We are limited in what we can do by our own size, our strength, our age, to some degree and in certain instances by others, even where we live limits us. You will not be able to learn how to go deep sea diving if you live in the mountains.
“A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.” (John 13:34)
We who are born-again love those we have never met, we pray for those whose names we do not know, we ask the Lord for any number of things for those we will not meet until we get home to heaven, and even then, it could be much time before we ever meet them face to face.
We, my friends, are never limited in our prayers.
Are you aware that many who serve the Lord Jesus Christ in nations where extreme persecutions and even death await them if it is found out they serve Him whom we also serve pray that those in what are called the free world would know persecutions for the glory of God the Father?
We pray for them to be released; they pray for us to be in bondage. In bondage of His love, for His glory.
“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.” (James 4:2)
What are you asking for? That your employment field would remain secure so that you can continue to purchase items of wants, or at least make the payments on those things you would not deny yourself, or be patient for? That your strength would not fail you, your health would remain, the sickness would pass, a newer one of those or a better one of that?
That the status quo would not be altered so that the life you have planned for yourself would remain intact? Are you praying that you would not be inconvenienced by His will in your life for you?
Not in so many words, of course, but would the desires of the path you have planned for your life be limited if the Almighty interfered in your life and said, “Not that way, this way.”
Our lives are limited by thousands of external factors because we either accept or reject our past, where we are in the present, and our contemplations surrounding innumerable possible futures. Our own thoughts limit us.
“And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.” (Luke 17:6)
Even our faith, my friends, and that sadly, is limited by us.
As far as I have been shown so far in contemplation of this subject matter by the Holy Spirit, the only thing in our life that is not limited in any way, shape or form, is our prayers. You can pray for anything that you want to pray for at any time, but the question today placed before you is this, who or what do your prayers revolve around?
Perhaps the following sentence will bring an epiphany into your thoughts, for some I sincerely hope so.
Who, or what, do the majority of your prayers have a singular focus upon, you, others, or that the will of God would be done in yours and others lives who serve Him?
In no disrespect to the verse of Luke 22:42, “Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” not in the sense that this is what I am praying for, and I hope I receive an answer like-minded to my request, but if I do not, oh well, nevertheless, Thy will be done.
But in true, honest reverential trust in God Almighty that what He decides, how He decides to answer that prayer, is exactly what you wanted.
We are not limited in any form in our prayers, but even in this, we can limit our acceptance of the answer.
“Nevertheless” is one way to end your prayers, but to a degree, every prayer could contain only these four words, if we did not limit ourselves or God.
“Thy will be done.”
