I have been growing in my prayer life, where I spend increasing amounts of
time in prayer throughout the day. In the mornings, I walk my dog Bo, a 75
lb Pit Bull Terrier. Besides giving me a physical work out, I get a
spiritual one as well.
In my prayers I do the normal process of praising the Lord, thanking Him,
confessing my sins to Him and then I go into prayer requests for many
people, organizations and situations and end up with requests for myself.
These requests are generally for health, prosperity, guidance through a
tough time, healing, for people to find Jesus and supporting the efforts of
the organizations I am affiliated with.
In reading the book "Just Do Something" by Kevin DeYoung, I found a bit more
direction for my prayers.
Kevin DeYoung suggested we should pray about more than these common: health,
wealth and happiness requests.
He suggests we pray for wisdom for ourselves and others. That we pray that
the Lord will help us open our eyes to see the bigger picture wherever we
are in life. Often it is our own myopic (small) view of the situations we
find ourselves in that cause us the most problems, and with the Lord's help,
we can step back and see more of what is going on.
Kevin DeYoung also suggests we pray for faith, understanding and giving us
the energy and confidence to get up and do something. That is, to take
action rather than wait for the right sign or message from the Lord of when
to act. Waiting for the right sign may months or years if it comes at all.
By praying for wisdom, faith and confidence in ourselves, we are able to
bring more glory to God through our actions.
It is a self perpetuating circle of events.
Pray for wisdom, faith, and understand, and we will see more of what the
Lord wants us to see and can act appropriately.
Enjoy!
Praise the Lord!!!
Sanford Berenberg
sanford@berenberg.net
www.berenberg.net
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