I’ve been hearing an awkward phrase for a while now.
“Prayer is not enough.” I think I’m hearing it from God. “Declaration
is not enough.”
This morning, he went on:
• If you sit around the house all day eating bonbons,
praying for weight loss, do you think I’ll believe you?
• If you pray for finances, but don’t go looking for a job,
shall I take you seriously?
• If you pray for godly leaders, but don’t expend the effort
to research and vote, do you really mean what you’re praying?
• If you fill your mind with the ravings of the fearful,
then ask me for peace in your soul, I will question your sincerity.
• I could think of a thousand other illustrations.
The thought was, “If you don’t take your prayers seriously,
why should I?”
If we’re heirs in the Kingdom of God
Our words have power, yes. But our actions are also
powerful. Best to have them working together.
For a long time, we thought our words were powerless but we’re
learning better now. It appears that we’re swinging too far in the direction of
relying on our words.
That’s a truth, but it’s not the only truth. If we want to
live as mature sons and daughters, we need to know more than just one truth.
The saying is, “Prayer works,” and it’s true. But it goes
both ways. Prayer accomplishes things. But
prayer sometimes has work to do. Not instead of prayer; in addition to prayer.
As part of the prayer.
We’ve got a job to do.
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“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He
went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ “
‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and
went. “Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing.
He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
“Which of the two did what his father wanted?” “The first,”
they answered.
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors
and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom
of God
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