Text:
Psalm 25:14 (HCSB)
14 The secret counsel of the LORD is for those who fear Him, and He reveals His covenant to them.
Observation:
The people who walked closely and most frequently with Jesus when He walked the face of the earth saw something in Him that they valued most, and that is the thing they asked Him to teach them.
Luke 11:1 (KJV)
1 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
The most effective way we can live the overcoming life in the world is to live like Jesus lived when He was in the world, and took upon himself human flesh. What did He do?
John 5:30 (HCSB)
30 "I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
How then will you live your life? Will you do like Jesus, and take everything to God in prayer?
This is my favorite song that encourages and energizes my prayer life.
"What a friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
Oh, what peace we often forfeit,
Oh, what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer!"
Prayer:
Father, hallowed be your name. Father, teach me how to pray. Father, protect my mind, and open my heart to know when to listen, and when to speak; when to wait, and when to go.
Father, help us to see that it is in the solitude of being in Your presence that we get the strength to do Your will.
Father, what I want for myself, and what I pray for others is that Your will be done in us on earth, as it is in heaven. In the mighty name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Isaiah 55:11 (KJV)
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
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