Prayer to Follow God
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So often our hearts want to follow God and yet our feet and our mouths take us in the opposite direction!
God’s word tells us that we are actually deceiving ourselves when we know God’s way and yet do not do what it says. The road to freedom is in doing what we hear in His word. If you are longing for freedom from the ruts in your life today then re-visit the last thing you know God nudged you to do and then go do it. Ask your loving Heavenly Father if there is anything He has taught you or called you to that you are forgetting today. Obey and then watch for His blessing.
“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it – he will be blessed in what he does” (James 1: 22 – 25).
Dear Heavenly Father,
I am learning to understand what Your word says. Yet so often I simply hear it or read it and think about applying it, but get no further. I want to do it and intend to do it Lord, but it is gone from my mind so easily. I am deceiving myself if I simply hear it and do not make it a part of my life. Please help me today to take one truth and apply it to my circumstances.
Please let Your Holy Spirit nudge me and remind me throughout my day. I know that as I apply what Your word says I will find freedom. Please show me what I need to focus on right where I walk today, Father. Help me to be intent on practicing what You reveal to me. I know there is blessing in doing things Your way. I give You my will today to want to do what You show me.
In the name of Jesus I pray, Amen.
Questions: What does God expect of us after we have heard His Word? Take one Truth that you have heard today and apply it to make it a part of your life.
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This was perfect for me today, thank you.
I don’t know how often I read my daily Bible verse and have to reread because I wasn’t paying attention. Some days it is so difficult to turn off the world and just FOCUS on God for 10 minutes. Pitiful, but true.
Thanks for the reminder. I passed it on. : )
I pray for his Holy Spirit on a daily basis and ask for his will not mine to be done. This is how I remind myself to study and apply his word daily. My home is not here but I need the power of his word and prayer to get me through this. The more I surrender to his will the more freedom I have. He defends me and directs me if i allow it.
Good devotional. It is easy for me to talk the talk but not walk the walk. Please Lord, let me hear and do what you are calling me to do.
This message was confirmation for me today. Lately I haven’t had the desire to go to church, read, pray or do anything that I know I should be doing, according to God’s Word. Sometimes I think I struggle as some non-believers do by asking myself “IS God really real?” I get frustrated because I don’t see changes happening in my life and I feel like no one hears me or cares when I pray. The thing is – we are not to cease our prayers and petitions. God knows everything so faith and trust must be our focus. Thanks so much for this devotional today and the prayer! I will read this prayer aloud each day until my desire returns. May the Lord bless you and keep you!