‘More Lord’ Praying Acts 4:29
“Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.”
Now, Lord …
How challenging these 2 important words are.
On its own ‘Now’ can be quite childish and immature, demanding, wanting, self-pitying.
I want it now!
But ‘Now, Lord’ is wanting and perhaps wanting in a fervent way but wanting it under the Lordship of Christ, under His rule.
The Church today may have prayed ‘Stop the persecution now’ or ‘God we can’t take anymore, look on us now’ and maybe we would be more spiritual by praying ‘Change their hearts, bring them to your knees’ (but in this scenario we would still be benefiting, a lot of our prayers are sadly for our benefit and not His). A ‘More Lord’ prayer is often prayed with a desire to have more of God. But there is new level of prayer which is higher and more glorifying to God still using the ‘More Lord’ words.
It is seen in how the early Church prays? “Now Lord, Help us to keep going, to keep speaking, but to be even more effective”. More Lord. No thought of themselves. This is praying the will of God.
Adjusting our praying is part of our discipleship journey.
Try a different prayer today.
Amen.
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