Prayer

There is one thing in my Christian walk that I regularly struggle with. That's prayer. I know prayer is important but it's the one thing I worry about, that I'm saying the wrong thing. Or I just don't know who to ask for things. I'm not sure what it is exactly, all I know is that I struggle with it.

Prayer allows us to communicate our inner most feelings with our Father. It allows us to thank Him for all He has done, it allows us to ask for the biggest desires of our hearts. So why do I find it so difficult? 

I think sometimes I struggle to know what it is I want myself. If I don't know what I want then how can I ask for it? Or sometimes I think that what I want is too difficult or too much to ask for. Nothing is ever too much to ask for or too difficult for God. I guess, I just need to remember that He hears me no matter what the request is. And He will know whether I need it or not. If it doesn't come about then I know that He has much bigger and better plans but if I don't ask, I'll never know. 

Basically... I need to pray more!

Psalm 100

"Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth. Worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs. Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are His, we are His people, the sheep of His pasture. Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations" (Psalm 100)'

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this Psalm before. It was brought up in conversation last night at our worship team meeting and I decided to go back to it today and have a look. There is one part that stood out to me... 

 "It is He who made us"

He made us. The word "made" got me thinking. Made means there was effort, we don't just make something without a plan. And we generally don't make something without a purpose. Sometimes, we may think we are doing it simply because but even then the purpose possibly just to give you something to do. Not a great purpose, but still it's a purpose. Each of us was made. Each of us was planned and made with a purpose. We may not feel that the purpose we have is great but to Him it is! It's funny that sometimes the smallest things are what make the biggest difference in our lives, it's the smile we get from someone that makes our day. It's not a big thing... but it can make the biggest difference in our life for that day. Maybe that's what your purpose is like. It may not seem like a big thing, but it could make a difference to someone's life. 

I guess what I'm thinking now is that we shouldn't go about our day to day lives thinking that there is nothing we can do. If we listen to God, He will show us what our purpose is and how we can make a difference!

Thankful for: Forgiveness

I'm thankful for forgiveness simply because I felt like I had disappeared and walked away almost, but God forgave me and opened His arms up lovingly like nothing had ever happened. It's this forgiveness that makes His unconditional love real to me!

Distraction

It's so easy to get distracted these days. It's been a while since I posted... because I got distracted!

I went away on holidays to visit my family. And for three weeks I spent a lot of time with non-Christians. There is nothing wrong with this but I found myself distracted and almost forgetting about Jesus and what He has done for me. It was almost like I pushed Him to the back of my mind for the three weeks which is the complete opposite of what I should have done. It's not that I changed who I was, I was still the same person, didn't go completely off track but, I just didn't acknowledge Jesus in my life as much as I should have. This then extended and for the past 2 weeks that I have been back from my holidays, I have almost remained in this state. I decided it's time I get back to my serious walk with God. Tomorrow will be a day of prayer and fasting to get me back on track and get my mind back on God and not on what I want for myself.