Prayer isn’t just nice thoughts. Prayer isn’t just words.
Prayer is action. Real action. Action that produces results. Action for God.
Action for the world.
As author Osheta Moore writes, “Shalom happens when we take up
our cross and follow Jesus. Shalom happens when we crucify our love for
our rights and listen to the ones who are hurt by our misuse of those
‘rights’. Shalom happens when we take Paul’s words in Galatians to heart
and authentically attempt to fulfil the law of Christ by, ‘carry (ing) each
other's burdens.’”
Frustration occurs when we find ourselves stuck in difficult
circumstances for quite some time. Instead of moving through this period, we
feel trapped in a state of hopelessness. While we seek positive change, even
pray for it to come, each morning we wake feeling destined to repeating bad
patterns over again. While prayer is powerful and can move mountains, begging
for a miraculous shift must be coupled with action that will deliver us out of
the uncomfortable situations that we may find ourselves in. It does not
have to be a grand gesture that loosens the grip of stagnation on our lives,
all we need to do is take one baby step after another towards the light of our
dreams. When we pray, then move our feet through the challenge, we will
manifest the events or people who will take us even further on the journey to a
place greater than we ever imagined.Dreaming alone will only keep
us in a state of fantasy. Dreams coupled with action will take us to a
new reality. So, when we feel frustration, take out a journal and start writing
to get clear. When the cobwebs fall away as the winds of change start to blow,
hope returns and each inspired move forward will boost your prayer to another
level of heightened vibration. Bringing back a sense of enthusiasm and passion
for our dreams, we set a new course built on creative insight that comes from a
newly minted approach to life.
Maybe our problem is we’re willing
to pray, but we’re not willing to repent.
The Quakers had a saying "As you pray, move your
feet." Meaning don't just make a request and expect a pot of gold at the
end of the rainbow. Make your request to God, the universe by all means yes,
but take action to make it a reality, because in essence the God can do more
through you, than he can do for you.
we feel tired, and pretty inadequate, but when we pray God MOVES and often, his movement involves us. so, as we pray, let's also move our feet.
we feel tired, and pretty inadequate, but when we pray God MOVES and often, his movement involves us. so, as we pray, let's also move our feet.
The true sense of this proverb is – you can be a proponent of
faith/prayer/divine intervention all you’d like, but if your steps aren’t
ordered to mirror that or you don’t move accordingly, you are essentially
setting yourself up for a monumental fail.
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