But in every thing by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving
let your requests be made known unto God.
Philippians 4:6
Below is a song that I very much
enjoy listening to because it reminds me of so many people that I know. Some of
those people, I have no doubt pray for me by name every day. I once met one
very special lady that touched my life in a way that it had never been touched
before. I have never met another person like her since that day, either. As we
were talking, if something was said that she felt the Lord needed to hear
about, she would pause and take that situation to God in prayer. At first, I
thought what I was witnessing to be very strange. I had never met anyone like
that before. However, I later realized that what that lady was doing was and is
very biblical.
I also like to hear Gordon Mote
sing this particular song because it reminds me of what God wants for me.
Philippians 4:6 tells me that God wants me to take every situation, every
circumstance, every problem, every triumph, every victory to Him in prayer.
James 4:2 tells me that I have not because I ask not. Matthew 7:7 says, “Ask,
and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be
opened unto you.” God doesn’t need us to pray so that He can know how to meet
our needs; God wants us to pray as a way of inviting Him to change our lives
for all eternity. God wants me to be fully dependent on Him, and prayer is how
He does that.
There is a saying that goes
something like this: “Work as if everything depends on you. Pray as if
everything depends on God.” My friends, everything does depend on God. And when
we fail to go to Him in prayer, we show Him that we have failed to realize that
everything really does depend upon Him. I realize that we must put legs to our
prayers. However, if we would each set aside time every day to tell Him all
about it, I am convinced we would see a great revival in this nation.
If you do not know Jesus as Lord of
your life today I pray that you would come to do so before it is eternally too
late for you. No matter what anyone has told you in the past, in order to be
saved, you need not say a thing. “The sinner’s prayer” will not get you to
Heaven or put you in a right relationship with Him. If you truly want to be
saved, you only need to do one thing—trust Jesus. And as a result of His saving
grace, you will willingly repent of all sin as a way of saying thank you to the
One who gave His life for you. No one who has come to Jesus in true repentance
and faith has He ever turned away.
