What Is Your Prayer Today?

Isaiah 55:8  “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

As I woke up this morning I began to pray for safe travels as we are heading to the State fair today.  I was stopped,  realizing how I needed to pray.  After meditating on His word yesterday and remembering all that our Lord and Savior has done for us I realized I didn’t need to be asking for safe travels but thanking Him and glorifying Him instead.  As I thought about that I began to wonder why we ask for these things anyway.  My thoughts went to the Lord’s prayer  found in Matthew 6:9-13 when He was teaching His disciples how to pray..  In verse 11 He prays, “Gives us this day our daily bread.”

You may think that right there it gives us the permission to ask for physical needs.  This may be what He is referring too but I began to think about other times when Jesus spoke of bread:

In the desert when being tempted by satan Matthew 4:4 Jesus answered, “It is written:’ Man does not live on bread alone , but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’

John 6:35  Then Jesus declared, “ I am the brad of life.  He who comes to me will never go hungry and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.”

Our daily brad should be from the word of God.  We need to be praying that His will be  done in our lives rather than telling Him what we want out of this life.  Jesus Himself came to this earth to do the will of His Father.  As He prayed in the garden He did express His anguish but He said, Matthew 26:39b  “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.  Yet not as I will, but as You will.”   He prayed this not only once but again in verse 42.  Jesus did not want to have to suffer a cruel death anymore than we want to go through the pains of life.  He would have rather had God be glorified through Him without the pain and suffering but He realized this was not the will of the Father and was willing to go through whatever He had to in order to bring glory to the Father.  What a lesson for us to learn!

Isaiah 55:1 -3 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!  Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. (2) Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?  Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.  (3) Give ear and come to me; hear me that your soul may live.”

As you seek Him and find Him may your life be satisfied with the bread of life.

Seeking Him with all my heart,
Sheila