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You have not because you ask not. James 4:2

Good morning, friends.


Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his gains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser next came to gloat over his treasures, he found nothing but the empty hole. He tore his hair, and raised such an outcry that all the neighbors came around him, and he told them how he used to come and visit his gold. ‘Did you ever take any of it out?’ asked one of them. ‘Nay,’ said he, ‘I only came to look at it.’ ‘Then come again and look at the hole,’ said a neighbour; ‘it will do you just as much good.’

We went to a prayer seminar last weekend. There we heard the speaker telling this. The Prodigal son had the relationship with his father even when he was in a foreign country. But he didn't have fellowship with his father. We know that he longed to eat the food provided to pigs and was not even able to have it. The same thing holds for everyone of us. We have a loving Father. He is always there for us and we have a relationship with him all the time no matter how far we go astray. But only when we have the fellowship with him, we can utilize all that He has for us. Otherwise you and me have to yearn for the swine's food just like the Prodigal son did.

One such is prayer. We come across many prayer warriors whose prayer brought awesome changes. The power of prayer is not the result of the person praying. Rather, the power resides in the God who is being prayed to. Prayer has an immense power which we cannot imagine. The prayers of the saints can save their land, change the Government, heal the diseases, change the world, open the hearts, binds up the broken relationships, etc,... The Satan's biggest weapon is to stop the saints from praying. When we pray, we are utilizing all the Godly weapons against satan, but when we don't, we are surrendering those powerful weapons to satan. The power of prayer should never be underestimated because it draws on the glory and might of the infinitely powerful God of the universe! So what are we going to do? Having just the relationship with God without the access to anything or having the true fellowship with Him to use everything of Him for His glory? Remember, Wealth unused might as well not exist.