Daily Devotional

PRAYER AS A ROYAL CONNECTION WITH YOUR FATHER

November 4

hildren, are you concerned about getting answers to your prayers? I always hear your prayers the first time that you pray them. After all, your Father in Heaven is considerate, courteous and deeply interested in even the hair that falls from your head. Do you believe this? Of course, you do! Sometimes your impatience and even your anger are mixed in with your praying. Sprinkle that with a little selfishness and I feel a bit uninvited into the conversation with you. You need to slow down with your praying experience. Tell yourself to rest a bit in the fact that I really do love you and I want to answer your prayers with blessing for you more than you want to bother to pray the prayer. With that in mind, you can change your opinion a bit about the success of your prayer toward heaven. What do I mean by this? Your Heavenly Father has given you the great gift of prayer so that you can truly tap into the greatest mind of all the ages--- that of the Lord God. What a privilege for you! If you will begin your prayer with a loving invitation to your Father, I will hear you. “Give honor to whom honor is due” (Romans 13:7) Now what can be said about the answers to your prayers? Children, the answers for all your prayers contain my loving intentions for you. In other words, you can say even before you pray, “Father, I thank you that you love me and my family. I thank you that no matter what I could ask for in my prayer, it will always fall short of what you want for me to have and receive from you.” Now you feel a little better about praying to your Father in Heaven, don’t you? Sure, you do! Beloved, prayer is not a chore. It is a pleasure for you and for me on the receiving end of your respectful petitions that you send to me. Rejoice! The answers are on the way! Hold on. Don’t let up in your faith! I am glad that you are praying. Keep it up, I love you!

Prayer

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Father, sometimes my prayer life has become a chore! I truly will rest in your love for me in the fact that you want to bless and heal me more than I want these things for myself. Let my self-interest be removed; let me think of others first, and believe that “it is more blessed to give than to receive” (Acts 20:35) as your word says. I bow before your majesty and await the answers from heaven, in Jesus’ name, amen!