A new way of looking at prayer may help us all overcome doubt that tempts us to give up!
Grace can be described as the freely given unmerited favor of God!
Grace can be understood as the Spirit of the Living God Operating in us!
So why, do we doubt God’s ability or love for us sometimes?
Do you ever ‘feel’ that God isn’t answering your prayers?
If we ask God for a miracle, God will ask us to take a step of faith! BUT Faith works best when we remember God knows more!
Prayer was never designed for the purpose to be a problem solving technique … Supplication & Faith were!
God designed prayer as an instrument of intimacy between Him and us.
Trials and tests have permission to come to us in this world for a purpose that is set by God …as Heaven is a prepared place for prepared people! We are being prepared and strengthened by God!
We are called to LOVE with the pureness of patience and kindness; and PRAY for each other and in all things, but NOT WITHOUT TRUST IN GOD.
- Trust in God is where FAITH comes in!
- Prayer is according to God’s will!
Doubts are good to admit in a Christian life because they are a part of our growth and maturity … learning HOW to persevere through problems and doubts, so that God can bring us to a place of unshakeable faith!
When we pray … don’t forget the VALUE of “never the less, God, YOUR will be done!”
When we pray, we can want to pray for rescue, (and many times we should), BUT consider the VALUE in Praying for God’s help for me endure this … if it is a fire we have to travel through to get to where God is leading us to be … knowing God’s love that He has for you and me! God will not allow us to go through anything that He is not willing to go through with us!
We can trust God!
I hope this will help someone …
If your heart is strangled by ropes that have flogged your heart, understand that God so loved you that He sent His Son to stand up for you when you can’t! Jesus was flogged … no different that you may have been, BUT Jesus endured the humiliation, pain, torture, the cross and death, because God knew the pain you would endure because of sin’s consequences!
God has shown His love for you and me through His Son!
Your pain is why Jesus stood up! You may think you are alone, but God did know what sin would do to us in this world and it made God sad, But God didn’t leave us or forsake us -God sent us a part of Himself to show us His love and understanding to teach us to trust Him.
Satan wants us to blame God … BUT only because Jesus loves us so much … and because knowledge in the Truth will set us free to live well with God in Peace with Joy and power and authority that in Christ is over Satan.
Jesus was flogged, but He stood back up! Jesus got back up by the strength and power of God; as God has you on His mind! God didn’t turn the other way from you … Rather, Jesus endured the cross, because God understood that we needed to know how much God understood sin’s pain and destruction!
Adam and Eve invited evil and sin, but Jesus came with the power of grace in God to overcome all things.
Proverbs 16:3
Amplified Bible (AMP)
3 Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.
What is it that is out of your control? If you are tempted to do less, seek how to do MORE!
If you have nothing to give, Give MORE!
If you are empty inside, serve the Lord MORE in doing something good that God has put on your heart to do!
Above all, be aware that Satan uses judging to halt our efforts for God!
The Golden rule…do unto others as you would have others do unto you … So NOW you are also in the position to judge when others don’t do the same as you understand!
Proverbs 16:9
Amplified Bible (AMP)
9 A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure.
Grace and JOY … remain in Peace = This is your strength for Today!
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
Philippians 4:6 ESV
Prayer & Supplication … but God is reminding me that Prayer is communication with HIM, so that I can hear His Voice living in and whispering inside me about what I must do to make a change as far as it depends on me.
Supplication: a humble and sincere appeal to somebody who has the power to grant a request & that someONE is God in whom we can place our whole faith and trust in!
Faith is following divine instruction with no proof to show the world; the only real proof of faith is obedience that honors God with 100% of our faith rooted in our confidence in God! We plant small seeds as we share the love of God and we water those sprouts of love that are growing by God’s grace, but it is God who will do the work in the garden that He uses us to plant and water … God uses us to pray and work by faith in Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit.
To God be the glory, I pray this is a blessing to you as well as me … I don’t have it all figured out, But God does … Follow Jesus. Amen.
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
To God be the glory, Founder of Hope in Today Ministries, Inc (The ministry God has put inside of me that I use in the work I do in unity with the fellow body of Christ reaching out to the world with a hand UP in HOPE that is found in Jesus Christ alone!
To God be the glory, Author of The Train Whistle, Sounding the call of God’s Love, by Karen Rowe (The tool / talent that God used to get Hope in Today Ministries out of the inside of me to work in the Church for God’s Glory Alone!
Faith Works BEST when we remember God knows MORE!
Faith in What We Don’t See:
The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see. The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
(Hebrews 11:1 The Message).
Thanks so much!
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