How much do we pray? Do we pray enough? Why do we pray?
According to Oswald Chambers, "prayer is perfect and
complete oneness with God!"
Isn't that why we are here? Oneness with God? That's the
very last thing Jesus prayed for before He was arrested, scourged and
crucified.
John 17: 11,12,21,22
"I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.
"I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be one even as We are.
"While I was with them, I was
keeping them in Your name which You have given Me; and I guarded them and not
one of them perished but the son of perdition, so that the Scripture would be
fulfilled.
that they may all be one; even as
You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so
that the world may believe that You sent Me.
"The glory which You have given
Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one;
So, if prayer is perfect and complete oneness with God, then
we are completely in the will of God when we pray. We must be because we are
completely in God.
So, what if we don't pray, or pray very little? Obviously we
are not completely in the will of God.
Paul tells us in 1 Thessalonians to pray without ceasing.
What does that mean? Surely God doesn't expect us to be on our knees 24 hours a
day; that's absurd. What I believe it means is to, as Brother Lawrence wrote,
Practice the Presence of God. That means to keep a conscious awareness of His
Presence at all times. Not so easy in this world where most of us have a very
short attention span, but not only doable, but necessary.
Another question
What is Satan's most effective modus operandi
when it comes to Christians?
It almost certainly is to keep us from prayer. When
he keeps us from prayer it opens myriad doors for him to work, both in us and
in those around us for whom we should be praying. Consequently, if we don't
pray, or pray very little, who's will are we accomplishing? Satan's, of course.
The very least we can then say about ourselves when we pray
little or not at all is that we are incomplete, ineffective Christians. The
worst we can say about ourselves is that we are outright traitors to Jesus
Christ, doing Satan's will more than His.
Please pray! Pray looking to know Jesus better rather than
just asking for things. Intercede for others - it's loving them. Pray
especially for the phenomenal amount of child sex abuse to stop.
Somewhere between 1 & 10 million child sex events will
occur today.
Annually, somewhere between 350 million and 3.5 billion child sex abuse
events will occur involving about 35 million children.
There are only a little over 2 billion children in the
world! Please pray!
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