The power of praying Christians is unstoppable.
The ladies of my church watched the movie, “The War Room,” last night. It was one of those movies that truly is life changing because you can take the specific situation represented and transfer it to all areas of Christian life. The focus of the movie was prayer. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it.
The questions that it asks all Christians to ponder is, not only, “Do you believe in prayer,”but “How hot is your prayer life?”
When the elderly, Ms. Clara asked her new young real estate agent, Elizabeth, that question, she answered that she was busy with work and family and that her prayer life wasn’t cold or hot, but somewhere in the middle. That seems like a viable answer. The middle is usually good. Right? Middle class, moderation and warm, are things that many of us aspire to.
But, Ms. Clara then handed her a lukewarm cup of coffee that almost made Elizabeth gag. Point taken. There’s nothing good about lukewarm coffee or for that matter, lukewarm faith.
Jesus even talks about a lukewarm church in Revelation. He says, “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm-neither hot nor cold- I am about to spit you out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:15-16
In the spiritual realm, where we really grow and use our faith, lukewarm is useless. Jesus says as much.
Reading the Bible and prayer is how we grow our faith. It’s how we get strong. It’s how we become the warriors that we are called to be.
In the movie, Elizabeth, learns to pray effectively, give her heart fully to God, and with His intervention, saves her faltering marriage.
Christians hold an enormous power through prayer, that we so often, barely tap. We wait until life gets scary and then we pray, not realizing, if our prayer life was hot, like it should be, life would never get scary. The things of the world would be unable to scare us, if we were intently focused on trusting and obeying God.
We have an election coming up. The mudslinging has already become fierce. There may even be a Supreme Court seat in the balance. What can we do?
All Christians can get off of the bench and get into the game. We can pray, pray without ceasing, for God’s guidance in choosing our next president and for His intervention in our country’s politics. We can pray that He will raise up Godly men and women to lead our country.
We have to do something, because doing nothing, is simply being lukewarm. We are called to do more. We are called to pray, listen and act.
“If my people, who are called by name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:13-14
Those are powerful words. The next move is ours.
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂