PRAYER,
What a Privilege!
He honors our prayers;
but they can’t be prayers
of idle talk. When you talk
to the Lord, you must claim
His promises. When you get sick,
you should pray for yourself before
you ask anybody else to pray for you.
My mother taught me that, and she
made that a practice in her life. God
honored her prayers; and many times,
she didn’t need anybody else to pray
for her.
The Lord said, Come now, and let
us reason together (Isaiah 1:18).
God wants to talk with His children.
Have you ever had a talk with the Lord
that lasted all night long, and you were
not even sleepy? He seemed to make
Himself so alive each minute, and He
seemed to be just as excited to be talking
with you as you were with talking
to Him.
The Right Kind of Prayers
Jesus said, If ye abide in me, and
my words abide in you, ye shall
ask what ye will, and it shall be
done unto you (John 15:7). You must
first abide in divinity; and that means
abiding in God’s greatness, love, faith,
peace, hope, humility and self-control.
Then God’s Word and His promises
must abide in you, and you must know
We can call Heaven
anytime—what a great
privilege! In Old Testament
days, the Israelites couldn’t call
Heaven anytime. God would come
down to the Holy of Holies on the
Day of Atonement, and only the high
priest was permitted to go in and make
atonement before God for the sins of
the people. Everyone else was left outside.
When Jesus came to Earth, He
became our High Priest. He had divine
blood in His veins, and He willingly shed
that blood as an atonement for the sins
of all mankind. Anyone who goes to
Calvary and accepts that blood sacrifice
is made a new creature in Christ, and
they are pure and holy before the Lord.
Jesus made a blood line to Heaven for
all mankind, and that makes it possible
for us to talk to the Lord any time of the
day or night.
Do you make the most of that blood
line for both you and others? When
you wake up in the middle of the night,
don’t lie there trying to figure out why
you’re awake and never come up with
the answer. Instead, consider that the
Lord may have woken you up to pray
for a lost soul or a person who is suffering
and needs help. Then get on
your knees.
God needs us in this last hour, and
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