The Hindrances to True Prayer, Part 9 (TPMD Bus 2 - #624)

TODAY'S POEM: "Today Thy Mercy Calls Me" by Oswald Allen

Our prayer motivator passage from the Word of God today is Job 16:16-17 which reads: "My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids is the shadow of death; Not for any injustice in mine hands: also my prayer is pure."

Our featured prayer motivator quote is from W. Sheffler. He said: "When we are on our knees, then light flashes; then the intellect is clarified; then the conscience is aroused; then the spiritual sensibilities are quickened; and we can learn more of our duty and of His will than in hours of argumentation." 

My personal encouragement for you today is this: You need to let your children see you pray. Your children need to see you pray through the good times and the bad times. They need to see you pray constantly. They need to see you pray without ceasing. Not only should your children see you pray, let them hear you pray. In other words, pray out loud. Let them hear you call out their names in prayer. Pray for them and with them. Yes, indeed, men, women, boys, and girls ought to pray because we need God in our lives to help us do what He wants done in the world. 

Our prayer motivator devotional today is titled "THE HINDRANCES TO TRUE PRAYER" part 9 from the book, "Purpose in Prayer" by E.M. Bounds. 

"Our lives not only give colour to our praying, but they give body to it as well. Bad living makes bad praying. We pray feebly because we live feebly. The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living. the closet force is made up of the energy which flows from the confluent streams of living. The feebleness of living throws its faintness into closet homes. We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly...

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