One of our daily duties is to pray. When our Lord taught His early followers to pray, He told them to ask God each day for their daily bread. It goes without saying that He expected them to visit and commune with their Heavenly Baker on a daily basis. I, for one, do not like old, stale bread; I like it fresh, hot out of the oven. When we neglect prayer, we end up eating moldy bread (Josh. 9:12,14).
Many of us feel like Job of old when he asked the question, “What profit should we have, if we pray unto him?” That is, does prayer really work? Does it pay to pray? Well, stop doing it and find out, but it will be to your own detriment if you do. Many do not pray because of the fact they cannot understand it. But we are told to trust God and not lean on our own understanding. It’s, “…by faith we understand."
I find in my own life that when I feel I need prayer least, I need it most. Until a person realizes his or her great need of God, they will not pray. They have a false sense of security, never suspecting they are, “… wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked.” David was a king, yet when he came before God he always characterized himself as being, “…poor and needy.” He would not have fit with our modern day Laodicean Christians who boast, “I…have need of nothing.”
“One way to get comfort is to plead the promise of God in prayer, show Him His handwriting; God is tender of His Word.” (Thomas Manton)
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