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The Power of Prayer

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition,with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding,will guard your hearts, and your minds in Christ, Jesus.~~ Philippians 4:6-7 NIV ~~ 

"The power of prayer": these words are so familiar, yet sometimes we forget what they mean. 

Prayer is a powerful tool for communicating with our Creator; it is an opportunity to commune with the Giver of all things good. 

Prayer helps us find strength for today and hope for the future. 

Prayer is not a thing to be taken lightly or to be used infrequently. 

Is prayer an integral part of your daily life, or is it a hit-or-miss habit? 

Do you pray without ceasing, or is your prayer life an afterthought? 

The quality of your spiritual life will be in direct proportion to the quality of your prayer life. 

Prayer changes things, and it changes you. Today, instead of worrying about your next decision, ask God to lead the way. 

Don't limit your prayers to meals or to bedtime. 

Pray constantly about things great and small. God is listening, and He wants to hear from you now. 

 ~~ A Prayer ~~

Dear Lord, sometimes, amid the demands of the day, I lose perspective, and I fail to give thanks for Your blessings and for Your love. 

Today, help me to count those blessings and let me give thanks to You, Father, for Your love, for Your grace, and for Your blessings. Amen.  

A Woman of Prayer, 365 Daily Devotions - Freeman-Smith

P.U.S.H.

When everything seems to go wrong, just P.U.S.H

• Pray
• Until
• Something
• Happens

Heard a Still Voice

"There was silence, and I heard a still voice" (Job 4:16, margin). A score of years ago, a friend placed in my hand a book called True Peace. It was an old mediaeval message, and it had but one thought--that God was waiting in the depths of my being to talk to me if I would only get still enough to hear His voice.

I thought this would be a very easy matter, and so began to get still. But I had no sooner commenced than a perfect pandemonium of voices reached my ears, a thousand clamoring notes from without and within, until I could hear nothing but their noise and din. 

Some were my own voices, my own questions, some my very prayers. Others were suggestions of the tempter and the voices from the world's turmoil. 

In every direction I was pulled and pushed and greeted with noisy acclamations and unspeakable unrest. It seemed necessary for me to listen to some of them and to answer some of them; but God said,"Be still, and know that I am God." 

Then came the conflict of thoughts for tomorrow, and its duties and cares; but God said, "Be still." And as I listened, and slowly learned to obey, and shut my ears to every sound, I found after a while that when the other voices ceased, or I ceased to hear them, there was a still small voice in the depths of my being that began to speak with an inexpressible tenderness, power and comfort. 

As I listened, it became to me the voice of prayer, the voice of wisdom, the voice of duty, and I did not need to think so hard, or pray so hard, or trust so hard; but that "still small voice" of the Holy Spirit in my heart was God's prayer in my secret soul, was God's answer to all my questions, was God's life and strength for soul and body, and became the substance of all knowledge, and all prayer and all blessing: for it was the living GOD Himself as my life, my all. 

 It is thus that our spirit drinks in the life of our risen Lord, and we go forth to life's conflicts and duties like a flower that has drunk in, through the shades of night, the cool and crystal drops of dew. But as dew never falls on a stormy night, go the dews of His grace never come to the restless soul.

 --A. B. Simpson