Prayer

posted by RK

Pray with confidence

Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Pray with a purpose

Matthew 7:7-8 Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Isn’t it different how God works with a new born Christian compared to those who are more mature? When God lead the Israelites out of Egypt, God provided everything. When they needed water, there was water. When they needed food, there was manna. A pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night were for them.

God gave them everything they needed and yet these people grumbled. When they reached the boarder of the promise land, the Lord told them to march once around the city with all the armed for 6 days. On the 7th day they were to have 7 priests carry trumpets and horns in front of the ark. They were to march 7 times around the city before giving a loud shout. When they did all that the city wall collapsed and the people could go straight in.

So many procedures involved for them just to “get” into the promise land. The whole 7 days, what they did was their prayer to the Lord for them to enter the promise land. The thing is, God will provide us with everything even when we do not pray. He knows our need before we even pray so why pray?

Pray with confidence that what we ask for we already received. Pray with a purpose and know what we are asking for. Seek and we will find, knock and the door will be opened. In Christ we are made more than over-comers, more than conquerors. If we do not ask in prayer, God is only ever going to bless us with manna and water. In God’s faithfulness He will continue to give us the bare minimum. But God desires us to march around our Jericho. He desires for us to ask, He desires for us to pray. God wants us to enter the promise land.

We should mature and not remain a spiritual infant being fed manna without asking. It is darn right unhealthy.