When
a person is sick and bed stricken, he becomes totally submissive to that
condition. Until he finds relief he remains bound to the sick bed!
So
also a person imprisoned, except set free, he remains in bound until the jail
term ends. Once taken into captivity by a situation beyond one’s liberty, all
it takes is forbearance.
With
time, the sick get free from the stricken condition; so also prisoners are
loosed from the chains of imprisonment.
Christians
should learn spiritual prayer discipline in the same manner. Many of us want to
make spiritual activities bed of roses all along. It is never to be so!
If
prayer or Christian service must yield much result, there must be moments
likened unto as confinements. Paul considered his call as of one in prison:
(Eph 4:1)
“I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech
you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called…”
All
Christians are called upon to learn the art of perseverance and self control in
the place of prayer and ministry. Prayer must be accompanied by fasting; many
avoid this and so limit the inflow of power to deliver from life’s ailments.
All
the pains and inconveniences are to be bored with much patience for some longer
moments if one must obtain the joy and peace that true intercession offers.
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