Praying MEN???????

[jwharv]

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! I suspect I have been allotting habitually too little time to religious exercises, as private devotion and religious meditation, Scripture-reading, etc. Hence I am lean and cold and hard. I had better allot two hours or an hour and a half daily. I have been keeping too late hours, and hence have had but a hurried half hour in a morning to myself. Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean. But all may be done through prayer-almighty prayer, I am ready to say-and why not? For that it is almighty is only through the gracious ordination of the God of love and truth. O then, pray, pray, pray!-William Wilberforce

[Sister Alvear]

We are blessed to have men that pray. Brother Alvear stresses that men are to be the example.

[Falla39]

Originally Posted by Sister Alvear

We are blessed to have men that pray. Brother Alvear stresses that men are to be the example.

My dear late father, pastor, stressed prayer and reading God' Word

as a must. He taught us that you cannot live for God IF you do not

pray and read God's Word. As I grew older I remember thinking, "I

have GOT to pray and read God's Word! I have GOT to, or I can't live

for God. The importance was stressed so much that it became "carved"

in my heart. The older I got, the more I realized how true it was and is!

He would also say" The enemy will program every moment of your time,

....IF you let him". This is so true! There came a time in my life that

prayer and reading became more important than anything else. Many

times it boils down to priorities. What is important to us and what is the

MOST important things to us. I do not say these things to condemn

anyone! I speak the truth in love for I have seen these things. I have

also seen the enemy divide parents and children who were very close

and the parents got so busy "working for God" that the enemy slipped

their children right out of the church. Lost connection. The enemy does

not care how much you "work and stay busy" for God if he can just have

your children. Pharoah told Moses he could go out and worship, just leave

your women and children. Leave your cattle. Pharoah knew if he could

seperate the families he could have better control. Is it any different today!

Every man shall bear his own burden. We are responsible for what we

have "birthed". It begins in our homes. Not in the church!

How many men and women work and provide for their families and then

what little spare time they have, are constantly called to "meetings",

etc. fellowships, etc. and leave no family time. Whose minding the kids!

No wonder many have lost the joy of the Lord when they have lost

their children to the world. When we hear from Dist. Supts's wives and

missionaries tell us we are losing 80 to 85% of our children to the world,

something is very wrong. Who really is controlling our lives. If it is cost-

ing us our children, and later our grandchildren, have we really been

"working for God"! Children are His heritage and He has entrusted them

into our hands for a time! We had better awake out of our sleep, it is

later than we realize!!!! The truth of the matter IS, we don't just have

to pray, we GET to!!!

Blessings,

Falla39