Prayer
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1 Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, For My salvation is about to come, And My righteousness to be revealed. 2 Blessed is the man who does this, And the son of man who lays hold on it; Who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And keeps his hand from doing any evil.” 3 Do not let the son of the foreigner Who has joined himself to the Lord Speak, saying, “The Lord has utterly separated me from His people”; Nor let the eunuch say, “Here I am, a dry tree.” 4 For thus says the Lord: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant, 5 Even to them I will give in My house And within My walls a place and a name Better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name That shall not be cut off. 6 “Also the sons of the foreigner Who join themselves to the Lord, to serve Him, And to love the name of the Lord, to be His servants— Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath, And holds fast My covenant— 7 Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices Will be accepted on My altar; For My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations.” 8 The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “Yet I will gather to him Others besides those who are gathered to him.”
God is calling His Church to the intimate place of prayer
Jesus withdrew to pray
16 But Jesus often withdrew to the wilderness for prayer.
23 After sending them home, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell while he was there alone.
46 After telling everyone good-bye, he went up into the hills by himself to pray.
12 One day soon afterward Jesus went up on a mountain to pray, and he prayed to God all night.
35 Before daybreak the next morning, Jesus got up and went out to an isolated place to pray.
12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.
Prayer builds intimacy with the father
You can’t hide in the presence of God
Healing takes place in the place of intimacy
1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.”
There are a lot of people who make prayer a regular part of their daily walk, and there are a lot who don’t.
There are some people who find it hard to pray, and for others it may even be, what do I pray?
What words do I use? These are genuine questions that people today ask themselves. - God doesn’t care about your elequency, He just wants your heart.