Rejoice!

Romans 12: 12

¹² Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.

I’ve had people over the years ask me how much time each day they should pray.

Let’s be sure we understand one another, I think the answer to that question lies within.

Rightly so, I have said from the pulpit… “little prayer…little power…much prayer…much power.”

Actually, the man who preached from our church pulpit last Sunday, said the very same thing.

I have said though, and I will never apologize for the remark, when I said… “Can you imagine what might happen to our lives, if we prayed as much as we use our cell phones?”

I realize that for some, those comments aren’t easily tolerated.

Paul seems to suggest that we should be “constant” in prayer.

I like what the great teacher/preacher, Oswald Chambers once said about prayer…

“A great many people do not pray because they do not feel any sense of need. The sign that the Holy Spirit is in a person, is that we realize, not that we are full, but that we are empty.

There should be a sense of absolute need! We come across daily, people who try us, difficult circumstances, and conditions that are perplexing, and all these awaken a dumb sense of need.

This is a sign that the Holy Spirit is speaking…”

I have to go to the dentist today. I had to make an appointment almost a year in advance.

I don’t have to do that with God. I can have communion with God any time I desire to, and I don’t have to make an appointment.

And the best thing of all, is that I probably won’t hear Him remind me that I need to floss every day…