What do you REALLY pray for?
Not just a passive prayer, but what have you fervently prayed for over an extended period of time?
We are all familiar with Jesus’ words in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 7:7-8
“Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for.
Keep on seeking, and you will find.
Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you.
For everyone who asks, receives.
Everyone who seeks, finds.
And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Most of us can probably quote these verses from memory, BUT do we really believe in the power of prayer and do we really pray to the point of seriously asking, seeking, and knocking until we have an answer from God?
I was reading a devotional today about a 19th-century evangelist named George Muller who committed to praying every day for five young men to be saved. The first began following Jesus after 18 months.
Five years later, the second came to Jesus and the third one, a year after that.
Five years later, the second came to Jesus and the third one, a year after that.
36 years later, Muller wrote this in his journal just before he died: “I hope in God and I pray on and I look for the answer.”
52 years later, the final two men came to Christ.
Let me challenge you to seek the Holy Spirit’s leadership and commit to pray for something or someone at least once per day for the next 30 days. Maybe you have a friend or family member who is lost. Maybe you will feel led to pray for true revival at Rosedale, maybe you will be led to pray for our church to grow, or maybe your prayer is simply to grow closer to God.
When we persevere in prayer, God hears and God answers.
So here’s my challenge to you: spend the next 30 days in serious prayer with God and share with me what God does in your life and through your prayers.
“Confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed.
The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” James 5:16
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