Our Petitions To God - Unending.

'The strength acquired in prayer to God will prepare us for our daily duties.

The temptations to which we are daily exposed make prayer a necessity.

In order that we may be kept by the power of God through faith, the desires of the mind should be continually ascending in silent prayer.

When we are surrounded by influences calculated to lead us away from God, our petitions for help and strength must be unwearied.

Unless, this is so, we shall never be successful in breaking down pride and overcoming the power of temptation to sinful indulgences which keep us from the Saviour.

The light of truth, sanctifying the life, will discover to the receiver the sinful passions of his heart which are striving for the mastery, and which make it necessary for him to stretch every nerve and exert all his powers to resist Satan that he may conquer through the merits of Christ.'—(Messages to Young People, 248.) 

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We are surrounded by influences that want to keep us from God, all the time. These influences do NOT rest, do NOT sleep at all, they ARE relentless in their pursuit of our destruction. Are you at ease in your life? Are you content? Are things going good? Or is your life an endless stream of ups and downs? Most people would say 'ups and downs', and I'm included it that. I have good days and bad days. However, sometimes it does seem the good days are teasers making the bad days worse. Truthfully we are in a war and the dark army is after us. We need to fight and one way we fight is through prayer.

Prayer is so incredibly necessary and not the rote prayer that holds little meaning. Anyone can recite a prayer without any heart feeling at all.

Prayer has power, so much power and we often ignore it in deference to our busy lives, even busy in our sleeping. We take time to work, to play, to relax, to feast, to pamper ourselves in various ways, and somehow we neglect prayer, our only real power- the ability to pray- to connect to our Creator, to our Redeemer. To speak and to be heard, to know our God is our all in all.

Prayer can help us right now. And while we may have to endure a lot of the torturous abuse from the evil influences bent on our eternal nothingness, we will have HOPE and with hope we have faith, and with faith it is possible to please God.

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.

Please, Lord, please.