Two things must happen on our part in
order for God to do His part when we pray.
First we must stay joined with Christ and secondly, the Word of God must
stay in us. I think it would be well for
us to consider how we might not stay connected with the Lord and keep His Word
in our hearts.
We lose our connection to Christ when we
take our eyes off of Him and start focusing on the world or people. When we become captivated by what is around
us instead of who is over us, we get into trouble. It takes determination and concentration to
keep Christ in our lives. It doesn't
just happen. We have to work diligently
and hard to keep from being drawn away from Him.
We lose our connection as well whenever
we fail to exercise our spiritual disciplines.
In order to think and act Biblically, we must stay in our Bibles. We must read it and meditate on it
regularly. We must not let anything rob
us of our needed time in the Word. We
must make our Bible time and prayer the main priority of our days, when we
don't the world draws us away from the Lord and fills us with its ways of
thinking and living.
Jesus promises us that when we keep our
souls connected and well fed, we can ask the Lord anything and it will be
granted to us. This is true because when
we are properly connected, we will ask according to His will and not ours. We will want what the Lord wants. We will desire to please Him and will want to
see His will done on earth, even as it is in heaven. And, when all this happens, it brings much
glory to God, our Father.
And when God has a different answer to
our prayers than we want or expect, we submit to His will with thanksgiving for
our Father always knows what is best.
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