JULY 3
Praying Through to Victory
“Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” – MATTHEW 26:41
The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” – MATTHEW 26:41
The purpose of prayer is to get aligned with the Mind, Will, Heart, Desire, Purpose, and Aim of God Himself.
It is a fight and a struggle just to get to Gethsemane. It is a battle to get your siblings to stay awake with you for even one hour; and it is an all-out war to “pray thrice” or ten times or twenty times or one hundred times, as the case may be, until you have gotten the victory over yourself, and come away soaked with the blood, sweat, and tears of that early morning wrestling. But once the outcome is decided in God’s favor, what awesome power and Life one receives, to drink that Cup that looked so impossible before, and to go forth bearing the Cross in the strength and power of God Himself, to do whatever He requires!
Source: “The Irresistible Kingdom” by Chip Brogden
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I determine to spend time with Jesus but oh how easily I am distracted!!!
I can relate to what you are saying Eve, I get distracted far too easily but my heart wants to spend time with Jesus, I pray you do too