Hey Friend,
How did we transition from ‘Let us pray’
to ‘Let us prey’?
Prayer requires us, in patience, at Jesus’
feet to stay.
But…
When answers to prayer it seems God is
delaying,
Then we very quickly turn from
praying-to-preying.
Thus, preying signals in our lives we’ve
dethroned God,
Usurping His responsibility, going on our
own.
Us replacing God? To you, does this sound
quite odd,
Forsaking the help of angels, seeking our
own skills to hone?
To answer prayer, God focuses on spirits
that block
The flow of His goodness from Heaven’s
overflowing stock.
In preying, we focus attention on each
other,
Blind to spirits that drag us all into the
gutter!
Many of us practice a kind of double walk,
Praying on Sunday, while preying all the rest
of the week.
Listen carefully, you can hear it in our
talk,
Answering prayers by what we manipulate and tweak!
Of this practice, don’t think I’m innocent. *
Was guilty as charged! Now I’m penitent.
Double walk
ties God in quite a bind, hear what I’m saying.
Consider this…
Who gets
glory if we ‘answer’ our prayers… by
preying??
Would you
live by faith, irrespective of results?
Or would
you rather just let your faith lie dormant?
Would it
simply dry up, or do a somersault?
Come,
reflect on this with me just for a moment.
Most of
God’s results are multi-generational,
Ask Isaiah!
While
results we see may just be situational.
Pray tell,
what does it mean to ‘walk by faith and
not by sight’,
When by
data and metrics we align our lives aright?
Consider this:
Though He
is certainly Lord God Almighty,
Not even He
always gets results He desires!
Our focus
on outcomes, could He take lightly?
If not,
what is it of us He likely requires?
What role
do results in God’s economy play?
Are we
right to use results as ‘the’ gage of
faith?
The Bible
clearly says, for all men, God will test our hearts.
Could one
test be if from a results focus we will part?
‘Live by faith!’ -- a command and promise presumed,
To ensure
we don’t live like a pundit.
But if to
results we’re so finely attuned,
All our
hopes and dreams will quickly plummet.
Preying,
the dis-ease we get when we focus
On desired
results that make us joyous.
Rather than
focus on results of promises heard,
Shouldn’t
we rather focus on Him, The Promiser?
As certainly
as hate works by fear, and faith works by love,
Praying to
God while serving others …gets His ear.
Preying on
others while skirting God is not from above.
Thus, not
living by faith means …dying by fear.
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*Are you?
