Prayer Meetings...

So, we want to get this Sleeping Giant awake.

But what are we doing, that seems to be keeping 'it' alseep? Why haven't we been able to wake this giant up? Here's some thoughts on that question.

Could it be, that as much as we all profess to want to wake prayer up in our churches, and our cities, I have to ask first..how is our personal prayer life? You can't 'wake up' in others, what is still asleep in you!

Also, many times we go about our daily Christian walk, with unresolved differences, offenses, or down right rebellion, in our own hearts, and yet, we think that those things are not hindering the release of prayer in us, and around us. Not true!

Lastly, do we want to wake up people to pray 'our' way? Or are we seriously wanting God to wake us up to the prayer He is calling His people to. Will be be willing to change our way, or our favorite style of prayer, to learn a new one? Will we embrace something that is out of our comfort zone? Or will we judge others because they pray one way, and we pray another?

James 4: 2-3 Tells us to be aware of having wrong desires. It speaks to us about lusting, fighting and coveting. It goes on to say that we aren't getting what we pray for because we are praying from wrong motives, and wrong objectives. We pray to satisfy our own pleasure, our own flesh. It is saying, that our prayers are selfish. Ouch!!

If we want to wake up this Sleeping Giant, we need to allow the Holy Spirit to refocus the way we come to God. He will give us 1. the right desire - intimacy with the Father and 2. the right motive - to glorify God and 3. the right objective - to do God's will!



Remember we want to pray with a pure heart. We want to pray with power. We want to pray with persistence.