Hear me now, people – this is a great and important truth -- God hears and answers prayer If you will ask it shall be given unto you, if you seek you shall find, and if you knock it shall be open unto you! That our joy may be full, Jesus said. It is how we are able to stand the fiery trials; THE JOY OF THE LORD is our strength!
Psalms 1 says blessed is the man who delights himself in the law of the Lord, someone who meditates in His law day and night, David said, that he would be like a tree planted by the rivers of water -- Living water that will flow from the inner most part of your being! From your belly springing up into everlasting life!
You are like a tree brings forth fruit in its season, his leaf also shall not wither (The gift or calling God has placed in your life will not fade away, you can keep the same anointing that will cause you to bring forth much fruit!) and whatsoever you do God shall cause it to prosper! You will be blessed in your deed because you are a doer of the word and not a hearer only.
God’s eyes are over watching over the righteous and His ears are opened unto their cries! And if you have Jesus as your Lord and Savior His blood makes you one of the Righteous, Praise the Lord! He hears and answers prayers! Prayer changes things; it changes people, circumstances, and situations. Prayer is one of the keys to the Kingdom of Heaven!
James tells us that: The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much! What a powerful promise. Christ makes you righteous through His blood and then he gives you prayer as a mighty spiritual weapon and He urges you to use it!
You and I belong to God. For in the waters of Baptism God has washed away our sins. In our Baptismal waters God has given to you new life in Christ. You have been saved: “not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, [6] whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, [7] so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” (Titus 3:5-7
When Martin Luther's puppy happened to be at the table, he looked for a morsel from his master, and watched with open mouth and motionless eyes; he (Martin Luther) said, 'Oh, if I could only pray the way this dog watches the meat! All his thoughts are concentrated on the piece of meat. Otherwise he has no thought, wish or hope." Now that kind of focus would lend to a fervent prayer. We need to keep our eyes on Jesus, not on our problems!
Friends, there is power in prayer. It changes things – and it changes us for the better when we pray. There is power in prayer because prayer turns away from self and to God. Luther put it well: “we are beggars, all of us. Nothing in our hands we bring, simply to the cross we cling.”
In prayer we come to the Savior, to the Spirit, to God the Father. Humbly we come, and we are lifted up in his power as we cling to the cross. We bow our heads and He crowns us with His righteousness and love. What a mighty God we serve!
What is it that troubles you today? Know that God hears you in Christ. There is power in prayer because our God is powerful and able to save. He has saved us, and so we pray to him as his Children, made right by the blood of Christ and the amazing grace of His salvation. He gives us the right and privilege to pray – the mighty tool of God that He has placed in your hands.
Prayer is a miraculous, wonderful gift from God to us, from your heavenly father to YOU! "Prayer changes the way the world is, and therefore changes what the world can be." Prayer changes the way the world is, and therefore changes what the world can be. With God's participation. The Bible tells us that God is everywhere. Our God is omnipresent to us.
Our relationship with God can enhance our ability to lead lives of peace, justice, and beauty. Prayer builds this relationship and goes to the depths of ourselves. Prayer is our openness to the God, who pervades the universe and therefore ourselves, and this prayer is also this God's openness to us.
Because God desires us to pray, God has also ordained that Prayer increases the effectiveness of God's work with the world? God's invitation to us to pray -- indeed, God's gracious command to us to pray -- suggests the possibility that our prayers make a difference to God, and therefore, as John Wesley eloquently stated, might possibly make a difference to what God can do in the world, because God gave dominion on the earth to humankind and Jesus gave authority on the earth to his followers, those that believe in Him. And that, brothers and sisters, is us!
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