Devotional
Do Your Own Praying
"Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray?"
James 5:13
If you're in trouble, you need to pray. That's what the Bible says. Notice it doesn't say your pastor or a friend needs to pray for you. It says you need to pray.
Too often we try to find a "quick fix" to our problems by asking everyone else to pray for us. There's nothing wrong with having others pray for you, but you'll never get to a place of lasting victory until you begin to pray yourself.
The biggest church in the world is in Seoul, Korea. It's pastored by Dr. David Cho, and the last I heard it had more than 700,000 members-it's huge! How did that church grow to be so large? According to Dr. Cho, the key is the prayers of the people. Praying is a way of life in that church.
I've even heard that when their church members have family problems or problems in their personal lives, before anything else is done, the members are told to fast and pray for 24 hours.
We need to do more of that in our churches. We need to train people to do their own praying instead of expecting others to pray for them all the time.
Outcry is the Youth Ministry at BridgeWay Church in Denver, CO www.bridgeway.us
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You, see, if I pray for God to solve a problem for you, you may enjoy success for a while, but then another problem will come along because you'll still be making the same mistakes that got you in trouble the first time. If, however, you stop and pray yourself-if you train yourself to start seeking God and all He has for your life-you'll get lasting answers. You'll learn how to make changes in your life that will keep the problems from coming up again.
You have the privilege to go to God any time you want. He has every solution to every problem you'll ever have, and He's just waiting for you to come to Him so He can give you the answer. It may take some private time alone with Him for you to hear it, but He will never let you down.
Talk the Truth: "I will always remember to pray-for God always answers" (James 5:13)
Study the Truth: Psalm 5
Read the Truth: Exodus 1,2;; Mathew 28
This devotional was out of the book of "Over the Edge" by Kenneth & Gloria Copeland
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