PRAYER - A NON-DELEGABLE RESPONSIBILITY

SCRIPTURE: And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore. – 1 Samuel 1:10
 
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: To leave your prayer responsibility in the hands of another person is dangerous.
 
Prayer is a critical necessity in the journey of life and destiny. Every serious-minded Christian is a praying Christian. 
 
However, many people delegate prayers to someone else to do for them. They abdicate their responsibility of communion with God to their pastors or prophets in the church. This is not correct.
 
Just as you cannot ask anyone, “Please help me live,” or “help me eat my food”, you cannot just ask anybody to pray for you without praying yourself. To leave your prayer responsibility in the hands of another person is dangerous. 
 
It amounts to a lack of value for life to delegate your spiritual responsibility to another person. To leave your spiritual responsibilities - prayer, worship, soul winning, etc., in the hands of another person amounts to a lack of value for your own life. The truth is that nobody can pray for you like you. If you do not know how to pray for yourself, it is a major issue if not a calamity. 
 
For instance, if Hannah was waiting for Eli to pray for her, she could have died in barrenness. Prayer, therefore, is not a delegable responsibility. 
 
Remember this: To leave your prayer responsibility in the hands of another person is dangerous.
 
ASSIGNMENT(S):
1. Ask God to baptize you with fresh prayer fire.
2. Decide to build a personal prayer altar independent of anyone else.
 
PRAYER: O LORD, give me the grace not to delegate my prayer life to someone else. I ask for the fresh fire of prayer in Jesus Name.
 
FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING, GET THIS MESSAGE: THE NECESSITY OF PRAYER.
 
QUOTE: Prayer fills your life with the Presence of God. Culled from THE PRINCIPLES AND POWER OF PRAYER by Dr Paul Enenche.
 
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DAILY READING: 2 Samuel 9:1 to 11:27, John 15:1 to 27,  Psalm 119:49  to  64, Proverbs 16:1 to 3.