FAITH CAPSULE: Prayer is not a parade to impress anyone.
Psalm 141
Watching and praying is asking, seeking, and knocking to call on God.
Prayer is a labor and is not for one with the spirit of laziness.
The prayer of Jesus in the garden demonstrates that prayer is a labor God cannot ignore.
Luke 22:44 identifies the labor prayer of Jesus, “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
Engage prayer with labor as a way of life in this wicked world to be saved.
Give yourself to prayer.
Prayer is the master key to assessing and receiving from God.
With understanding, prayer is not an assumption but to ask, seek, or knock. Matthew 7:7 records, “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
To ask or think is praying to receive: Ephesians 3:20 records, “Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.”
Before God, ask with action rooted in faith for God to see and not deny an answer.
To seek is to watch and not miss when God answers.
Knocking persistently for an open door will not deny the prayer as the master key to open or lock.
Watching and praying is asking, seeking, and knocking to call on God.
Pray with understanding to gain an edge in challenges.
Understanding is to find God. Psalm 47:7 denotes, “For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding.”
The word of God demands singing praises with understanding, so praying before and other ways of seeking God.
With a prayer of understanding, God does not ignore.
With prayer, one cannot be quiet to become victorious.
Prayer is action.
The evidence of understanding and knowledge of God will gained before God.
1 Samuel 2:3 admonishes, “For the Lord is the God of knowledge; And by Him, actions are weighed.”
Let your prayer be an action that carries weights before God that will provoke God to incline His ear to your prayer.
A prayer that carries weight before God is not blown as with no weight away from the presence of God by any force of wicked.
How is your prayer life?
Are you praying to God from the head or heart?
Is your prayer rooted in the word of God or the word of your head?
Is your prayer at your convenience and without commitment before God?
Apostle Paul identifies the importance of how prayer should be to gain the attention of God, as he states in Acts 6:4, “but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”
Let praying before God become your priority as your way of life.
Prayer for today: Ask God to enable you to always watch in your prayer.