Today Daily Devotional

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September 13, 2018 Petition
One
of the most amazing things about prayer is that the Creator of the
universe wants us to ask him to do things for us. We would never
think of asking a prime minister or president to do a favor for us.
Yet God not only lets us do that; he also encourages and even
commands that we do it.
Jesus
taught us to pray, “Give us today our daily bread” (Matthew
6:11). That little word “give” seems out of place in the Lord’s
Prayer, doesn’t it? After all, who are we to tell God what to do?
So far, the Lord’s Prayer has focused entirely on God. We’ve
prayed about honoring the Father’s name and seeking his kingdom and
will. How is it that we can now instruct God to pay attention to us?
The
answer to this question is in the amazing grace and humility that
dwell in God’s heart. God wants to have a close relationship with
us. He wants to take care of our daily needs, and he wants us to know
that we can approach him with confidence.
God
wants us to know that because we rely on him for everything, and
because he promises to care for us, we can ask him for all that we
need—and that can range from things like amazing miracles to
ordinary food like daily bread.
The
King of heaven has turned his heart of love toward you. Looking at
Jesus’ example and knowing the promises God has made, what will you
ask him for today?
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September 12, 2018 Submission
In
connection with praying “Your kingdom come,” Jesus taught us to
say, “Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven”
(Matthew 6:10).
As
we have noted earlier, we can sometimes feel uncertain whether the
things we pray for are in line with God’s will. Or perhaps we might
think that our confidence is somehow diminished if we say,
“. . . if it be your will” as we pray.
While
God’s will is deeply mysterious, there is also something very
reassuring about it. Praying “your will be done” does not mean we
fully understand God’s will. This is mostly a prayer that expresses
our desire to do God’s will. And that is a prayer of strong
conviction. It conveys our trust in the goodness of God’s will and
our assurance that God will carry out his purposes. And, remember,
praying within God’s will is about following Jesus’ example (see
Sept. 6).
Today’s
Bible reading shows that even Jesus wrestled with his Father’s will
and submitted to it. The result of that prayerful struggle was that
Jesus could say with firm resolve, “Rise! Let us go! Here comes my
betrayer!” His connection with the Father was the source of his
strength.
A
book about prayer that I have grown to appreciate has an interesting
title. It’s called Yielding.
There is nothing weak about submitting to God. Yielding
to God’s will is the very thing that strengthens us.
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September 11, 2018 Lament
Jesus
taught us to pray, “Your kingdom come” (Luke 11:2), and this
reminds us that the world we live in needs the refreshing goodness
and wholeness of God’s kingdom. As we recognize that the world is
profoundly broken, we know that its ultimate healing will occur only
when the fullness of God’s kingdom has finally come.
Today,
millions of people recall the terrorist attacks that took place in
the United States 17 years ago. The events of 9/11 and all other
examples of violence, injustice, and suffering bring us to lament. In
desperation we cry out, “How long, Lord?” We implore God to do
something, to punish evildoers and to defend all who suffer as
innocent victims.
We
also go a step further in our lament. We remind God of the promises
he has made, and we dare to call him to account to keep those
promises, in line with his character. We cry out to the God who is
all powerful and who in divine humility permits us to speak with such
boldness in prayer.
That’s
what we do when we pray, “Your kingdom come.”
If
you are hurting, or if the brokenness of the world has moved you to
lament, take heart. Prayers of lament are also prayers of hope as we
anticipate the completion of God’s kingdom promises. Our prayers
play an important role in the coming of his kingdom!
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September 10, 2018 Thanksgiving, Gratitude
Quite
often, we are led to give thanks after giving honor and adoration to
God in our prayers. We give thanks for the amazing things God has
done—for this world, for his people, and for us in our personal
lives.
Notice
how Psalm 66 moves from adoration to thanksgiving. In the first four
verses the psalmist declares how awesome and glorious God is. Then in
verse 5 we see a transition to “come and see what God has done.”
From this point on, the psalm reads like an inventory of God’s
gifts and amazing help. The psalmist describes how God saves and
watches over his people, even in the context of trouble and
disappointment, and the psalmist shares what God has done for him
personally as well.
Psalm
66 teaches us the value of being specific when we give thanks to God.
Many people like to keep a prayer journal that helps them pay
attention to what God is doing in their lives. They keep a running
list of God’s blessings and work for them, and they review their
list in thanksgiving to God.
In
our prayer life, gratitude can grow in many ways. God is incredibly
gracious and generous. As we read in James 1:17, “Every good and
perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father. . . .”
The one who gives so abundantly is most worthy to receive our
abundant thanks.
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September 09, 2018 Praise, Honor, Adoration
Let’s
look at some of the types of prayer Jesus shows us in the Lord’s
Prayer. The place to begin is with praise, honor, and adoration in
prayer.
Jesus
taught us to pray, “Father, hallowed be your name” (Luke 11:2),
recognizing God’s character of being holy, majestic, all-powerful,
sovereign over all things, and the source of true wisdom and love.
It’s important to remember that prayer should begin with praising
and honoring God, recognizing all that God is and all that God has
done for us. This is often called adoration of God. Too often in
prayer, before we give God glory and honor, we ask God to give us
something or to do something for us or for our loved ones.
The
prayer of adoration is something we must practice. It can take some
effort on our part, but, as with many things, the more we practice
adoring God, the easier it gets. And we can begin by simply praying
verses of Scripture that show us how awesome God is.
We
can read a passage like Psalm 103 out loud, for example. As we
prayerfully say these verses about God’s greatness, it doesn’t
take long before we begin to actually experience the glory of God.
Our prayer moves from talking to
God to enjoying the presence of
God.
So
before we ask God to do something, let’s first give God the glory
due his name!
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September 08, 2018 The Prayer Life of Jesus
Have
you ever wondered why Jesus prayed? As Luke 5:16 informs us, “Jesus
often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.” The Lord’s passion
for prayer may surprise us. He is God; why would he need to pray at
all?
The
gospels record Jesus praying at key moments in his ministry. First,
remember that Jesus was tempted in the wilderness “after fasting
forty days and forty nights” (Matthew 4:2). Prayer is not mentioned
here, but since prayer and fasting are often connected in the Bible,
it’s safe to assume that Jesus prayed intensely to prepare for
the temptations that would follow.
In
addition, Jesus chose his twelve disciples after he “spent the
night praying to God” (Luke 6:12). Through prayer, he was guided by
the Spirit to choose his closest followers. In Luke 11 we read that
one of the disciples asked Jesus to teach them to pray just after
he had finished praying. In response, he taught them the prayer we
know today as the Lord’s Prayer (see also Matthew 6:9-13).
On
the night before he died, Jesus prayed as never before, earnestly
wrestling with God. Our Lord’s submission to death on a cross for
our sake, obeying the will of his Father, was the fruit of that
prayerful struggle.
Through
prayer Jesus received strength, discernment, instruction, and
obedience. The bottom line is this: if Jesus needed to pray, how much
more do we?
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September 07, 2018 The Holy Spirit and Prayer
In
Romans 8, the apostle Paul explains that believers have a weakness
when it comes to prayer. This involves much more than simply
neglecting prayer or praying with wrong motives. Our weakness runs
much deeper.
The
best way to understand it is to compare it to the work the Spirit
does to help us. We need the Holy Spirit to pray on our behalf
because “we do not know what we ought to pray for.”
This
does not mean we never know what to pray for. Many of us have long
lists of valid prayer concerns. Our weakness, though, is that we do
not understand how the things we pray for fit into the mysterious,
sovereign will of God. It’s best understood as a spiritual
disability.
So,
as Paul describes it, “the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in
accordance with the will of God.” Though there is much
we do not understand, the Spirit understands completely. The Spirit
situates the weakness of our prayers within the strength of God’s
intentions. Our broken prayers are taken up and incorporated into
divine purposes that we know nothing about.
We
can trust the mystery of prayer! God is at work. As we pray, the
Spirit is also praying. There is much we do not know, but we can know
this: “that in all things God works for the good of those who love
him.”
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September 06, 2018 Within God's Will, in the Name of Jesus
Today
let’s focus on what it means to ask within God’s will. We’ll
look at some important ways this affects not only what
we ask for but also how
we ask—and all this connects with asking in the name of Jesus.
First,
Jesus taught, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one
comes to the Father except through me,” and “Whatever you ask in
my name, the Father will give you” (John 14:6; 15:16). This means
that by recognizing Jesus’ authority as the Son of God, we can pray
in his name and have access to God the Father almighty. Jesus, who
died for our sins in order to reconcile us with God (Rom. 5:6-11), is
the only reason we have access to the Father in prayer.
Second,
our prayers are based on what Jesus has done for us, not on anything
we have done. Jesus’ name identifies him as the one who saved “his
people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). So to ask in the name of
Jesus is to acknowledge that Jesus is our Savior, who always
intercedes for us (see Romans 8:34; Hebrews 7:25).
Finally,
in everything he did, Jesus wanted to do God’s will and bring him
glory (John 6:38-40; 12:26-28). Jesus’ example is the pattern for
everything we do. So asking in Jesus’ name means we want to do
God’s will and to glorify God (see John 14:13). And to these
requests God will always say yes.
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September 05, 2018 Talking to Our Abba
As
we reflect on how the Trinity shapes our understanding and practice
of prayer, let’s consider what it means to call God Abba.
Abba
is the Aramaic word for “father.” Jesus spoke Aramaic, and Abba
was perhaps one of the first words he learned as a child. The
equivalent of Abba
in English and several other languages would be “Dada,” “Daddy,”
or “Papa.”
Jesus,
the Son of God, referred to his Father this way in prayer (Mark
14:36), and that should not surprise us. What’s truly incredible is
that we may also speak to God this way. As Romans 8 puts it, by the
Spirit of God we cry, “Abba.”
This
name for God assures us of God’s loving attentiveness to our
prayers. It conveys both the tenderness and security of our
relationship with God, our heavenly Father.
It’s
interesting that the one time the Bible records Jesus calling his
Father Abba
in prayer is on the night before he died. Frightened and alone, Jesus
cried out to his Abba.
The writer of Hebrews probably had this episode in mind when he wrote
that Jesus prayed “with fervent cries and tears” and that “he
was heard because of his reverent submission” (Hebrews 5:7). The
Father heard the Son.
Because
of the Lord’s obedience, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, the
one whom Jesus called Abba
is our Abba
too.
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September 04, 2018 The Trinity and Prayer
Christians
believe that the one God exists in three persons: Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit. Our minds cannot sort out all the complexities of this
mystery, but prayer is a wonderful way for the mystery of the Trinity
to find application in our lives.
A
basic understanding of prayer is that it involves all three persons
of the Trinity. We pray to
the Father, in
the name of Jesus, by
the power of the Holy Spirit.
What
this means is something really amazing. The Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit live together in loving harmony, each one glorifying and
supporting the others. And when we pray, the three persons of the
Trinity also graciously include and support us. Our prayers connect
us with the interchange of God’s love and amazing work in this
world.
Here’s
a picture of what that looks like: When Jesus was baptized, the Holy
Spirit descended on him as
he was praying, and the Father said, “You are my Son,
whom I love; with you I am well pleased” (Luke 3:21-22). When we
pray, we participate in the same self-effacing love that unites the
Trinity. The love of God is extended to all who have been baptized in
the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit (Matthew 28:19).
We pray because we too are the beloved children of God with whom he
is pleased!
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