We pray for this, and we pray for that.
We pray for grandma when she is sick, then we pray for her to have a peaceful death if her situation is terminal.
We pray for a house, then we pray for a bigger house.
We pray for a car, then we pray for a bigger car.
We pray for jobs, then we pray for better jobs.
We pray to earn more money, then we pray to earn more money.
We pray for our team to win, then we pray for our team to continue winning.
If we do not pray when we are well, how do you suppose this causes God to feel when we come to Him when we are sick?
If we do not pray when we are well, when we have those bigger cars and bigger houses and bigger paychecks, how do you suppose God feels when we come to Him to bail us out of hot water?
If we do not confess our sins to God when we have it all, how do you suppose God will answer our prayers when we have nothing?
Is prayer to God only good enough for us in the bad times?
Do you ever pray for a sports team to continue its losing ways? If a team is comfortable in losing, they haven't had enough concern to care about winning. Until the team decides to get up off the floor and start playing to win, praying for God to help them is a waste of team. For if the team does not care about winning, losing is just another day in the ballpark.
In like manner, if people continue in their sinning ways, God will not hear their prayers, nor prosper their journey on the road that leads to more sin. They have the devil for that!
One of the best answers to prayer that God can give us at times is when he says, "No!"
Our gratitude is a reflection of our attitude, and our attitude will frame our gratitude. For there are times when we need to struggle, times when we need to do without, and times for our baseball team to keep losing. And there are times when we need to get off the floor and stand up, which reveals to God our desire to do something besides doing nothing.
God wants men and women to be adults, to arise and walk, to arise and try, to arise and do, and not to sit on the floor like toddlers while expecting God to do everything for us, and to give Him the praise and the glory that He deserves, and for us to stop expecting to have our own way all the time, like school children, always wanting another piece of candy or a stick of chewing gum.
And in all of praying to God and asking for Him to do for us, do we ever ask God if there is something we can do for Him?
We pray for grandma when she is sick, then we pray for her to have a peaceful death if her situation is terminal.
We pray for a house, then we pray for a bigger house.
We pray for a car, then we pray for a bigger car.
We pray for jobs, then we pray for better jobs.
We pray to earn more money, then we pray to earn more money.
We pray for our team to win, then we pray for our team to continue winning.
If we do not pray when we are well, how do you suppose this causes God to feel when we come to Him when we are sick?
If we do not pray when we are well, when we have those bigger cars and bigger houses and bigger paychecks, how do you suppose God feels when we come to Him to bail us out of hot water?
If we do not confess our sins to God when we have it all, how do you suppose God will answer our prayers when we have nothing?
Is prayer to God only good enough for us in the bad times?
Do you ever pray for a sports team to continue its losing ways? If a team is comfortable in losing, they haven't had enough concern to care about winning. Until the team decides to get up off the floor and start playing to win, praying for God to help them is a waste of team. For if the team does not care about winning, losing is just another day in the ballpark.
In like manner, if people continue in their sinning ways, God will not hear their prayers, nor prosper their journey on the road that leads to more sin. They have the devil for that!
One of the best answers to prayer that God can give us at times is when he says, "No!"
Our gratitude is a reflection of our attitude, and our attitude will frame our gratitude. For there are times when we need to struggle, times when we need to do without, and times for our baseball team to keep losing. And there are times when we need to get off the floor and stand up, which reveals to God our desire to do something besides doing nothing.
God wants men and women to be adults, to arise and walk, to arise and try, to arise and do, and not to sit on the floor like toddlers while expecting God to do everything for us, and to give Him the praise and the glory that He deserves, and for us to stop expecting to have our own way all the time, like school children, always wanting another piece of candy or a stick of chewing gum.
And in all of praying to God and asking for Him to do for us, do we ever ask God if there is something we can do for Him?
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