THE KNEELING CHRISTIAN

MONDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

TOPIC: THE KNEELING CHRISTIAN

MEMORIZE: “…men always ought to pray and not lose heart.” Luke 18:1

SCRIPTURE READING: Ephesians 6:18; 

“Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

“Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Philippians 4:6

EXPOSITION:

A traveler in China visited a heathen temple on a great feast-day. Many were the worshippers of the ugly idol enclosed in a sacred shrine. The visitor noticed that most of the devotees brought with them small pieces of paper on which prayers had been written or printed. These they would wrap up in little balls of stiff mud and fling at the idol. He enquired the reason for this strange proceeding, and was told that if the mud ball stuck fast to the idol, then the prayer would assuredly be answered; but if the mud fell off, the prayer was rejected by the god. 

We may smile at this peculiar way of testing the acceptability of a prayer. But is it not a fact that the majority of Christian men and women who pray to a Living God know very little about real prevailing prayer? Yet prayer is the key which unlocks the door of God's treasure-house.

Our Lord Jesus Christ says we should pray always and not to faint. It is not too much to say that all real growth in the spiritual life-all victory over temptation, all confidence and peace in the presence of difficulties and dangers, all repose of spirit in times of great disappointment or loss, all habitual communion with God - depend upon the practice of secret prayer. If your prayer life is dead, you are dead while alive. How will you silence the angry devil whom you cannot see? May He Who said, "Men ought always to pray, and not to faint," "teach us to pray." 

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, teach us to pray and help us to pray through in Jesus name.

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