Popular new reports a renewed interest in prayer as related to healing. Cynics smile and say Christians have a vivid imagination to think that talking out loud to themselves is going to change sickness. Faithful believers keep on doing what they have always known to do: Take it to God.
Find any Church this week and they will introduce you to several members who were healed by prayer. Every week we pray for the sick, individually and cooperatively. We share stories of Doctors being amazed that “hopeless cases” are amazingly healed. In Jeremiah 33:3, we are challenged, “call to me and I will answer you and show you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”
When we pray, we link on to God’s willingness to share himself. It’s amazing how the media can magnify as unusual what true believers have experienced for a lifetime (personally since I was 9 years old). Hebrews 11:6 is plain, “without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.”
We have a solid foundation on which to build a prayer life. Practicing prayer gives us great confidence in God. We all started with small, simple, child-like requests and gradually grew bolder and bolder. God challenged us to pray more and more. “Cast all your cares on Him for He cares for you.” (I Peter 5:7) No wonder David says in Psalm 55:17 “evening, morning, and noon, I will cry out in distress and He hears my voice.”
You can learn to pray. It’s not a good-luck charm. Nor a Heavenly slot machine. One more invitation comes to you from Jesus: “until now you have not asked for anything in My Name.’ (John 16:24) Because of a gracious offer by Jesus, you can now pray “in His Name”. We now have a direct access to God in prayer.
“Loving Lord, how sweet it is to talk with You. Indeed, what a Friend
we have in Jesus! So good to take all to You! Amen”
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