PRAYER

MareBearHitstheRoad Blogger - May 4, 2010, and exactly 2 weeks to the day until I hit the road and I am just so excited, that I just can't hide it and that's a great feeling. And it's a great feeling because I know there are people all over praying for this new Season of Change not just in my life, but in the lives that God will reach along the way.  I am a Prayer Warrior - I love to pray. I love to lift others up, their struggles, their needs, their successes, but most of all their lives. I do not know how many times in the bible reference is made to the need for us to pray but the above link should give you an idea of how important and the promise that comes when we pray. We should be praying not just for those that we know and love, but for our enemies, for the unloved or unlovable, for our governments both foreign and domestic. And interestingly enough, there is no single faith or religion, that I am aware of that does not advocate for prayer.

The power of prayer amazes and awes me. It is the single most important gift of love and sacrifice I can give to not just my God but my brothers and sisters, regardless of what they believe or do not believe. I have watched lives transformed, renewed and brought to life through warriors of prayer. I have witnessed God's mercy, majesty and grace through the answered prayers of not just me but of those that I know and some that I didn't know but had heard of and prayed for.

We pray to draw closer to God. He desires intimacy in His relationship with us. He desires, no - He passionately LONGS to answer our prayers and bring blessing upon blessing to His people, to us. I know that when I actively spend time in quiet praying for the lives and needs of others, I am blessed enormously through that single act. It leaves me with a feeling of humility and peace that I find only 2 other places - in the Word and in Fellowship and Worship with my fellow saints.  I have watched great healing come through prayer and I have watched prayers unanswered or rather - not answered yet or answered differently than we expect.

I love going to prayer nights or vigils and feel the movement of the Holy Spirit as God takes over and we step back. To some people prayer is all about asking for things, or money or power etc. But it is so much more than that - it is about bringing ourselves to our knees before God and baring our very souls in recognition of the omniscient and omnipotent God that rules over all the earth. Yes, He already knows our shame and sorrows, sins and sacrifice but when we seek Him in earnest through prayer we draw closer to Him, on his terms and not ours. We don't need to kneel before Him and tell him what we have been doing wrong, however we are to bring our confession or admission of sins to him with remorse and a desire to choose differently the next time around. To share with our King, our Father, our Dad all our dirty laundry and ask for His forgiveness not just for our unrighteous sinfulness, but also to share with Him our triumphs, successes and needs. God wants to bless us. He desires the best and most wonderful things for our lives, our families and for the world all together. In Jeremiah 29:13-14 it speaks clearly that if we seek Him we will find Him and in those times, if we pray, He will answer.

Being a prayer warrior takes no special talent or require book learnin' or a degree in theology. It requires nothing more than a willing heart to not just serve God but to serve each other. Anyone can pray. Anyone can prayer for anything he or she desires. Sometimes He says yes, sometimes no and sometimes he just says maybe. And maybe does not mean never, it means just that - may be...possibly down the road or possibly not in the way we may expect. So as I close this tonight, I want everyone to know, that while I may not call all the time, and I may not always say howdy or waz goin on, ALWAYS I want and will prayer for you, for all things that God has planned and wants to bless you with. We don't have to stop being who we are to pray - if anything - we should GO AS WE ARE because when we do we display and learn how to be humble and not prideful in what we pray for or for whom or what!

I ask that you would pray for me, as I pray for you, whoever you are that no matter what I can always bring the Light of Christ to bear much fruit in the lives of others, and in turn bear much fruit in me.

Blessings,

narebear