BBD 11.19.07 Change Your Life
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11.19.07
Change Your Life
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or
think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the
church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. -
Ephesians 3:20-21.
In prison, Rev. Dr. Hristo Kulichev of Bulgaria says he had no right to read
the Bible. His watch and pen were confiscated along with every tiny bit of
paper. The only thing they could not take away from him was prayer. He says,
"In prison I realized how cunningly Satan works in our lives when we have
freedom, keeping us busy with all kinds of things that give us less time to
pray." (From "What I learned in prison about prayer" - Light, The Ethics &
Religious Liberty Commission, 901 Commerce, #550, Nashville, TN 37203-3696)
How true Dr. Kulichev's observation is! Prayer does not just happen. There
must be a conscious effort on the individual's part to pray. Usually, in
order to pray something else must be given up to make time for prayer. For
us to have a "Sweet Hour of Prayer," as the hymn describes prayer, what
would we have to give up? What would be necessary in our lives for us to
have an hour of prayer? What priorities would need to be rearranged?
I read a story in Reader's Digest (I think the year was around 1984.)
written by a woman who began to pray for an hour a day. She had to begin her
day an hour earlier to spend the hour in prayer. Her testimony was that it
had completely changed her life and the life of her family for the better.
What would it take for you to make a radical decision and commitment to
spend an hour a day in prayer? Prison? Some terrible calamity? Dr. Kulichev
says, "In prison I realized that we have the mightiest weapon given to us by
God. Prayer."
Want to change your life? Want to improve your life? Want help for your
family? Need to overcome a problem, or addiction? If you will begin to pray
regularly, over a sustained period of time you will find God will do,
"...exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think (imagine),
according to the power that works in us."
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tomorrow. It may be that the treatments are working.
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