Greetings and blessed February!

1 Cor 9:27: “But I keep control of my body, and bring it into subjection, lest by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.”

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When the Lord opens great and wide doors for us, it is important that we do not get carried away by the work we can do during this season. As important as it is to make use of the season and opportunity to carry out effective work towards the salvation of the human race, we must not ignore personal prayer and praying together with others.

It might be difficult to continue maintaining our prayer life, especially when God has opened doors for work that you have waited many years to do, yet we must continue to look up to the author and finisher of our faith and follow His model of praying amidst whatever work God is enabling us to do.

After casting out demons and sicknesses, not just for a few people, but sometimes when the whole city or town would gather to the Lord Jesus, and after preaching the whole day, He would not miss His times of prayer. The Lord made sure He had personal time with the Father, which is why He could go on to the end without burnout and without defiling Himself with anything outside the will of the Father.

Matthew 14:23: “After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone.”

Luke 5:15–16: “Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.”

If the enemy cannot strike when we are waiting, he will try when God opens doors, because he has seen over centuries how humans tend to grow weaker spiritually, especially when God opens doors for great work. In the busyness of God’s work, we forget to seek Him, and he uses different strategies to strike us. To ignore prayer at any season of life is a form of pride. Prayer shows how dependent we are on God, and prayerlessness shows ignorance and pride, deceiving ourselves into thinking we can run our race without prayer.

Busy days are ahead – we must be thankful for it is God’s will, but we must learn to sandwich our work in between prayers.

Dear Lord, We pray for enough grace for us and our loved ones both to build and maintain a consistent prayer life at all times and seasons to better build your kingdom here on earth. In Jesus’ name, Amen.