Prayer Posture

You know growing up; I remember hearing from those who were older then me sharing how important it was to have good posture. They would say stuff like, “stand up straight, or don’t slouch, don’t drag your feet, or walk with your head help up high.” Posture is important but especially when it pertains to our prayer posture. “Erwin Lutzer said, “Although posture is important, I find that I am able to express my dependence better on my knees, it is a sign of our helplessness apart from the divine enablement.” Or like Doctor Steve use to say, “If you don’t start your day on your knees then you will end your day asking God to forgive you on your knees.” A little boy named Johnny came to a preacher one day and asked him to have the folks in their prayer meeting pray that the Lord might cause his sister to read the Bible. The preacher made the request known, but as soon as someone began to pray about it, little Johnny got up and left the prayer meeting. Everyone thought that he was rude for doing that, and the next day the preacher scolded him for it. Johnny’s response to the preacher was, “Sir, I didn’t mean to offend anyone I just wanted to go and see my sister read the Bible for the first time.” Johnny believed in the prayer for His sister and he acted on it immediately. That is what I call great prayer posture. Have you ever asked the Lord to hear your prayers? The term, “Hear my prayer” is used some six times in the book of psalms and it is a confident cry to the Lord that He might hear the psalmist’s prayer. How is your prayer posture?

The ones that worship God

I heard a story of a professor who was walking through the campus of one of our major Universities here in Southern California. He stumbled across something that shocked him and caused him to stop. It was a young college girl who had her arms rapped around a tree in the hugging position. He asked her, “What are you doing?” She responded to his surprise, “Oh, I am just admiring this tree, and letting it know how much I love it, this tree is so tall and so glorious!” Wow, Paul in writing to the Romans said that these kinds of people, “exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” God’s creation was made for a great purpose. We were designed to worship something and that something is God. Many people miss what they were created for when they choose to worship something else rather than God. A.W.Tozer said, “God wants worshipers before workers.” God the creator of heaven and earth is seeking those who will worship Him in spirit and in truth. God is watching from heaven to see if there are any worshipers here on the earth. God help us to be these kind of worshipers!!!