Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; Ephesians 6:18
I once received a message with the following words: “I will be requesting a doctor's report on the wear and tear of your knees any time soon. Hope you are still remembering me in your prayers.”
As I meditated on the words I realised how easy it is for our prayers to become selfish and how we approach the Lord all the time and it is all about us.
The Father wants to use us as instruments to reach out to others that are hurting, He wants us to learn the discipline of desiring the best for others before we have even received it ourselves.
The day you learn to reach out for others in prayer is the day you will learn the highest expression of love for others. You have to pray with all kinds of prayer and you have to persevere in your supplication for all the saints.
Your prayers have the potential of winning mighty victories for someone else. Someone at this moment needs someone to call on the Lord on his or her behalf. They need someone to cover their backs...
When last did you take someone as your prayer assignment and prayed consistently for them? What is the wear and tear of your knees like?
When Job prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes. In fact, the LORD gave him twice as much as before! Job 42 v 10 [NLT]
When Job obeyed this principle of interceding for others, the Lord restored his fortunes. Many people have battled to receive something from the Lord because all they have done is to selfishly pray for themselves.
Learn the discipline of standing in the gap for others, that alone can open doors of for you. It does not matter what the people you have to pray for are like!
They might have hurt you and they might not even be able to reward you for being there for them. Realize that your reward is with the Lord. Job prayed for his friends with no regard of how they had criticized him.
Someone is in need of your prayers today, doors for you when you learn to stand in the gap for others.
FROM THE SHEPHERD’S DESK DAILY DEVOTIONAL VOL 1 by Charles P. Magaiza
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