BBD 07.25.16 Prayer Guidance (New)
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Since June 8th 1998, this
is the 1763rd
Burning Bush Devotional
25 July 2016
Prayer Guidance
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open
to their prayers; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. – 1 Peter
3:12 NKJV.
But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and
watchful in your prayers. – 1 Peter 4:7 NKJV.
Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask
anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us,
whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. –
1 John 5:14-15 NKJV.
Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men – 1 Timothy 2:1 NKJV.
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for
this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. – 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
NKJV.
Continue earnestly in prayer, being vigilant in it with thanksgiving.
– Colossians 4:2 NKJV.
Ruqiyyah
Abdur Raqeeb Sadiq, a 28-year-old woman failed to stop at a stop sign in Mary
Esther, Florida, crossed an intersection, and slammed into the side of a house.
Usually with accidents like this you would think that alcohol or drug use would
be involved. However, you would be wrong this time. Sadiq said that the
accident must have happened while she had her eyes closed praying. This was
also likely why they took her to a hospital for evaluation. Sadiq has been
charged with reckless driving with property damage. Thankfully, no one in the
house was injured. (Daily News of NW Florida 07.11.16; Smoking Gun 07.12.16)
There
are some things that you should not do while praying. As we see with Sadiq’s
accident, driving with your eyes closed while praying is one of those things. Also,
in spite of what Carrie Underwood sings in “Jesus,
Take the Wheel” it would be a mistake to turn loose of the steering wheel
while you are driving.
There
are some things that will hinder our prayers, but in general God will hear our
prayers:
When we
pray with our eyes closed.
When we
pray with our eyes open.
When we
pray with our heads bowed.
When we
pray without our heads being bowed.
When we
have our faces turned toward Heaven.
When we
pray outloud.
When we
pray silently.
When we
pray standing up.
When we
pray sitting.
When we
pray lying down.
When we
pray upside down.
When we
pray running.
When we
pray walking.
There
are hardly any wrong ways to pray, and some prayers are unspoken as God hears
our heart’s cry. I like Amy Grant’s song, “Better
than a Hallelujah” where she sings:
God loves a lullaby
In a mother's tears in the dead of night
Better than a Hallelujah sometimes
The honest cries of breaking
hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah
The woman holding on for life
The dying man giving up the fight
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes
The tears of shame for what's
been done
The silence when the words won't come
Are better than a Hallelujah sometimes
The honest cries of breaking
hearts
Are better than a Hallelujah
Regardless
of what we pray or how we pray, the Spirit we are told makes intercession for
us according to the will of God. In other words, the Holy Spirit translates our
prayers so that the Father hears them according to His will. “Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do
not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches
the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession
for the saints according to the will of God (Romans 8:26-27 NKJV).”
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