Welcome to my June blog-post!
A new season is here once again and new changes are all around us. The last leaves of autumn are falling and it's time to get serious about the winter season and being well prepared to take care of ourselves and our families. I love autumn and all it's glorious colors. The beautiful autumn colors reminds me of the warmth of God's love that is so personal yet also experienced by millions of people who love and know Him personally.
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| TreasuresOfHope "Autumn 2013" |
In this post, I really want to encourage us to keep prayers warm and glowing in the same way we buy warm clothes, prepare wood for the fire and other means that keep us warm through the winter months. But praying doesn't come naturally to some of us. Sometimes God has to wake us up; gives us a little push, a little encouragement, sometimes a rebuke through a sermon, the scriptures or through people God uses to speak to us.
How is your prayer life? Are you feeling isolated from spiritual support, from church or from those key sources you once looked to for support? If you are a Christian and you want to make prayers an ongoing thing, I encourage you to add praying with a friend to your prayer life. If you have non-Christian friends, it's a great way to witness and introduce them to a relationship with God through prayer. As you become constant in prayer, you will see a prayer friendship grow and you will witness the amazing love of God in your life and the lives of those you pray with and for.
A few weeks ago, I started initiating a prayer friendship with a colleague. Since then, we have made it a daily thing to pray at the beginning of our working day. In less than 10 minutes, as we hold hands in agreement and stir ourselves up in prayer our friendship is growing and so is our trust and faith in God.
My friends, we are the ones God is calling to awaken prayer within others. How many needs stay unanswered, how many problems, disasters, tragedies have happened because the prayers to combat these are sitting untapped within us? Yes, God is Sovereign... but let's listen to the prophet Isaiah 64:7-9:
"No one calls on your name or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us
and have given us over to our sins."
Let's pray:
Dear Heavenly Father, teach us to understand the times we are living in and the spiritual seasons we as individuals are in. Help us to stir up and fan into flame the gift of prayer and to align ourselves with your will and purpose for our lives. In Jesus Name!
Thank you for visiting and God bless you!
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