Daily Devotional

PRAYER STRENGTHENS YOUR DAILY WALK

March 15

hild of the King, what kind of prayer life do you have lately? Do you know that if you develop a strong life of sincere prayer, your whole day will go much better? It is true! Are you bored when you pray? Do you run out of aunts and uncles to pray for? Then go and search the word of God about prayer. Ask about books written on prayer to enrich your life of prayer. Whatever you need to do to get the job done, it is very important that you do it. You see, when you pray, just in the act of praying you are giving honor to your Father in Heaven. When you pray, the wheels are set in motion in heaven to observe the way and the wording of your prayers to prepare a response on the behalf of your Father. Sincere, surrendered prayer allows the Holy Spirit to "read" your heart and its desires to follow the Lord. Even when you are uncertain about the wording of prayer, you can change the atmosphere by simply offering praise and worship to your Lord. You can recall His faithfulness to you in the past. You can even pray the scriptures. That is, you can turn to the Psalms or other passages and place your name in the wording of prayer, offering your sincerity to the Father. Also, when you pray, you are focusing your full attention on God and thus at that moment, you are distracted from the cares and fears of the world around you. If you will ask the Father, He will take you to the "school" of prayer and teach you many things about praying in the Spirit. This is all good for you. It is good for you to request that the Holy Spirit help you with your prayer life. Remember, God already knows the things that you need "before you ask." (Matthew 6:8 NKJV) So, relax when you are praying and say, "Father, I want to be at the very center of your will for my life. I ask you to place your loving hands on my feet so that they may follow closely your paths; place your hands on my lips that I may speak no harm or evil to others; place them on my mind so that I will be pure and clean in my thought life (if you ask these things, your Father will take you seriously and come to your help to walk in love and holiness before Him); place them on my heart to help me become a "heart" Christian, loving and serving from the heart in every way and form." Again, if you will learn to pray on a much higher level, you will avoid much heartache and many attacks of the devil. Pray, child!

Prayer

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Father, in Jesus’ name I praise you for the gift of prayer in my life. I can talk to you and worship you in my heart by praying toward heaven and surrendering to you repeatedly throughout the day. Help me to see the vast strength and importance in my prayer life. Take me to the next level, Father, in Jesus’ name, amen!

IF I COULD LIVE A THOUSAND YEARS SACRED POEM

If I could live a thousand years,

And dream ten thousand dreams,

The sum of all could not reveal

How Jesus truly seems.

The beauty in His handsome face

Outshines all nature’s best;

One moment in His presence here,

My soul doth find her rest.

His voice to me doth warm my heart,

Its sound my hopes fulfill;

Empowered by His Spirit’s breath,

I rush to do His will.

With power from His outstretched hand,

And bathed in Heaven’s glow,

I rise transformed and enter where

Eternal waters flow.

I lay me down and safely sleep

Beneath His watchful eye;

Awakened by His kindly touch,

I now shall never die.

If I could live a thousand years,

And dream ten thousand dreams,

The sum of all could not reveal

How Jesus truly seems.