Posted by Pastor Decker | Posted in Spiritual Growth | Posted on 09-10-2009
Tags: asking, belief, faith, importunity, pray, prayer, receiving
Do you pray? I mean, do you pray the way the Bible describes prayer? Probably all of us spend some time each day praying. However, in our modern day, we have minimized the importance of prayer. We have also diminished the importance of unwavering faith when we do pray. That issue is addressed in a very clear and defined way in the first chapter of James.
James 1:6-7
6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
The Bible tells us here that, when we pray, we are to pray as if there is no option but God answering our request. We are to pray not just believing that God can but believing that He will. Do you pray like that? Or do we pray in such a way that God answering our pray would shock us? It should shock us if God doesn’t answer our prayer. In Mark 11, Jesus taught His disciple about praying for the impossible to happen.