Prayer

Word from Wayne
Dec. 2, 2008

One of the things I value among our HCJB Global team is our monthly Day of Prayer to say to us.

Jesus taught us to pray: “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” At HCJB Global we do pray His kingdom will come on earth. We also pray His will be done. But as we pray those things, we’re really asking that His kingdom and His will would be accomplished in our lives.

At Moody Radio we started a weekly “Stand Up Prayer.” We would come together as a team—not to pray for our own health and welfare—but to
specifically seek God’s direction and wisdom in our service to Him. Yes, we’d make requests, but primarily we sought to hear God’s voice and sense His direction for our lives.

Could I ask that this month, as we pray around the globe, we intentionally set aside our own needs and focus on the giver of every good and perfect gift? Let’s quiet our hearts and minds so we can hear God’s voice speaking to us about what He wants to do in us and through us in the year ahead.

Acts 4:31 states, “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly” (NIV). . A regular time focused on prayer is an effective way of demonstrating our total dependence on our heavenly Father.

For a long time, I considered prayer as a way to ask God for things I wanted or needed. Certainly God invites us to bring our needs to Him in prayer. There are wonderful examples of miraculous answers to prayer in HCJB Global’s 77 years of ministry.

Recently God has been teaching me that prayer is much more than talking to Him. A greater benefit of prayer is listening to God. I cannot emphasize enough the importance of coming to our heavenly Father with an open Bible and open heart, ready to hear what God wants