Prayer Power
Today’s Bible Reading: Luke 11:1
Memory Verse: Luke 11:1
‘And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples’.’
Commentary By Andrew Wommack
When you consider that Jesus was the greatest miracle worker who ever walked the earth and the greatest preacher who ever lived, it is amazing that His disciples asked Him to teach them to pray. Why didn’t they ask Him to teach them how to work these miracles or how to preach and amaze the people with their doctrine?
It’s because Jesus’ prayer life was even more powerful than His miracles or His doctrine. Indeed, it was His union with the Father that gave Him His power to work miracles and His authority to speak as no man had ever spoken before. Jesus said repeatedly that it was His Father who was doing the miracles through Him and that His doctrine was not His own but the Father’s.
The same holds true today. Jesus said in John 15:5 that without Him, we can do nothing. There are many things that we should do in addition to prayer, but there is nothing that we can effectively do without prayer. Prayer is one of the main ways of abiding in Him (John 15:7). Therefore, our request should be like these disciples’ — ‘Lord, teach us to pray.’
We should come expecting to receive answers to prayer. The Father is ready and willing to answer our prayers. Just ask and you shall receive.
Amen! Sometimes it’s so difficult to find the time to pray, to just go away from all these world problems and shortcomings, I think asking Him how to pray to Him, how to speak to Him is worth, to be given a special and effective way to Him by you and you only. We are all different in so many ways so it’s to me that we all have and will have a unique way to Him.
What a powerful reminder of the essence of prayer in our lives
‘Prayer is one of the main ways of abiding in Him (John 15:7)’.
We are reminded that as believers prayer is one of the ways to abide in the secret place of the most high and abide in the shadow of almighty God (Psalm 91)
May I never take it for granted and pray without ceasing…