Thursday // 1st August 2024
Pray hard and long!
Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other’s spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
Ephesians 6:18 MSG
The secret of all answered prayer is unwavering faith without doubt with words confessed with the mouth in line with God’s will and God’s word. If the Christian church is weak today, much of that weakness comes from prayerlessness.
If one reads about the spiritual practices of great saints of the past, the common denominator in all of their lives was the tremendous amount of time which was spent in prayer-sometimes up to seven hours per day. The anointing was so strong on them that when their lives touched people, they touched people not, 10, 15 or 100 at a time,but 10,000 at a time.
We as Christians all need to improve in our intensity of prayer to get back into the type of prayer life that God meant us to have. The Holy Spirit, through Paul, commanded us to “pray unceasingly”. Perhaps the greatest weapon which Satan has used against the Church in these last days has been the weapon of distraction and effectual business. The Gospel is not preached as it should be. The signs of the last days are here and all of the world is falling into anarchy, decadence, and lawlessness. This is the greatest weapon against Satan. We are all guilty of prayerlessness to some degree. God is calling us to get back on track and to do the things that we as Christians ought to do.
Your brother in Christ,
Apostle Ashok Martin