Daily Bread_August 7, 2013

Title: God Opens Doors Through Prayer

Text:

Revelation 3:8 (HCSB)
⁸ I know your works. Because you have limited strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name, look, I have placed before you an open door that no one is able to close.

Observation:

One of the things that I have noticed over the course of my life is that God does His greatest work through those with limited strength. What God requires of His people is faithfulness to Him and His Word.

1 Corinthians 4:2 (ESV)
² Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

I received the following message from one of my friends recently.

"God is big enough to care for the smallest needs".

What this brother was saying, and that I received, is that there is nothing that is beyond the reach of prayer. Yes, I realize that life is hard; but, I also know that God is good, and the best is yet to come. This world is not our home.

This Lord is looking for some praying people with limited strength that He can use to touch the lives of needy people that are everywhere.

2 Chronicles 16:9 (HCSB)
⁹ For the eyes of Yahweh roam throughout the earth to show Himself strong for those whose hearts are completely His. You have been foolish in this matter. Therefore, you will have wars from now on."

God is searching for people who will pray. Will you be the one He finds? Will you have faith or will you falter?

Luke 18:1 (ESV)
¹ And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Prayer:

Our Father in heaven, Sovereign Lord, my dear Father, I extol your greatness and your graciousness. Father, You are God alone; there is none like You, no not one.

Father God, You are full of compassion, slow to anger, and great in mercy; Lord, and You know better than anyone that mercy suits my case.

Father, I come to Your throne room of grace with an empty pitcher before a full fountain, and I cry out to You asking You to fill my cup. Lord, I come asking for mercy for those who have such desperate needs, and have such limited strength. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.

Matthew 7:7-8 (ESV)
⁷ "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
⁸ For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

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Acts 6:4 (KJV)
⁴ But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

 

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