A popular author and pastor has extended,
A new challenge, weak prayer lives to reboot:
‘Pray four minutes a day, till four weeks are expended’.
For such a need, can anyone dispute?
‘Four minutes, four topics, for four weeks’, don’t quit. 1
An innovative notion, prayer lives to rekindle,
And a new habit in your mind and spirit.
Imagine the impact on sons who are prodigal.
Like a modem with limited connectivity,
This challenge could not serve fast-growing needs.
Yikes! Imagine the frustrating receptivity!
From your provider, you’d demand …more speed!
Mindful of this fact I have now become:
Earth bears fruits from seeds’ ambitions. 2
Seeds are at the start of every problem.
Seeds give the final solutions.
Jesus once said we ought always to pray, 3
And in Him to always abide, 4
Lest we risk becoming a devil’s prey,
Or trapped in a ...lukewarmness tide. 5
‘Always?’, I asked. ‘How is that humanly possible??’
He answered, ‘A constant prayer life is how
in Me you abide.
Since I know your thoughts well before, in your mind, they settle,
Across the table of your mind, My seat is always occupied!’
So…
If that prayer challenge is but a small seed,
What good fruits, pray tell, might it one day yield?
The answer’s clear when on God’s Word we feed:
Your thought life becomes …your seeding prayer field.
‘Do all things as unto The Lord’, to us is written. 6
Since all day long, thinking is the biggest thing we all do,
Don’t imagine that, from Him, all our thoughts ...are hidden.
So, turn thoughts into prayers, since there’s
no escape from His view.
While small beginnings should never be despised, 7
Neither with smallness, should we remain satisfied.
When on the path of abundant life, we stride,
Our thoughts are ‘before and unto Him’, bona fide.
Like a modem with un-limited connectivity,
God’s challenge will serve your maturing need.
wOw! Imagine the satisfying receptivity,
When, to His prayer challenge, you accede.
I leave you with a tip that worth pon'dring.
Sinner or saint, this tip should be humbling.
Whenever you think you are ‘just thinking’,
It’s to Him you are …always up-linking!
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1 See: Max Lucado 4-week Prayer Challenge, with the following prayer topics: (a) Father, You are good, (b) I need help, (c) They need help, (d) Thank You.
2 All things develop from spiritual and physical seeds. Recall, words are seeds.
3 See: Luke 18:1, Ephesians 6:18, and Jude 20
4 See: John 10.
5 See: Revelation 3:14-22 and also Laodicean Lackadaisicalness (Series).
6 See: And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to The Lord and not to men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve The Lord Christ. (Colossians 3:23-24)
7 See: Zechariah 4:10
