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Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;
Today you had a problem – What was your response? Did you mumble and complain about your problem or did you give your problem over to God and ask God to direct your path?
Too often we fail to see how God is directing us through our trials and temptations. It is easy for us to say that God does not make a mistake but do you really believe it and do your actions really back up your words.
It does not matter what is going on in your life, you need to learn to take it to the Lord in prayer. If the Lord is blessing you, you should constantly be thanking the Lord for HIS blessings upon your life. Furthermore, if you are hearing the still small voice of God, you should be thanking HIM for making HIS voice so clear.
Even when things are not going the way you would like them to go; you should be talking to God to try to understand what HE is trying to do in your life. God does not make a mistake and there is some lesson HE is trying to get you to learn.
Do you understand the power of prayer? Do you understand the full power of God and what HE can do through you if you will only spend the time talking with HIM? Christ taught us that our Father loves to give us the good things that we ask HIM for. We are taught that if we ask anything according to HIS will, we know that HE hears us and we know that if HE hears us we shall receive our petition.
Hannah had a problem. Hannah desired to have a child but the Lord had closed her womb. Hannah could have been content with simply the love of her husband. Hannah chose instead to get alone by herself with the Lord and to pray to HIM that HE would give her the desires of her heart. The Lord heard the prayer of Hannah and HE not only gave her the child Samuel, but HE also gave Hannah additional children.
Too often we are proud that we are men of action. We do not wait around for the Lord to answer our prayers but go out and help the Lord out. Rachel was a woman who the Lord had closed her womb. Unlike Hannah, Rachel helped the Lord out by bringing her servant to the bed of Jacob and instructed Jacob to give her children through her servant girl.
God’s timing is not always our timing. It takes great self-control to ensure that you do not rush off and try to help the Lord fulfill the good things that you request of HIM. We need to be patient and learn to take the time to speak with the Lord and learn to hear HIM talking with us. As we learn to be in constant communication with God, our relationship with God will grow and we will never be the same.
Adam and Eve had a perfect relationship with God in that they had daily communication with HIM. Because Christ died on the cross, we also can have daily conversation with God and that is why Paul is constantly exhorting us to always be praying. We must learn to add temperance to our life so that we can shut off the demands of the world so that we can learn to focus upon God. The world will try to drown out our relationship with God and we must diligently guard against the attacks of the enemy upon our prayer life.