“Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them” – Mark 11:24
LIGHT FOR NOW: When a believer actually gives himself to prayer, he is not doing God good but he is doing himself good.
Prayer is making our desires known to the father. It also means to make a strong appeal or a fixed request of what you desire. This implies that prayer cannot be thinking, words have to be spoken. It is an activity carried out in reverence by man. Paul in Philippians 4:6 has this to say “Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God”. By prayer and supplication, let you request; that is your desire be made known unto God. The words prayer and supplication there mean the same thing, it is to make petitions or come before a higher authority with your request. This was used earlier in chapter 1 which reads “Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy”.
Paul has this to say in Romans 10:1 “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved”. Prayer involves verbalizing our request or our desires, to speak forth our request unto God. In Matthew 21:22, the words echo “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive”. Apostle James in James 1:5 says “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him”. So, in prayer, God expects that we make a request; he wants us to ask him. Prayer is not actually you doing God a favour; it is you doing yourself a favour. This is because you are the one bringing the request and desire. So prayer is not to do God good, it is to do you good. When a believer doesn’t pray or lives a prayerless life, he does himself bad, he does himself harm. So the believer’s prayer life is for his own good, it is not for God’s good as God doesn’t need the believers’ prayer to be who he is; God is God all by himself. God doesn’t need man to be God but man needs God to be man. There would have been no man if there wasn’t God, but God had been before man came to be. So, God doesn’t need prayers, it is man that needs prayers. Glory!
INSTRUCTION: Live the life of prayer.
CONFESSION: I declare that I am prayer-conscious as a believer now more than ever, in Jesus Name. Amen.
For More Light; get the message, “The Potency of Prayer” by Dr. John Linus
QUOTE: Your prayer is not to do God good; your prayer is to do you good.
DAILY BIBLE READING: MORNING: LUKE CHAPTER 6; EVENING: MARK CHAPTER 11
LIGHT FROM THE WORD 