here are some things holy spirit broke down for me today during prayer:
1.
Most of my time praying should be spent praying for others. I believe this is the heart of God: to put others above myself. God knows my prayers and my needs, so as I pray for others, I trust that He will remember my needs and meet them without me even asking.
If I'm at a prayer meeting and we are only praying for ourselves, what difference have we made? 10 people will be blessed. BUT, if we pray for the world, then we make strides for the kingdom of God.
Plus, look at the habit that forms: If we go to prayer meeting every week and just pray for each other, then we've brought all of our focus down to one group of people. We make a habit of looking inward and having small vision. That is not God's heart at all. Our hearts should always be going outwards with big vision and big prayers. While praying, we can either choose to practice this or build habits against it.
2.
Why should I pray an hour for the homeless when I could pray 2 minutes then actually help the homeless for 58 minutes? In those 2 minutes, I could make every prayer for the homeless that I can: good health, people to love them, Jesus to show up in their lives, & relationship with Jesus. That only took me 10 seconds.
Yes, we MUST pray before we go, but we cannot let prayer keep us from action. We can no longer hide behind our prayers - we must act.
You know all the needs anyways, so lifting up a quick prayer in faith is as effective as a long prayer in faith. Praying with more faith in less time = more time for action.
The issue that most people have (and the biggest issue that I have) is time.
This brings a peculiar truth: the busier we get, the more we must pray.
If I cannot be the one to act, then I must be the one to pray. The more busy I am, the less time I have for action and the more I must be praying.
I know that I cannot help the homeless and help the orphans and set people free from human trafficking and put God-fearing leaders in every country all in one-day, so I must pray for these things.
In the areas that I can do something, I do it. In the areas that I am unable to do something, I pray.
It is for this reason that I believe Jesus prayed so much and that I believe that we should pray so much. There are just a lot of things to pray for.
3.
you said that if we love you then we will feed your sheep. so God, convict us if we do not interact with non-Christians. If we fail to do this, then we are ineffective as Christians. You only gave us two charges: love You and love our neighbors. How can we love our neighbors if we don't interact with them?
