How to develop a habit of prayer in our life? II

ByPastor Rufus Ajiboye Reading Time: 4 minutes
The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ and His peace be with you!Welcome to join our daily letter “Daily Word for spiritual strength”!Prayer is relationships of love between a man and The God as we determined it earlier.It´s nothing else but the love of God, that prompts people to pray and spend time with Him.A desire to know Him and His will in our life is a kind of food to keep our life in prayer alive.The only way to know His will is to come to see Him and ask Him about it. This desire keeps our life in prayer alive. We have to have such desire to be able to pray continuously. Paul once said he would like to know the Lord and the power of His resurrection. Looking at the Paul´s life we notice that he lived in prayer. Why was he doing so? Because he had a strong desire to know the Lord and the power of His resurrection. Paul wrote:
« Pray without ceasing» (1-Thes. 5:17).
 Why do we need to pray without ceasing? Because it´s necessary to grow in the Lord more and more. It´s a very important thing to understand. He wants us to come and talk to Him every day, not only at the time of crisis in our life. Surely, our Heavenly Father replies to our prayers, but He is not happy to see us going back to our daily rituals and routine life without Him once received an answer from Him. Study Judges or Psalms 105 and 106. Once the children of Israel had got into troubles they first reaction was to cry to their God for help. Would you call it a prayer? Yes, of course. They cried to God, repented, then removed everything that stayed between them and the God from their life and the God immediately came down to save Israel from their enemies. Shortly after life was looking up again so they slid back abusing the comfort of their blessed life, neglecting the God and relationships with Him. Once again, they ran into troubles, cried to God, the God saved them and was neglected thereafter again and so on. Why did it happen this way? The answer is easy – children of Israel misunderstood the meaning of a prayer. They prayed only when they had faced a problem. Some people don´t even know what to pray for when everything is looking up in their life. “I am thankful to you Lord for I am alive, thanks for the benefits I´ve received from You – my family, my job, the church”, – that´s what such people think their prayer should be alike, just like counting the benefits they got from above and that´s it. Meanwhile, prayer means something different. Prayer means relationships with God, a desire to know His character, when you come before Him and ask: “Lord, let me know Your will and open Your heart to me.” Paul almost always prayed to the Lord for one reason. He asked Him to reveal God´s mind and His will in Paul´s life. This is what his soul was crying for. He never asked for any material needs, even when he was in need. He was very certain that for those who seek God and His Kingdom all other things will be given at their time. We are living in a very busy world today. Sometimes we can´t find the time to pray even when we have a need for prayer and a desire to pray. That´s why talking about development of our life in prayer we have to make prayer our habit. Let´s continue about it tomorrow.A lot of blessings from God to you all at this day!Rufus Ajiboye, pastor 

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