Strength of prayer to enjoy Christ
Zephaniah 2:7 It will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. In the evening they will lie down in the houses of Ashkelon. The Lord their God will care for them; he will restore their fortunes.
Hymn for scheduled worship: Korean/English Hymnal #313 Jesus, My King (#352 in previous version)
The core of the Bible is that all people need Christ. It is a fact that Jesus is the Christ and that the Christ becomes our Christ when we accept Him as our Lord and Savior. Realizing and understanding this fact is not something that is easy. That is why the Bible expresses Christ as a mystery of God. Understanding the Gospel and enjoying it in our lives beyond simply realizing it is what taking part in God’s mystery is. How can this true strength and God’s power that only children of God can enjoy become ours?
1. Find 10 minutes of happiness every day
You only need to hold on to the Word and pray for 10 minutes out of 24 hours. This is not just a matter of the amount of time, but it is the actual resolution and challenge toward prayer that matters. Anyone can pray for 10 minutes, but continuing it is the problem. Therefore, make not just any 10 minutes but 10 minutes during which you can be happy inside the Gospel. Just like Jesus and Paul who sought a place to pray in order to have this time of prayer, find the happiness that comes from prayer that you enjoy in the Gospel.
2. Restore the earnestness of scheduled prayer
If you taste 10 minutes of this every day, your heart will grow earnest and your spiritual eyes will open when you experience an answer. From then on, your day will be centered on prayer times. If you realistically experience the Holy Spirit working inside of you right now and come to know Satan who is attacking you even now, you will become truthful and earnest. What takes place before these spiritual facts is scheduled prayer. The meaning of scheduled prayer is also not in its length of time but the earnestness of your heart and will. If this is connected to the earnestness of looking at the field, then you will go into the mystery of 24-hour prayer, and you will enjoy 24 hours of changing the future the more you know how desperate the field is.
3. Challenge toward the nature of the Gospel
If you continue the happy mystery of prayer in the Gospel, enjoying prayer will become your nature. And if it becomes your nature, you will have true peace. You will gain the true strength that the world cannot give or explain. Until it becomes your nature, you may realize but will seek happiness in something else. Therefore, you need to challenge and continue to challenge so that your nature will change to that of the Gospel.
- Resolve and challenge to continue earnest prayer in the Gospel every day for 10 minutes.
Remnant Day / 2011.8.27