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I
suppose that before this day there were a lot of preparations,
efforts that to arrange the meetings in the best way... and
after that miracles God's answering for prayers. I hope some
of you will share with us your experiences concerning this day
in your countries, churches, houses, different groups.
The
Baptist Women's Day of Prayer is very important day, which the
beginning started in 1948. Almost through sixty years, in November
Baptist women gathered together and only God knows how many,
sometimes secret prayers received answer. Praise the Lord for
all of them!
I
hope that this special day will inspire us to more prayer during
our "normal" days that produces results during
our daily life. Such prayer is the link binding us with God.
This is the bridge giving us the possibility to go over every
depth and the way over every precipice and over all dangerous
situation in our life. This is also looking for God and finding
Him. There are also struggles with Him and victory like in life
of Jacob.
In
the Bible we have very concrete advise: "Pray at all
times." (I Thessalonians 5:17). So, we can continue
our DOP because it is difficult to introduce God all prayer
requests concerning ourselves and different continents with
its needs and struggles.
We
should pray at all times but I know that it is difficult to
pray when we are week. I think we experienced that our prayer
life goes up and down or even becomes dull. And may be we just
wanted to stop praying or treat it as the unpleasant duty. Honestly
in my life these kind of feelings were not strange. It seemed
to me sometimes that work is easier than prying, really praying.
In my ministry I would like to depend more for prayer than own
strength or abilities. Therefore it is the prayer that God would
change my desires and make me like person whom he would like
to see. I realise that in spite of my weakness God is more willing
to answer prayer than I am or we are to pray. God encourages
us to prayer. Just through the Scripture God shows us that
"...the prayer of a good person has a powerful effect".
We
know well what had happened with Peter in prison, when "...
constant prayer was offered to God for him by the church."
(Acts 12:5). The prison has been opened, Apostle Peter had
became free, bad king Herod died and "...the word of
God continued to spread and grow". It happened because
of constant prayer. Would you like to have part at such prayer?
This is possible in XXI century. God wants to work through our
prayer. He does not need great people but He looks for human
who would have courage and would be ready to show omnipotence
His God.
Let's
be careful not to limit God in our prayer because of our small
faith or our imagination about Him and His possibilities. Let's
expect much more what our request could be express by words.
Remember that He is great almighty God and that He can everything.
We have to remember also about our position in Christ in front
of Him and than we can expect from God great things. God wants
to work through our prayers. But only prayer full of determination,
fervent prayer, needed time will find God's answer. Let's look
around on our family, neighbours, poor people, women without
hope, nations... How many of them are in sins, are hopeless...
God wants through you and me to save these loses, needed God's
mercy people.
"Be
persistent in prayer, and keep alert as you pray, giving thanks
to God." (Colossians 4:2)
Yours
in Christ,
Ewa Gutkowska
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