The time magazine has a special edition to cast a review of 2012. Among the events put in focus was unprecedented victory of Barack Obama for a second term in office. Other issues include the devastation by superstore sandy, the continuing uprising in the middle east, and of course the London Olympics. Of special concern was the successful landing of NASA's curiousity rover that landed on mars. It was launched on November 26,2012 and landed on august 5,2012 , after traveling 350milion miles . This man-made machine travelled well over 8months to reach it's destination.
Now consider, the fact that the heaven of God is farther up than any planet unknown or known to man. And the moment a believer hits the ground in prayer he or she is immediately conveyed before the presence of the Father! No human ingenuity can beat the arrangements God has put in place . If you want to follow a fast track in life without breaking rules, prayer is the way. It Is the means that you can explore to reach people and places you may not be able to reach ordinarily.
By prayer you reach God ; and God's hand can reach everyone and everywhere. Prayer has thus become one of the greatest privileges of believers. We need to cash in on this opportunity more often.
But to be really honest the importance of prayer can not be over emphasized:
1. BUILDS OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS
Firstly, i am called to prayer because it is a key vehicle to building my love relationship with my dear Jesus Christ. this is very important. Christianity is not primarily rules. It is a relationship you build.
2. HELPS US OVERCOME TEMPTATION
Second in our list of reasons is that prayer is an important instrument in our fight in overcoming sin and temptation. Perhaps no experience in our earthly life of Christ is more instructive on prayer than Jesus’ teaching and subsequent modeling and structuring in the twenty-second chapter of the book of Luke. The fact that his disciples were patently oblivious only shows us our same frailty today as christians.
3. HELPS US DETERMINE GOD’S WILL
Third in our series of reasons to pray to God almighty, is the following: we pray because prayer is crucial in determining God’s will. And knowing wht God is saying!.
4. PRAYER ACCOMPLISHES GOD’S WORK
We come now to the fourth of our obvious (or not-so-obvious) reasons to pray. It is this reason : prayer is a major way we all accomplish God’s work in the world.
There are several (of many) reasons for us to give alot more thought and attention to prayer, than is common right now among Christians. Even in this writing, I found myself pausing often to take prayer action based upon these motivations and stuff. I hope the reading affected you in a similar way. Thank you all for reading!.