The
Difference
by
Grace Naessens
I
got up early one morning.
and
rushed right into the day.
I
had so much to accomplish
that
I didn't have time to pray.
Problems
just tumbled about me,
and
heavier came each task.
"Why
doesn't God help me?" I wondered,
He
answered, "You didn't ask."
I
wanted to see joy, and beauty,
but
the day toiled on, grey and black.
I
wondered why God didn't show me.
He
said, "But you didn't seek."
I
tried to come into God's presence;
I
used all my keys at the lock.
God
gently and lovingly chided,
"My
Child, you didn't knock."
I
woke up early this morning,
and
paused before entering the day.
I
had so much to accomplish,
that
I had to take time to pray. (Matthew 7:7-12)
Now
let’s see if praying is important or not and if it is important how we
pray.
Mark
13:33 Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain
when
the
time will be.
Luke
21:36 But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may
be strong
enough
to come through all these things and take your place before
the
Son of man.
1. We should pray immediatly after sinning, because we don't know when the time comes.
2. So we see that praying is an important help for us christians to get to heaven.
Philippians
4:6 Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise
put
your
requests before God.
Matthew
7:7-11
7
Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you
will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you:
8
Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is
searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door
will be open.
9
Or which of you, if his son makes a request for bread, will give him a
stone?
10
Or if he makes a request for a fish, will give him a snake?
11
If you, then, being evil, are able to give good things to your children,
how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who
make requests to him?
Mark
11:24 For this reason I say to you, Whatever you make a request
for in
prayer,
have faith that it has been given to you, and you will have it.
Mark
11:25 And whenever you make a prayer, let there be forgiveness
in your
hearts,
if you have anything against anyone; so that you may have
forgiveness
for your sins from your Father who is in heaven.
Romans
8
26
And in the same way the Spirit is a help to our feeble hearts: for we are
not able to make prayer to God in the right way; but the Spirit puts our
desires into words which are not in our power to say;
27
And he who is the searcher of hearts has knowledge of the mind of the Spirit,
because he is making prayers for the saints in agreement with the mind
of God.
John
16
21
When a woman is about to give birth she has sorrow, because her hour is
come; but when she has given birth to the child, the pain is put out of
her mind by the joy that a man has come into the world.
22
So you have sorrow now: but I will see you again, and your hearts will
be glad, and no one will take away your joy.
23
And on that day you will put no questions to me. Truly I say to you, Whatever
request you make to the Father, he will give it to you in my name.
24
Up to now you have made no request in my name: do so, and it will be answered,
so that your hearts may be full of joy.
1
John 3
22
And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things
which are pleasing in his eyes.
23
And this is his law, that we have faith in the name of his Son Jesus Christ,
and love for one another, even as he said to us.
24
He who keeps his laws is in God and God is in him. And the Spirit which
he gave us is our witness that he is in us.
1
John 5
14
And we are certain that if we make any request to him which is right in
his eyes, he will give ear to us:
15
And if we are certain that he gives ear to all our requests, we are equally
certain that we will get our requests.
We cannot ask that everybody is going to be a christian.
If
we are close enough to God we will ask for things that please God and he
will carry out such wishes. But if we ask wrong things, they may not always
be carried out.
[Show
them the prayerstone and tell about it.]
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