Good Morning All,
Psalm 50:15; “Call on me in times of trouble. I
will rescue you,
and you will honor me.”
I keep learning new things about my smartphone. I have quickly discovered it is smarter than
me. I keep having people tell me how
your phone can do everything for you. You
just need get an “app” for it. I heard
on the radio the other day that there is an “app” that will allow your phone to
help diagnose skin cancer. All you do is
take a picture of the mole or spot on your skin and with this “app” it will
tell you if it is malignant or not.
There are apps for the
weather, for the stock or commodity markets, for the news, there are apps to
allow you to set your thermostat or lights in your house when you are away, or
any one of literally thousands of different app that can make your smartphone
do incredible things. Some of the apps
are free and some are very expensive.
Yet you need to have the app on your smartphone in order to get the
benefit of the app. You also need to
learn how to use the app properly and you need to be sure that the phone you
have has the necessary add-ons in order to make it work as well. They are nice to have but they can be
difficult to handle especially when the “one size fits all” app doesn’t fit
your phone. Or you need an upgrade in
either your phone or your service plan.
The thing about the apps
is that you have to put them on your phone, and you often have to pay for
them. The other thing is that when you
really need them, the best you can do is guess if they will actually work. Those are things that we do not have to do
with prayer. Prayer exists for you from
the moment that you are given into faith.
God has promised to hear the call of his children. We don’t have to buy anything or even really
understand how it works. It just
works!! Prayers to God get
results!! The results may not be what we
think we want but honest prayers get results.
The results aren’t always a visible effect but are often a spiritual
effect. We may not be healed of our pain,
but God gives us the peace to deal with it and the hope of our salvation. Prayer affects the way you live but it also effects
the way you live. A true personal prayer
life effects or changes the way you view life, the way you experience life and
even the outcome of your life.
Prayer gives you the
constant interaction with God; along with a devotional time you have the
conversation time with God. We listen to
him through his Word, and we speak to him through our prayers and all without
an app!
Dearest Father, you
encourage us to call upon you for you give us the hope and peace that we so
desperately seek. Give us the wisdom to
bring all things to you that we may find in you all that we need. Be with those who are in greatest need of
your peace. Lead them to call to
you. In Jesus’ precious name we pray,
amen.
God’s Peace,
Pastor Bret
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