Have you ever heard the phrase "the power of prayer?" Have you ever stopped and thought about the reality of that phrase? If we are not careful it is so easy for us to take those words for granted. Prayer is our conduit to access the power of our Heavenly Father that is available to us through Jesus Christ. Prayer is not something that we are to take lightly or that we are to just do occasionally. However, I am afraid that we ALL are guilty of both taking it lightly and just doing it occasionally.
Prayer changes things and it changes us! I know that is a very simple statement, but it is so true. As you and I begin to pray and pour our hearts out before our Heavenly Father, our hearts begin to change as we commune with Him. Even if our circumstances never change, our hearts have been changed, and that will change how we view our circumstances or how we handle our circumstances. The quality of your spiritual life will be in direct proportion to the quality of your prayer life. This is why we have so many people in our churches that are struggling spiritually, because the quality of their prayer life is low or non-existent.
Instead of turning things over in our minds, we must learn to turn them over to the Lord in prayer. You and I have the tendency to try and figure things out in our heads, constantly going over it again and again trying to figure out what to do. What we need to do is to quit worrying about our next decision, quit replaying events over again in our minds, and give it to the Lord and ask Him to lead the way for us. We must learn to constantly and consistently pray about all things, great and small.
Will you continue to ignore the power that is available to you through prayer?
"When prayer has become secondary, or incidental, it has lost its power. Those who are conspicuously men of prayer are those who use prayer as they use food, or air, or light, or money." M.E. Andross
Heavenly Father, help me to bring everything to You in prayer; my hopes, my dreams, my doubts, my fears, and my burdens. Lord, may others see my utter dependence on You for everything in my life. It is my desire to devote my life to a life of prayer. Father, may I bring all things to You and may I trust Your will to be accomplished in areas of my life. In Jesus name, Amen!
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