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Details about It’s Praying Time:
It’s Praying Time!!!
For there is one God; and one Mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus
who gave himself as ransom for all men- the testimony given in its proper
time.1Timothy 2:5-6 ( NIV, Bible)
Throughout the Bible we are urged to pray to the Father for all things. God
wants us to just come to Him in prayer with all request and supplication and
through our one true mediator He will hear and answer our prayers.
Though we are called to pray one for another which is the greatest thing we can
do for each other, we also must understand that we must pray for ourselves. It
is indeed a mighty blessing to have someone pray for you but no matter how
mighty, pious or special they’re intercession won’t mean near as much to as when
we pray in earnest for ourselves to God the Father.
As children of the Most High God we can go to the Father freely for ourselves,
knowing that He has provided the perfect mediator between Himself and us. That
mediator alone is the head of the church and chief priest on our behalf. This
great mediator is Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
In 1Timothy 2:8 Paul urges us to “lift up holy hands in prayer without anger or
disputing.” We must pray for ourselves so as to be pleasing and acceptable to
God and to be a blessing to others.
In Deuteronomy 4:7 Moses ask the people this question what nation is so great as
to have their gods near them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we
pray to Him? Though this was a question posed before the Israelite people, we
too through grace, the birth and death of Christ have the same access to God.
The Lord appeared to Solomon ( 2 Chronicles 7:14-15) and said, “if my people who
are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn
from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sins
and heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the
prayers offered in this place.
Prayer is our way of growing intimate with God. Intimacy with God is imperative;
we must obtain and maintain intimacy with the Lord; Intimacy with God is to know
Him and to know His love for us. The only way to grow intimate with God is
through prayer.
We must pray for ourselves; we never know what others may be praying for.
Everyone that prays for you is not praying for your good, so it is always best
no matter whoever else may be praying for you, to pray for yourself. There is
nothing better than knowing God for yourself. We can’t expect someone else’s
prayer to get what we need God to do for us. God knows just what we need and
want before we ask, but we must ask.
It is alright to have someone pray for us and us to pray for someone, but we
must pray for ourselves. Jesus said in Matthew 6:6 “But when you pray, go into
your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your
Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.” Now that tells me that
we must pray to God all by ourselves.
Paul writes in 1Thessalonians5:17 that we must pray continually. Jude 20 says,
“But, dear friends build yourself up in the most holy faith and pray in the Holy
Spirit.”
We must pray continually, giving thanks in all circumstances. Now that tells
that if we pray continually, we don’t have to worry about whether anyone else is
praying for us.
It’s praying Time!!!
O God, you are our God, and we praise you for making access to you so freely
available. I know that if left to our own power, we would have no strength or
righteousness with which to approach you, yet in your grace you not only provide
a ransom for our sins, but you also provided a mediator for our approach to you,
and we want to thank you Jesus for paying the price and standing at the Father’s
side to intercede and speak for us! Thank you Jesus for making this prayer known
to the Father, we pray in your Holy name, Amen.
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