Thoughts for another day

April 3, 2013.

Today's verse: Jas. 5:16. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working]. (Amplified Bible – copyright ack.)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Everybody prays or atleast they’d say they’re praying but to God it matters whether you’re really praying or just posing to pray.  To others you may seem to be praying deeply, but God knows the truth.  Believe me people, to pray in a focused manner and from a righteous and pure heart, is a challenge for most of us and very, very few people, if at all, are able to do it.  That’s the reason we don’t see the dramatic hand of God in our lives because there’s hardly anyone out there who can lift his or her hands in prayer in so fervent a manner that God would stop everything and listen.

The fact of the matter is, what James says in our Scripture today is sure.  Now whether one’s really in a righteous condition is a moot point but I do know that when you pray with your heart, you’ll find God with you, not because I or other preachers say it, but because God Himself says it, Jer.  29:13. Such is the condition of a fervent praying heart, that I believe that heart gets connected to the heart of God and is able to move His hand, particularly when there’s a crisis.  Remember Jehoshaphat’s prayer; 2 Chron. 20:5 onwards?  God’s answer is instant and He protects them from the Ammonites, the Moabites and the Edomites. 

When the fervancy of the heart is further lifted with purity, then great things do happen; I’ll take the example of Jesus’ prayer which He made for us on the Cross, ‘Father forgive them for they know not what they do!’  We know we’re forgiven and it’s such a great miracle as eternal life came to us with God’s forgiveness.  We may now, not understand the immensity of this miracle, but when we enter the next life, we’ll sure learn the power of Christ’s prayer and know what it means to be saved.  My friend, exert yourself into gaining the purity that pleases God and connect in prayer to Him with your heart.  Soon, He will move those mountains, you asked Him to move.