What Prayer Should Do
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| Prayer is necessary to the
Christian life. Everyone needs personal companionship and communication with the Spirit of God. It helps if you pray daily. Have a regular time to rise above the world’s hysterical obsessions with things. We live in a society that is a whirlpool of hysterical materialism always trying to pull us under. Things are okay and even necessary at times, but largely things are secondary, shallow and irrelevant. What is really important is the relationship with God that you and your family has. What matters is that God is a part of your life. The relationship with God, keeping communication with Him open, is as necessary as food and water. Jesus said that people could not live by bread alone. (Matthew 4:4 ) Prayer should be a joy, a pleasure, a time of daily communication with God that restores you to a feeling of creative benevolence about life. Prayer should be a time of enhancement in your living. Open your hearts to God. Tell Him what bothers you, what exasperates you, what puzzles you, what amuses you. Reaffirm the feeling of love, trust, security you get from God. Observe mankind with God and be delighted by it. Smile at His children as you do with your children. Learn to laugh at sins as silly and beneath you. Re-establish a sense of transcendence and sense of proportion. In prayer you; can get serious with God about things, but the fact God is in control should help you lighten up too. God is always weaving new pictures in grace out of the variables of life He is given. With this awareness you may find the peace that enables you to rest in the Lord, ever reaffirmed yourself and ever affirming others through prayer and kind actions. (Ephesians 4: 32) Pray to God about the working project you should have to serve others. In working together, you will be amazed at how you see God come to life. From working with God, we realize God is. Through doing for God, you realize the being of God. Doing for God takes prayer for His guidance and help. We as church members and believers are as dark as stained glass windows at night. Only if prayer, faith and grace illuminate the windows, then will an illumination be. As prayer shows out the light of grace to illuminate the stained glass in ourselves, only then is Christ’s presence clearly seen in us. Pray that God sends grace to illuminate us as individuals and churches. This may be done through prayer. If the Bible is read, only at those times the Holy Spirit illuminates it for us, is the divine truth behind the words and actions seen. Pray that God opens the Bible to readers of it. Prayer is keeping communication with God open. Open your hearts to God in everything. Pray. Clean out your hearts. Pray to DEVELOP A relationship with Christ out of your heart much as children develop your heart. Open your hearts to God that a relationship with Christ may grow in your hearts. Through prayer the love of Christ develops in and grows in our hearts. To open your hearts, it is not necessary to close your eyes. Open your eyes to the spiritual dimensions of life. Behind what is there is a God who is. Companionship with Him is deeper and more than the what is that He formed. There is a fountain filled with grace, a Spirit at the center of all universals, redeeming, refreshing, recycling and rearranging the variables in life, creating new spiritual designs in living while restoring older ones. You live better and more fully in Christ, but you must pray. You must do good things. Good things prime the pump of grace. Grace will fall on you. It will “Drop down ... from above, and ... the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up... I, the Lord have created it.” (Isaiah 45:8 ) |
