Pray, Pray, Pray

Throughout this next 6 months, I have made a commitment to you that I will be praying continually for you. As I was praying specifically for each of you, I felt compelled to write you and encourage you to begin doing the same for your mentee/mentor. I believe that prayer can often be one of the hardest spiritual disciplines because it requires complete submission of ourselves. We are to approach the Lord through His grace to present our requests to Him. It is such a privilege, but so often overlooked by our busy, on the go culture.

Here is a little excerpt from the book The Power of Prayer in a Believer's Life by Charles Spurgeon. Hopefully it encourages you in your prayer life as much as it has encouraged me!

“I want you to understand your blessed responsibility, your practical obligation to bring forth fruit, that the Lord Jesus may be glorified in you. Abide in Him. Never remove your consecration to His honor and glory. Never dream of being your own master. Refuse to be a servant of men, but abide in Christ. Let Him be your object as well as the source of your existence. If you get there and stop there in perpetual communion with your Lord, you will soon realize a joy, a delight, a power in prayer such as you never knew before. There are times when we are conscious that we are in Christ, and we know the joy and the peace of fellowship with Him. Let us abide there. Let that blessed sinking of yourself into His life, the spending of all your powers for Jesus, and the firm faith of your union with Him remain in you evermore. Oh, that we might attain to this by the Holy Ghost!”
I pray that as we all go to work this week, whether its paid work or not, that we learn a little more how to continually abide in Christ. It seems so simple, but we all know how quickly life can begin to overwhelm us and pass us by. Take time today to sit before your Father and seek His face so that you may know Him even more intimately than you did yesterday.

Have a wonderful day,

Kari