Prayer?

Prayer… Is it just superficial in our day and age? We sit at our meals with our families and someone is chosen to say a prayer, and for some of us this is the most of our conversation with God. I think we have lost the meaning of prayer here… It isn’t simply a blessing we throw on our food, instead it’s our conversation with God, our way to ask things of Him, but also to ask forgiveness from Him. I believe some of us, me included, don’t realize that our sin has created a wall so tall and thick between us and God that, even if we wanted to communicate with God we couldn’t. Most of us think that this is just God ignoring us, giving us the cold shoulder, but God can’t have those with un-confessed sin come to His throne. A prayer-less life is also simply foolish! Prayer has power unimaginable, even today! There are times when I truly believe that with enough prayer any illness, any problem, any request can be healed, fixed, and resolved. But do we really believe all this today… Or do we just see it as that activity that had power back in old times? Do we set aside more than just meals and “days of prayer” to pray? Most of the time not, so perhaps we need to change the way we go about our lives. Perhaps there is a place for prayer… For God…

- James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

- James 4:3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.