do (count how many times his attempted down-time is interrupted in the Gospels). He knew how necessary prayer time was, even staying up all night to talk things through. The outcome of such devotion was miraculous, literally.

And for us? Our prayers are just as necessary. And our outcomes can be just as amazing. Prayer is incredibly practical: it clears the way for the godly and miraculous. Those frustrations and pains that clutter our brain during the day? They've got to go somewhere. Our minds are like aquarium filters - they get clogged. Unless there's a way to process the junk out, it'll stay clogged. As we chat things over with God, we open up space for him to come and clean the gunk out.

God wants to enable us to be powerful. Amazingly, Jesus said that those who believed would do greater things than the miracles he did (John 14:12). All that power is available to us, and it comes through prayer.



So what now? This coming weekend, block out a good amount of time (we're talking at least an hour) to pray by yourself and read your Bible. Maybe that'll mean getting up early or going somewhere quiet.





— SCRIPTURE —

'He went out to the mountain...and continued all night in prayer.' Luke 6:12 NKJV
— SOULFOOD —

Deut 14-17, Matt 8:1-17, Ps 37:32-40, Pro 12:4-6