Monday, September 16, 2013

Wash Up Before You Pray

My Utmost For His Highest
 
‘Find an inner room in which to pray where no one even knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret. Have no motivation other than to know your Father in heaven. […] Prayer is coming into perfect fellowship and oneness with God. If the Son of God has been formed in us through regeneration (see Galatians 4:19), then He will continue to press on beyond our common sense and will change our attitude about the things for which we pray. […] Asking means that our will must be involved. […] remember that we have to ask things of God that are in keeping with the God whom Jesus Christ revealed.’
 
Do you pray?  I assume you do in church … with other Christians perhaps … but when you are alone …. Do you spend time with God in prayer?  If there was one thing that I could pick in my walk that is weakest, it would be prayer … The Bible is clear on the importance of prayer .. talking with the Father … seeking His will … seeking His comfort .. provision .. healing … peace.  We are to go to the Father. But we must do that with a clean heart … We cannot enter God’s presence if we are not spiritually clean – washed.  Otherwise we are merely talking to ourselves.
 
The Bible says that the prayers of a righteous man are powerful and effective. (James 5:16)  We are righteous because of the Jesus … we must be right spiritually when we pray … it is much like the little boy coming to the dinner table with dirty hands.  He is sent straight to the sink to first wash his hands. We all need to spend more time in personal prayer with God .. but we need to wash first.
 
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)

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