I was visiting a church out of town last Sunday which played/sang "The Blood" and I was struck by the words in the beautiful timeless hymn... "The Blood that gives me strength from day to day, will never lose it's power." I began to reflect upon all the countless desperate times I have pleaded the blood over a situation and how I needed the power in that blood to sweep over the situation to cleanse and heal. In the "big" times I need God to apply His blood covering to my needs. I began to wonder, Is there anything big or little in God's eye?
It bodes the age old biblical question found in Jeremiah 32: 27 "Is there anything too hard for God?" No... of course not, as He stated, He is the Lord God and creator of all mankind. His power is not less or more in any given situation. It just is. When I am weak, His power is strong. When I am strong, His power is strong. The weakness is only found in me, in the humanity that embraces me. That is why I must daily seek His power. When I am capable and when I am not capable, His power is the same. From day to day, any situation I face, He is there beside me offering His power. Whether that power is giving me strength to face a "No." or propelling me forward into His blessings, it is constant, faithful and working its work in and for me.
I am often approached by people who request my prayer for situations in their life. I count it a privilege that they have faith in me, but I sometimes wonder if its easier to run to the phone and ask someone else to pray than it is to fall on my face and get the answers I need first hand and on a personal level. Of course there are situations that require strength of many to bind together in prayer and I am always ready and willing. But don't ever let the ease of asking someone else to pray, cheat you out of the strength God wants to give you in prayer. There is no greater time in your walk with God than when you seek His face and His power. Time with your creator, the Lover of your soul is the only place you can truly experience power. Don't be too quick to run ask someone else for prayer. Have more faith in the God who will be right there to answer, more so than the person you ask to pray for you. You be the conduit! You be the one who can run to God and get His attention! There is nothing that can make you feel strong in the Lord except for time with Him. If you are feeling weak spiritually it is most likely because you have not been in prayer ... from day to day! Just as an automobile needs gas, just as a plant needs water, just as you need food, your spiritual being must have time in prayer. It is the ONLY thing that will make you strong in the Lord and in the power of His MIGHT! Philippians 4:6 says "...but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.... then verse 9 says ... these things... DO!
In other words just DO it! Pray, think on the things of God... whatsoever things are pure... holy... of good report... if there be any virtue (strength)... just do it! I Thessalonians 5:17 tells us to pray without ceasing. Has there been a pause in your prayer life? Are you feeling very weak? Have you lost the faith? Run to the Father, your creator. He has every answer you need. Whether its in His Word, or on your knees, the answer is available to you because of His blood. He loves you so very much and is just waiting to spend time with you to renew your strength as His blood to cleanses you and frees your heart and mind. That same blood reaches to the highest mountain and flows to the lowest valley, and is reaching for you and wanting to flow through you. Go to the one from the blood so freely was made to flow. There is POWER in that blood of the spotless lamb. Oh Lamb of God, thank you for being there for me from day to day!
