MORNING MANNA          1- 23-21

I have no doubt that prayer is more important than I can understand or explain. I often say, “Everything depends on prayer” and I believe it, but I confess that our behavior doesn’t always express that. As important as I know prayer is, I sometimes fail to pray as I should. I hope you don’t, but I suspect if you’re honest you have to say the same. That’s why I am staying on this subject. Don’t mistake this as a study on prayer – that would be much more involved. I’m writing these articles to simply remind you of the need for prayer and to encourage you to devote yourself to it.

To keep us from failing so often it helps if we are repeatedly reminded of the importance of prayer. I love what Oswald Chambers said about it. He wrote, “Prayer does not fit us for a greater work; it is the greater work”. I hope that sticks with you. We cannot be at our best at anything without prayer. It is the one thing we can’t do without. I believe we ought to pray as though everything depended on it because it does!

In recent days I spoke about cottage prayer meetings and prayer partners, but there’s another phrase that we seem to have forgotten. It’s called “the prayer room or prayer meeting”. I’ve often said that of all the things that helped me as a young Christian nothing helped me more than attending prayer meetings. In those days, the church where I was saved had a prayer meeting every Sunday evening an hour before the service. The men went to one room, the ladies to another, and the young people to their respective rooms. After sharing our prayer request we then divided up in twos or threes and went to separate rooms to pray. Nothing ever helped me grow more than what I experienced in those meetings. Sadly today it seems almost impossible to get people to make such a commitment. That alone should be reason enough for us to see our need of prayer. To think about being a Christian and not seeing the need to pray is akin to saying “I want to live but I see no need to breathe”. It makes you wonder doesn’t it. – HDS

David Stone
Lakeway Baptist Church
5801 FM 1960 E
Humble, TX. 77346