A Prayer for Scale Shedding

It is not so much method of prayer that makes prayer effective, but perpetuity in the Spirit of prayer. Man, if I could just get that into my spirit. This morning I ran with a student. He's at a crossroads place, a place where there is a seeming insurmountable task in front of him. He is running 12 minute miles, unable to run for a mile without stopping. He has to run 2 miles in under 16 minutes in 10 days in order to get a military scholarship. I can't see how it's going to happen. What does one do in this situation?

Just do it. See what happens. Open up a channel for God to work. Go. Do. See. This is the faith life. I'm not exactly sure how today's events connect to prayer, but I feel that they do. Today I pray that I was in the spirit of James 1:22, don't be a hearer, be a doer of the Word. There are many words that Jesus used to describe the Life, but it's important to reflect that they were all in the moment. Jesus took in the totality of the situation and responded. And I pray that my prayer life grows in this way: that I look out and see what is happening and pray in kind, with immediacy and fervency and vigor; in the Spirit.

Lord Jesus, there are many obstacles to simplicity in dwelling in You, but I pray that You continuously pull the scales from my eyes that I may see Your wonders, even better, Your wonderfulness (Acts 9:18, Psalm 119:18).

In Jesus Name,

Amen

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