This was Friday's SELAH from Pastor Mark - Trumbull, CT
The Power Of Prayer
Today's Word
FIRST OF all, then, I admonish and urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men, For kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that [outwardly] we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life [and inwardly] a peaceable one in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way. For such [praying] is good and right, and [it is] pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior, ~1 Timothy 2:1-3
Today's Thought
Prayer is meant to be a daily part of our walk with Christ.
How can we have a relationship with Jesus without communication?
Our prayers also confirm our commitment to Jesus and our dedication to serve Him. Even though God is all powerful and all knowing, He has chosen to let us help Him change the world through our prayers. We all can remember stories of how prayer healed or help others. Prayer is both powerful for those who are doing the praying and for those being prayed for. Obviously, those doing the praying are blessed by the closeness of God to them during their supplications.
God's intervention is the explanation for many healings and other phenomena unexplained by science. The most constant, most reliable, most certain effect of prayer however is not on God. It's on us. Prayer transforms us. It gets us out of our self-oriented way of thinking, and into God's way of thinking. It takes the spotlight off us and puts it on others. So, pray, not so much so He can hear us, but so we can hear Him. Prayer is a steady way of bending our will towards God's will.
Pray Continually, Prayers Of Praise And Thanksgiving. God Will Answer!
Today's Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Oh Heavenly Father, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life" -- Saint Frances
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