prayer

Hello my friends,
Well it's  been a while since I've last entered a post.
I've been busy at work, and cooking  so here goes another post.
Today I want to share with you, some words about prayer.
We all know it's important, and yes, we say the old Sunday school  "We'll pray about it.''
But i want to go into the issue of prayer a bit more.
I want to look into why we pray?
What does prayer do?
Does anything happen when we pray?
Why does God seem silent on the issue on prayer sometimes?

Since I was young, we always prayed as a family, we prayed for others, and my parents taught me to take everything to God in prayer.
I've prayed in cafes, in churches, and sometimes on the streets.
Prayer is important, why?
Well it's not just talking to God, yes  he does listen to us, but it's so much more than just talking to God, we are actually praying for strength, and interceding on behalf of other brothers and sisters in Christ.
That's what I love about prayer, that God sees the need of others and he just moves in so many ways.
Now, a word about prayer, is that it doesn't need to be long, it doesn't need to be impressive, and yes we can even pray wherever we are.
 I prayed at work once, in the castle kitchen and one chef was on his knees, because he saw the need that in this situation at work needed to stop, and it did.
Don't be afraid to pray for things, if you're getting bullied at work, pray, for it to stop, and i have to say it did.
Pray for people who say mean things, to you, pray that that it stops and it will, but pray for something to replace that mean spirit.
This is important, because we all know that the Devil is around, and if he finds a empty hole somewhere he'll fill it.
Bless the people you come in contact with, and you don't have to like everyone or get on with everyone, but don't go the other way, because they are mean to you don't be mean back. It won't help your cause, and people are wanting to get a reaction.
So if you are persecuted it's not that they are getting at you as such, but because they see that under all the meanness you are good person, if you remain still in the storms of life, you've already won the war.


Prayer is going to God, and seeking his will for your life, and he'll show you it, don't be in such a rush to get to the ''yay I've made it stage'' because if we're honest, none of us have made it.
God gives us trials, not to make us break, but to make stronger, and encourage us in our faith.
Why does bad things happen to good people?
I don't know, and grief is the saddest things in this world, and he knows your pain, he hasn't left you to suss everything out by yourself. when it looks like know one has left the night light on, he has.

When everything seems lost, when you've lost your way, maybe it's your dreams, maybe you're tired of playing the game everyone wants you to play. You can be reassured my friend, God's ways are not our human ways.
You don't need to be keep looking over your shoulder to see how everyone is marking you, because you've already at the top of God's winning list.
And he doesn't keep score on your life.
Prayer is one amazing thing, the more you exercise it and use it in your life, the more you'll find out who God is for you. Not for anyone else but for you.
This is important for you to know, my friends.
You've got to find Christ for yourself, I can't tell you how to find him, I can only encourage you, to do the things you need to do.
Prayer is amazing, you've got to let your human things, release those things that you hide from.

Prayer also builds others up, it's also encouraging  for others, and share it, share when you've been in the deepest valley in life, or perhaps you're on the top of the mountain. And you don't just go from being deep down in the valley's to the tops of the mountains, over night, it's a process.
We all need encouragement, and I'm don't blog for this reason, I just want to encourage you, that no matter what you're facing, you can go through it with God's help.
God's love for you is greater than your circumstance.
Because after the rain, comes sunshine, it might seem like it's been raining for a while, but you can count on God, and he will bring sunshine back into your life, he'll take all those grieving moments, and turn them into good.
Like the back of a tapestry, it looks pretty messy, but if you turn it over, you can see the most amazing sewing work, and that's what God does in every one's life, he's carefully sewing away, so  skillfully in your life, that he is always making it look pretty, when maybe now you're seeing the back of the tapestry.

It's there for everyone to see, and when you get to Heaven, he'll show it to everyone.
I'm not saying that you won't experience pain, you will, but the pain you bear, God is bearing it with you.
You're not alone my friend, he sees it and he knows, the pain that is unspeakable.
So be encouraged, right I've gone right off topic.
Does anything happen when we pray?
Yes, things do happen when we pray, we are interceding, to God, we're handing our cares to God, and we're letting him take permission to be in our lives, and giving our lives over to God.

Unanswered prayer, is hard, because when we pray, we are expecting God to come in and answer them for us, and he does, but what about those void moments in our lives?
I've had  and having those moments, and the Christian life isn't supposed to be peachy, nice all the time.
If you're looking for that, you won't find it.
And I know I'm treading on very thin ice here, so what do we do while we're waiting?
We get busy doing things, not manipulating God on our behalf, but pray fully seeking out what we should be doing in the time we're waiting.
Not being crazily busy, doing a million things, but just a few simple things.
And yes keep reminding God, that's what David did, he keep on God's case.
Accountability is amazing thing, we're not that accountable much anymore.
So yes, being prayerfully aware of things,  pray in all circumstances, in all things, if you're happy give thanks to God, for bringing you through, if you're grieving pray, if you're wanting to seek after his will for your life, pray, if you're along way from your spiritual home, pray, if you haven't been to church for a long time, pray, and go back to Church or find one that suits your life.
God hasn't forgotten you, if you have have forgotten Christ, if you're feeling like he's let go of you, he hasn't.
Basically pray, and give all your secrets to God, if things are too heavy for you to carry, you weren't made to carry them alone. Remember you don't own your circumstance.
God does, and he can do more incredible things in your life, than you're trying to do.
Lots of love my friend you're going to be OK.
Chloe