“Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone.” -Robert Foster
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Joshua 9:14 from the Holy Bible, King James Version, “Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions; but they did not ask counsel of the Lord.” The men of Israel unknowingly did business with deceitful men. Had they asked God’s opinion first, He would have warned them. But they didn’t ask and they suffered for it.
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I wonder how much easier life would be if we all learned to ask God’s opinion first.
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Think about it. God is everywhere. He sees everything. He knows everything. He loves us. He created us. He wants what’s best for us. Doesn’t it make sense to ask God what He thinks about a matter before choosing to do it?
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The men of Israel learned their lesson. The next time they needed to make a decision they asked God’s opinion, and they prevailed!
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Prayer: God, teach me to ask your opinion before making important decisions. Amen.
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Devotion by Debbie Simler-Goff
“I have benefited by my praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself.” ~Samuel Rutherford
“Israel prevailed with God in wrestling with Him, and therefore it is that he prevails with men also. If so be that we will wrestle with God for a blessing, and prevail with Him, then we need not to fear but we shall wrestle the enemies out of it also.” ~ Alexander Henderson
“In every storm there is a ‘Peace! Be still.’ Christ will speak where prayer’s call invites Him (I Timothy 2:1-3)” ~ Jack Hayford
“A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.” -A. W. Tozer
“The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and our needs should come second.” -Florence Allshorn
“The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.” -Robert L. Short
“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us — as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.” -John Calvin