What Are Your Prayer Requests?

Whenever we travel, we see road signs that provide information to road users. In a similar way, there are signs along life’s highway that provide instruction for living a Christian life. One sign that’s seen frequently is the sign of prayer. The signs read, it’s prayer time…be constant in prayer…pray without ceasing…prayer is the greatest power on earth. And, if we stay within the boundary of prayer, we stay within God’s safety zone. Sometimes we need to reflect on not just our prayer life but our prayer requests. King Solomon gives us some answers.

King Solomon was known to be the wisest man to ever live. In his young life, he recognized that he needed a whole lot of wisdom. And, when God appeared to him in a dream and said, “Ask for whatever you want me to give you” (2 Chronicles 1:7, NIV), Solomon asked for wisdom and knowledge that he might do God’s work. 

Solomon’s prayer requests were not carnal (riches, honor, power). God was pleased with his request. God’s response to his appeal was not only to give him wisdom and knowledge but to give him more riches, wealth, and honor than any previous king or any kings in the future. 

To know what to pray for is powerful. Sometimes as it says in the Bible, we don’t always know what to pray. That’s when we can get quiet and let the Holy Spirit pray for us. As it is written, “the spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God” (Romans 8:27, NIV).

Thank you, God, for the gift of prayer. Please keep me within the boundary of prayer for then I know that my view down the highway of life will become clearer, my challenges bearable, and my destination certain. In Jesus name, AMEN.

“Give ear to my words, O Lord, consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King and my God: for unto thee will I pray” (Psalm 5:1-3, KJV).

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