Nov 03 2008
PRAY ON ONE ACCORD TODAY
The Lord has been calling us to pray for our nation and ministers this week. Have you been praying? Why does God have to tell us to pray? I mean as a Christian don’t we automatically pray? Isn’t that what Christian means? To be “Christ like” or “like Christ” and He prayed all the time so Christians must be praying right? I can answer for no one but me and I know that there are times that I think I am too busy to take time out for prayer.
How stupid is that? Praise God that He is not too busy for me. He is there when I need to eat and He makes sure I have clothes. He makes sure the bills are paid. He makes sure I have a roof over my head. He gives all kinds of good things that are too numerous to mention. He always has time for me so why do I find it so hard to take some time for Him? Could it be that I am consumed ever so slightly with that demon called pride. It takes humility to pray. You have to be able to take the first step and say I can’t, I need help.
I hear you saying, “But Cathy, I can do all things through Him who gives me strength.” Yes you can and so can I. The key to this verse, that we so often forget, is “through Him”. Are we really going through Him when we jump out of bed, rush around and get ready for work or whatever? Then we rush out the door to do what is needed for the day. When we come home we have to get supper and eat. Then it is time to “relax” in front of the TV. At this point it is time for bed so we can sleep, get up, and do the whole thing over tomorrow. Please tell me where He is in all that. “Cathy,” you say, “don’t you know we are to pray without ceasing?’ “I pray all day.” I say to you that, “Lord help me”, or “Lord help this person or that one”, is not the kind of prayer Jesus said nor should it be the kind we settle for.
Jesus took time early every morning to get with the Father and really talk with Him. Jesus gained strength and knowledge of God’s will for His life through these morning meetings. Should we do any less? I ask you, if it was necessary for our Lord to seek the Father, how much more so for us to seek His face?
If every man, woman and child in America, who professed Jesus, would take 10 min. at 7:00pm CST this evening to stop whatever they are doing and pray for our country, what kind of miracle would God do? I’m just wondering. Remember the day of Pentecost when there were only 120 men waiting to see what God would do? Look how He showed up then, how much more so if we all did. They were all on one accord waiting for the Lord. If the body of Christ could just get on one accord…
