HAVE YOU EVER PRAYED A FAITHLESS PRAYER?

Up until this morning i didn't realize how often i do so. Very often we, or rather i, when seeking the Lord i tend to forget who how great the God i'm praying to is and lose sight of how great my faith ought to be.

Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live." The man took Jesus at His word and departed.

John 4:50

'The man took Him at His word AND departed.' I LOVE THAT. 

How often when we're praying do we pray and still feel the same or even worse, faithless. Thats because we are focusing on our own thoughts and the difficulties rather than on Gods promise. And to be frank we completely deny Gods promises to us, OUCH. Lately i have been finding myself praying and still feeling the same, and i do believe that it's because "those prayers are the expression of unrest of [my] heart."

So Lord help us to pray prayers of faith and not prayers that hinder us or leave us faithless. That whatever we ask for in prayer we'd believe (Mark 11:24) and that we wouldn't fall into that temptation of praying faithless prayers. (Mark 26:41).

"Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but simply taking God at His word." - Christmas Evans

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of faith is the end of anxiety." George Mueller 

You will never learn faith in comfortable surroundings. God gives us the promises in a quiet hour; God seals our covenants with great and gracious words, then He steps back and waits to see how much we believe; then He lets the tempter come, and the test seems to contradict all that He has spoken. It is then that faith wins its crown. That is the time to look up through the storm, and among the trembling, frightened seamen cry, "I believe God that it shall be even as it was told me." Acts 27:25

A glimpse of what closing shift looks like.