Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Time To Pray

Is this a time, (of day, an hour) To Pray? Prayers Answered? “Even so” should Jesus come “Today” find us faithful? Prayer as work – fervency. Jesus sweat as great drops of blood in the Garden of Gethsemane where He “Offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death” (context: Heb.5:7) Is this something we should know about? Faithful praying admits a nod of the head, straying thoughts, distractions that is strenuous but once in awhile breaks through all that clutter that is boring and confusing into a personal ecstatic experience that lifts you up into a Heavenly realm. Prayer is the labor of love that is worth all the intense intimacy of always praying attitude. Practiced Presence! “Could you not keep watch with me one hour? WATCH and PRAY so that you will not fall into temptation. The Spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.” Praise God for those times of intense intimacy with Him. “And satan left Him.” “Continue in prayer, and WATCH in the same with thanksgiving; withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ.” (In you, context: Col.4:2,3) “Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known unto God.” . . . “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. (James 5:13-16) … “As day and night I constantly remember you in my prayers, recalling your tears, longing to see you, so that I may be filled with joy.”

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