Let’s Realign Our Prayers
By: Yesheis Philippines
Tags: Christmas, Prayer, Jesus

We know how important prayer is in our lives. Alam natin that we need to rely on God and trust in Him for strength and provision because ultimately, everything comes from Him. Prayer is so beautiful because it’s our connection to the creator of the universe. Imagine, pwede nating kausapin siya personally. It’s so amazing that He would listen to us and hear our prayers.

You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. — James 4:3

Now I do believe that God wants us to come to Him with our wants and our desires. He answers the prayers of those who continue to abide in Him. But ultimately, He also moves in us so that our prayers continue to be more and more aligned with His will and His desires for us. This season, here are some things I encourage all of us to include in our prayers.

Pray to be more Christlike

Our very offering to God is how we live. Our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit and we please God by moving farther and farther away from our old sinful lifestyles. Hindi naman tayo magiging perfect, but we can pray to God to reveal to us the things that we can change in our lives and commit to changing them. Season na para sa mga New year’s resolution diba? Bat hindi natin ipag-pray na ipakita sa atin ni God yung mga bagay na pwede pa natin i-improve sa Christian life natin.

Pray for more hunger for His word

The Bible is our source of truth in this world full of lies. But at times, lalo na sa busy-ness ng December, we sometimes lose the hunger to read the Bible. This is why we need to pray and rely on God to move through the Holy Spirit to realign us and rekindle our hunger for the word. His word is life to us and what the enemy wants is to distract us from it. So let’s keep it in our prayers that God would keep making us hungry to read about Him in the word.

Pray for opportunities to serve others

A really great way to an insight into the love of God is to serve others. Nakikita natin to sa buhay ni Jesus. His whole ministry was spent teaching, healing, and feeding people. Let’s pray na magkaroon tayo ng more opportunities to put this into practice. Like the early church where people where people were giving from their own time and possessions to look out for each other’s needs. Let’s pray that, even when we’re social distancing, God would give us more opportunities to serve other people be it our family members or those who need help at this time.

Pray for chances to share Jesus

Especially in our life mission, God want’s to help us out. Let’s pray for more opportunities that we can share the love of Jesus Christ to those around us. Especially in this season, na people are more open to talking about faith, living life on mission starts with our prayer lives. God will be the one to show us who we can talk to and the things that we should say. Prayer allows us to surrender and align with Him in everything that we do.

If these are already a part of your prayers, or if you’ve been encouraged today to realign your prayers. I hope that we’re all reminded today that prayer is a major part sa lives natin with God. Let’s all keep connected with our great Father who gives us strength and hope as we walk with Him.