PRAYER-
We are told to “Prayer lest you enter into temptation.”– {See Mark 14:38}. Prayer is a powerful and expensive privilege you have been gifted. Powerful because you have access to God through the Lord Jesus. Expensive because it cost God His Son to make it possible for you to come to Him and be accepted because of the work of the Lord Jesus!
Prayer is an issue of faith. It turns us to God, acknowledging our need of Him, for in and of ourselves we are weak and we cry out to Him, that we need Him, to undertake for us- both in us and through us! Jesus says we are to persevere in prayer and uses these words,“Keep on praying and do not lose heart.” {See Luke 18:1}In our trials we can often grow weary but we must persevere or else we will lose heart, spiritually “faint.” We are to “Devote ourselves to prayer keeping alert with an attitude of thanksgiving.” {See Co 4:2} We are told to “pray without ceasing” { See 1 Thess 5 }-The phrase “without ceasing,” was a term that spoke of “a hacking cough,” It spoke of regular interruptions. We are told to “…pray about everything” {See Phil 4:6}. God is interested in you. God is interested in you speaking to Him on behalf of others. God is “…attentive to your prayers.”- {See 1 Peter 3:12}. We have reason to pray because we have great needs that only God can meet!
We pray in our troubles, as God has gifted us the privilege and access to speak to Him. Troubles can be used and should be used to draw our hearts out to Him in prayer!
“Trials must and will befall;
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all—
This is happiness to me.
“Trials make the promise sweet,
Trials give new life to prayer;
Bring me to my Saviour’s feet,
Lay me low, and keep me there.”