Re: POWER of PRAYER- No Matter Which Faith You Follow=GOD is With You
Spending Time with Jesus
If you can go about your daily life facing all sorts of interruptions and demands yet not spend ten minutes in God's presence, your love is dying. If you love someone exclusively above all others, you will make that person feel he is the most important being on earth. Everything else will pale in comparison to him.
Isn't this how you first loved your spouse when you were dating? If she called while you were busy, you dropped everything to talk to her. If anyone intruded on your time alone together, you resented it. Everything else took second place in your efforts to develop the love between you.
Many Christians today go for weeks, even months, without spending quality time with Jesus. How can they love Jesus with a whole heart when they neglect him for days on end?
In Song of Solomon, the bride could not sleep because her beloved "had turned away and was gone," then she arose in the middle of the night, saying, "I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer" (Song of Solomon 5:6, NKJV). So the woman quickly ran into the streets, looking everywhere for her lover, crying out, "Have you seen my beloved?"
Why was this such a serious matter to her? Because, as she said, "This is my beloved, and this is my friend" (Song of Solomon 5:16). "If you find my beloved, that you tell him I am lovesick!" (Song of Solomon 5:8).She could not be without her beloved.
How does Jesus feel when he spreads the table and anxiously awaits our company, yet we never show up? What kind of rejection must he feel when we continually put others before him? The Bible calls us his bride, his beloved and his one great love. We were created for fellowship with him!
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I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people -- for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Savior, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth. 1 Timothy 2:1-4
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