A Charge to Pray!

When perfect strangers start asking you to pray and speak into their lives you know you are doing something right.

It is so humbling to be asked to pray for someone, but when someone you have never met, asks for your help, your advice, your prayers, what is your response? 

For me it is to pray immediately. Why not? We serve an awesome God, who is looking to and fro on the earth for His children and ready to reward our faithfulness with His favor.

We are supposed to share the gospel. Gospel means truth. What better way to share the truth than to lay hands on the sick, to pray the word over someone’s life and then step back and watch God honor it? His word does not return to Him void, but does what He intends it to.

His word brings Life. His word brings healing, His word brings joy. His word is Jesus. John 1:1.

One thing that disappoints me is when I hear someone ask for prayer, and they get an “I will be praying for you” rather than a prayer RIGHT THEN! 

Our words are powerful. They are the rudder of our lives. When we submit to God, knowing that He is our covering and our shelter, our provider and our refuge, there is nothing He cannot do! 

He opens the windows of heaven and bestows favor. So stretch out your tent! Get ready for God to move in your life when you pray!

Jesus said when we pray, do so in faith believing. “Be thou removed and thrown into the sea!”

What has changed for us as Christians that we do not believe what God has said to be true? What lie have we believed?

Did God not say, IF my people, who are called by my name (CHRISTians) will humble themselves and pray, and turn from their wicked ways, that I will hear them, and heal their land?

So when someone on Facebook asks for prayer, give it- then and there! And share it. Hit the comment button and write it down. 

How can we add our faith in prayer, if we don’t know what is being prayed? 

One can put 1000 to flight; two can put 10,000 to flight. In the grocery store when you bump into someone who asks for prayer, pray right then! 

When God brings someone to your mind that you have not thought about in years, pray for them- there is a reason they are on your heart.

Prayer is talking to God, but it is so much more when our faith is added and we get out of the way and let God be glorified in it. When He is the focus of our prayers He is always the answer to them!

Be it according to your faith.

Remember that pray is a verb and verbs are action words!

Have you got something you want to pray about? Ask in the comments below.