WATCHWORD:
Pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. Matthew 9:38
Whatever you ask in my name, that I will do. John 14:13
Meditation:
Prayer Is Absurd!
Oswald Chambers in one of his recent devotionals tells us that we have to know that prayer is foolish from the common sense, human point of view. We can’t prove it has any real purpose, nor can we prove that prayer had any direct impact when gauged by human thought. It is only through our faith and belief that we trust in the importance of prayer.
When we are told by Jesus to go and make disciples, the meaning is clear; we are to go and live our lives according to his commands. We can only do that when we keep close communication with God through prayer.
I believe we underestimate the power of prayer. In the spiritual realm, prayer does not provide us with the equipment to carry on works, prayer is the works, it is the greatest works that we could ever undertake. If that weren’t enough, we have heard Jesus say that we must come to God as a child because only a child of God gets his prayers answered. Through our faith and belief we are children of God.
Chambers tells us that in the teachings of Jesus, prayer is the working of a miracle of redemption in us, the restoring of something we had lost through our separation from God. When we practice the power of prayer, it causes a spiritual chain reaction, producing the miracle of redemption in others through the power of God.
We often hear of people being called to the ministry, or being called to some particular task and they have a compulsion to follow the Lord. Some claim to have a very special work to do that has been laid out for them by God. Our Lord calls us to no special work, he simply calls us to Himself and He will engineer our circumstances to lead us into that relationship.
Prayer absurd? What can be absurd if it is from God, and especially if it’s God’s way to the greater work that you and I could ever undertake? May it be so with each of us. Amen.
When We Pray We Are One with the Holy Spirit, So Let Us Pray as Jesus Taught:
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, they will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen.
