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The Importance of prayer:
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"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?" - Corrie ten Boom
"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
- Martin Luther
"Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer.
If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying." - E.M. Bounds
No one would doubt the importance of prayer.
It is the breathe of the soul.
I believe all chirstians should pray and should pray often - without ceasing.
I sincerly hiope hope you all pray, wich much regulariry and devotion.
But for many people the practice of prayer becomes one dimentional.
It because a stop off to unload our burdens and then we move on.
We forget that prayer is a time of fellowship and comminion between our Heavernly father and us.
That through the Lord Jesus and in the power of the Holy Spirit Prayer is a time of fellowship - a time of conversation - a time of dialog.
In to many of our prayers, we are the only ones doing the talking.
In many of our prayer moment we are swift to speak, swift to unload and swift to say goodbye.
Even in the book of Job it takes Job and his councillors 37 chapters to finally stop dong all the talking and let God get a Word in.
This listening in just as much a part of prayer as the speaking.
and in many times the listening provides more comfort, peace and answers than the speaking.
This listening is what we can call the other side of the prayer conversation
God continues to speak.
He speaks to us everyday, he speaks through the means of communication that he has chosen for the church.
And Jesus speaks to us in the power of the Holy Spirit every time we read and mediate of Holy Scripture.
This is God’s Word to us.
If any-man would want to year the voice of God let him read the scriptures aloud.
Notice the words:
Receive, hide, incline, apply, criest, liftest, seekest, searchest.
- All words used to describe our attitude and method of listening and NONE of which can be done in a hurry.
Thats just the big problem right there.
We have come to treat prayer as a stop at a drive through.
Conveint and quick.
And as a result our prays suffer and when our prayers suffer -we suffer!
We need to make a point to listen.
We need to have an ear that listen to the Holy Spirit.
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We must hear as God Speaks to us through His word.
But there is one more thing:
Amen Does not mean Goodbye
Thats how we have been tough by example in both scripture and spiritual leaders to “end” our prayer, and for many its become synonamis with “goodbye” or “The End’.
But its meaning is more profound.
amen is not an english word - its Hebrew.
And its said at the end of a proclamation, by the hears.
and it means “So be it!”.
It shows agreement, and willingness, and submission and co-operation.
It boils down to this:
When God gives a command it must be obeyed.
When he gives a warning it must be heeded.
When he gives counsel it must be taken.
Perhaps the reason people dont listen to God is because they dont like what he has to say.
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