Sunday, March 22, 2015
Prayer is a channel of comfort for me. Its
relieving power in the midst of trouble is forthright amazing. If there is
something I am really thankful about after God saved me, it’s having this unlimited
privilege to talk to Him just like how a child talks to his father and knowing
in my heart that He listens. And maybe, I have had all those kinds of prayer
requests which I was actually unable to categorize as to substance until this
morning.
I encountered a child who suffered from meningitis not too long ago.
That illness held him helpless in bed for quite a long time. I wasn't able to
visit him at the hospital during his confinement but his name, always being mentioned
in prayer requests, became very familiar to me. Today everyone was surprised of
his presence in the church. We were told that he wanted to thank the Lord for
his recovery, so he came.
Upon seeing him, it dawned on me how massive this
boy’s prayer warriors must have been when he was still bedridden, how his
parents cried to the Lord for mercy day and night to get their child back to
his normal life again. I suddenly began recapping my very first prayer when I
woke up and the heaviest prayer I lifted to God by far. And before I even start
thinking, my eyes welled up with tears of guilt – guilt for all the self-centered
requests I shamelessly uttered and still hoard in my heart. While I spent
countless times praying for personal matters like getting a stable job, owning a car, travel around the globe, rub elbows
with a godly man worthy to give up my singleness for, there was this boy whose
only prayer was to wake up tomorrow. I felt ashamed for the time I was actually
treating God more like a genie instead of a Holy King.
In many remarkable situations, I was always tempted to forget that prayer is not primarily about what I can
get out of God, but what He purposes to do in and through me for His glory, that my prayers must
be based on faith like Jehoshaphat’s in 2 Chronicles 20:5-9, on God’s promises
as stated on Jeremiah 33:3 and primarily concern the will of the Lord as what Christ
led His disciples to pray. Indeed, how and what I pray for measure my spiritual
maturity which directly points to how I allow God to work in every aspect of my
life.
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