Driven to My Knees

Are you taking to your knees often in prayer? Are you asking others to pray with you and for you on critical issues? Who’s got your back? The better the connections, the brighter the illumination.

April’s Awakening, Day 7

Prayer is not a matter of getting what we want the most. Prayer is a matter of giving ourselves to God and learning his laws, so that he can do through us what he wants the most.

 —Agnes Sanford

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

 —C. H. Spurgeon 

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had absolutely no other place to go.

 —Abraham Lincoln

The great masters and teachers in Christian doctrine have always found in prayer their highest source of illumination.

 —H. P. Liddon 

I urge you, brothers and sisters, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to join me in my struggle by praying to God for me. Romans 15:30 NIV 

Night and day we pray most earnestly that we may see you again and supply what is lacking in your faith. 1 Thessalonians 3:10 NIV  

            There is no better guidance to seek than God’s. Ask Him for direction in the choices you must make. Ask Him to give you illumination on the puzzles of life you face. Ask Him to mold and shape you into that perfect vessel that He can mightily use. Don’t be afraid to be driven to your knees in prayer often, and don’t be fearful or ashamed of asking trusted others to pray for you and with you on those troublesome and difficult matters. It is good for you to humbly ask them and good for them to humbly respond by praying for you. It’s all about making the proper connections and seeing things clearly through God’s eyes. It is comforting to know that a trusted friend “has your back” covered in prayer. Seek not always what to get, but better what you can give and do for God and others. You will find that praying diligently for others does wonders for yourself.