Prayer is nothing more than just talking to the Lord. It is just simply a way of communicating with Him. Talking to the Lord should be as easy to us as breathing, since God created us in His image. If we are like Him because He created us in His image, then we should have a pretty good idea of how to come to Him. The Lord has not made prayer hard for us at all. He has given us all the tools to make this easy for us. His very first commandment shows us how to do it:
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. {Matthew 22:37}
We don’t need to do anything great but just come with our heart, soul and mind to talk to Him. If we are honest and open with Him all the time, prayer will be easy. The more we do it, the more it will become easy. All it takes is practice.
Prayer is connecting with God. It is tapping into the source of power that is greater than any power or any intelligence that we can ever know or experience. Prayer is actually the greatest thing we can ever accomplish in this life for ourselves. God is the great Creator of all things. Without God you and I would not be here. Nothing we see or hear or feel or experience that makes life awesome and great would exist if it wasn’t for God. God is everything. He is the beginning, the middle, and the ending of man. He is the source of life. Without Him we are nothing. Jesus Christ said:
I am the way, the truth and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. {John 14:6}
If we want to have God and know who He is, we have no other choice but to have some form of communication with Him. He said that if we come to Him with all of our hearts and seek after Him, we will find Him.
“And ye shall seek me, and find me, if ye search for me with all your heart.” {Jeremiah 29:13}
We cannot save ourselves from our own sins. If we want to meet God in heaven and belong to Him forever when our life is over here on this earth, we will need Him to save us daily from our sins. Unless we have the power to keep ourselves from iniquities then we need to come to the Lord all the time to cleanse ourselves from any impurities. He alone knows our hearts and if there is anything that is not right with us. We cannot assume we have no sin. John the Beloved stated it so well this way:
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. {1 John 1:8-9}
We live in a fallen world, where we are bombarded every day with the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life as stated also by John the Beloved. {1 John 2:16} There is no escape from this world except through Jesus Christ. The prince of the darkness of this world, Satan himself, is like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. The only way to overcome him and fight against him and win is through Jesus Christ. Without coming to the Lord all the time and talking to Him to find His strength, Satan will have the best of us and sin therefore will have its power in our lives. We need to come to the Lord and talk to Him all the time. Jesus Christ said,
“I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.” {John 15:5}
Truly, we are nothing without the Lord. We need Him.
Another good reason to pray is to be kept from temptations, not just to be cleansed from any sin but also to be kept from falling into it again and again. The Lord told His disciples on the night He was betrayed:
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. {Matthew 26:41}
And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation. {Luke 22:40}
The Lord also told us to be on guard with ourselves, lest the cares of this life and the carousing and drunkenness will trap or snare us from being ready for His coming. He said:
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. {Luke 21:36}
The Lord is very much aware of how life can get a hold of us and for some might become too much for us to handle. Again, His only solution for that is to pray – to talk to Him. He knows our strengths and our weaknesses. He above all has gone through suffering like us and knows how to help us. He knows what will trigger us to fall and fail in our walk with Him. If we’re not always connected with Him and talking to Him, we will lean upon our own understanding and make bad decisions. We are not strong enough to resist the spirits of this world so that even when we want to do what is good and right before the Lord, we could end up failing if we’re not talking to Him all the time. The best way is to tap into Him as soon as we’re facing a challenging situation in our lives. Talk to Him, ask for His strength and counsel and wait on Him to come to our rescue. You will be amazed how faithful and true He is when we come to Him in time of our fears, or doubts, or temptations. I have tried Him again and again and He has again and again come through for me in times of temptations and sorrows. He is faithful. He will be there to see us through. He will never fail us.
Finally, I talk to Him because He keeps me from worrying. I do worry a lot. Like I said in my past blog, I’m the type that thinks of doom and gloom all the time. If it wasn’t for my prayer life and my life of talking to the Lord, I don’t know where I would be today. I truly thank the Lord for prayer and that there is such a thing as being able to tap into a source of power that is greater and higher than I am, and be helped just simply by talking to Him. Apostle Paul tells us:
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. {Philippians 4:6-7}
Prayer
Father, I thank You so much for being so good and gracious and so kind to me. I thank You Lord Jesus for You, always being there for me, for loving me so much that You gave Your life at the cross at Calvary to set me free from the darkness of this world and to give me Your most wonderful Spirit so that I can overcome in this life. Thank You with all of my heart for You Jesus, for You are always there and will never ever leave me nor forsake me. Thank You, Jesus.
Father, I pray Savior, that You would please continue to draw me to You in these last hours to pray, to supplicate, to give You thanks, to talk to You all the time. Please Jesus, help me to obey Your words to “Watch and pray” because I do not know the hour or the day of your coming and when all these things that have been prophesied in the last days will take place. I know that the only way to be kept from being swept away by the evil and the fear that the enemy of my soul is doing upon this world is to stay connected with You. Please Lord Jesus, keep me, protect me, and help me to keep calling upon Your name, because You alone can save me. Please Jesus, save me today and everyday. Give me faith that You hear me and will come through for me no matter what I am going through and facing in this life. Help me to talk to You all the time. I ask all these things in Your most wonderful and precious name, Jesus. Thank You, Father. Amen.
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