Kenneth Copeland Devotional 24 January 2024 – Do Your Own Praying
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Topic: Do Your Own Praying
Is anyone among you afflicted (ill-treated, suffering evil)? He should pray. – James 5:13, The Amplified Bible
The Greek Word translated afflicted doesn’t mean the result of sickness and disease. It means “troubled.”
If you’re in trouble, you need to pray. That’s what the Word says. Notice it didn’t say your pastor needs to pray for you or your friends need to pray for you. It tells you you need to pray.
Too often, we try to find a quick fix to our problems by asking everyone else to pray for us. There’s nothing wrong with having others pray for you, but you’ll never get your life to a place of permanent victory until you begin to pray yourself.
The biggest church in the world is in Seoul, Korea. It’s pastored by Dr. David Cho; the last I heard, it had more than 700,000 members. How did that church grow to be so large? According to Dr. Cho, the key is prayer. Not just his prayers but the prayers of his people. Praying is a way of life in that church. They have a place called Prayer Mountain where thousands of people come daily to pray.
I once heard Dr. Cho’s mother-in-law on television discussing their emphasis on prayer. She said that when their church members are in trouble or have marriage problems or problems in their personal lives before anything else is done, they are told to go and fast and pray for 24 hours.
We need to do more here in our churches in the United States. We need to quit training our people to run around asking others to pray for them and teach them instead to do their own praying.
You see, if I pray for God to solve one problem for you, you may enjoy success for a while, but then another problem will come because you’ll still be making the same old mistakes that got you in trouble the first time. But if you buckle down and do that praying for yourself, discipline yourself to start searching out the things of the Spirit, you’ll get permanent answers. You’ll learn how to make adjustments to keep those problems from cropping up again.
If you have made Jesus your Lord, you have access to the throne of Almighty God. He has every solution to every problem you’ll ever have, and He’s just waiting for you to come to Him so He can give you the answer. It may take some private time alone with Him for you to hear it, but He will never disappoint you.
Don’t depend on others to do your praying for you. Go personally to the throne of God today.
Scripture Reading: Psalm 5
This message was written by Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, the leader of the Kenneth Copeland Ministries, which specializes in teaching principles of bible faith – prayer, healing, salvation, and other biblical topics.
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