Christian Commentary Encouraging Devotions

1) Apathy. Complacency.

It hangs like an evil storm cloud over our city.

We must constantly pray against this spirit of our age that relegates God to the back seat of the bus.

Tolerated by some. Ignored by most. And I'm talking Christians.

2) Not believing. Where does YOUR help come from? Are you trusting completely? Am I?

Are we limiting God through the sin of unbelief?

As if we could limit God!

What an absurd statement, but with an element of truth.

God has chosen to act many times through the prayers of His people.

While sovereign, He has chosen to move when we move Him by prayer.

I don't claim to fully understand this, but we ARE called to be co-laborers.

Somehow we are His hands extended.

Somehow He wants us to enforce His will on earth through prayer.

Let God arise, His enemies be scattered.

Let faith arise, and doubt and fear be banished.

3) Not prevailing.

We are the head, not the tail.

What's wagging YOU? Me?

Prevailing means to me... persisting.

Not settling for second best when we can have God's best.

I awoke this morning thinking about Jacob wrestling with God.

I won't let You go till You have blessed me.

Do we have that attitude in prayer?

When I wrote "all things are possible",

I was applying that scripture to a family situation.

I refused to allow doubts and "what if's" to linger in my mind.

I determined to allow God to have His way.

And I believed His way was the way of blessing

and giving what I requested of Him in prayer re: a family matter.

And...He delivered!

I praise Him for answered prayer.

BTW, He confirmed that scripture by quoting it to me through a lady in a phone conversation.

God DOES want to be involved in the minutiae of our lives.

And the big things too.

Does God heal?

Is He the same today as He was yesterday?

If He healed when Jesus was walking on the earth, does He want to heal today?

Yes, yes, and yes!

We were praying last night for someone awaiting cancer surgery in a few days.

He said, "I'm wide open for a miracle."

I like that.

Lord, if I'm supposed to have the surgery, OK, but I'm open for a miracle of healing.

That's not presumption. That's faith.

Believing God for impossible things because...

All things are possible with God.