Thoughts from the Pastors Office:

Always be joyful and never stop praying. Whatever happens, keep thanking God because of Jesus Christ. This is what God wants you to do. Don't turn away God's Spirit or ignore prophecies. Accept what is good and don't have anything to do with evil. I pray that God, who gives peace, will make you completely holy. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept healthy and faultless until our LORD Jesus Christ returns. The one who chose you can be trusted, and he will do this.Friends, please pray for each other. Give the LORD'S followers a warm greeting. I pray that our LORD Jesus Christ will be kind to you! I Thessalonians 5 (CEV)


*Thinking of Prayer as Jesus Taught!*

Our thinking about prayer whether right or wrong, is based on our own mental conception of it.
The correct concept is to think of prayer as the breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts.
Our blood flows and our breathing continues and we are not even conscious of it, but it never stops. And we are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect oneness with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.
Prayer is not an exercise, it is a way of life. So beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer… We are to never stop praying! We are to maintain the childlike habit of offering up prayer in our hearts to God all the time.

Jesus never mentioned unanswered prayer. He had the unlimited certainty of knowing that prayer is always answered. Do you have through the Spirit of God that inexpressible certainty that Jesus had about prayer, or do you think of the times when it seemed that God did not answer your prayer? Jesus said,… everyone who asks receives…” (Matthew 7:8). Yet we say,…”but…but…because the evidence of the answer does not fit what we believe the answer should be!”
We are to never doubt that God answers prayer in the best way, not just sometimes, but every time…He makes everything beautiful in His Time! (Ecclesiastes 3)
Do we expect God’s answer to prayer or ours?
The danger we have is that we want to water down what Jesus said to make it mean something that aligns with our common sense. But, if it were only common sense, what He said would not even be worthwhile. The things Jesus taught about prayer are supernatural truths He reveals to us. And the only way to know that is to be in relationship with Christ through PRAYER!
(Adapted Words from Oswald Chambers)