Do you have place to meet God on a day to day basis?

 
  May I say…….Devotion for the day February 3, 2010



   Text: 1 Kings 17:19-22


Today we will learn a lesson on prayer in our text we see that when Elijah faced a problem he silently climbed the stairway to the upper room where he had been doing the battle before God on a regular basis. I say this because I believe that Elijah had spent hours, even days, on his knees in that room. He had formed that habit while alone with his God at Cherith.

Do you have a room like that a place where you meet with God? Do you have a quite retreat where you and the Lord do regular meetings together? If you don’t, I strongly urge you to provide yourself just such a place where you can meet God daily.

Many people have rooms for everything in their houses except a special room for God It is there that you will prepare yourself for life’s trails and struggles. Without it, you’ll lack the necessary steel in the foundation of your faith.

What do you do when tragedy strikes you? What do you do when a test comes? What’s your first response? It is to complain? To blame? To try to reason your way out of it? Or have you formed the habit of doing what Elijah did?

Do you go to your special place and get alone with God? Elijah provides a wonderful example for us. No panic, No fear. No rush. No doubt. Why should he? For he know that God is his refuge and fortress. Read Psalm 91:1-4

Elijah was a man of prayer, when faced with major crisis- the death of a young boy, the only child of a widow who showed him much kindness. He immediately restored to the most potent power he knew; prayer. Without hesitating, he cast himself upon the mercy of God and cried out for His grace to be extended to this young boy and his widowed mother. With passion Elijah entreated the Lord, and He answered. It is no surprise, then, that when the apostle James looked for an example of fervent prayer, he choose Elijah.

Read James 5:16-17. The prophet was a man mighty in prayer because he was fervent in prayer.

Too often Christian petition God with room temperature prayers. They convey the facts, but lack the fervor. They are sincere, but they don’t sizzle.

The same men and women, who yell themselves at a sporting event or in their houses while discussing family issues with each other, become reluctant to raise their voices when speaking to God. Yet they expect an enthusiastic response from God to their halfhearted requests.

Listen some of you may be in the process of placing your life before the Lord. Things are crucial, and only a miracle can breathe new life into your situation. Circumstances are totally out of your control. So you take it to your special place and, standing in the shadow of our God you lay it out before Him, prostrating yourself before Him, pleading for His intervention, trusting completely in His miraculous power, leaning not on your own understanding.

Dear beloved, find a time and place today where you can pour out your heart to God. Don’t fake your emotions, but pray for those needs that have a strong grip on your spirit.

Let your approach to God reflect the urgency and the ardor of your concerns.

Can you make these four statements? If you can… will you?

1. I am here by God’s appointment.

2. I am in His keeping.

3. I am under his training.

4. He will show me His purpose in His time.

By God’s appointment, in God’s keeping, under His training, for his time. What an outstanding summary of what it means to trust in the Lord with all your heart.

Elijah said, “Lord, I am here by your appointment. This is no accident. I am standing under your shadow. This is your call. And in your time, I ask you to do not only the incredible but the impossible.

So bear brothers and sisters may I say believe in prayer not only for the incredible but for the impossible today in your lives.

FERVENT PRAYERS PRODUCE PHENOMENAL RESULTS.


May God bless you; catch up with you tomorrow for another insight from God’s word

Have a blessed day

Pastor. John Spurgeon