Praying Always- Jesus Prayed Always

'Our Lord was a man of prayer, and He magnified the Word of God, quoting often from the Scriptures. Right through His earthly life Jesus observed Sabbath-keeping, churchgoing and the reading of the Word of God, and had prayer intermingled with them all:

"And He came to Nazareth where He had been brought up, and as His custom as, He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath Day, and stood up to read."

Here, let it be said, that no two things are more essential to a spirit-filled life than Biblereading and secret prayer; no two things more helpful to growth in grace; to getting the largest joy out of a Christian life; toward establishing one in the ways of eternal peace.

The neglect of these all-important duties, presages leanness of soul, loss of joy, absence of peace, dryness of spirit, decay in all that pertains to spiritual life. Neglecting these things paves the way for apostasy, and gives the Evil One an advantage such as he is not likely to ignore. Reading God's Word regularly, and praying habitually in the secret place of the Most High puts one where he is absolutely safe from the attacks of the enemy of souls, and guarantees him salvation and final victory, through the overcoming power of the Lamb.'

Quoted from- 'THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER  By E.M. BOUNDS' (Excerpt 71)

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We surely do ONLY overcome through the power of the LAMB.

Any reading of God's word is the reading of the Lamb, the Love of the Lamb. We read because HE has given us what we should read. We understand because He gives us understanding. We pray because He gives us the spiritual breath we need to pray. The power all of it is His, none of it is ours. We make the choice to believe. We choose to believe, this is our part.

Ecc_12:13  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

And to Fear God…. we must believe that He is!

Heb_11:6  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

We must believe- this is our part, this is our duty!

And when we believe, truly believe we have to keep his commandments because His commandments are LOVE. We realize that those commandments that some would have us believe are too hard, too demanding, too stifling to truly keep are commandment of LOVE, each one pointing to LOVE, pointing to GOD.

May God bless us as we seek to do our duty to God, believing that HE is, fearing Him, keeping His commandments, loving Him!

Being able to pray is a blessing.  Praying to our Father in Heaven, praying by the mercy of our Savior Jesus Christ, this is everything! He is LIFE, He is LOVE.  Please LORD help us to forever choose YOU. You are everything!