Devotional by Evangelist Tim Green
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
I heard an evangelist make this statement: "Prayer is the slender sinew that moves the muscles of omnipotence." If this is true--and I think to a great extent it is--then if we don't pray, we are paralyzed!
I have a little firsthand knowledge of paralysis. In 1987, when my oldest son was fourteen, he was stricken with a stroke. The entire right side of his body was paralyzed, and to this day his right arm and hand are partially paralyzed.
Paralysis does at least three things to the body that a paralysis of prayer will do to the soul. One, it results in no feeling. When an individual is paralyzed in his prayer life, he ceases to feel. The love of Christ flowing through him is hindered by his unfeeling lack of constraint to pray.
Also, in a paralyzed condition there is no movement. One is crippled in his ability to go forward, to "press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." The crippling concrete of lethargy and no progress is a visible penalty of a paralyzed prayer life.
Last, a paralysis causes a situation of no balance. That which is weakened is overcome by the stronger side, and sin begins to dominate. God help us to override our paralyzed prayer life with this therapy: "Pray without ceasing" (I Thess. 5:17).
Jeremiah 33:3 Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.
I heard an evangelist make this statement: "Prayer is the slender sinew that moves the muscles of omnipotence." If this is true--and I think to a great extent it is--then if we don't pray, we are paralyzed!
I have a little firsthand knowledge of paralysis. In 1987, when my oldest son was fourteen, he was stricken with a stroke. The entire right side of his body was paralyzed, and to this day his right arm and hand are partially paralyzed.
Paralysis does at least three things to the body that a paralysis of prayer will do to the soul. One, it results in no feeling. When an individual is paralyzed in his prayer life, he ceases to feel. The love of Christ flowing through him is hindered by his unfeeling lack of constraint to pray.
Also, in a paralyzed condition there is no movement. One is crippled in his ability to go forward, to "press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." The crippling concrete of lethargy and no progress is a visible penalty of a paralyzed prayer life.
Last, a paralysis causes a situation of no balance. That which is weakened is overcome by the stronger side, and sin begins to dominate. God help us to override our paralyzed prayer life with this therapy: "Pray without ceasing" (I Thess. 5:17).
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