prayer

Taken from todays devotional in "my utmost for his highest"  by oswald chambers



Prayer is not a normal part of the life of the natural man. We hear it said that a person’s life will suffer if he doesn’t pray, but I question that. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God in him, which is nourished not by food, but by prayer. When a person is born again from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve or nourish that life. Prayer is the way that the life of God in us is nourished. Our common ideas regarding prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.


To say that “prayer changes things” is not as close to the truth as saying, “Prayer changes me and then I change things.” God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things. Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person’s inner nature.



Father help me to pray not for things i want, but that your will would be done in my life.  Help me to constantly be in prayer to you.  I want to saturate in your presence.  I pray for the pastors and staff at my local church, that you would overwhelm them with your presence in a good way.  I pray for all those i know, that no matter what their situation that your presence would fill them.  I want to be like clay in your hands, mold me into what you would have me be.  all this i pray in jesus name

amen


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