{"id":12072,"date":"2024-09-26T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satchurch.lv\/?p=12072"},"modified":"2016-08-29T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T19:33:48","slug":"prayer-just-like-breathing-heavenly-aroma-accompanies-life-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/satchurch.lv\/en\/prayer-just-like-breathing-heavenly-aroma-accompanies-life-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer is just like breathing; it is the heavenly aroma that accompanies our life and activities"},"content":{"rendered":"Welcome, dear readers, to \u201eDaily Word for Spiritual Edification\u201d! I thank God for every one of you and pray you maintain your hunger for the Word of God and fellowship with God in prayer. We are continuing about the importance of prayer.\r\n\r\nWe have established that God\u2019s plans are already blessed, so we need to submit our plans to God\u2019s plans. Besides, we also learnt that to pray is to invite God to take part in our lives. He will not come into our lives if we don\u2019t ask Him. Let\u2019s continue to examine the traits of effective prayer.\r\n\r\nPrayer is just like breathing; it is the heavenly aroma that accompanies our life and activities. Prayer is the living breath of heaven. As believers, we can be givers and can be involved in many important activities; nevertheless, without prayer all this \u2018work\u2019 will lack the heavenly breath of life. Take a look at artificial flowers: they are beautiful, but have no aroma. We are able to do good works without prayer; but we have to realize that our works will lack the aroma of life, the footprints of heaven. If these flowers were alive, then they would smell.\r\n\r\nHow would you like it? Do you want your work to be beautiful on the outside, or you want to spread the life of God all around you? Would you like people to praise you and say, \u201eOh, he is doing so much!\u201d What is this work worth without the heavenly aroma, without the spirit of life? Sometimes it may seem that this can be done without praying and the result is good, but this work will fall apart, just give it some time, because it was not done in heaven.\u00a0<strong>Every work that has been accomplished in heaven abides forever.\u00a0<\/strong>The footprints of heaven are eternal footprints. So whatever you do \u2013whether you are a housewife who raises children or a husband, or a teacher, or a minister of God, &#8211; immerse you work and everybody around you in prayer and spread the aroma of heaven.\r\n\r\nYou can even do an experiment: try doing some things without praying, but others \u2013 with praying. Also pray when you do them and after you have finished. Immerse some of your activities in prayer and watch what the result will be. You will see for yourself that everything that is done without prayer lacks the life of God. God\u2019s life comes through prayer.\r\n\r\nPrayer is also a fight, a battle and a war. Satan is not afraid of a believer who does not pray and does not pay much attention to prayer. Satan will even help you to stay busy so that you would not have any time for praying. He is only afraid of those believers that pray and he will do everything in his power to bring you every possible disappointment to stop your prayers, to create barriers and to make you weak, so that you wouldn\u2019t pray.\r\n\r\nHave you seen \u2018Chronicles of Narnia\u2019? Or maybe you have read the books? They were written by Clive Staples Lewis. C.S. Lewis wrote stories using images to describe different types of people. Through the character of Lion, the author showed us Jesus. In one of his books Satan was displayed as a doctor who had an enemy; this enemy was God. This doctor had a patient who was a believer. The doctor gave assignments to his helpers not to allow his patients to pray and fellowship with God, doctor\u2019s enemy, \u00abDo whatever you need to do, but do not allow them to fellowship with God, because it will be our end! \u00bb Do you realize what that means? When a believers starts praying effectively, the hell trembles!\r\n<h6>\u201e&#8230;men always ought to pray and not lose heart\u00bb (Luke, 18:1).<\/h6>\r\nWe will continue tomorrow!\r\n\r\nI wish you abundant God\u2019s blessings!\r\n\r\nPastor Rufus Ajiboye","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prayer is the living breath of heaven. As believers, we can be givers and can be involved in many important activities; nevertheless, without prayer all this \u2018work\u2019 will lack the heavenly breath of life. Take a look at artificial flowers: they are beautiful, but have no aroma. We are able to do good works without prayer; but we have to realize that our works will lack the aroma of life, the footprints of heaven. 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