Prayer and It's Natural Ability Created Within Us

"Although prayer is alien to our proud human nature, somehow, at some point along life's journey, most of us fall to our knees, bow our head, fix our attention on God and just plain pray. We may look both ways to be sure no one is watching; our knees may creak at the foreignness of the activity; but still, we pray. It's as if something within us is hard-wired with the knowledge that in so doing we weave stronger threads of intimacy with the one who alone can provide peace to endure and power to overcome whatever challenges we face"

This is a small excerpt from a book called, "Too Busy Not To Pray", written by Bill Hybels.

The book is mainly about prayer and talks about the importance of it and what it can do if we decide to have a prayer life. I was just previewing the book, and something from the intro caught my eye which is where i got this excerpt from. It started to make me think when he said that at some point of our lives we end up praying, whatever the case may be, most of the times it's in our deepest despair, times of tough trials, times of loneliness and something yearning within us allows us to come to God and pray and it comes out naturally. We've all experienced this as well, in our times of troubles we just end up calling out to God, knowing that in some way He'll hear us.

This made me realize that God has put in us since birth, this natural ability or instinct to call out to him. It's amazing, even though sin had ruined that relationship with God in the garden of eden, God still has created within us the ability to call out to him, regardless of our race, ethnicity or religion. It gives us the idea that God exists and that He has always wanted a relationship with each of us and that He hopes for us to speak with him and vice versa.

A Light in the Midst of Darkness

Everyday I hear and see things in the news that upsets me but it's nothing new. Understanding or seeing how things are now compared to 15-20 years ago, things have changed so dramatically. Things are just more out in the open and just being openly flaunted without a care. Sex is more of a problem now more than ever. Kids are having sex younger and younger and they are not understanding the consequences. Things being shown on tv, movies and even music have become so vulgar that there's no way to distinguish what's good anymore. It's sad to see how society is becoming more secular as we see it today. We can truly only imagine what's to come in the future for us and if we get to see the day our own children and their children.

But in the midst of this, as repeated over the years and recorded in the bible, God still has his people. A people willing to follow him in spite of how dark the times may be. In spite of all of what the world tries to do lure his people away from Him. There's a people, and my call to anyone is are you one of them and/or do you want to be? There's more to life than what this world offers. From what I've experienced in my own life, nothing else truly satisfies the heart like God does, absolutely nothing. So hence, were given a choice to be a light in the midst of this darkness we see everyday. We can be a difference, without us even knowing.

The Life Freely Given

The greatest gift ever given
The greatest gift ever known
A man hung on a cross
Love given to a fallen humanity
So that God Himself
Can be reconciled back to His own creation
So that we may be given life
And life everlasting
Eternity now rests in His hands
So if we want to receieve it
We can ask for it
God in his loving grace
Is willing to freely give
To all those who simply ask


The greatest gift that a person can receive in life is the life that Christ freely offers to us through the cross. One would be a fool to reject and choose his own path. God alone satisfies every desire of the heart, but sadly man seeks the things in this world to satisfy his own desires.

Pain and suffering

Sometimes pain and suffering come to purge us from our wrong ways before it's too late. We can't escape pain and suffering, it's a part of life. With it we can learn to correct our wrong ourselves, or God in his grace and mercy will have to show us. Sometimes it comes to just make us stronger to prepare us for life in the future. Nothing He does is out of the ordinary. Our wrong and our bad habits can destruct our own lives before we even know it. God knows that which is why when we don't confront our sin, God will open our eyes to do so. In my experience I was walking whole heartedly with God, felt on top of the world. But then I started dating and I became so infatuated with the relationship, to the point where she became my focus instead of God. He tried to warn me to stay away with 2 car accidents within the span of 2 weeks but then I was given into my own lust. Finally the relationship ended and then my car was totaled. That was probably the most trying time in my life. But all in all, God allowed it, not only did he allow it but he kept me safe from being hurt and he brought me through. He also provided me with a new car, but the best part of this was the pain and suffering my family and I endured through this. It's taught me that God is always in control, no matter what the situation is. It's also showed me that God is there every moment, even when we don't realize it and he will provide for our needs in any way possible.


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Total Surrender

Sometimes we can get so caught up in our lives we forget to put what comes first, God or ourselves. Reading the scripture of the rich young man who thought he had everything he needed in life by just following the law of Moses would allow him to be right with God, but in reality Jesus wasn't just looking for a man who does what's right, but a man willing to forsake what he loves most to Him to follow Him. In Matthew 19 we see Jesus giving the rich man a test asking him to forsake everything he had to follow Him. In other words he was asking him, "are you willing to surrender that which you hold on to so dearly to me, your possessions, things you love the most in order to follow me?". But the man loved his possessions and himself more than God and was not willing to give it up which is why he left Jesus's sight grieved. In the message translation, it gives a real clear description of how this young man felt in his heart where it states:

"And so, crestfallen, he walked away. He was holding on tight to a lot of things, and he couldn’t bear to let go."

The word crestfallen in this passage means discouraged. Now we can ask ourselves, why was this man so discouraged? He was speaking face to face with God himself in flesh yet he wasn't willing to give up certain things in his life he deemed more important than to serve Him. In our times, we see this happening often. Many see the cost to follow Christ, but yet they see what they have in their lives and think to themselves, "do I really want to give this up to follow after God?". "I'm doing what seems to be right, isn't tat enough?". What people tend to forget is, that isn't enough.

It's sad to see when God calls us into a life of truth and meaning and all he asks is our full attention and our heart and to give up that which we treasure most, yet we're not willing to give up these things in our lives.