Daily Devotional

PRAYING IN TRUE MATURITY

August 18

eloved, it is in the will and good pleasure of your Father that your prayer life produces certain results in your daily walk with Him. Mature praying (if you will persist in prayer, and allow yourself to be taken to the very depths of praying with the Holy Spirit) will result eventually in your getting answers from God every time that you pray! You may argue with this, but it is true! Although you may not have these answers always in the form of divine information, your true answers will often come in the form of your obtaining a divine peace during or because of sincere, loving searching for the face of God in prayer. In other words, many times while praying you will be given real answers in the form of divine thoughts or divine peace imparted to you about the subject of your prayer. The divine thoughts will give you specific instructions and a blessed knowing about what is the mind and will of your Father. You will have with these thoughts a holy assurance that you have heard His voice, and you are now on the right track with Him. However, sometimes He does not give you direct information, but rather in the act of God honoring, God loving, God reverencing prayer, you will be simply given what can be called a deep, penetrating peace from heaven. Ask your serious praying friends what this truly means to them. They will tell you that when the peace comes from their Father through sincere prayer, they then rise up and stop petitioning or praying, and simply have an abiding, quiet trusting in the goodness of the Lord. They also leave behind the struggles over issues, and believe that they are settled in the presence of God. This is such a blessed feeling and sensation, that they are greatly moved to come to prayer again quickly and joyfully, knowing that this gift of prayer from God is the most joyful and satisfying gift that they can know here on the earth. What joy! What peace! What a delight in the Lord!

Prayer

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Father, I am truly ready. I want to discover the great peace and fulfillment in moving on to the "next level" in my prayer life. Help me Father to do so now in the name of Jesus, amen!