Prayer

"Never stop praying." (1 Thessalonians 5:17, NLT)

The great Methodist theologian E.M. Bounds (1835-1913), stated, “Few Christians have anything but a vague idea of the power of prayer; fewer still have any experience of that power. The church seems almost wholly unaware of the power God puts into her hand; this spiritual carte blanche on the infinite resources of God’s wisdom and power is rarely, if ever, used — never used to the full measure of honoring God. It is astounding how poor the use, how little the benefits. Prayer is our most formidable weapon, but the one in which we are the least skilled, the most averse to its use.” Sad, but I fear all too true.

What do you face today? Will you try to tackle it alone, or will you seek God’s help? Even those who believe in prayer have the sinful tendency to utilize it only when all else has failed. We shouldn’t turn to prayer as a last recourse, prayer should be our first resort; that was what our Lord did. Everything He did He did only after first checking with the Father! (See John 8:28). We on the other hand tend to make our plans and then ask the Lord to bless them.

Let us neither forget nor squander the awesome power that God has made available to us, His children. May we not only know but experience the awesome power of prayer in our daily lives.