Prayer (Daily Devotional)

Shalom and thank you for joining us to our last episode on this series of activating God’s presence. We hope and pray that through the week, as you’ve looked at different ways of how we come to a discipline of different things of meditation, of praise and worship, of looking at creation, we have really begun to sense and activate God’s presence in our lives. One of the last things that we are going to be looking at and among the many things that we mediated on, we look at prayer as one of the ways that we become more aware of His presence. To pray is to communicate to God, is to talk to God, that can mean thanking Him, praising Him, confessing to Him, talking to Him about your need, worshipping Him, it can even mean just talking to Him as you would do to a friend. Learning how to pray is really about building an intimate relationship with God. Like every relationship that you may have, the relationship with God is built on moments of connection, more and more moments of connection. These moments of connection bond you with God and brings about an encounter and a place where you begin to communicate with Him face to face, it maybe the words that you say. When you seek the Lord in prayer, you are seeking His presence. Literally we are to seek His face, it is having access to God; to be before His face is to be before His presence. We can trust and know that when we pray and call upon Him, He will dwell in us in His presence because it is His desire to dwell in us. This is His heart for us and we can believe that He would do so. Every morning, when you start your day with prayer, you enter the presence of the Lord and you get help, or receive the help that you need for the entire day. At the end of each day, before you go to bed, you put all your concerns before Him and you can be sure that His presence will see you through. Prayer is the most intimate place of a Christian’s walk. If you want to experience that intimacy with the Lord, spend more time in prayer. Prayer can also be done in the Spirit. Praying in the Spirit is praying as led by the Holy Spirit. Best way to do it is to pray in tongues so as to edify your inner man because when you pray in the Spirit, you deny your own self and you pray as led by the Holy Spirit. Praying in the Spirit attracts God’s presence because it is Him leading you. Take time today to communicate, pray to God, pray in the Spirit and experience His presence. Let’s pray together, Heavenly Father, we just desire you and more of you in our lives. We want to experience your nearness, your intimacy. We say that we love you, we want to walk every moment of our lives with you. Thank you that you dwell in us and that you seek and it is your heart to live in us and be with us, we ask this in your name, Amen.

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