Prayer – Start It Right!

Have you ever thought of how you started your prayer? I mean with what kind of mood, emotion and feeling? Many of us unknowingly started our prayer feeling condemned because of the sin we committed. We tend to focus more on our shortcoming, weakness, inability and limitation.

Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands! Serve the LORD with gladness; come before His presence with singing. Psalm 100:1-2

With such a frame of mind, no wonder it’s difficult to enjoy praying. Such prayer will not build up faith but defeating spirit! You will become more and more inward looking and fearful. It will be difficult confronting any problem or challenge.

In order to experience the power of prayer, you must start it right! Do not start your prayer feeling guilty, condemned and defeated! Starts with enjoying God, sing praise to God, make a joyful shout to the Lord and acknowledge his power in your life and every circumstance.

It doesn’t mean that there is no place or no need to ask for forgiveness but after that you must move on to praise and worship God.

It also doesn’t mean that you are without sin and shortcoming but your focus should be on Him rather than ‘me’. Your focus should be on His-ability rather than my inability. Your focus should be on His strength rather than my weakness. Your focus should be on His possibility rather than my limitation. Your focus should be on faith rather than fear. I believe with such setup you are going to conquer every situation in the mighty name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

This is what happened to King Jehoshaphat when he was attacked by the surrounding nations. He appointed people to sing to the Lord and to praise the beauty of His holiness. He started it right and the Lord set ambushes against his enemies and they were defeated.

And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed those who should sing to the LORD, and who should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army and were saying: “Praise the LORD, For His mercy endures forever.” Now when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushes against the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, who had come against Judah; and they were defeated. 2 Chronicles 20:21-23

I strongly believe that when King Jehoshaphat and the entire nation focus on God, faith is release. Miracle starts to happen. The battle belongs to the Lord. Victory is guaranteed and the enemies will be defeated.

You see, the devil wants you to focus on yourself. He knows that the moment you set your mind on yourself you will never walk in victory. What can you and I do to salvage the situation? Nothing other than to start it right! Honestly we have neither strength nor power. We can only sing praises to Him and call upon the Lord.

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Explain GOD..

When given a third-grade homework assignment to “EXPLAIN GOD,” this is what 8-year-old, Danny Dutton of Chula Vista, CA, had to say. How many readers here could honestly do as well? Explain God– By Danny Dutton, 8 years old, Chula Vista, CA

One of God’s main jobs is making people. He makes them to replace the ones that die, so there will be enough people to take care of things on earth. He doesn’t make grown-ups, just babies. I think because they are smaller and easier to make. That way He doesn’t have to take up His valuable time teaching them to talk and walk. He can just leave that to mothers and fathers.

God’s second most important job is listening to prayers. An awful lot of this goes on, since some people, like preachers and things, pray at times besides bedtime. God doesn’t have time to listen to the radio or TV because of this.

God sees everything and hears everything and is everywhere, which keeps Him pretty busy. So you shouldn’t go wasting His time by going over your Mom and Dad’s head asking for something they said you couldn’t have.

Atheists are people who don’t believe in God. I don’t think there are any in Chula Vista. At least there aren’t any who come to our church.

Jesus is God’s Son. He used to do all the hard work like walking on water and performing miracles and people finally got tired of Him preaching to them and they crucified Him. But He was good and kind, like His Father, and He told His Father that they didn’t know what they were doing and to forgive them and God said “O.K.” His Dad (God) appreciated everything that He had done and all His hard work on earth so, He told Him He didn’t have to go out on the road anymore. He could stay in heaven. So He did. And now He helps His Dad out by listening to prayers and seeing things which are important for God to take care of and which ones He can take care of Himself without having to bother God. Like a secretary, only more important. You can pray anytime you want and, they are sure to help you because they got it worked out so one of them is on duty all the time.

You should always go to church on Sunday because it makes God happy, and if there’s anybody you want to make happy, it’s God. Don’t skip church to do something you think will be more fun like going to the beach. This is wrong. And besides the sun doesn’t come out at the beach until noon anyway.

If you don’t believe in God, besides being an atheist, you will be very lonely, because your parents can’t go everywhere with you, like to camp, but God can. It is good to know He’s around you when you’re scared in the dark or when you can’t swim and you get thrown into real deep water by big kids.

But… you shouldn’t just always think of what God can do for you. I figure God put me here and He can take me back anytime He pleases.

And… that’s why I believe in God.

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Keep these thoughts with you throughout the coming years!

1. If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.

2. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.

3. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.

4. Whenever you want to talk, He’ll listen.

5. He could live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.

6. What about the Christmas gift He sent you in Bethlehem, not to mention that Friday at Calvary.

Face it, He’s crazy about you.