Hope you guys are blessed by this video ....it reminded me that God sees our pain even if no one else ever does ..and that He is always God no matter what life throws at us ..so be encouraged
on my own blog I spoke about prayer this morning ...here's a passage on Intercession by E. M. Bounds:
The men who have thus communed with God and who have sought after Him with their whole hearts have always risen to consecrated eminence, and no man has ever risen to this eminence whose flames of holy desire have not all been dead to the world and all aglow for God and heaven. Nor have they ever risen to the heights of the higher spiritual experiences unless prayer and the spirit of prayer have been conspicuous and controlling factors in their lives.
The entire consecration of many of Gods children stands out distinctly like towering mountain peaks. Why is this? How did they ascend to these heights? What brought them so near to God? What made them so Christ-like? The answer is easy -- prayer. They prayed much, prayed long, and drank deeper and deeper still. They asked, they sought, and they knocked, till heaven opened its richest inner treasures of grace to them. Prayer was the Jacobs Ladder by which they scaled those holy and blessed heights, and the way by which the angels of God came down to and ministered to them.
The men of spiritual mould and might always value prayer. They took time to be alone with God. Their praying was no hurried performance. They had many serious wants to be relieved, and many weighty pleas they had to offer. Many large supplies they must secure. They had to do much silent waiting before God, and much patient iteration and reiteration to utter to Him. Prayer was the only channel through which supplies came, and was the only way to utter pleas. The only acceptable waiting before God of which they knew anything was prayer. They valued praying. It was more precious to them than all jewels, more excellent than any good, more to be valued than the greatest good of earth. They esteemed it, valued it, prized it, and did it. They pressed it to its farthest limits, tested its greatest results, and secured its most glorious patrimony. To them prayer was the one great thing to be appreciated and used.
I hope each and every one of us is pushed to pray this week ...Pray without ceasing!! One thing I encourage us to do if we are struggling in prayer (and this works for me) is to help play a worship song while you're praying so you can focus (my mind gets distracted easily and this helps me focus) and also to just started speaking with God as you would with a friend instead of just going to Him with requests (which is fine but make a habit of talking with God as with a friend, that is what He is!!! a friend!) ..have a conversation ..let it be natural ..not rehearsed or planned out ..remember Jesus in the garden? He was talking with God but really just pouring out His heart ..share what's on your heart and as your desires line up with His desires you'll automatically start praying for the things you should!! just try it and you'll see :)
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