Praying for God’s best in our lives is a part of giving ourselves to Him. When we accept God’s call to be partners with Him in praying for others it gives us the privilege of drawing them into His inner circle of love. We begin to step into a larger arena of prayer where we learn to pray more boldly with God’s purpose in mind. Our Heavenly Father, God Almighty invited us when He said “I’m up to something far more momentous than you might have supposed in your life, in the lives of your loved ones, and in the whole world – and I’m asking you to be a part of it”.
Jesus Himself taught us to pray "The Our Fathr", and when we pray “Give us this day our daily bread” we follow God’s example by acknowledging our need for His favors and help. God loves to hear us speak to Him about ourself and the people we love. He wants us to pray about our personal needs as well. Yet this is not all there is to prayer. “A child asking his daddy for candy and a hamburger is not all there is to a growing relationship of love between him and his father”. “The Lord’s Prayer has seven requests; six of them relate to God’s purposes and to our spiritual needs and one relates to our personal needs.”
Praying is our wonderful privilege of conversing with the awesome, all powerful God, who is Our Creator, Our Father Almighty and our Friend.
When we intercede for others in prayer with Christ, who is always interceding before the Father, we join Him in His inner circle of prayer where our prayers embrace His deepest longings as well as our own.
(Heb 7:25) Hebrews 7:25 (New International Version)
25 Therefore he is able to save completely[those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
When we pray for others we receive more than we give out and it allows us to become more than we are. Jesus promised, “Give and it shall be given unto you.” Giving prayer is one way of spending ourselves for others. It puts us in position to receive more of God’s promises.
Isaiah 58:10-11. “If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always; He will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”
Intercessory prayer makes impossible things possible, not only for us but for the multitude of people and situations we are praying for.
The early century S.D. Gordon a well known devotional writer once wrote:
“The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer, nor those who say they believe in prayer, nor yet those who can explain about prayer, but I mean those people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is important, very important, and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer.”
Wow! What a meaningful statement!
1 Peter 2:9 (New International Version)
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
My Prayer: Heavenly Father, God Almighty I come to You with a heavy heart and burden for our nation. Your word says that we are a “royal priesthood”, “a holy nation”, and “a people belonging to You”. You Father God hand picked us and called us out of darkness to bring us into Your wonderful light. I pray Father God that You will give us Your wisdom so that we will join together as Your children in prayer with boldness leaving behind the bondages of this world to declare Your glorious name. All honor is Yours today and always, dear Lord, Jesus, Amen.
Michael W. Smith – Song Lyrics – I’m Going Back To The Heart Of Worship
Verse 1:
When the music fades
All is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that's of worth
That will bless Your heart
Bridge:
I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart
Chorus:
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You,
It's all about You, Jesus
I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it
When it's all about You,
It's all about You, Jesus
Verse 2:
King of endless worth
No one could express
How much You deserve
Though I'm weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Every single breath
Bridge:
I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart
Chorus:
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about You,
It's all about You, Jesus
I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it
And it's all about You,
It's all about You, Jesus
Chorus:
I'm coming back to the heart of worship,
And it's all about You,
It's all about You, Jesus
I'm sorry, Lord, for the thing I've made it
When it's all about You,
It's all about You, Jesus
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