Scripture References: Luke 18:1-8

Pray for Ourselves – Continued

From last lesson: When the devil can shut our mouths and cause us to pass by on the other side with no testimony from our lips, no witnessing to a lost world, no demonstrations (actions) of love toward the lost and dying world.

More than that, if he can cause us to become compromising, worldly Christians, if the devil can lead us into compromise about the truth of God and close our lips of witness, if he can cause us to be stumbling blocks over which sinners stumble in their choices concerning God, he most assuredly won’t get us, but he will get many other souls through the means of our apathy when it comes to compromising with the world.

Practically every lost soul wherever it is you live, is stumbling over somebody this very day. How great a tragedy that is when you think of it! That presents to us so much more the reason to ask God to keep us true, keep our feet in the straight and narrow, and to keep our spiritual eyes focused forward. The Lord Jesus said it would be better for us to be cast into the sea rather than become a stumbling block (Mark 9:42).

Through the years, I have heard people say, “I would like to be a Christian, but where I work, I couldn’t live it all the time” (I hear this from law enforcement all the time, even now). People, prayer can make it so that you can live a Christ-like life anywhere! If God calls you to a job or position, even in the secular world, He can and will equip you to accomplish what He has called you too. But, you have to seek Him regularly. But think of this; if you were put in the Garden of Eden and if you were to quit praying, actually communing with God, even there, the enemy would get you because of your neglect of the greatest influence you would have.

Daniel was taken into captivity as a seventeen-year-old lad. A thousand miles or more away from home, he was put in the most wicked court on the face of the earth, Babylon; he was subjected to every natural and emotional temptation, and all the scorn and ridicule that could be heaped upon him. But Daniel lived even there for God. When he was about eighty-five years of age, even that many years in captivity, his bitterest enemy could find nothing of which to accuse him but his religion.

So how did Daniel do it? Simply, three times a day, on his knees, with his windows opened toward Jerusalem, he prayed to God Almighty in whom he trusted and believed.

When our prayer life is like that, there will be victory. I’m not saying we have to be on our knees all the time like Daniel, but with humility in our hearts with our minds focused and steadfast on the Lord. Remember, He knows the temper of our hearts better than we ourselves do! Wherever we are and whatever the surroundings, and especially in the workplace, we can have a testimony that can turn sinners to the Lord Jesus Christ, at the very least shine the Light and Love of Christ Jesus to them!

To Be Continued

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