Why Pray

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God. --Andrew Murray

There is no better way to start your day than to pray.

For prayer is the life blood that pumps life into our spirituality. Whenever we fail to pray, we go through life sluggish because we are running on fumes. Prayer brings power to any individual who takes out time to pray. God rejuvenates them with power from on high to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask.

There are people in the world who are losing jobs, homeless, hungry, fighting diseases, fighting drug addiction, have houses being foreclosed upon, being raped, beaten, talked about, lied upon, spat upon, shot, forced into prostitution, being conned and I haven’t even covered the tip of the iceberg. You would think that with all that we face as human beings that we would pray more.

Unfortunately, some people bring it to God after the situation has escalated. They allow the situation to turn into a problem. The problem turns to a bigger problem. The bigger problem now becomes the out of control problem that catapults into a crisis.

Our situation was once a little harmless adorable puppy who has become an enormous Pit-Bull who wants nothing more but to devour us. Now we are ready to run to God. Now we need Him to get rid of our crisis so we run to him to help us.

The good thing is that God knows our hearts. Even when we come to Him with our crisis, He never fails to come to our rescue.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go. -- Abraham Lincoln

Prayer is communion with the Master of the Universe. Prayer is the development of a relationship that God wants to have with us. A dialog where He wants us to tell Him what is on our minds and hearts. He wants us to get into the habit of getting close to Him. Lord knows we all need it.

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy. --Corrie Ten Boom