DAILY DEVOTIONAL – October 22, 2020
“Connecticating”
Prayer: Almighty God, there is no bigger miracle or greater joy than being able to come to you in prayer and call You our Heavenly Father. While our sin separated us from You, Your love and grace given in the blood of Your Son Christ has brought us near to You once again as adopted sons and daughters of the Living God to whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” Let us not forsake such a precious gift we have in prayer. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Scripture: Psalm 119:97; 103-105
Oh how I love your law!
It is my meditation all the day.
How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Devotional – “Connecticating”
There is a huge difference between connecting with someone and actually communicating with someone. Being connected is not the same thing as communicating.
If we are not in regular, specific and meaningful conversation with our Lord throughout each day, we could find ourselves working against the very Lord we are wanting to serve and who is working to guide and lead us into His blessings.
Prayer is how we not just connect with God but communicate with God. We should take time each day to relish the fact that the Almighty God and Creator of the universe who holds all things in His righteous hands, sacrificed His Only Son in our place to forgive us our sins and reconcile us back to Himself so that we could know Him as our loving Father who listens to us and speaks with us and relishes the time we spend with Him. If, as a sinful father, I desire to have a connection with my daughter and pray that our relationship would be such that she could and would talk with me about anything and everything, how much more does our perfect Heavenly Father want to hear from us and talk to us about every part of our life? Enough to die for, that’s how much.
Yes, we should always be in prayer. Our life should be one of prayer in thought, word and deed. There is power in prayer, and it is important that we remember that the power of prayer comes not from the ritual of our prayer or the earnestness with which we pray, but from the Word that we pray – God’s Word. The Word of God is the power in prayer. Prayer itself is not powerful. Prayer IN the Word of God, by faith in the Word of God, is powerful.
I am convinced that if God were to answer my prayers in such a way that I could physically hear them or read them and understand them, He would tell me nothing that He has not already told me in His Word. Why would I expect Him to tell me anything other than what He has given in His Word already? As His Word tells us in Psalm 119, “Oh how I love Your word! Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” The power of prayer is found in praying the Word of God back to God in faith and trust. When Jesus was tempted by the devil, what was His prayerful response to temptation? Jesus said 3 times, “It is written.” When Jesus prayed to God His Father for His disciples, including you and I, Jesus prayed in John 17, “Father sanctify them in your truth; your word is truth.”
There is a big difference between connecting and communicating. Prayer is a gracious gift God has given us not just to connect with Him through the practice of prayer, but to truly communicate with Him through prayer in the truth of His Word that is the lamp unto our feet.
God bless your prayers my friends. Thanks for spending time with me today, and remember that God has forgiven yesterday, is with you today and has already taken care of tomorrow. Amen.
