” AND EVEN WHEN YOU ASK, YOU DON’T GET IT BECAUSE YOUR MOTIVES ARE ALL WRONG- YOU WANT ONLY WHAT WILL GIVE YOU PLEASURE.” JAMES 4:3
Have you ever taken time to step back in your prayer life and truly examine your motives for each prayer. Have you ever measured the time you spend asking God for things verses the time you spend praising and giving thanks to him? Yes, we are to pray, and we are to ask our loving God for his help in our times of need. He wants to give, for he is a loving and giving God. However, how many times do we catch ourselves praying for things that are created by self-motives? We want this or that because it will help us to promote ourselves or promote some worldly thing that give us pleasure. We are living in a time that prayer should be at the forefront of our daily routines. We should be talking and praying and to our God each and every day. The world we live in and the people who surround us need our prayers. We should focus and be reminded of our motives for prayer. We should be unselfish in prayer and pray for those who so desperately need it. We should be praising our God for all of his good and great gifts and for just being who he is. We should be gracious in prayer. We should know his promises to us and pray those promise for those around us and for ourselves. Our Lord loves us and wants us to be saved, forgiven, healed, protected, strengthened and to be like him. He wants our lives to be comfortable, but we must recognize that our lives may not always be easy. Let us all learn to pray with a sincere heart and a righteous mind. PRAISE THE LORD IN ALL THINGS AND SITUATIONS!
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