The Power of Prayer

Prayer has POWER

I've been convinced that prayer has lost it's importance in many ways. We teach our teens about certain topics and what to do in those cases, we say we will pray for someone, but the promise seems to be forgotten many of the times. We pray for the sick or diseased, but we don't take time to go pray with them. We pray when we meet with a group of Christians, but it's only an opener or a closer of the meeting.. there is rarely power there.

Prayer needs to become something we instill in our lives to set examples for those around us. If we consider ourselves to be Christians we need to give God our time, not just a "Hey God" sorta thing, but time in our day that we sit before him in awe of Him and ALL that he is. The world is so loud with so many mixed messages that we just need to still ourselves and stop being so busy to just be calm and quiet before our God. Letting Him soak us in, letting ourselves soak Him in.

Prayer can change anything and if we, as people who believe in God, help teens and really anyone we have influence on, understand prayer. If we teach them how to be comfortable praying and just learning how to pray and have a reverence for our Lord and Savior. THAT will change their lives, we can help them "do" better and "act" better or teach them ways to "live" better.. BUT WHAT DOES THAT TELL THEM? That their actions are what matters... and that's not the case. It's our relationship with Him, talking with Him, being with Him, and giving our lives for Him. If we are giving our lives to Him, then we are doing what He wants for us..

How does a child convey to their mother or father that they need something, they cry, say just one word, they ask for it in a sentence, or they just go to them with a stinky bottom and it's evident they need something. God is the same way for us. To know what God wants, we need to CRY out to him. Say something simple like "God what do you want from me". Tell Him about what's going on and say "God I lay these things at your feet, do with them as you please" ...Sometimes we stink, we're dirty and we just need to kneel before Him and say nothing at all, and He cleanses us, makes us pure again.. wraps us in His blanket of mercy and grace, without us saying a single thing, just going before Him. That's all that "prayer" really is, and its POWERFUL when we genuinely do it.