Remember Your Place

 

When you pray, do you ever feel like your prayers are hitting a glass ceiling? I think we all do. it’s only human.

I have mentioned before that I belong to a prayer group at our church. We meet every Wednesday, where we pray for each other, and for anyone needing prayer for anything.

We don’t have to worry about glass ceilings, because if one of us is having a glass ceiling moment someone else is really touching the hem of His garment. It is nearly impossible to be next to a person praying powerfully and not have it influence you. I know for a fact that I pray better than I used to. And why is that? Because I have learned so much about praying as I listen to the other prayers in the room.

There is a reason God tells us to not forsake the gathering together with our fellow Christians. It is so encouraging and uplifting. We have people standing in front of someone, or even sitting at the feet of the one we are praying for. Most are laying hands on each other as we pray. God lays thoughts and impressions on different ones as we pray. When that happens, they share it with the rest of us.

As these things are happening, we can feel God’s presence building. It boosts our confidence and we know prayers are being answered. We pray for things from salvation, to cancer, to jobs or pets. Nothing is too big or too small. God cares about what we need and what we care about. As our confidence grows so does our faith. Answered prayers give us even more faith. More faith brings about more answered prayers. It all creates a cycle. Some cycles are not good, but this kind of cycle is awesome.

The Bible says when we praise God we create an atmosphere of praise around us that God can work in.

One time my sister Diane and I were very upset about our brother Rick who had been diagnosed with cancer. As we were listening to the sermon that Sunday morning, God spoke to both of us at the same time and told us He knew about the need and for us not to worry. He told us to just praise Him and give Him a place to work, and then let Him do His job. We both felt a warm peace come over us and we gave it to God. Needless to say, our brother came through fine.

So here is the trick. Do like God says and surround yourself with your fellow Christians. Pray together and praise together and then get out of God’s way and let Him do His thing.

We sing a song in our church that says we are fighting a battle God has already won. Remember, the praising is ours to do, but the battle is His. When we try to fight God’s battles, all we end up doing is making a bigger mess for Him to clean up.

We need to remember God loves us, and He is always on our side. The lowly work, which is done on our knees, is ours. He is in charge of the higher work, which is overseeing the whole situation and winning the battles for us. We always have to remember our place, and that is on our knees. Don’t fight for the reins or God might hand them to you.

Think about it.