Daily Devotional

STRENGTHENED BY PRAYER AND TRUST

August 17

eloved of God, people who have weak prayer lives make themselves susceptible to many of the deceits and attacks of the Evil One. If you seldom pray, or if you do not learn how to pray effectively, you will be weak much of the time, and you will not be interested in the deeper things of the Lord God happening in your life. In fact, as you pray, you also grow in direct relationship to the level of your praying. Pray a little, grow a little, pray much and deeply, and you will grow and mature at a rapid and deeply satisfying rate. Do you want this to happen for you? Do you sometimes feel powerless and spiritually weak and ineffective in your walk with God? You can remedy this by thinking of yourself as a man or woman of prayer! Read about prayer. Read and study the reasons that others have powerful and life changing miracles in their walks with God through their joyful and eagerly involved praying. You will notice that as you hunger to pray in Jesus' name, and as you even pray the scriptures, the words and meanings of your praying will work themselves down into your very spirit, and they will become more than quotations--- they will become hidden in your heart and your prayer language will become quite second nature to you. You will derive so much pleasure from your prayer life that you will be excited and joyful and can hardly wait until your next session of prayer. This is good! If you become bored with prayer, you must consider that you are not truly praying in line with the Holy Spirit. You may be simply spending time for prayer because you believe you are obligated to do so as a good Christian. Ask your Father in Heaven to make your prayer life an excited and joyful time for you. As you inquire of Him, He is pleased with this search. Your Father will guide you into the most satisfying life of prayer that you can possibly have!

Prayer

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Father, I do not want to be bored or tired of prayer. I want to go to the heights and depths of prayer as men and women of times in the past. I want to feel the holy rush of your precious Holy Spirit when I pray. I want to become excited and expectant of my prayers breaking through and changing my life forever, and changing the lives of those that I love. I want this in Jesus' name, amen!