“Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” – Colossians 4:2
In his book “Spiritual Formation”, Henri Nouwen writes: “In the midst of a busy schedule of activities—healing suffering people, casting out devils, responding to impatient disciples, traveling from town to town, and preaching from synagogue to synagogue—we find these quiet words: “In the morning, long before dawn, he got up and left the house, and went off to a lonely place and prayed there.”
The more I read this nearly silent sentence locked in between the loud words of action, the more I have the sense that the secret of Jesus’ ministry is hidden in that lonely place where he went to pray, early in the morning, long before dawn. . .. In the lonely place, Jesus finds the courage to follow God’s will and not his own; to speak God’s words and not his own; to do God’s work and not his own. It is in the lonely place, where Jesus enters into intimacy with the Father, that his ministry is born.”
Prayer is powerful! Today in prayer, devote yourself to prayer throughout the day, lifting up your prayers to the Lord.
“Prayer fills man's weakness with God's omnipotence and opens the gates to new fields of achievement. It makes the weak strong and the simple wise." – Oliver G. Wilson
God’s Word: “Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.” – Luke 18:1
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