Week of Prayer – Day 1 Faith or Emotions

Reading – Isaiah 59:16

He saw…     …and wondered that there was no one to intercede;

Why is it that sometimes we find we’ve stopped praying, that we’ve cooled off when it comes to a real relationship with God? Could it be that our interest in prayer and our relationship with God is so often nothing to do with faith, but a lot to do with our emotions? We might talk about prayer; maybe make an effort to get to a prayer meeting once in a while, perhaps read a book on prayer which tells us how valuable prayer is, we might have heard it said in a sermon or two or read in the bible that when we pray our whole being is enriched and built up – we can have peace. We might read hear and remember that, but there will be times when we find we’ve wandered away, maybe a little or maybe a lot, but wandered we have. So what is God’s take on this?

Well from our text we can see that God wonders, He is astounded… You see prayer and worship were what we created for, God created us to “glorify Him and enjoy Him forever,1” that is to worship Him and enjoy Him. If in our daily lives we don’t put God first, if in our daily lives we don’t chat with Him, have long conversations with Him, ask His opinion and follow it or in other words if in our daily lives we’re not communicating with God, but are going our own way… well then, God will look and He will wonder.

Reflect: Does my life honour God, am I enjoying His grace and mercy, or might I be causing God to wonder.

Act: make a regular time to spend with God, to be thanking, asking, listening and submitting.

Children’s Prayer Activity  

DAY 1 adoring God –tell God you love Him in your prayers today

 

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3 thoughts on “Week of Prayer – Day 1 Faith or Emotions

  • 26th February 2017 at 3:35 pm
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    This is the place to leave words of encouragement about prayer-lets have a great week 🙂

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  • 26th February 2017 at 4:52 pm
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    Great. Read and posted on Facebook. May God bless you all this week.

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    • 1st March 2017 at 5:31 pm
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      I haven’t seen any others on Facebook – what do you think of the last few days?

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