SEPTEMBER "prayer-starters" DAY 17

Paul realized that we who have given our lives to the Lord for the service of His Kingdom must train ourselves for excellence. There is no place for a spiritually lazy person in God’s Kingdom. If we do not build up our spiritual muscles, we will become open prey for the spirits of anti-Christ. And here is the thing these spirits look for: matters that are hidden in our character, or things that we do not want others to know because we are ashamed of them.

To keep ourselves free from the activity of these spirits, it is necessary that we have a close relationship with someone who is a believer to whom we can be accountable. With a person like this in our life, we can always have someone with whom we can pray.

And here is something we need to keep in mind: to be such a person to whom someone can come when they’re in need, we need to remain close enough to the Lord that we can go to prayer at any time when the other person needs us. The other thing we must maintain is that of remaining faithful and true to the person who divulges to us something that others do not need to know.

DEAR LORD, I want to be the kind of person others can trust. Make me into the kind of person in whom others can find strength and healing. Make me into a person who encourages others. Make me into a person through whom others can get to know Jesus.

“Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.”
—Proverbs 22:24,25