Real prayer, real worship, real time. (Luke 22:39-46; Job 1:13-20; Exodus 24:12-18)

Real prayer, real worship, real time. (Luke 22:39-46; Job 1:13-20; Exodus 24:12-18)

Real prayer is like wrestling. You have to sweat it out. In Luke 22:44, the sweat from Jesus’ brow was like the drop of blood.

Luke 22:44

And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

The more issues become tough, tight and difficult, the more you have to pray. This is more easily said than done. When you pray through you will definitely breakthrough. Since there is a God in heaven that answers prayers, we are encouraged to keep on praying.

Isaiah 65:24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

Paul even advised all kinds of prayers: petitions, intercessions, adoration, praying in the spirit as well as praying in understanding. All kinds of prayers.

Ephesians 6:18

Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Real worship on the other hand is irrespective of what is going on around us. Our conviction of God’s absolute righteousness is unshakable by the temporal fluctuations. Real worship is demonstrating intimacy with God our father and connecting him through our spirit in the name of Jesus.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

At a point when you breakthrough to the realm of the spirit through real prayer or real worship, time becomes inessential. All you feel is the awesome presence of God, you see the effervescence of his glory, you perceive the aroma of Christ and taste the sweetness of Jesus. May the Lord lead us to have real time in his presence. When Moses entered into God’s presence on the mount Horeb, he just got lost. Forty days and forty nights were like five minutes tea-break. When he came out nobody could look at his face. It was too radiant with God’s glory. The elders had to cover his face with a veil because his people couldn’t look at him. You need to spend more time, real time in God’s presence through real prayer and real worship.

Exodus 24:17

And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount: and Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 34:28

And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. 29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him. 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him. 31 And Moses called unto them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him: and Moses talked with them. 32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai. 33 And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.

Nevertheless, real prayer and real worship are only possible when we are born again. When we invite Jesus into our heart and accept that he should direct the affairs of our lives.

Romans 10:8

But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

This is when we agree with God that our sins are bad and we turn away from them through God’s help. This is when we make up our mind to cooperate with the Holy Spirit. Then we become the children of God through Jesus Christ and then our spirit could meaningfully call Abba Father. The good thing is you can do it now.