Sunday Mornings

The word PUSH is a common word in the labour room. It is said that on a scale of 1-10, labour pain is 11, however, in the midst of this pain, the woman in labour has to push for her baby to come out. There is this joy that comes when the baby is delivered.   Similarly, the way to get real-life results in prayer is to seek God with an attitude that will P.U.S.H –Pray Until Something Happens . It is praying to see the hand of God move. It is desperate hungry praying. It is the type of prayer that gets answers. The parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge in the Gospel stresses the importance of constant prayer and not giving up. The judge, who neither feared God nor cared about what people thought, eventually gave into the persistent pleas of the town’s widow. If the unjust judge offered justice to the relentless widow, in due time our compassionate  God will answer  our constant prayers, even if the answer is not what we expected. Keep the PUSH going. So...

Praying consistently will change your life. Today we will be using the acronym P-R-A-Y. If you can spell the word pray, hopefully you will be able to remember how to make your prayer life more effective, and you will be inspired to pray more consistently. In fact, many of the blessings God wants you to enjoy will never be realized unless you pray. I think all Christians know they are supposed to pray, and all Christians want to pray. But many of God’s people, if they are completely frank and transparent about the issue, would have to admit their prayer life is somewhere between mediocre and non-existent. P- Praise Psalm 100 helps us understand the first letter, “P”, in the word P-R-A-Y, which stands for praise. Psalm 100:1-4 states it well, Make a joyful shout to the LORD, all you lands! Serve the LORD with gladness; come before His presence with singing. Know that the LORD, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; we are His people and the sheep of His pasture. E...