How is your prayer life, friend?

Have we settled for a dull repetitious prayer life?

As a follower of Christ, daily prayer is essential in our walk of faith.

It is how we can be most intimate and connected to God.

And prayer changes everything for the person praying.

But how do we establish a daily habit of prayer when we may not know how to pray or what our prayer life should look like?

Fortunately, Jesus teaches us the how-to and how-to not pray in Matthew 6:5-14 when the disciples asked Him this same question.

The Messiah first teaches His disciples that a good prayer life is not one with long, drawn-out sentences or fancy words to make themselves sound good to others.

But rather, when we pray, we ought to seek our prayer time in private with our heavenly Father; and when praying with others, we are to do it to glorify God, not outwardly pleasing.

Jesus says- “And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him (Matthew 6:7-8)”.

God does not look at the beauty of our words.

He looks at the genuineness of the heart.

Jesus then goes on to teach the disciples one of the most recited and shared scripture passages among Christians- The Lord’s Prayer.

The Lord’s Prayer gives us a guide on how to pray and can be helpful when we find ourselves struggling in our prayer life.

We can start praying more like Jesus today when we purposely structure our prayers in the same pattern as The Lord’s Prayer- adoring God, confessing to God, thanking God, and making requests to God.

When we use this structure in our prayer time, we can establish a daily prayer life that is not from a ritualistic pattern but from an overflow of our hearts.

The late J. I. Packer once said, “We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts. Many of us, I suspect, have no idea how impoverished we are at this level. Let us ask the Lord to show us”.

Friend, every single day, we can go to our Father in heaven and receive His daily bread that will sustain us.

When we seek God through prayer, we receive the daily nourishment our souls so desperately need.

May you always remember on your best day that you still need God as desperately as you did on your worst day.

Let us pray and praise Him today, friend.

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If you’ve been a follower of Christ for some time, it can be easy to lose that awe-stricken reverence for who God is.

However, when we recall how Jesus transformed us from the inside out, we are better equipped to live more reverenced and hope-filled lives because we can remember how much His presence changed us.

This conviction in remembering who our savior is came to me as I read a commentary the other day. It said:

The greatest man in history had no servants, yet they called Him Master.

This man had no degree, yet they called Him Teacher.

He had no medicines, yet they called Him Healer.

He had no army, yet kings feared Him.

He won no military battles, yet He conquered the world.

This man committed no crime, yet they crucified Him.

He was buried in a tomb, yet He lives today.

And this man, we call Jesus.

He is our savior and was sent here for the sole purpose of rescuing us, not condemning us.

Let this reminder today ignite your faith and restore your reverence for who your redeemer is.

He is the beginning and the end and makes the darkness tremble.

Friend, we can marvel in reverence of the Holy One we serve because of the glorious deeds He completed for us and in us.

Psalm 66:12, says we went through fire and water, but You brought us to a place of abundance.

Let your faith be refreshed today as you recall how He made you new through and through.

He is a good God.

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While the world will have you believe that evil prospers and justice doesn’t prevail, the Bible tells us otherwise.

Let’s read what Psalm 94:14-15 says about this- For the Lord will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance. Judgment will again be founded on righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it.

You see, the God we serve is still standing amongst us now.

He is everlasting and is still moving mountains that we can not see or understand yet.

And as believers, we are called to have faith even as small as a mustard seed.

We can dwell not in the noise of this world but in the One who never becomes faint or weary.

Friend, let not the worries of these times drift you away from your faith in Christ but instead, let your hope in the Lord be renewed when you seek your strength in Him first.

The Bible says those who trust in the Lord will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not become weary, and they will walk and not faint.

We can do nothing apart from Christ, but in Him, we have all the strength of His might that we need to keep going in this life.

He is worth keeping our hope anchored to today, tomorrow, and forever. 

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