Prayer and Desire, Part 8 (TPMD Bus 2 - #672)

POEM: "Father Of All to Thee" by John D. Julian

Our prayer motivator passage from the Word of God today is Psalm 122:6 which reads: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee."

Our featured prayer motivator quote is from P. T. Forsyth. He said, "All fruitfulness in service is the outcome of prayer — of the worker’s prayers, or of those who are holding up holy hands on his behalf.”

My personal encouragement for you today is this: May I lovingly encourage you to pray, pray, pray: pray for yourself, pray for your neighbour, pray for those who are already saved, pray for our governmental officials; pray for souls to be saved. And if, perhaps you are not saved, pray and ask God to save your soul. God loves you more than you love yourself and He wants to save you, so that you can begin your own prayerful relationship with Him. The Bible says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.” 

Our prayer motivator devotional today is titled "PRAYER AND DESIRE" part 8 from the book, "Necessity of Prayer" by E.M. Bounds.

In the Beatitudes Jesus voiced the words which directly bear upon the innate desires of a renewed soul, and the promise that they will be granted: "Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."

This, then, is the basis of prayer which compels an answer -- that strong inward desire has entered into the spiritual appetite, and clamours to be satisfied. Alas for us! It is altogether too true and frequent, that our prayers operate in the arid region of a mere wish, or in the leafless area of a memorized prayer. Sometimes, indeed, our prayers are merely stereotyped expressions of set phrases, and conventional proportions, the freshness and life of which have departed long years ago.

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