The Hindrances to True Prayer, Part 12 (TPMD Bus 2 - #627)

TODAY'S POEM: "Jesus, Kneel Beside Me" by Allen E. Cross

Our prayer motivator passage from the Word of God today is Job 33:26 which reads: "He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness."

Our featured prayer motivator quote is from Henry W. Frost. He said: "Prayer turns trembling saints into great victors! There is no such thing as surrender, or even discouragement, to a man who dwells in the secret place of the Most High and abides under the shadow of the Almighty." 

My personal encouragement for you today is this: Here are 4 more ways to pray for other people: 1. Ask that God will cause the believer to not love the world system. 2. Ask that the person have a spirit of brokenness and humility. 3. Ask that the person have a servant's heart. 4. Ask that the person be able to build a Scriptural family. 

Our prayer motivator devotional today is titled "THE HINDRANCES TO TRUE PRAYER" part 12 from the book, "Purpose in Prayer" by E.M. Bounds. 

There is nothing that will preserve the life of prayer; its vigour, sweetness, obligations, seriousness and value, so much as a deep conviction that prayer is an approach to God, a pleading with God, an asking of God. Reality will then be in it; reverence will then be in the attitude, in the place, and in the air. Faith will draw, kindle and open. Formality and deadness cannot live in this high and all-serious home of the soul.

Prayerless praying lacks the essential element of true praying; it is not based on desire, and is devoid of earnestness and faith. Desire burdens the chariot of prayer, and faith drives its wheels. Prayerless praying has no burden, because no sense of need; no ardency, because none of the vision, strength, or glow of faith...