Daniel 9:23 23As soon as you began to pray, a word went out, which I have come to tell you, for you are highly esteemed. Therefore, consider the word and understand the vision:
Well that title is not something you hear often, well, maybe you don’t ever hear it! I know people who pray about everything, I mean everything! What clothes to wear, what food to eat. I always thought that was a little extreme, but I could be wrong. Yet there is a lot of truths to be investigated here. I mean, there are so many truths already listed in the Bible that you just need to walk in, trust and the prayer and waiting is already done for you. God is always for you, not against you. So, let’s look at some of the situations you need to walk in, shall we?
Love your neighbors. New neighbors? Old neighbors with a noisy dog, or car? No need to pray about it..love them. Mark 12:31 31The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.
Giving. Do you see someone who needs something and you have two? No need to pray about that. Give and it will be given back to you. Luke 6:38 38Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
A need surfaces in the body of Christ, meet it! No need to pray, just do it!. Galatians 6:10 10Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.
Sometimes we get a case of ‘spiritual procrastination.’ We pray, hesitate, lose the opportunity, we reprimand ourselves, repeat. We need to ‘nudge the needle’ in our thinking. Remember vinyl records and the record player? At times the needle would get stuck in a groove and would repeat the same phrase over and over until we physically went to the machine and gave the needle a nudge. I think our thinking needle needs a nudge at times! We get stuck in a rut of our own doing. Are we praying about it? Yes, but do we always need to pray about it, or does the Word already address it and we just need to re-visit the scriptures. Or, have we already prayed about it and we continue to pray because we doubt God’s answer?
When it comes to prayer, I do know the Lord loves to hear our prayers and stores them up for us, and of course, He answers them. Please do not take this post in the wrong way. I am just imploring you, look at the circumstances. If the answer is in the Word already, just walk in it. If you have prayed about it, trust God. He did hear, He will answer…in His time. Don’t become a victim of ‘spiritual procrastination!’
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