Prayer

 

Christianity Made Simple (3) 

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Most people seem to think of praying as something you do, to get what you want for yourself or someone else.  People pray for a new car, or for world peace, or other things.  And it is okay to do that.

What prayer really is, however, is a communication with God.  Communication goes both ways.  We speak to God.  We should not be surprised, then, that God speaks to us.  God always listens to us.  Do we always listen to Him?

It is our nature to shut God out.  Otherwise, we would be in constant communication with God.  Salvation has freed us from our bondage to sin, but we retain our power to freely choose.  We can choose to commune with God, but we are easily distracted.

Choosing to pray opens for us the line of communication with the God of the infinite universe.  That is awesome.  Once we make that choice, God begins His work in our souls.  Bit by bit, we become more conscious that God is with us.  We begin to see, more each day, His work in our lives.

Daily Bible reading, if only for a minute each day, also opens us to God’s voice in our soul.  Bible reading goes hand-in-hand with prayer.  A preacher I knew said that we should take advantage of what he called a spiritual sandwich:  pray, read, pray.

Upon beginning our Bible reading, we may pray to the Holy Spirit to read the book to us.  Then, as we read, we can better understand.  After reading, we pray again, that we may apply God’s holy word in our life.

There are evil spirits that will try to confuse us, but prayer and scripture will protect us from them.  That is why we should pray throughout the day, giving thanks to God, and asking that He supply us with our needs, both physical and spiritual.

Jesus is all sufficient.

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