Prayer Keeps You Going

Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
Psalm 55:22 (NIV)

Prayer has many purposes and many benefits. But one reason we should pray that is often overlooked is the fact that prayer gives us the strength to keep going.

When you want to quit and you don’t know how much strength you have left, the fatigue can be frustrating, but prayer puts things in their proper perspective and helps you to say, “I can’t give up because I know God has a higher, divine, providential intent for my life.”

I want you to trust prayer’s efficacy. I want you to steward prayer faithfully. I want you to recommend prayer frequently. I want you to make prayer a priority. I want you to exercise prayer anywhere and everywhere because prayer is going to help you to keep going.

You are going to get frustrated. You are going to get fatigued. Tension is going to envelop your life. The people you have to deal with will stress you out. The pressures you live under are real. There will be days when the anger of managing this world’s craziness will sometimes make you want to sit on the sideline.

But since you can’t quit, you’d better pray so that through your prayers, God can remind you there’s a purpose that’s bigger than you. And because God is working a purpose that is bigger than you, you can stand fast in the assurance that He who has begun a good work in you shall perform it until the day of Christ’s return.

Prayer is not just for saying thank you. Prayer is not just for declaring loyalty. Prayer is not just for proclaiming the might and the majesty of our Lord.

Prayer helps you to keep going.