So many reasons to pray

 Yet you do not have because you do not ask ... (James 4:7)

The reason for not having it is simple: you don't ask. Here are some reasons for not asking: you don't believe God will give, you don't have the patience to wait for God's answer, you rely on yourself, you ask others instead of God, you don't realize the privilege of prayer.

As long as people consider prayer a duty and a task, not a privilege, and a means of receiving comfort, strength, victory, they cannot pray truly.

They may say words of prayer, but not ask for anything concrete. And they don’t find anything to ask for, because they don’t know God's promises; therefore they don’t ask for their fulfillment, they do not know the commandments of God, therefore they do not pray that they may keep them, they do not know that they are subject to temptation, so they do not feel the need to pray that they may not enter into temptation, they don’t know how dangerous are the devices of the devil, therefore they don’t pray to resist them, they don’t know what gifts they have, therefore they don’t ask for strength and opportunities to use them for God’s glory.

Those who know all these things, always have many reasons to pray, always have something to ask for.

From my diary,

January 17, 2023