Prayer, our channel to God.
Prayer, our petitions and requests and wants and needs made known to God.
Prayer, the cry out of the heart to the One who can make things right.
Prayer, the surest weapon of the christian.
Have you ever noticed in the bible that no prayer was just in the mind of they pray-er?
Have you ever thought your prayer in your head? Then wonder if it made it anywhere?
Nowhere in the Scriptures do you see or hear of anyone thinking a prayer.
You hear and read of out loud prayers.
For out of the mouth let your prayer and supplications be made known.
people in the bible pray quietly and some pray loudly, and I am not speaking here of the publican and the pharisee, I am speaking here of the Elisha prayer for fire from heaven for all to hear, and of the prayer of Samson that was whispered due to lack of strength.
All the prayers in the Bible were said out loud and for God to hear.
Yes God knows the thoughts and the hearts of man and can hear and answer, but God desires you to talk with Him.
God wants conversation with you, fellowship with you.
When you are talking to someone it focuses your thoughts and vision on them. when you are talking to someone you are there for their time and their presence, their voice. Try telling your wife that you "thought" told her you loved her, instead of saying it out loud. Would not end well.
God wants the same from me and you.
Num_20:16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
1Sa_12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
when was the last time you or I cried out unto the Lord?
I can honestly say it is not a regular thing for me, to my chagrin. I have everything I need, materially.
In today's world I am afraid this applies to more of us that we want to acknowledge.
We have lost sight of the spiritual, the lost and dying souls because we have what we need or we can get it with such ease.
We do not cry out to the Lord in agony and anguish over revival, over the state of moral decay in our world, over the people we know and do not know who will die in their sins and go to hell.
James tells us:
Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
We have not because we do not pray fervently. We do not cry out, we do not pray with a spirit that is in anguish. We do not come before Him with a broken heart over sins, over lost folks, over spiritual death in the world. We do not beg and plead for Him to work and move.
I think sometimes we are afraid He might and then we would have to get up and actually doing something. Our laziness is keeping us from praying for revival.
I think the biggest thing we have lost in the church is good old fashion emotions. Not the charismatic false blabbering and blubbering, but the emotions when we pray, the emotions when we sing, the emotions that drive us to see this world as it truly is: in need of a savior who loved them and died for them.
When was the last time you heard a prayer that cried out to God? When was the last time you prayed a prayer that you cried out to God? When a group of men got together and prayed until the hearts broke and the Spirit moved?
you hear of all night prayer revivals from the past, you hear of days gone by when men sat and waited for the Spirit to move. You have heard of these things.
Have you ever personally experienced it?
Have you ever broke down praying until you cried for the lost souls you knew?
Prayer, our petitions and requests and wants and needs made known to God.
Prayer, the cry out of the heart to the One who can make things right.
Prayer, the surest weapon of the christian.
Have you ever noticed in the bible that no prayer was just in the mind of they pray-er?
Have you ever thought your prayer in your head? Then wonder if it made it anywhere?
Nowhere in the Scriptures do you see or hear of anyone thinking a prayer.
You hear and read of out loud prayers.
For out of the mouth let your prayer and supplications be made known.
people in the bible pray quietly and some pray loudly, and I am not speaking here of the publican and the pharisee, I am speaking here of the Elisha prayer for fire from heaven for all to hear, and of the prayer of Samson that was whispered due to lack of strength.
All the prayers in the Bible were said out loud and for God to hear.
Yes God knows the thoughts and the hearts of man and can hear and answer, but God desires you to talk with Him.
God wants conversation with you, fellowship with you.
When you are talking to someone it focuses your thoughts and vision on them. when you are talking to someone you are there for their time and their presence, their voice. Try telling your wife that you "thought" told her you loved her, instead of saying it out loud. Would not end well.
God wants the same from me and you.
Num_20:16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
1Sa_12:10 And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee.
when was the last time you or I cried out unto the Lord?
I can honestly say it is not a regular thing for me, to my chagrin. I have everything I need, materially.
In today's world I am afraid this applies to more of us that we want to acknowledge.
We have lost sight of the spiritual, the lost and dying souls because we have what we need or we can get it with such ease.
We do not cry out to the Lord in agony and anguish over revival, over the state of moral decay in our world, over the people we know and do not know who will die in their sins and go to hell.
James tells us:
Jas 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
We have not because we do not pray fervently. We do not cry out, we do not pray with a spirit that is in anguish. We do not come before Him with a broken heart over sins, over lost folks, over spiritual death in the world. We do not beg and plead for Him to work and move.
I think sometimes we are afraid He might and then we would have to get up and actually doing something. Our laziness is keeping us from praying for revival.
I think the biggest thing we have lost in the church is good old fashion emotions. Not the charismatic false blabbering and blubbering, but the emotions when we pray, the emotions when we sing, the emotions that drive us to see this world as it truly is: in need of a savior who loved them and died for them.
When was the last time you heard a prayer that cried out to God? When was the last time you prayed a prayer that you cried out to God? When a group of men got together and prayed until the hearts broke and the Spirit moved?
you hear of all night prayer revivals from the past, you hear of days gone by when men sat and waited for the Spirit to move. You have heard of these things.
Have you ever personally experienced it?
Have you ever broke down praying until you cried for the lost souls you knew?
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