Friday 28 March 2014

PRAYER: IN WHAT DIRECTION? - 29/03/2014

PRAYER: IN WHAT DIRECTION? - 29/03/2014

Yesterday’s message was titled “YOU ARE A CARETAKER ”. Today’s message is titled “PRAYER: IN WHAT DIRECTION? ” as provided by Pastor E. A. Adeboye in Open Heavens Devotional (Adeboye, 2014). In today’s message, we have been asked to memorise Psalm 5:2: "Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray. " and read Psalm 5:1-3.   The Bible in one year for today has been taken from Ezekiel 28:1-30:19 and Psalm 72.(Adeboye, 2014).

Quoted below is the text for today's message. God bless you or your contribution.

"The Holy Spirit inspired men to write accounts of some of their experiences and of events that occurred In time past  for a reason. The reason He did this IS stated in 1 Corinthians 10:11
"Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.”
It is however unfortunate that those things written as examples to make us wiser are often not adhered to. The Psalmist discovered something fundamental to being victorious in life which is the power of prayer. Not only the power of prayer but also the right direction we should channel our prayers to. In 2 Kings 6:26-27, we read about a woman who misdirected her prayer to the king of Israel when she was in distress: The Psalmist got it right when he said: ”unto thee will I pray In Luke 18:1-8, we see a clear picture of why we should direct our prayers to God. It took the judge an unknown number of days, months or even years, to heed the request of this helpless widow. He decided to help the woman only because she did not relent. Jesus Christ said:
“Hear what the unjust judge saith. And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them ? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?”
An often overlooked truth in this parable is that, if this woman had directed her prayers to God, she would not have gone through the pain of insensitivity she suffered. Beloved of the Lord, to whom are you directing your prayers? When you discuss your problems with people as though they have the solution, you are making a god out of them. This is why you meet with disappointment more often than not. The Bible   placed a curse on people who put their trust in men and whose hearths have strayed  from God in Jeremiah 1 7:5:
“Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.”
Let us put our trust in the Almighty God who gives liberally without upbraiding (James 1 :5)."

Today's action point is that from now on, redirect your prayers from men to God. You will not be disappointed.

God bless you all. Have a nice weekend



6 comments:

  1. Amazing.i have ti confess sister tgat though i am aware of this fact i get so overwhelmed and emitionally burdened that i cry unti god and friends .i pray that god gives me the strength and calms my emotions .god bless.

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    1. Sis annabelle is so right. Sometimes wen difficulty arises, my emotions get in the way nd dou I knw God is d only solution provider, I just wanna share wit a listening human ear. God help us

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  2. God give me the grace to pray and trust in him completely. For the arm of flesh will fail one if we do not trust completely in God. I just suffer red a terrible blow for trusting in man. God bless u for your effort to get this devotional to us.

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  3. Here is my testimony
    In the past I used to depend on what people can do for me. I feel offended when they refuse. I feel enslaved because I thought if I can impress them they will help me.
    The day I made up my mind to run to God for every need I have never been disappointed. I have come to realise that I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me.
    I have come to find out that God have deposited enough potential in us to achieve whatever we desire in his way. All you need is to make a move towards success and pray to God to make it work out.
    May God's name be praised in Christ Jesus

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  4. D word of God is indeed powerful, its cums wit power of assurance and correction. I give God all d glory for our daddy whom He has bin using to pass His msg to some of us. God giv us the grace to direct our prayers daily to you IJN.

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  5. Unto you and you alone Lord will I trust and pray to.

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