Thursday, March 09, 2006

 

PRAYING EVEN WHEN IT SEEMS TO NOT WORK

IN OUR FAITH WALK, WE ALL SEEM TO GO THROUGH TIMES WHERE OUR PRAYERS SEEM NOT TO WORK. DO WE ABANDON THEM BECAUSE OF THE SEEMING SILENCE THAT ECHOES FROM HEAVEN? OR DO WE PERSIST AND PRESS ON EVEN THOUGH IT SEEMS LIKE NOTHING IS HAPPENING? I THINK WE HAVE ALL BEEN AT THAT POINT SEVERAL TIMES IN OUR CHRISTIAN LIVES. LET US NOT FORGET WHO IS ON OUR SIDE, THE GOD OF CREATION, THE LORD OF THE UNIVERSE, THE ONE WHO SAID "LET THERE BE LIGHT." WE MUST LET THE CREATIVE POWER OF OUR GOD WORK IN OUR LIVES, EVEN THOUGH LOOKING THROUGH OUR NATURAL EYES IT SEEMS THAT NOTHING IS HAPPENING. WE MUST CONTINUE TO SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND AND HE WILL BE THERE FOR US AND ENABLE US TO NOT GIVE UP, EVEN THOUGH OUR NATURAL MAN IS TELLING US TO GIVE UP. LET US LOOK UNTO JESUS, THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH.

AS CORRIE TEN BOOM SAID, "FAITH SEES THE INVISIBLE, BELIEVES THE UNBELIEVABLE, AND RECEIVES THE IMPOSSIBLE." IF WE COULD ONLY LEARN TO OPERATE WITH THAT KIND OF FAITH IN OUR LIVES, I THINK WE WOULD BE AMAZED AT WHAT THE LORD WOULD ACCOMPLISH THROUGH US IF WE WERE ONLY WILLING TO BE WILLING TO UNDERTAKE WHAT HE DIRECTS US TO DO.

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