Taking time out to pray

11/02/2007

Joel Akin

It is deniably the wrong time to start something like praying every day. I should know. I keep saying "What if someone were to say they had started praying every day?" Maybe this war I'm in would be over sooner. The problem is I talk about it to people here and elsewhere. I tell them to pray. I beg them to pray. I tell them we are in a war for the very man and woman they are!

Yet I hear nothing. It is as if I am speaking to a vacuum and the cleaner you are the more you feel "Yeah, I'm in the same war."

So how do you hit someone so hard that they wake up? How do I hit you spiritually without hurting you? I try hard to pray and I try harder to hear. I pray for God to break me with Sin. I pray God to break me from this body of sin. I pray for God to hit the world and wake them up. I prayed it tonight in a very powerful way so I saw it as the clearest of answers. It was a prayer to God to wake us up. And if I said "No matter what" I might cage it with "Help us be strong."

The fact is no one on earth has a clue how bad this war is. It might be moving up for me but maybe there are those below who fight hard without knowing if anyone upstairs hears. And if I leave behind those I love what am I but a monster to them?

I don't want to be a monster yet if I fight without help I become a man stuck behind enemy lines like Winston Churchill. I guess it was in World War I and he was behind lines in Germany. He wasn't sure where to go but he prayed to God and asked for help and God answered and sent him to someone for aid. It turned out to be a Christian who helped him in his hour of need.

So who out there is listening? I am not asking for help of anything but prayer. I'm not asking just for me but for the world and for a way for Christ to break out men and women who are in need of aid. For if I fight without help I become a brass gong that shouts but without aid it is a tiny sound. I can't get up and go to churches and speak because I'm fighting for a return of my voice and I'm not fighting to stand in church until I can stand up at home. As in I can't stand up or sit but I lie down. That may not make sense to most but its the nature of the diseases. They are designed by the best in their business. Hell inc.

Now you might wonder why should I pray? I'm happy as I am. I can say that might be true but prayer is the gift of taking heaven and earth. It is the gift of making a difference. It the gift of God to men to pray and it is my prayer to end this battle asap. I am not alone in fight but I can't speak to people who don't have the knowledge. It bends their mind and they can't get it that we are in a war that just isn't over earth. We've got this mind set. It says God sent his son to die for us on earth and no one else. We are warped in that sense. Jesus died on earth but it was sin and death he fought to deny life to. He is not up to battle but he is up to fight. And that means God is not letting me go. He knows I am hurt. He knows I overate and probably have to stay up late. And He knows I want answers. So here is the answer to you who read; give time to pray. Give time to God. Give time in prayer and God will grant to you the soul desire you need.