JUST A LITTLE TALK WITH JESUS

Luke 11:9–10 KJV 1900

9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

We sing the song which say, just a little talk with Jesus make it right, all right. Well my brothers and sisters that is what prayer is. Just talking to Jesus. You know, we are living in a complex age and a confused world. We are faced with decisions and we carry responsibilities which probably no other generation has ever faced. But yet to many people, prayer is a lost art. My brothers and sisters, we stumble along life’s way, trying to bear our burdens alone, trying to find the right path to walk, when all the time, God is just waiting for us to call upon him.

The most serious charge that can be brought against Christians today, is that they don’t pray enough. We worry, we fret, we fuss, but we don’t pray as we should. God says, call unto me, but we turn our backs on Him and call on our own resources. No wonder we are such weak Christians.

Don’t you know that the great men of the bible were men of prayer.

Don’t you know that they could not get along without constant communion with God? Moses had a big job God commissioned him to lead more than two million people out of the slavery of Egypt into the freedom of the promised land. He confessed his weakness, his inability to do the job, but God assured him that he would be with him all the way. Over and over Moses reminded God of that promise, by calling on him in prayer.

And think of what a man of prayer David was. Most of his psalms were fervent prayers to the Almighty God. And if he was not praying, he was testifying to the way in which God did answer his prayers.

Now, my brothers and sisters, Elijah could pray! Anytime a man can pray and God shut up the heavens and hold back the rain for more than three years, He can pray. And then pray again and God open up the heavens and let it rain, He Can Pray! John the Baptist prayed in the wilderness and came forth as a giant for God. Peter and the little handful of Believers prayed for ten days, and the power of the Holy Spirit fell and three thousand were saved in one day.

Now we can’t forget about Brother Paul and Brother Silas, the Bible said that at midnight they began to sing and pray.

john 17:1-

John 17:1–26 KJV 1900

1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: 2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. 4 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. 6 I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee. 8 For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. 9 I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. 10 And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are. 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled. 13 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth. 20 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; 21 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. 24 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.