He [Daniel] prayed three times
a day, just as he had always done, giving thanks to his God.
Daniel 6:10
The
more I think of and pray about the religious situation in our country, the
deeper my conviction becomes that Christians do not realize that the aim of
conversion is to bring them into daily fellowship with the Father in heaven.
For
the believers, taking time each day with God’s Word and in prayer is
indispensable. Each day we need to wait upon God for His presence and His love
to be revealed.
It
is not enough at conversion to accept forgiveness of sins or even to surrender
to God. That is only a beginning. We must understand that we have no power on
our own to maintain our spiritual life. We need to receive daily new grace from
heaven through fellowship with the Lord Jesus. This cannot be obtained by a
hasty prayer or a superficial reading of a few verses from God’s Word. We must
take time to come into God’s presence, to feel our weakness and our need, and
to wait on God through His Holy Spirit to renew our fellowship with Him. There
we may expect to be kept by the power of Christ through-out the day.
It is
my aim to help Christians to see the absolute necessity of spending time with
the Lord Jesus. Without this, the joy and power of God’s Holy Spirit in daily
life cannot be experienced.
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