Let Us Pray

Hello Everyone,
The second benefit to the challenges that life brings is that they give birth to the practice of prayer on a whole new level.

When the slavery began and things started getting ugly in Egypt, the Israelites called out to God like never before.

This is when serious prayer was birthed among the ordinary people.

Exodus 2:23-25: During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

We know that Abraham prayed, and that Isaac and Jacob prayed. But we have no record of their descendants calling out to the Lord until they began suffering under the taskmasters’ whip in the hot Egyptian sun.

We may never think about the fact that it is high on God’s priority list to make us men and women of prayer.

He wants us to be people who understand deep inside what praying in faith is all about.
He wants people who will pray from their hearts and not just their heads.

He said through Jeremiah the prophet: “You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart” (29:13)

One writer asked the question: “Which would you rather have? A smooth path or a road so rough that the Lord is compelled to reveal his face to you at every step?”

For me, I would rather have the intimacy of knowing Christ in all His love and grace, even if it requires a stony trail to get me there.

Listen when hard times come CALL out to God! He will answer!
Oh How He Loves Us!
Pastor Phil