NO MORE WORRYING: THE FIRST LAW OF PRAYER
........................................................................................
Prevailing Word: “Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God”.-Philippians 4:6
.......................................................................................................
Memory Verse: “Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not life, more than meat and the body than raiment? - Matthew 6:25.
God showed that one of the main reasons why many believers do not grow spiritually or get their prayers answered is worry and anxiety. So the first law of prayers is not prayer- but worry and anxiety- free. No wonder, the great apostle, Paul, shows us by the spirit, “Be anxious or worried about anything.
Nothing is too important for you to worry about it. In our memory verse, Jesus mentioned some of the things people worried about in his day: food, clothes, drinks etc. in our days today, the list is a bit longer. People worry about old age, dying, marriage, getting poor etc. but whatever it is – has already been covered within the provisions of “Be careful for nothing”.
You will notice in Philippians 4:6 (Our Prevailing Word for today), that before Paul talked about prayer, he talked about “Not worrying”. Why is worrying so dangerous to prayer?
Well, worrying will fill your inner man with fear, negative faith or expectations, and will either prevent you from praying, or neutralise the prayers you have already prayed. Worry infects the imagination with horrible mental pictures of calamity, prayer-failure, sickness, accidents, marital infidelity and poisons the emotions. It paralyses the will power or weakens it to the point where it will yield to things the person hates.
In Mark 4:18-19, we are told the parable of the sower. The seed that fell among thorns represent “the cares of this world” (ie the worries of life), the deceitfulness of riches and lusts of other things. Ultimately, the seed becomes unfruitful.
So the first law of prayer and spiritual growth is the law of eradicating all worries. No matter how legitimate a situation might be, worrying about it is absolutely wrong.
But removing or avoiding worry can be “easier said than done”. How do we come to that point where we are 100% worry-free? Worry is a kind of poison. It is behind so many of our troubles. Some of us have practised it to the point that if we do not worry, we become worried that we are not worrying. To us being worried is a sign that one is same, sympathetic, spiritual or even smart. Well, the first thing might be to stop glorifying or legitimizing it.
Secondly, we need to firmly decide and determine to never worry again. Our determination should be so strong that the next time we worry, we should treat it as a sin. We should confess it and move back to faith thoughts.
Worry destroys faith and replaces it with fear. Thirdly, ask the Lord for help in this area. Once you are free from worry, your prayer life and spiritual growth will shoot up in power.
.......................................................................................................
Action Point: From today, Eliminate every kind of worries in Life!
.......................................................................................................
Bible Reading: Joshua 6,7,8 and John 4
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2424577760951663&set=a.351876841555109&type=3&theater