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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A humble, unpretentious faith could rightly be called a “child-like faith.”

In Matthew 18:1-9, we hear Jesus preaching to His disciples about this child-like belief.

At one point, while Jesus was talking to His disciples, children attempted to come to Him, but the disciples stopped them.

This act of preventing the children from coming to Jesus did not sit well with Him.

But then, Jesus brings forth the children Himself and says, ”Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them, for such is the kingdom of heaven”.

Children are valuable and loved by Christ, so much so that He further declares, “Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of God” (v. 4). Unless we do so, we cannot even enter Jesus’ kingdom. But whoever does so is great in His kingdom”.

You see, kids have this sense of believing that we adults can learn from.

These kids in Matthew, who were attempting to reach Jesus, knew with a pure heart that He was worthy of following without doubt.

Friends to become like a little child, as Jesus says, means that we humbly accept that there are things that we cannot understand about the greatness of God's plan and simply take Him at His Word.

We can have child-like faith with peace in our souls because of our heavenly Father’s good care for us.

He is always loving us, pursuing us, and pruning us to become Who He created us to be.

Let us walk in child-like faith today and every day after. 

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I am thankful for a God who is more powerful and more loving than my mind can even comprehend.

Scripture tells us His thoughts and His ways, which we cannot fully understand or grasp, but we can rest in the knowledge that He is good because everything He does is good.

And even though I fully do not understand His ways, I trust Him.

I trust Him because He loved me with all I am- sins included.

I trust Him because even in my brokenness, He still pursued me.

Even after He pursued me, He didn’t leave me but instead; washed my unworthy feet and restored my heart.

I trust him because with Him I was forgiven and made new.

The Bible says those who are in Christ are a new creation.

Friend, there is no other God like Him, before Him, or after Him.

He is sovereign on all creation.

Remind yourself today of the Almighty and loving God you serve.

There is nothing He cannot do.

I pray today your heart desires to continue to follow His word and trust that His path always leads to freedom and peace. 

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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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