let’s do one more step.
the fourth step is you pray for GOD’s help. you talk to HIM. that’s what we have been dealing with here on the front porch, prayer.
if you’re not talking to GOD regularly you have no protection against temptation. that’s what JESUS said, matthew 26.41 (nlt). JESUS gave this advice to HIS followers. keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. talk to GOD about it.
now as simple as this is i don’t know about you but i often forget to pray. i forget to pray about my temptation. sometimes it’s because i’m selfish. i want to go my own way. but more often than not you know why i forget to pray? i’m too busy.
i’m just rushing off to the next thing. i don’t take the time to talk to GOD about it because i rushed on to the next thing. because we’re all busy we need to learn what i would call microwave prayers. quick prayers. just send it up. pray it immediately. you pray it in the middle of the circumstance. when you’re going through it.
the bible says in psalm 50.15 (gnt), call to me when trouble comes. I will save you. when trouble comes. not a long conversation but you immediately call when trouble comes.
learn one word prayers: help! that’s a great one word prayer. just say GOD i need help. and you do it when the trouble comes.
if you’re out on the freeway and the jerk next to you in the lane is making you angry and you want to cut him off you don’t think, i should add this to my prayer list for my devotion time tomorrow morning. that’s not going to work. you have to pray a prayer for help in that moment. when you do, GOD answers.
the bible is filled, literally filled, with examples of how when people call for help GOD answers. david and daniel and peter and paul and mary (and all the other music groups in the bible) when they call for help, GOD provided assistance to those who asked
why? why should GOD help me? because HE cares. because HE is sympathetic to your needs.
just a thought from the front porch…
the fourth step is you pray for GOD’s help. you talk to HIM. that’s what we have been dealing with here on the front porch, prayer.
if you’re not talking to GOD regularly you have no protection against temptation. that’s what JESUS said, matthew 26.41 (nlt). JESUS gave this advice to HIS followers. keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. talk to GOD about it.
now as simple as this is i don’t know about you but i often forget to pray. i forget to pray about my temptation. sometimes it’s because i’m selfish. i want to go my own way. but more often than not you know why i forget to pray? i’m too busy.
i’m just rushing off to the next thing. i don’t take the time to talk to GOD about it because i rushed on to the next thing. because we’re all busy we need to learn what i would call microwave prayers. quick prayers. just send it up. pray it immediately. you pray it in the middle of the circumstance. when you’re going through it.
the bible says in psalm 50.15 (gnt), call to me when trouble comes. I will save you. when trouble comes. not a long conversation but you immediately call when trouble comes.
learn one word prayers: help! that’s a great one word prayer. just say GOD i need help. and you do it when the trouble comes.
if you’re out on the freeway and the jerk next to you in the lane is making you angry and you want to cut him off you don’t think, i should add this to my prayer list for my devotion time tomorrow morning. that’s not going to work. you have to pray a prayer for help in that moment. when you do, GOD answers.
the bible is filled, literally filled, with examples of how when people call for help GOD answers. david and daniel and peter and paul and mary (and all the other music groups in the bible) when they call for help, GOD provided assistance to those who asked
why? why should GOD help me? because HE cares. because HE is sympathetic to your needs.
just a thought from the front porch…
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