FAITH CAPSULES: Know to watch and pray, not wailing with empty noise.
1 Peter 4
Waiting on God to experience His presence, to receive expectation demands watching and praying unceasingly.
There is no place that the word demands praying without watching or watching without praying.
What is your prayer of expectation like in your life?
Repeatedly, the word of God asks to watch and pray, not wailing (prolong cry) to provoke with empty noise but to remind God by His word that does not return void to Him.
Engage watch and pray, though like labor, but continually is with the expectation to experience the hand of God.
Watch and pray, always before God!
To watch and pray is what Jesus repeatedly urges in His words.
As a believer in God, with faith to receive demands watching and praying the evidence of one with expectation for manifestation.
Are you watching and praying as Jesus urges in His word or worrying in the ground of praying before God?
Entering the labor room of prayer should not be with a mind centered on worrying. Seek before God always with expectation for manifestation the evidence of watching and praying.
To be watching and praying is giving attention to God for His visitation.
Watching and praying is listening to hear from God and not speaking over the word of God that visits with an answer.
Watching and praying is to seek and see the move of God at the time of His visitation in response to calling on Him.
Watching and praying is not a time of standing as a spectator or taking a position to be carried away with the challenges of the wicked world.
Are you worrying about burdens and heavy-loaded, not watching and praying?
Jesus demonstrated the nature-labor of praying in Luke 22:44, “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.”
Watching and praying demands consistency and is not convenient but can be loaded with physical, emotional, or spiritual labor.
Watching and praying with expectation for the manifestation is with the character of living life to the glory of God.
What is your approach to engaging the presence of God for the manifestation of your expectation?
Approaching the prayer room with no preparation to experience God is evidence of a casual attitude.
Attitude is an action that demonstrates the faith of one seeking God in watching and praying to experience the manifestation of expectation.
Jesus, in His word of direction, repeatedly emphasized watching and praying, and the Bible records:
Matthew 26:41, “Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Mark 13:33, “Take heed, watch and pray; for you do not know when the time is.”
Peter also admonishes watching and praying.
1 Peter 4:7 records, “But the end of all things is at hand; therefore, be serious and watchful in your prayers”
Always watching and praying is the direction for all not to become the victim of evil occurrences in the wicked world.
Prayer for today: Ask to know living life by watching and praying continually.